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- 20 Jan 1854-22 Jan 1854 (Creation)
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Occupation or role: Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Date of admission: 20 Jan 1854
Date of death: 22 Jan 1854
Disease (transcribed): Fractured cervical vertebrae. Softening of spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Vertebrae); Softening (Spinal cord)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This was an adult labourer, a man of great size & weight, who was admitted at about ½ past 2 o’clock in the afternoon, having fallen from a scaffold a short time previously, a height of 10 feet, striking himself against some obstacles in his descent and lighting upon his head, as was conjectured from an abrasion on the scalp’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of injury: Trauma / accident
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- English
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- Johnson, Henry Charles (Subject)
- Ogle, John William (Subject)
- Holmes, Timothy (Subject)