Item 120 - Edmund Winter, 30, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Jun 1851
Date of death: 6 Jun 1851
Disease (transcribed): Contused & lacerated wound of the integuments & deeper structures at the lower & inner part of the thigh. Gangrene of the neighbouring parts followed. Death with typhoid symptoms
Disease (standardised): Wound (Thigh); Gangrene (Thigh); Typhoid fever (Systemic)

Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte and Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'While driving a cart containing several sacks of flour to the amount of two tens weight, the horse went off the road & the driver was thrown from his seat to the ground, the wheel passing over his right leg & thigh causing a lacerated & contused wound three inches long over the inner side of the thigh, commencing on a level with the upper border of the patella’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident