Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Jul 1883
Date of death: 10 Jan 1884
Disease (transcribed): Leprosy. Pleuritis. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Leprosy (Systemic); Pleurisy (Pleura); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Post mortem examination performed by: Ross, Daniel McClure
Medical notes: Her mother was a native of Oxfordshire, her father of Barbados. They had six children and two had leprosy. The child was of ‘characteristically leprous aspect.’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, alimentary canal and skin
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 May 1891
Date of death: 5 May 1891
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing endometritis. Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Endometritis (Uterus); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This woman was a native of Munich, who had been in England for two years. She was confined with her first child in August 1890. The child throve well: it was suckled for two months, and then the mother ceased to suckle it because of increasing weakness though the milk did not fail till some time later. Before her confinement she had enjoyed good health, but soon afterwards she began to suffer from spasmodic abdominal pain. She did not regain her health, and finally took to bed one week before admission'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Gas labourer
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Feb 1887
Date of death: 12 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): Recurrent scirrhus of right mamma. 2ndary deposits in skin, right humerus, scapula, most ribs, bodies of dorsal vertebrae and kidney
Disease (standardised): Scirrhus (Breast); Deposit (Skin, arm, shoulder, ribs, spine, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, William C.
Medical notes: 'A married woman with 2 children. Six years ago she began to have pain in the right mamma & a tumor formed which was removed at the Cancer Hospital in summer of ‘86. A few weeks ago, her right hand became swollen. A Pole. Cannot speak English well’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Right upper limb, sternum, ribs, pleurae, lungs, spleen, kidneys, liver, uterus

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Soldier
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Jan 1856
Date of death: 8 Jan 1856
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Heart and Kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been a soldier in the East India Company and had never been invalided. Two months before his admission he caught a severe cold and subsequently became jaundiced.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gas stoker
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 May 1881
Date of death: 19 May 1881
Disease (transcribed): Diabetes. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Diabetes (Pancreas); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Medical notes: 'His family history is in all respects healthy: no nervous diseases traceable. He is a native of Dantzig [Gdansk, Poland], employed for 6 years 1872-8 in the mercantile service, since then a gas stoker in London. He felt in perfectly good health until about 18 months ago he noticed that he passed an excessive amount of urine and that his appetite and thirst were immoderate. There was no preceding or accompanying mental distress'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, colon, nerve centres, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plasterer
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Aug 1891
Date of death: 16 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Locomotor ataxia
Disease (standardised): Tabes dorsalis (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Dr Olsen
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'Died at the Atkinson-Morley Convalescent Hospital. This man was a native of Warwickshire, but his peculiar surname was stated to be of remote Indian origin. He had been robust, a total abstained from alcohol till the age of 39, and afterwards a very moderate drinker. There was no history of syphilis, and none of plumbism, and his personal experience of rheumatism was limited to a slight attack 10 years before his death and another 7 years later. About the middle of January 1891 on a very cold day he became thoroughly chilled. From this feeling of coldness he never entirely recovered, the hands & feet remaining numbed. Difficulty of walking was noticed later, and a sensation of ‘tightness round the stomach'. He became an out-patient of this hospital on May 15th'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, head, spinal cord

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Chef
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Jul 1908
Date of death: 27 Jul 1908
Disease (transcribed): Stab wound in left chest penetrating the heart
Disease (standardised): Wound (Thorax); Wound (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical examination performed by: Back, Ivor Gordon
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: He was a waiter at the Bath Club. He had quarrelled with a colleague who waited for him outside and stabbed him in the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, skull and brain
Type of incident: Homicide/murder

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Date of admission: 29 Jun 1854
Date of death: 10 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Circumscribed pleurisy. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'A Frenchman, who spoke English imperfectly, and stated that he had been taken ill on the 25th with severe pain in his legs. He described this as being very severe indeed for two days & then subsiding & leaving him with a feeling of illness all over, with vomiting of bile’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Dec 1896
Date of death: 17 Jan 1897
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophy and failure of heart: pleural effusion: thrombosis of pulmonary artery. Carcinoma of stomach
Disease (standardised): Hypertrophy (Heart); Heart failure (Heart); Pleural effusion (Lung); Thrombosis (Pulmonary artery); Carcinoma (Stomach) ()
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'The man was a Swiss and spoke English badly. Family history good no history of malignant disease, no previous illness. For last 2 or 3 years suffered from attacks of what seemed to be typical asthma, Dec 24th had a very bad attack of shortness of breath admitted here'. [The medical notes give a different date of admission and date of death to the dates at the top of the page].
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, joints

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Jul 1852
Date of death: 5 Aug 1852
Disease (transcribed): Phthysis. Extensive deposit in both lungs. Firm double pleural adhesions. Extensive intestinal ulceration
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Adhesions (Pleura); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: A Polish man who could speak no English. He had been suffering for some time from cough, emaciation and latterly had lost his voice.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Feb 1858
Date of death: 22 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in various parts. Abscesses
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Systemic); Abscess
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A negro engaged as servant to a medical man. He came over from Jamaica about seven years ago, & for some time his general health continued very good, but in 1854 he was attacked with shortness of breath & pain in the left side, for which he was admitted into St Bartholomew’s. Eight months ago he felt pain in the right side whenever he took a deep breath or went upstairs carrying a tea-tray, coal scuttle &c. One night on undressing he noticed a lump nearly as large as an egg just over the spine, about its centre’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Confectioner
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Apr 1881
Date of death: 21 Apr 1881
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson and Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Medical notes: 'He had no illnesses as a boy, no scarlet fever. He went to sea at 17 in the East India Company's service; had dysentery in Calcutta at 22 (1859). For a year he describes himself as passing blood & slime nearly every day and for 4 years afterwards was subject to frequent attacks of dysenteric diarrhoea: no such symptoms since then. He has been a very heavy drinker of spirits, especially 1858-1870 when he had much morning vomiting & depression. In 1864 he settled in England as a confectioner. About 1873 he began to be subject to severe headaches with 'blinding pain' generally relieved by vomiting'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, spinal cord, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Jan 1851
Date of death: 20 Feb 1851
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Large vomica at base of right lung, smaller at apex. Adherent pleura
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Suppuration (Lungs); Adherent (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'A black, who said he had been ill 10 weeks with cough & spitting. His attack was in the first instance not severe, but he had soon after had spitting of blood, and had been gradually getting worse & losing flesh ever since. He was emaciated, voice rather hoarse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Kitchenmaid
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Sep 1887
Date of death: 6 Oct 1887
Disease (transcribed): Vomiting. Exhaustion
Disease (standardised): Vomiting
Admitted under the care of: Champneys, Francis Henry
Medical examination performed by: Page, Harry Marmaduke
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'Patient had suffered from a yellow vaginal discharge for 6 weeks before admission & from pain above pubes & in left lumbar region for 4 weeks. For last fortnight before admission had vomited frequent after meals. A well-nourished, healthy-looking girl of very dark complexion, mother was a coloured woman'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Crossing sweeper
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Dec 1872
Date of death: 18 Feb 1873
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Pulmonary tubercles
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This man, who was a native of Bombay, was in the hospital about two years back with acute bronchitis and had ever since been more of less subject to cough and spitting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Aug 1881
Date of death: 6 Dec 1881
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Disease of heart valves
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys, heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Zimmermann, Benjamin Frazier
Post mortem examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Medical notes: 'He joined the army in 1854 at 14. Syphilis in 1856. Delirium tremens after drinking much raw spirit in East Indies in 1860. Dysentery in India in 1861. For several years, about 1868-1872 he had much nocturnal pain in head & shins with temporary nodes. In 1876 he felt some 'palpitation' with substernal pain & was sent home from India with a certificate of heart disease; since then he has done light work. No oedema noticed until 3 weeks ago; some anginal symptoms during the last fortnight'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Waiter
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Date of admission: 13 Dec 1854
Date of death: 17 Dec 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Scrofulous deposit in intestinal glands. Ulceration of glottis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Intestines); Ulcer (Larynx)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This poor black, who was a native of Angola, and had been in the West Indies, had been 10 years in England, & was waiter in an eating house. He had not been conscious of illness till during the last 6 months when he had suffered from cough & haemoptysis, followed by hoarseness & sore throat’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Waiter
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Dec 1891
Date of death: 8 Feb 1892
Disease (transcribed): Dilated heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: This man was a native of Milan and had been in England for three and a half years. In July 1891 he became an in-patient at the Middlesex Hospital for a few weeks where his case was registered as heart disease, probably dilatation, with mitral regurgitation.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, kidneys, bladder, prostate, testes and head
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Corporal
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Oct 1888
Date of death: 29 Oct 1888
Disease (transcribed): Lympho-sarcoma of cervical abdominal axillary & inguinal glands. Primary mass apparently in superior mediastinum
Disease (standardised): Sarcoma (Glands)
Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, William C.
Medical notes: 'A native of Bunia [?Republic of Congo]. For 18 years he had been in the English Army. No history of importance till Feb 1888 when some lumps came on the left side of the neck: these have rapidly got larger & others have appeared in various parts of the body’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, spleen, kidneys, liver, thorax, pleurae, lungs, heart, pharynx

Type of incident: n/a