Occupation or role: Barman Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Jul 1859 Date of death: 23 Jul 1859 Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This man was accustomed to drink largely of raw spirits. For four years he had been troubled with rheumatic gout. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right knee, cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 32 Gender: Female Date of admission: 20 Jul 1859 Date of death: 24 Jul 1859 Disease (transcribed): Ovarian dropsy. Paracentesis Disease (standardised): Oedema (Ovary); Paracentesis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This woman had been out of health for the last five years, losing flesh, suffering from cough and general weakness. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Postillion Age: 27 Gender: Male Date of admission: 22 Jul 1859 Date of death: 25 Jul 1859 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Arachinitis. Softening of the brain Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Arachnoiditis (Brain); Softening (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: He had had well marked phthisical symptoms for eighteen months. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and larynx Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 38 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Jul 1859 Date of death: 27 Jul 1859 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This man had had an attack of haemoptysis a year ago and brought up a quart of blood. For the last eight weeks he had been losing flesh and was troubled with a cough. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 42 Gender: Female Date of admission: 23 Jul 1859 Date of death: 1 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Arachinitis. Softening of brain. Fever (?) Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain); Softening (Brain); Fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: It was ascertained that about a week ago, being at the time apparently in good health, she suddenly lost her power of speech. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 45 Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 Jun 1859 Date of death: 9 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart and kidneys. Dropsy Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Oedema (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: About three months ago she first noticed that her legs were swollen, and she had at the same time a slight cough and occasional shortness of breath. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Monthly nurse Age: 55 Gender: Female Date of admission: 10 Aug 1859 Date of death: 13 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Dilatation and hypertrophy of heart. Granular kidneys. Low pneumonia Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: A month ago she had been seized with a sudden feeling of faintness and dyspnoea which was so violent that at the time she believed herself to be at the point of death. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 59 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Jul 1859 Date of death: 14 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the ovary Disease (standardised): Cancer (Ovary) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This woman had been ailing for two years but worse than usual for the last five weeks in consequence she believed of having undergone great fatigue in a long journey she had undertaken. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Aug 1859 Date of death: 16 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Low pneumonia Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This man was admitted in a dying stated and no previous history could be obtained. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 28 Gender: Male Date of admission: 17 Aug 1859 Date of death: 18 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Strumous peritonitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This man was brought into the hospital almost in a dying state. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Jun 1859 Date of death: 19 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Cancerous disease of various glands. Low pneumonia Disease (standardised): Cancer (Lymph nodes); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This man had been suffering for two years before his admission with pains in the feet and limbs. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 9 Gender: Male Date of admission: 18 Aug 1859 Date of death: 23 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: Two days before admission he had begun to complain of languor and had some trifling difficulty in swallowing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Mouth, larynx, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 15 Gender: Female Date of admission: 24 Aug 1859 Date of death: 25 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Strumous disease of both hips and of the kidneys Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Hip); Tuberculosis (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: Both knees were drawn up and the thighs fixed immovably in that position from disease of the hip joint of long standing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hip joints, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 21 Gender: Male Date of admission: 17 Aug 1859 Date of death: 25 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Strumous disease of the intestines Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: She was sallow and emaciated and gave a history of gradual failure of strength and wasting away. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 56 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Aug 1859 Date of death: 29 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Tumour (fibro-cellular) in brain Disease (standardised): Tumour (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: On the 2nd July he had a fit which rendered him insensible for more than an hour. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Coachman Age: 46 Gender: Male Date of admission: 13 Jul 1860 Date of death: 24 Jul 1860 Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Pleurisy Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'A coachman. He had good health until 4 days ago when, after shoving a carriage, he had severe pain in the loins, and an attack of shivering. About the same time he noticed that his urine was high coloured and scanty’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 38 Gender: Female Date of admission: 25 Jul 1860 Date of death: 26 Jul 1860 Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease & hypertrophy of the heart. Adherent pericardium Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'The patient, a healthy-looking woman, was admitted the day before her death complaining of pain in the wrists and knuckles. These joints were somewhat red and swollen. The woman had before suffered from rheumatic pain but there was no history of rheumatic fever’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 29 Gender: Female Date of admission: 1 Aug 1860 Date of death: 7 Aug 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pnemothorax (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'The mother of five children, the youngest born ten months ago. The first indications of impaired health occurred two or three years back when she began to suffer from disordered digestion, abdominal and epigastric pain with frequent vomiting and relaxed bowels’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax, abdomen, pelvis
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Aug 1860 Date of death: 8 Aug 1860 Disease (transcribed): Fatty heart. Oxalic acid poisoning Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Poisoning Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This man had indulged in habits of intemperance for several years, he confessed to drunkenness three or four days in the week and said that he had had delirium tremens repeatedly. On the evening of the third of August when excited with liquor he purchased and swallowed three pennyworth of oxalic acid. When brought to the hospital immediately after, his hands and feet were cold and the pulse very feeble’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, throat, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 44 Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 Aug 1860 Date of death: 9 Aug 1860 Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the colon & liver Disease (standardised): Malignant disease (Colon, liver) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'A married woman, the mother of children, the eldest 8 years of age. She had been falling away for eight months past, suffering in the first instance from diarrhoea. Soon after the commencement of this symptoms a lump was observed a little above the left groin’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 17 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Aug 1860 Date of death: 14 Aug 1860 Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart. Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'The patient, a weakly-looking boy, had been ill four days when admitted. His complaint commenced with rheumatic pains in the loins, which afterwards shifted to the arms and hands. Previous to the present attack his health had not been good, he had been troubled with cough for some years and was said to have coughed up a small quantity of blood more than once’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Farrier Age: 56 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Jul 1860 Date of death: 22 Aug 1860 Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Hypertrophy of the heart. Disease of the liver & kidneys Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Heart, liver, kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'A farrier of pale, pasty complexion and formerly a great drinker. Two years before he had been in the hospital with dropsical legs and cough and was discharged ‘cured’. Five months ago the swelling reappeared’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 66 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Jul 1860 Date of death: 1 Sep 1860 Disease (transcribed): Gout. Diseased kidneys. Pericarditis Disease (standardised): Gout (Joints); Disease (Kidneys); Pericarditis (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This man had been subject to attacks of gout for twenty seven years and the fingers of both hands and both feet were much distorted by the disease’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: [No age stated] Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 Aug 1860 Date of death: 21 Sep 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: 'This young woman had suffered from diarrhoea for 15 months, with occasional dyspepsia, occasional vomiting and pain before food. For the last 14 months the catamenia [menstruation] were absent’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Printer Age: 42 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Jun 1861 Date of death: 10 Aug 1861 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Malignant disease of stomach Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Cancer (Stomach) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: The patient had been suffering from sickness and a slight cough with expectoration. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, liver and stomach Type of incident: n/a