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Sturges, Octavius Male urogenital diseases
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James Slade, 56, Farrier

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

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Jenkin, 66, [Occupation not stated]

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

Type of incident: n/a

John Jennings, 49, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Dec 1863
Date of death: 8 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, a labourer, spare and of bronzed complexion came in complaining of ‘a choking pain about the chest’, dyspnoea and a slight cough with spitting of thin, white, frothy saliva together with frequent thirst. He had left his work nine weeks owing to pains in the knees and small joints from rheumatic gout’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Cunningham, 58, Harness maker

Occupation or role: Harness maker
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Dec 1863
Date of death: 13 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Typhus?
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This was a case of a spare, emaciated old man, who entered the hospital complaining of pains in the loins and right leg of seven or eight weeks’ duration. His previous health had been good’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William A. Morgan, 2, Child

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 2
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Feb 1864
Date of death: 4 Feb 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys after scarlatina. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Scarlet fever (Systemic); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This child, the first admitted out of a large number in the same family affected with the same disease and its sequelae, was brought to the hospital moribund’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Henry Joy, 33, Policeman

Occupation or role: Policeman
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Jan 1864
Date of death: 9 Feb 1864
Disease (transcribed): Degeneration of kidneys. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'The patient was a detective policeman of some note, always sober in his habits, but much exposed to inclement weather. He was admitted with general renal dropsy of six months’ duration. For the last four months of this time he had been unable to follow his occupation’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Rossiter, 38, Carpenter

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Nov 1863
Date of death: 11 Feb 1864
Disease (transcribed): Smooth mottled kidney
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient, a carpenter, free in his habits of drinking without being drunken, was under treatment in the hospital for more than three months. On his admission he was of a pasty complexion with red eyelids. Moderate doughy oedema was present in the legs. He had been subject to frequent attacks of chronic rheumatism’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Robert Hastings, 45, Footman

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Oct 1863
Date of death: 19 Feb 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular degeneration of kidney
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, sober of late years only, was a patient for more than four months with anasarca and bronchitis’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Ruddock, 38, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Feb 1864
Date of death: 5 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular disease of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Bagshawe, Frederic
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'The patient was a well grown man with a renous complexion, admitted with severe dyspnoea compelling him to lean forward with his head over his knees. He had been ill about four months so as to be forced now and then to lay up for a day or two’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, pericardium & heart, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Samuel Bonner, 47, Tailor

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864
Date of death: 11 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Emphysema. Bronchitis. Disease of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with orthopnea and severe distress from difficulty of breathing, the legs being dropsical and some general oedema existing. He had been short of breath for five years’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Robert Skinner, 60, Bricklayer

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864
Date of death: 19 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of heart and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient had been laid up for two months with a ‘cold’ by which he meant general muscular weakness, dyspnoea and a lightness across the chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Lawrence, 50, Potman

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Apr 1864
Date of death: 23 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barker, William Levington
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, represented as of drunken habits, was admitted complaining of pains in the arms and legs with increasing debility for a month, illness having commenced with an attack of shivering’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, brain, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Michael Fitzgibbon, 32, Cooper

Occupation or role: Cooper
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864
Date of death: 6 May 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys. Empyema. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Empyema (Pleura); Peritonitis (Peritoneum)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man had been under treatment nine months before for an abscess near the right mamma accompanied by cough and great debility. Of this illness no accurate account could be obtained (the patient was Irish)’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Cook, 54, Porter

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 May 1864
Date of death: 7 May 1864
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was brought to the hospital perfectly unconscious and died the following day. He had been seized with a fit the same morning, while at his occupation and in his usual health’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Grover, 59, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1864
Date of death: 14 May 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Barker, William Levington
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted for cough & dyspnoea of four weeks’ standing, oedema of the leg had been observed for three weeks’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Richard Morris, 40, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1864
Date of death: 23 Mar 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of heart and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'A painter, a large man with a sallow face, was admitted in consequence of palpitation with dyspnoea and some cough, without any oedema’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Foay, 55, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 May 1864
Date of death: 30 May 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient was on his admission suffering extreme dyspnoea. He had been troubled with cough continuously for six months, attended with profuse spitting, and had wasted rapidly’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

George Newell, 31, Groom

Occupation or role: Groom
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 May 1864
Date of death: 6 Jun 1864
Disease (transcribed): Albuminuria. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Albuminuria (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was a groom, a drinker of porter but of sober habits. He had had cough for eighteen months, but had not given up work till seven weeks before his admission, when the legs became oedematous’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Pepler, 38, Porter

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jun 1864
Date of death: 16 Jun 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, a porter representing himself as of sober habits, was only under observation for one day. He had been ill a month from debility with oedema of the legs, loss of appetite and pain in the chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Wynyard, 55, Carpenter

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jun 1864
Date of death: 22 Jun 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of heart and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was a carpenter and up to 12 years back had been a heavy drinker. He had never had rheumatism. The oedema for which he sought relief, had occurred according to him suddenly five weeks before, the swelling beginning in the face’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Skinner, 40, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jul 1864
Date of death: 27 Jul 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Bagshawe, Frederic
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was a painter and had some faint indication of a blue hue about his gums. He was of a pasty complexion and remarkably apathetic manner, his faculties somewhat blunted through his answers to questions were ready and consistent’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, head

Type of incident: n/a

William Smith, 5, Child

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Aug 1864
Date of death: 24 Aug 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys. Lobular pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Lobar pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This child was brought to the hospital moribund, and expired before any observations of its conditions could be made’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Arthur Garrard, 51, Gardener

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Sep 1864
Date of death: 19 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Disease of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient was not observed during the hour or two which intervened between his admission and death. He was brought to the hospital on the evening of the 19th in a dying state and expired shortly after midnight. It was learnt that at the beginning of the year he had had dropsy and bronchial catarrh’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Bull, 47, Carman

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Sep 1864
Date of death: 24 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'Not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Francis Walker, 35, Policeman

Occupation or role: Policeman
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Oct 1864
Date of death: 27 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, who had been a soldier and spent some years of his life in India, in earlier life of drunken habits, was admitted complaining of cough and debility. His wife gave a confused account of his having had a fit two weeks before in which he lay for some hours half-conscious’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, pharynx, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

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