Occupation or role: Sadler Age: 21 Gender: Male Date of admission: 13 Sep 1864 Date of death: 20 Sep 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) 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 had had fever in his family for a month, four members having been attacked. One of these, a brother of about his own age, had been in the hospital for a fortnight with well-marked typhus on the admission of the present patient. All recovered’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
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: Schoolgirl Age: 5 Gender: Female Date of admission: 11 Feb 1864 Date of death: 13 Feb 1864 Disease (transcribed): Scarlatina Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (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 child, a cousin of Morgan [William Morgan, PM/1864/43] and exposed to the same contagion, was brought to the hospital five days after the appearance of eruption and survived for two days after admission. A brother and sister had been affected, and the latter had died. Our patient was very fretful and uneasy’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 24 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 Sep 1864 Date of death: 15 Sep 1864 Disease (transcribed): Disease of temporal bone. Inflammation of lateral sinus. Meningitis Disease (standardised): Disease (Skull); Inflammation (Brain); Meningitis (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'All that could be learnt of this patient, who was unable to give any account of herself, was that she had been confined a week back with a six months child, that for some time past she had complained of pain in the left side of the face which was called neuralgia’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, sinus, jugular vein, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 34 Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 Jul 1863 Date of death: 15 Aug 1863 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Freeman, Samuel George Medical notes: When admitted she had been three months ill, her complaint commencing rather suddenly with dyspeptic symptoms, vomiting after food and confined bowels. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, pleural cavities, lungs, spleen, liver and kidneys Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: General servant Age: 18 Gender: Female Date of admission: 22 Oct 1864 Date of death: 4 Nov 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus fever Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'The case is omitted’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’
Occupation or role: General servant Age: 23 Gender: Female Date of admission: 19 Oct 1864 Date of death: 25 Oct 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (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 woman was said to have been ill a week with pains in the [?] and violent diarrhoea. The latter symptom had now subsided. She was now rather venous in complexion, with a perplexed, rather wild expression. She answered questions readily but the answers were not trustworthy […] It was learnt from her friends that six weeks before admission she had had a fright and that from that time she had often complained of headache and failing memory’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Laundress Age: 34 Gender: Female Date of admission: 16 Dec 1863 Date of death: 25 Dec 1863 Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever. Quinine Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The patient had been ill six days with pains in the limbs and sense of coldness. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Cabman Age: 56 Gender: Male Date of admission: 22 Sep 1864 Date of death: 25 Sep 1864 Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver); 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: 'A large-framed man, deeply jaundiced, a cabdriver representing himself as of very sober habits. He had noticed the yellow colour of his skin for two weeks and had formerly had an attack of jaundice lasting for two months at the beginning of the year’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Carpenter Age: 64 Gender: Female Date of admission: 20 Jan 1864 Date of death: 22 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This was a case of a miserable, emaciated old man having the withered and wrinkled face of a mummy, who for four months lingered out his existence in the hospital dying of phthisis’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 35 Gender: Female Date of admission: 13 Dec 1864 Date of death: 16 Dec 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) 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 woman was admitted almost moribund, the body covered with a fading typhus eruption. She appeared by her husband’s account to have been much neglected, he having been from home and ignorant of her illness. It was believed she had been affected a week, vomiting had been present from the beginning of her attack’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Hawker Age: 19 Gender: Female Date of admission: 9 Jan 1864 Date of death: 17 Jan 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) 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 well-nourished, healthy-looking girl, a few months married, a hawker by profession and much exposed to the weather, was admitted covered with a rubeoloid eruption, which from its involving the face was regarded at first by some as that of measles. She had a pulse of 120, warm harsh skin, red rough and dry tongue, no abdominal pain or tenderness but considerable fulness as of early pregnancy, observable dyspnoea and some anxiety of manner, face flushed, eyes suffused. The rash had been first noticed on the morning of her admission. Her illness was supposed to have lasted now five days dating from the time chilliness and debility were first complained of (a sister (wife of the patient whose case is recorded next before) had been attacked ‘with supposed typhus three weeks back and seen by this patient seven days before her own admission)’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Carpenter Age: 49 Gender: Male Date of admission: 21 Sep 1864 Date of death: 28 Sep 1864 Disease (transcribed): Tubercle of brain. Epilepsy Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Epilepsy (Brain) 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, who was dark-haired and fairly nourished, complained on his admission of a number of vague symptoms of which diarrhoea was the most definite. He had had several fits described as of an epileptic character, and supposed due to a fall he had in the spring. In manner he was dull and stupid and nothing could be made of him’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Engineer Age: 25 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Dec 1864 Date of death: 10 Dec 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) 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, a stout, well-grown man, an engineer, was admitted on the twelfth day of illness. He was unable to recollect or give any account of himself, restless and tremulous, the face flushed and eyes suffused’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen
Occupation or role: Mason Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Dec 1863 Date of death: 14 Jan 1864 Disease (transcribed): Softening of cord (myelitis). Typhus Disease (standardised): Myelitis (Spinal cord); 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 patient, a healthy-looking man, whose manner was natural and intelligent, entered the hospital suffering from palsy, which was becoming general. He was by trade a mason, had never contracted syphilitic sores’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, cord, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 21 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Mar 1864 Date of death: 23 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Pus in pericardium Disease (standardised): Suppuration (Heart) 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, a vigorous-looking man of florid complexion, was admitted on the fifth day of illness. After going to bed with a headache he had awoke with pain in the side and shivering. The day previous to this he had been standing for a length of time in the cricket field’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Interpreter Age: 27 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Jul 1863 Date of death: 17 Jul 1863 Disease (transcribed): Cranial periostitis (syphilitic). Consequent meningitis Disease (standardised): Periostitis (Skull); Syphilis (Systemic); Meningitis (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This patient had enjoyed good health except for syphilis which he had contracted some years before. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Coachman Age: 38 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Jan 1864 Date of death: 13 Jan 1864 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (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, an omnibus driver of sober habits, who had been under treatment many years for dyspnoea and cough and had had two attacks of haemoptysis (the last two months before his admission) was spare and somewhat wasted with light hair and flattened chest’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Errand boy Age: 15 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Feb 1864 Date of death: 5 Feb 1864 Disease (transcribed): Scarlatina Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic) 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 boy was admitted in a sullen state of mind following an active delirium insomuch that it was occasionally difficult to keep him in bed’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, pharynx, abdomen
Occupation or role: Schoolboy Age: 9 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Mar 1865 Date of death: 3 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular disease of intestine Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The patient had always been ailing. Last winter he complained much of pain in the shoulders and back and vomited often. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Nurse Age: 54 Gender: Female Date of admission: 25 Jan 1865 Date of death: 27 Jan 1865 Disease (transcribed): Congestion of brain after erysipelas. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Congestion (Brain); Erysipelas (Skin); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: No history obtained except that erysipelas had appeared on the right side of the face on Christmas Day. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: School girl Age: 11 Gender: Female Date of admission: 6 May 1865 Date of death: 9 May 1865 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: Two weeks ago vomiting commenced, chiefly of bile, and last four days. About the same time headache was complained of and the sight became dim. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Age: 40 Gender: Female Date of admission: 28 Dec 1864 Date of death: 6 Jan 1865 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis (old). Emphysema. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This woman had had cough for nine months and two attacks of haemoptysis three weeks before admission in which more than a pint of blood was brought up. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: School girl Age: 10 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 May 1865 Date of death: 12 Jun 1865 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Scarlatina Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Scarlet fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The child had been ill for four days with the ordinary symptoms of scarlatina. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Child Age: 13 Gender: Female Date of admission: 11 Apr 1864 Date of death: 17 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'The patient was a well grown, healthy-looking girl. On her admission she had been ill a week, rigors, vomiting, vertigo and what she called sick headache being the main symptoms. She had not entirely kept her bed but used to get up for dinner’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen