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Alfred Cashion, 21, Sadler

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

Type of incident: n/a

Alfred Hutton, 9, [No occupation stated]

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

Alice Prout, 5, Schoolgirl

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

Type of incident: n/a

Amelia Brewer, 24, Married

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

Type of incident: n/a

Ann Long, 34, Married

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

Ann Wadley, 18, General servant

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’

Type of incident: n/a

Anne Gill, 23, General servant

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

Type of incident: n/a

Anne Shepherd, 34, Laundress

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

Benjamin Eaton, 56, Cabman

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

Type of incident: n/a

Benjamin Johnson, 64, Carpenter

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

Type of incident: n/a

Bridget Kelliher, 35, Married

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

Type of incident: n/a

Catherine Shirley, 19, Hawker

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

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Dunning, 49, Carpenter

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

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Hancock, 25, Engineer

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

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Howe, 36, Mason

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

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Keely, 21, [Occupation not stated]

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

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Marshall, 27, Interpreter

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

Daniel Harding, 38, Coachman

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

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Evans, 15, Errand boy

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

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Roberts, 9, Schoolboy

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

Eleanor Farquharson, 54, Nurse

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

Eliza Bacon, 11, School girl

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

Elizabeth Bond, 40, Married

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

Elizabeth Cainan, 10, School girl

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

Elizabeth Denton, 13, Child

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

Type of incident: n/a

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