Occupation or role: General servant Age: 15 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Mar 1865 Date of death: 6 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever Disease (standardised): Typhoid 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: It was ascertained that she had been ill four days, the first symptoms being aching of the hips and ankles. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Apr 1865 Date of death: 8 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus, epidemic louse-borne (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: His illness had lasted a week, beginning with cold shivering and pains in the limbs. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Stableman Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864 Date of death: 17 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): 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 man was admitted with bronchial catarrh and cough of a month’s duration. He had wasted during the attack and at the time of admission was without appetite’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, blood
Occupation or role: Soldier Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 Mar 1865 Date of death: 10 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax. ‘Amyloid’ change in several organs Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung); Amyloidosis (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: He had wasted and had cough for a year, especially last month. Body parts examined in the post mortem: 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
Occupation or role: Gardener Age: 60 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Mar 1865 Date of death: 11 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Emphysema. Bronchitis. Phthisis Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: During the winters of the last two years he had had cough with dyspnoea and much watery expectoration. The present attack had lasted four months. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Schoolgirl Age: 14 Gender: Female Date of admission: 10 Jan 1863 Date of death: 11 Jan 1863 Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever Disease (standardised): Typhoid 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: It was said that she had been ill a weak with rigors, headache and some looseness of the bowels. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Porter Age: 20 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Apr 1865 Date of death: 11 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus, epidemic louse-borne (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: Six days before the patient’s admission he fell down the stairs. For a week before that he had been struggling against debility, pains in the limbs and fever. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Apr 1864 Date of death: 21 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus? Scarlet fever? Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic); Scarlet fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Steward, George William and Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This patient was brought into the hospital in a semicomatose state by a friend, who could give no more account of him than that he had been ill for 3 or 4 days’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, pharynx
Occupation or role: Clerk Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Mar 1864 Date of death: 22 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George and Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Steward, George William and Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'Admitted into the surgical wards with varicose aneurism of right arm, which had existed about four years. In 1860 he retired to bed in his usual health, awoke suddenly during the night & found the whole right side of body with right extremities cold & numbed’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Shoulder, 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: Hospital help Age: 44 Gender: Female Date of admission: 16 Apr 1864 Date of death: 24 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus fever Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barker, William Levington Post mortem examination performed by: Steward, George William and Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This woman was a help in the hospital, & had been washing the wards & waiting upon 2 or 3 patients who were in the hospital with typhus fever’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Cabman Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Apr 1865 Date of death: 17 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: He was much exposed to bad weather. He had been subject to winter cough for the past six years and often spat blood. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Carpenter Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Apr 1865 Date of death: 17 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Ulceration of bowels after typhoid fever Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Intestines); Typhoid fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: Three and a half months ago he was attacked with what he called a violent cold, violent pains in the limbs, cough and the bowels were not loose. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen and larynx Type of incident: n/a
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
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
Occupation or role: Packer Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Apr 1864 Date of death: 10 May 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 man was admitted on the eighth day from the first appearance of the symptoms. He was then extremely weak and breathless, he described that a sudden pain in the head had seized him a the commencement of illness, that he had fallen down and remained insensible for about five minutes’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 38 Gender: Female Date of admission: 11 Jan 1865 Date of death: 25 Apr 1865 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Empyema Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Empyema (Pleura) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This woman was under the surgeon for fistula ani. She was transferred to Dr Page for cough with occasional haemoptysis and rapid wasting. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
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: 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: Painter Age: 20 Gender: Male Date of admission: 22 Mar 1865 Date of death: 9 May 1865 Disease (transcribed): Tubercle of cord Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Spinal cord) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: Ten weeks ago he was seized with pain in the chest and laid up for some time with what was called pleurisy. Since this he had a partial recovery and he had been working in a damp house and been much exposed to wet and rain. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cord, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Parlour maid Age: 25 Gender: Female Date of admission: 23 Dec 1863 Date of death: 9 Jan 1864 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diabetes Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Diabetes mellitus (Pancreas) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'A light-haired woman of strumous aspect and very thin. She had been troubled for as long as 6 months with continual thirst and had voided as much as seven quarts of urine during the twenty four hours. She had concealed her illness until obliged from increasing weakness to give up her occupation as a domestic servant two months before admission’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Helper Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 31 May 1864 Date of death: 2 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Meningitis. Symptoms of delirium tremens Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'The patient was a man of large frame and red, bloated face, who had long been addicted to habits of intemperance. He had been under treatment for delirium tremens on several occasions, and once at the hospital for jaundice’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
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
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 24 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 May 1865 Date of death: 25 May 1865 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: The patient, already at the point of death, was in the Hospital a year ago with cough then of two months duration. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
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