Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Dec 1860
Date of death: 28 Dec 1860
Disease (transcribed): Gunshot wound of the stomach
Disease (standardised): Wound (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Lee, Robert
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted into the hospital at 12.15pm on the 28th of December with a gunshot wound situated above and to the left side of the umbilicum, about the size of a shilling & of irregular outline [….] He was out & about shooting (at 9am) & in order to get a shot he had climbed up a high bank, with a hedge above, his gun, which was held by a companion (during his ascent) was passed to him through the hedge, when by some means or other [it] went off, causing the injuries above described’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen (‘the examination of this body was at first objected to; but, at the time of the inquest, permission was obtained to examine the abdomen, which was therefore done (though necessarily in a very hurried manner) by the house surgeon, Mr Lee [Fredederick Fawson Lee], and a portion of the stomach removed for preservation’
Type of incident: Trauma / accident