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Hawkins, Caesar Henry Female urogenital diseases and pregnancy complications With digital objects
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Sarah Collins, 29, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Apr 1846
Date of death: 2 May 1846
Disease (transcribed): Phlebitis after accouchement. Abscess in knee joint and in back. Large slough over sacrum. Kidneys mottled.
Disease (standardised): Phlebitis (Veins); Abscess (Leg); Sloughing (Spine); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: The patient was confined about a month before admission, the labour having been a very severe one, attended with violent delirium and followed by phlebitis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and right inferior extremity
Type of incident: n/a

Fanny Watkins, 26, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Apr 1859
Date of death: 18 May 1859
Disease (transcribed): Syphilitic ulceration of throat
Disease (standardised): Syphilis (Systemic); Ulcer (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Therefore the case is not given
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Selina Clark, 20, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 05 May 1847
Date of death: 19 Jul 1847
Disease (transcribed): Circumscribed pleurisy and pneumonia with hepatisation. Left kidney granular with numerous calculi in its structure. Right kidney dwindled and granular. Inflamed vagina and bladder. Small cyst of broad ligament
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung); Disease (Kidney); Calculi (Kidney); Inflammation (Vagina);Inflammation (Bladder) ; Cysts (Broad ligament)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient who was admitted under Dr Nairne, with pains in the limbs of rheumatic character, was transferred to Mr Hawkins in consequence of a discharge from the vagina which she stated she first perceived a week after admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and left hip joint
Type of incident: n/a

Sarah Barker, 27, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Sep 1845
Date of death: 15 Jan 1846
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhous ulceration of the vagina spreading to the uterus, and infiltration of scirrhous matter into the cellular tissue of the pelvis. Encephaloid tubercle in liver. Bladder and rectum inflamed. Mottling degeneration of left kidney
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Vagina, Uterus, Pelvis, Liver); Inflammation (Bladder, Rectum); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: The patient was admitted with a large tumour situated on the wall of the vagina.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Mary Witham , 74, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 74
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Oct 1852
Date of death: 25 Oct 1852
Disease (transcribed): Burn of the thoracic integuments. Secondary lobular pneumonia. Heart enlarged and fatty. Recent lymph in the peritoneal cavity. Cysted and fatty kidneys
Disease (standardised): Burn (Thorax); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Heart); Lymph (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney); Cysts (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Five days before admission she accidentally set fire to her clothes.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Sarah Burbidge, 69, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 69
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Oct 1857
Date of death: 25 Jan 1858
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the leg. Bedsores. Debility. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg ); Pressure ulcer (Skin); Debility (Systemic); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'While walking on the curbstone she slipped & fell, fracturing the tibia & fibula of the right leg about midway between the knee & ankle joints’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right leg

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Susanna Mears, 46, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Nov 1851
Date of death: 22 Nov 1851
Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia of three days’ standing. Operation. The strangulated parts found to be congested but not more affected. Sac of hernia in a very sloughy condition. Disease of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation (Thigh); Congestion (Thigh); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in the evening of the 18th of Nov, having apparently laboured under strangulated hernia for 3 days. The history she gave was the following. At 11 o’clock in the evening of the 15th she was taken with great pain in the belly & vomiting. The bowels had acted at 6 o’clock the same afternoon. There had been a tumour at the upper part of the left thigh for 4 or 5 years, the nature of which she was not aware of’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Elizabeth Meads, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Nov 1845
Date of death: 30 Nov 1845
Disease (transcribed): Low peritonitis. Cirrhosis of liver. Kidneys dwindled. Low pericarditis. Lungs congested & soft. Old ulcers
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Disease (Kidney); Pericarditis (Heart); Congestion (Lungs); Ulcer
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry and Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with an ulcer on each side of the left ankle and two smaller ulcers in the same situation upon the right side. The first appearance of the ulcers was seven years previous to admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Susan Gibson, 70, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Wed 1844
Date of death: 16 Feb 1845
Disease (transcribed): Burn about the scalp exposing a large portion of bone. Bones of the skull somewhat thickened. Gall stones. No disease of duodenum or stomach. Cysts of the trichina spiralis in the voluntary system of muscles
Disease (standardised): Burn (Scalp); Gallstone (Bladder); Trichinella spiralis
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'This patient was reported to have fainted away and to have fallen into the fire. When admitted an extensive burn presented itself extending over the right side of the scalp and neck, and involving the ear. For the first few days she complained much of pain’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Clara Watts, 22, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Feb 1851
Date of death: 4 Mar 1851
Disease (transcribed): Secondary deposits in joints & in lungs, following parturition
Disease (standardised): Deposit (Joints, lungs); Childbirth
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'On admission this patient presented the following points for observation. The expression of the face (which was much emaciated) was anxious, the pulse 160. There was a large slough on the back of the right foot, & pain aggravated by motion was complained of in the knee & ankle of the same side which was generally swollen. There was also great pain & swelling of the left knee & ankle, any motion of these joints causing agony. On the back of the right hand & forearm there was also an abscess which was opened soon after her entrance to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Sarah Read, 21, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1842
Date of death: 27 Mar 1843
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis and Emphysema. Scrofulous abscess of Kidney. Disease of Bladder.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung); Abscess (Kidney); Disease (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Sarah Taylor, 28, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1849
Date of death: 3 Apr 1849
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas. Congested lungs. Blood partially fluid. Cirrhosed liver. Bright’s disease of kidneys. Ulceration and thickening of the tibia. Ulcer of the leg
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Congestion (Lungs); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Nephritis (Kidneys); Ulcer (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with cachectic abscesses one of which was situated about the middle of the anterior surface of the right leg, and another, which had already opened, a little above the inner condyle of the left humerus’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right lower extremity

Type of incident: n/a

Jane Jupp, 75, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 75
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1860
Date of death: 31 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fractured radius. Disease of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Arm); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman was stooping down to pick something off the floor, when she overbalanced herself & fell on her left hand & side of her face, fracturing the radius’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: Trauma / accident