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John Brown, 50, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1853
Date of death: 28 Jan 1853
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull. Effusion of blood between the bone and dura mater
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Effusion (Skull); Effusion (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This man was thrown from the box of a cab which he was driving and sustained a severe injury to the head.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Sophia Percy, 22, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Feb 1852
Date of death: 11 Mar 1852
Disease (transcribed): Abscesses and sinuses connected with diseased shoulder joint. Head symptoms. Scrofulous tubercle of large size found in the right optic thalamus. Slight scrofulous deposit in the lungs
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Shoulder); Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: She had been twice before in the Hospital during last year on account of a large abscess situated at the upper and outer part of the right arm which was supposed to e connected with disease of the bones entering in to the shoulder joint.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, abdomen, thorax and shoulder joint
Type of incident: n/a

Mary Eakerton, [No age stated], [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Feb 1852
Date of death: 2 Mar 1852
Disease (transcribed): Fractured clavicle (near the sternal extremity) and ribs. Fracture of numerous ribs. Emphysema pulmonum. Bronchitis severe
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Clavicle); Fracture (Ribs); Emphysema (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman had been run over by a cab on the day of her admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

George Leadbitter, [No age stated], [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Dec 1852
Date of death: Brought in dead
Disease (transcribed): Extensive compound fracture of the skull. Laceration and protrusion of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain); Protrusion (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was removed unexamined
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Martha Challis, 66, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 66
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1852
Date of death: 23 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): Injury from a fall. Fracture of the head of the femur and rupture of ligament. Diseased kidneys and bladder. Diseased heart. Fibrinous induration of its walls
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Rupture (Ligament); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Bladder); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman had fallen down against the kerb stone two days before her admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right hip, abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Charlotte Archer, 24, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1852
Date of death: 19 Jul 1852
Disease (transcribed): Fall out of a window. Extensive fracture of the cranium with bruising of the brain at both its upper and lower surface
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Bruising (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: An hour before admission this child fell out of a window.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

James Summers, 61, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Apr 1852
Date of death: 28 Apr 1852
Disease (transcribed): Fractured vertebrae and ribs. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Fracture (Ribs); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: He was admitted having a short time previously fallen down while mounting a ladder, a height of about ten feet.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, spinal cord and column
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Simmons Valentine, 23, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Apr 1851
Date of death: 25 Apr 1851
Disease (transcribed): Wounds of the face & scalp. Fracture of the skull with laceration of the dura mater & brain. Extravasation of blood in the arachnoid cavity & subarachnoid areolar tissue. Low pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Wound (Face, scalp); Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain); Extravasation (Brain); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This young man was brought into the hospital while in a state of partial coma, having just before fallen from a ladder, a height of 14 feet, in the quadrant. He appeared to have fallen backwards & struck his head on the pavement. There was profuse haemorrhage from the wounds on the head’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

John Read , 50, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Dec 1851
Date of death: 22 Dec 1851
Disease (transcribed): Carious tarsal bones. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Caries (Foot); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined the case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Daveney, 40, Carman

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Oct 1851
Date of death: 9 Nov 1851
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of both bones of the right leg & sloughing of the wound. Secondary lobular pneumonia in the right lung. Old pleural adhesions on both sides. Recent pericarditis. Purulent deposits in the liver & slight peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Sloughing (Leg); Pneumonia (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart); Deposit (Liver); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'This man was a travelling carman & [?] and seemed to have led rather an irregular life. He was admitted on the 15th of October having received a kick from a horse on the right leg. The blow had fractured the leg & it appeared that in endeavouring to rise afterwards he had caused the fractured end of the tibia to protrude […] Nothing is known of the history of the old bullet wound’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right leg, abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Benjamin R. Brackland, 60, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1851
Date of death: 2 Feb 1851
Disease (transcribed): Severe wound of the throat, through crico-thyroid membrane
Disease (standardised): Wound (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man was brought to the hospital with a wound of the thorax between 2 and 3 inches in length, extending transversely from left to right & terminating over the front of the thyroid cartilage […] He had been found in a field about an hour before he was brought in, & a surgeon in the neighbourhood stated that there was profuse haemorrhage, both venous and arterial from the wound & he had been drinking. No reason was assigned for the deed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx

Type of incident: Trauma / accident / suicide?

Robert Watts, 37, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1851
Date of death: 6 Oct 1851
Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound followed by sloughing. Symptoms of compression of brain [?], attributable to the formation of pus within the cranium. Trephining resorted to. Pus & ‘lymphy gradation’, fluid between the dura mater & bone, also in arachnoid cavity, & among the meshes of pia mater. Also in cavity & of orbit & frontal sinuses. Secondary lobular pneumonia & hepatitis
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Suppuration (Scalp, brain); Trephining (Skull); Pneumonia (Lungs); Hepatitis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man was first seen as an out-patient. He had had a glass thrown at him in some drunken quarrel which had inflicted a pretty severe wound on the fore part of his scalp. There was a good deal of bleeding’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident / violence

James Penny, 40, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Aug 1851
Date of death: 24 Aug 1851
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the left parietal bone, with depression of bone. Also laceration of the dura mater of the brain correspondent, followed by collection of purulent matter in the arachnoid cavity & inflammation of the substance of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain); Suppuration (Brain); Inflammation (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: 'This man fell off a ladder, a height of about 8 feet, striking his head against a brick. When brought into the house (in the evening, a few hours after the accident), a piece of brick was found embedded in the skull’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Ellen Stephenson, 22, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Jan 1851
Date of death: 17 Aug 1851
Disease (transcribed): Tumour of a scrofulous character situated within the spinal canal in the cervical region, pressing on the medulla, & causing absorption of the surrounding portions of the vertebrae
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Spinal canal)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted under the care of the physicians, labouring under paralysis, and transferred to the surgeons on account of a tumour in the neck in the situation of that observed in the spinal canal. There was partial loss of power in both the upper & lower extremities which was worse on the left side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium, spinal cord

Type of incident: n/a

George Kelly, 65, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1851
Date of death: 29 Jul 1851
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the anterior part & base of the skull. Effusion of blood into the arachnoid cavity, the subarachnoid areolar tissue, & the substance of the cerebral hemispheres anteriorly. Diseased heart & kidneys
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Effusion (Brain); Disease (Heart, kidneys)

Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'He was admitted in consequence of having been run over by a mail-cart, the horse having it is said kicked him after he was knocked down. He was brought to the hospital almost immediately. On his admission there was copious haemorrhage from the right ear & from the nose. There was a wound over the left eye’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Anne Thompson, 32, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Apr 1851
Date of death: 5 Jul 1851
Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess (case not reported)
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The friends objected to any examination of this body’

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Lane, 6, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Nov 1849
Date of death: 21 Mar 1850
Disease (transcribed): Strumous disease of the hip
Disease (standardised): Disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: This body was removed by the friends without examination
Type of incident: n/a

William Raul, 40, Shoemaker

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Feb 1850
Date of death: 23 Feb 1850
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the right lower extremity
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This man was drunk and quarrelling when the right leg was broken about its centre.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and right lower extremit
Type of incident: n/a

John Sparks, 35, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Jan 1850
Date of death: 29 Feb 1850
Disease (transcribed): Fractured femur. Pleuritis. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Pleurisy (Pleura); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This man was admitted with a fracture of the right femur about its centre caused by a mill stone of great weight falling on the limb.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and right lower extremity
Type of incident: n/a

John Arnold, 41, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1849
Date of death: 4 Feb 1850
Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess. Disease of the hip joint
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Psoas muscle); Disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient was admitted with symptoms of inflammation of the bursa of the psoas and iliacus muscles on the right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and right lower extremity
Type of incident: n/a

Edward Lane, 21, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Dec 1849
Date of death: 29 Jan 1850
Disease (transcribed): Caries of the spine. Sinuses. Diarrhoea
Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Sinus (Spine); Diarrhoea (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in apparently good health and having been during the past summer at Margate with a sinus on either side of the lower part of the spine, that on the left side led to exposed and carious bone.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Henwright, 38, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1850
Date of death: 3 Nov 1850
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the spine.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This history of the case is not given as the body was not examined.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: This body was sent to the school for dissection
Type of incident: n/a

William Ryan, 61, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Sep 1850
Date of death: 28 Oct 1850
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the femur. Erysipelas
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Erysipelas (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: A week before this patient's admission he was pushed down and fell violently on the right hip.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and left lower extremity
Type of incident: Homicide/murder

John Rhodes, 22, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1850
Date of death: 11 Oct 1850
Disease (transcribed): Fractured base of the skull.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in a state of insensibility having a short time previously fallen from a height of twelve feet while painting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Daniel Sheils, 60, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Aug 1850
Date of death: 16 Sep 1850
Disease (transcribed): Injury about cervical vertebrae
Disease (standardised): Injury (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient, a short time before his admission, fell from a scaffold thirty feet in height and fell on his face.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis and spinal canal
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

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