Occupation or role: Stone mason Age: 66 Gender: Male Date of admission: 30 Jul 1867 Date of death: 5 Aug 1867 Disease (transcribed): Enlarged prostate. Cystic kidneys. Hypertrophied heart. Oedema of lungs Disease (standardised): Enlarged (Prostate); Cysts (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Oedema (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient had had stricture for years and for the last three months the difficulty had been getting worse. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and cranium Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Clerk Age: 29 Gender: Male Date of admission: 14 Nov 1866 Date of death: 31 Apr 1867 Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis. Disease of hip Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Hip) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Ring, Edmund Cuthbert Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient was admitted with the history that twenty three years previously he was thrown down by a boy, and his hip was hurt in consequence of which he was laid up for three years. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Painter Age: 80 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Mar 1867 Date of death: 22 Mar 1867 Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Oedema of lungs. Ulcer of stomach Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Oedema (Lung); Ulcer (Stomach) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Ring, Edmund Cuthbert Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient was admitted with an oblique fracture of the left clavicle produced by his falling down stairs. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 30 Aug 1866 Date of death: 1 Sep 1866 Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Emphysema Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Emphysema (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Wilson, John Henry Parker Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient had a waggon pass up his left side. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Pensioner Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Feb 1866 Date of death: 25 May 1866 Disease (transcribed): Ulcer of leg. Bronchitis. Death from exhaustion Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Leg); Bronchitis (Lung); Exhaustion (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This man was admitted with a rupial sure, the result of syphilis contracted in 1846. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Cook Age: 33 Gender: Female Date of admission: 28 Dec 1865 Date of death: 2 May 1866 Disease (transcribed): Fibro-plastic tumours in liver, lungs, lumbar vertebrae and left ileum Disease (standardised): Tumour (Liver); Tumour (Lung); Tumour (Spine); Tumour (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical notes: This woman was first admitted in November 1864 with a large tumour at the back of the thigh. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Butler Age: 44 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1866 Date of death: 9 Apr 1866 Disease (transcribed): Cut throat Disease (standardised): Wound (Throat) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: Suicide
Occupation or role: Cottager Age: 54 Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 Mar 1865 Date of death: 14 Mar 1865 Disease (transcribed): Burn. Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The patient was admitted with the history of having fallen into the fire in an epileptic fit. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, head and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Inscription on title page (Vol I): ‘London Hospital Medical Library 1904’
Four volumes: I (General Pathology); II (Local Injuries. Diseases of the Eye); III (Operative Surgery; Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense, Respiration, Circulation, Locomotion, and Innervation); IV (Diseases of the Organs of Digestion, of the Genito-Urinary System, of the Breast, Thyroid Gland, and Skin; Appendix of Miscellaneous Subjects)
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 14 Dec 1864 Date of death: 16 Dec 1864 Disease (transcribed): Cut throat Disease (standardised): Cut (Pharynx) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: 'A short time before admission he was found attempting to drown himself in the Serpentine, having first cut his throat with a common table knife. He will assign no reason for the act, but appears to be partially imbecile’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Tailor Age: 63 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Jul 1864 Date of death: 19 Jul 1864 Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia after an accident Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Drayman Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 May 1862 Date of death: 15 May 1862 Disease (transcribed): Laceration of lung. Haemothorax Disease (standardised): Laceration (Lung); Haemothorax (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This man was admitted into the hospital having been run over by an empty dray. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Schoolboy Age: 9 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1862 Date of death: 19 Apr 1862 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This child was admitted under the surgeons for supposed disease of the spine. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Painter Age: 51 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Oct 1861 Date of death: 4 Nov 1861 Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Venning, Edgcombe Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The patient (while in a state of intoxication) was struck by a spring cart. On admission he ‘was very tipsy’ and all the ribs on the left side were found to be fractured. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen and cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Bricklayer Age: 71 Gender: Male Date of admission: 31 Jul 1861 Date of death: 19 Sep 1861 Disease (transcribed): Disease of ankle. Lobular Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Disease (Ankle); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Venning, Edgcombe Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The patient, who appeared half starved, was admitted on account of a number of ulcers on the left foot. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen and ankle Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Slate polisher Age: 34 Gender: Male Date of admission: 19 Jun 1861 Date of death: 21 Jun 1861 Disease (transcribed): Ulcer of leg. Phthisis Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Leg); Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas 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 body was not examined Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 38 Gender: Male Date of admission: 27 Mar 1861 Date of death: 2 Apr 1861 Disease (transcribed): Fatty heart. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James Post mortem examination performed by: Rouse, James Medical notes: The patient had been in the habit of gin and porter drinking and five years before admission had had an attack of delirium tremens. Four days before admission while walking he felt pain in the scrotum and noticed swelling. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 2 Gender: Female Date of admission: 5 Dec 1860 Date of death: 10 Dec 1860 Disease (transcribed): Sloughing of labium &c. Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Sloughing (Genitalia); Pneumonia (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This child was placed at school at Hammersmith by her relatives. It appears from the account given by the child that they were half-starved & never washed except about the face and hands’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 18 Gender: Female Date of admission: 30 Jun 1860 Date of death: 30 Jun 1860 Disease (transcribed): Old ulceration from burn. Double pleurisy. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Ulcer Burn (Skin); Pleurisy (Pleura); Peritonitis (Peritoneum) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a large sloughing ulcerated surface on the back of the right elbow […] of more than a years’ standing. She was an excessively thin, cachetic-looking girl, & had never menstruated since the original accident’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 Jun 1860 Date of death: 23 Jun 1860 Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine & ribs. Rupture of the pleura Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine, ribs); Rupture (Pleura) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of extreme collapse. The wheel of a waggon having passed over his abdomen’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, spine
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 24 Gender: Female Date of admission: 22 Jun 1860 Date of death: 23 Jun 1860 Disease (transcribed): Cancer of the lung Disease (standardised): Cancer (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry and Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This patient first came into the hospital in Jan /58 under the name of Mary A. Mills, she was then in a state of excessive emaciation from a malignant tumour of the knee joint, which she had had for 9 months. The limb was amputated, she rapidly recovered her health […] She reappeared on the 22nd of June of the present year, in a dying state, blue and cold, and gasping for breath’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 37 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Mar 1860 Date of death: 17 Apr 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Abscess in buttock Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Buttocks) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted under Mr Tatum [Thomas Tatum] with two abscesses (which were discharging unhealthy pus), situated in the left buttock. They had existed for about 10 days’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx, left thigh
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 45 Gender: [No gender stated] Date of admission: 15 Sep 1859 Date of death: 15 Sep 1859 Disease (transcribed): Ruptured lung ? Disease (standardised): Rupture (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas 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
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 25 Gender: Male Date of admission: 27 Apr 1859 Date of death: 14 Aug 1859 Disease (transcribed): Abscess of ankle. Pyaemia. Phthisis Disease (standardised): Abscess (Ankle); Sepsis (Systemic); Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas 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 body was not examined Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 2 years 6 months Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Feb 1859 Date of death: 13 Jun 1859 Disease (transcribed): Strumous abscess of the knee. Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Leg); Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: This child, who came from the workhouse, was admitted from strumous enlargement of the knee joint. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right knee, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a