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Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Nov 1855
Date of death: 1 Jan 1856
Disease (transcribed): Extensive deposit of urate of soda in connection with the joints. Diseased Kidneys
Disease (standardised): Deposits (Joints); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This patient had suffered from gout more or less eighteen years. He was exposed to damp a good deal during the week preceding his admission, and pain came on in his knees, ankles and shoulder.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium and knee joints
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1854
Date of death: 8 Apr 1854
Disease (transcribed): Strumous disease of bones of the right wrist. Phthisis. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Wrist); Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, who was extremely pale & thin & had all the aspect of a consumptive patient, was admitted under the surgeon’s care in consequence of strumous disease of the right wrist, which had existed according to his account for more than a year’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Wrist joint, abdomen, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Drayman
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 May 1851
Date of death: 17 May 1851
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Pleurisy on the right side, also old tubercular deposit in the apex of right lung. Dislocation of the cartilages of 5th & 6th ribs, from the sternum by a contusion. ‘Wet brain’
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (Brain); Pleurisy (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Dislocation (Ribs); Disease (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man was a drayman & was accidentally jammed in between two drays by which means he received what was thought to be merely a severe contusion on the anterior wall of the chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, cranium, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 May 1856
Date of death: Brought in dead
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Lacerated lungs.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Laceration (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This boy had been run over by a loaded van.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1851
Date of death: 27 May 1851
Disease (transcribed): Gouty with anasarca. Liver very granular, peritoneum thickened. Kidneys somewhat altered. No albumin in urine. Heart flaccid, atheromatous & calcareous deposits. Fibrous tumours of uterus
Disease (standardised): Gout (Joints); Edema (Systemic); Disease (Liver, peritoneum, kidneys, heart); Tumour (Uterus)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte and Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'An elderly woman who had never borne children, was admitted with great enlargement of the abdomen & swelling of the legs. It appeared that she had suffered from cough for some years, which had become unusually severe since last Xmas, accompanied by much dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1852
Date of death: 6 May 1852
Disease (transcribed): Injury from the wheel of a railway truck. Fracture of the pelvis. Laceration of the urethra. Fracture of one rib and the clavicle. Bruised condition of the lung
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Pelvis); Laceration (Urethra); Fracture (Rib); Fracture (Clavicle); Bruising (Lung)
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 boy was at play in a railroad truck which was set in motion. He jumped out of the truck and fell under the wheel.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 64
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Mar 1852
Date of death: 6 May 1852
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the upper part of the thigh bone. Old pleural adhesion and soft dilated heart. Kidneys slightly diseased
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Adhesions (Pleura); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was admitted a short time after the occurrence of an accident by which she had broken her thigh. She fell down two stairs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left femur, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 May 1852
Date of death: 9 May 1852
Disease (transcribed): Cut of the finger with a piece of glass. Infiltrated pus in the pectoral and latiss dorsi muscles and in the sub-tegumentary tissues. Coagula adherent to neighbouring lumbar veins
Disease (standardised): Wound (Finger); Suppuration (Muscles); Suppuration (Tissues); Coagula (Veins)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: The patient was admitted reporting that he had cut his finger with glass, and a small portion remained in the wound which had closed up.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Integuments of the chest, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 April 1855
Date of death: 24 April 1855
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Caries of Temporal Bone
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was admitted in the last stage of Phthisis, and his great reluctance to give answers on account of his dyspnoea made it almost impossible to learn particulars of his history.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, glands of neck and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1854
Date of death: 5 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Syphilitic disease of humerus. Secondary pneumonia & pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Syphilis (Arm); Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, who appeared in perfect health & had very florid complexion, was admitted on account of disease of the left humerus […] he had had syphilis about 2 years before admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Bricklayer’s labourer
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jan 1851
Date of death: 20 Jan 1851
Disease (transcribed): Rupture of the liver, left kidney & spleen. Also extravasation of much blood into peritoneal cavity & subperitoneal tissues. Fracture of ribs on both side. Pneumonia on right side. Fracture of sacrum & separation of sacro-iliac articulation on either side
Disease (standardised): Rupture (Liver, kidney, spleen); Extravasation (Abdomen); Fracture (Ribs, pelvis); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient, who was a bricklayer’s labourer, was brought to the hospital in a state of collapse, having just been precipitated from the scaffold near the Chinese Exhibition, a height of between 20 and 30 feet. The ribs on the left side were found to be extensively fractured though the exact seat of the injury could not be determined, as there was much emphysema all over the sides & front of the chest, & when he somewhat recovered from the collapse, he was in too great a state of depression to bear much manual examination’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 May 1851
Date of death: 9 Jun 1851
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the bones & joints of the great toe. Tubercular deposit & vomicae in the lungs on both sides. Thinning of the walls of the heart. Ulceration of internal glands. Scrofulous deposit in mesenteric & lumbar glands
Disease (standardised): Disease (Toe); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Ulcer (Glands); Deposit (Glands)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient had been attending as an out-patient for some days with disease of the metacarpo-phalangeal joint of the great toe, the articular cartilage being destroyed by ulceration. He was sent into the house [hospital] for the purpose of having the toe amputated, but his health was so shattered that this was not done. He had suffered from cough & general debility for 13 months, being troubled with urgent dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1853
Date of death: 6 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased shoulder. Senile debility
Disease (standardised): Disease (Shoulder); Old age
Admitting doctor: Tatum, Thomas
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not reported’
Post mortem notes: 'This body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 April 1855
Date of death: 29 April 1855
Disease (transcribed): Fractured thigh. Laceration of the hand. Traumatic gangrene
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Laceration (Hand); Gangrene (Indeterminate)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
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: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 May 1853
Date of death: 30 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Effusion of blood into the pleural sac to a great extent. Friable lung. Slightly diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Effusion (Pleura); Friable (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: He had attended for three days as an out patient on account of a fracture of the ribs on the left side which had been caused by the kick of a horse.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 7
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1853
Date of death: 11 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Disease of cervical vertebrae
Disease (standardised): Disease (Vertebrae)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not reported’
Post mortem notes: 'The body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 82
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 May 1851
Date of death: 20 Jun 1851
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the femur, high up. Ankylosis, entire, between the head of the femur & the ilium, evidently the result of ‘diseases’ of the joint. Vomicae in lungs
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh); Ankylosis (Thigh); Disease (Joints); Suppuration (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient, who was very old & feeble, was knocked down by a butcher’s boy while walking. He fell on his back & on being raised found he was unable to walk. He was found to have a simple fracture of the upper part of the left thigh’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hip joint, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Omnibus conductor
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 May 1874
Date of death: 11 May 1874
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the base of the skull. Meningeal haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Haemorrhage (Meninges)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: He fell off his omnibus and was brought to the hospital quite insensible.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, brain, pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 May 1853
Date of death: 28 Jun 1853
Disease (transcribed): Aneurysm of the ascending aorta pushing the trachea and oesophagus aside and destroying parts of the left clavicle and 1st rib. Pericarditis and bronchitis. Slight hypertrophy of heart
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Arteries); Destruction (Clavicle); Destruction (Ribs); Pericarditis (Heart); Bronchitis (Lung); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: He was admitted with a tumour evidentally aneurismal situated about the sternal end of the clavicle and left edge of the sternum.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 66
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Jun 1851
Date of death: 27 Jun 1851
Disease (transcribed): Comminuted fracture of fibula & rupture of anterior & internal ligaments of ankle joint. Diffuse inflammation of areolar tissue. Old pleurisy of right side
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Rupture (Ankle joints); Inflammation (Tissue); Pleurisy (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'While crossing Rotten Row in Hyde Park she was knocked down by a horse & her leg was kicked by the animal. The tibia & fibula were thought to be fractured extensively about 2 inches above the ankle’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 May 1851
Date of death: 27 Jun 1851
Disease (transcribed): Compound oblique fracture of the right thigh, followed by diffuse areolar inflammation & also an abscess of the integuments in the sacral region. Secondary pleurisy & lobular pneumonia on left side. Disease of the kidneys & extremely enlarged spleen
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh); Inflammation (Tissue); Abscess (Sacrum); Pleurisy (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys, spleen)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a compound fracture of the right thigh, caused by his slipping off a scaffold 30 feet from the ground. The femur was broken at the lower part of the middle third, & the wound, which communicated directly with the fracture, & was on the outer side of the thigh, was large enough to admit the end of the finger’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Jun 1851
Date of death: 29 Jun 1851
Disease (transcribed): Discharge from the left ear. Inflammation & caries of several parts of the temporal bone. Inflammation of the membranes of the brain, & softening of the entire brain, with abscess in the left cerebral hemisphere
Disease (standardised): Discharge (Ear); Inflammation (Skull, brain); Caries (Skull); Softening (Brain); Abscess (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient was originally admitted under the care of Dr Page [William Emanuel Page] on 7th May when he stated that he had caught cold a fortnight previously and was at that time suffering from cough, with pains in all his limbs but especially in the neck & throat with some difficulty of swallowing’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 May 1852
Date of death: 1 Jul 1852
Disease (transcribed): Fracture with extensive displacement of the last dorsal vertebra, with immediate and permanent loss of sensation and the power of motion. Ulceration of the bladder and perforation owing to retention of urine
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Displacement (Spine); Paralysis (Spinal cord); Ulcer (Bladder); Perforation (Bladder); Retention of urine (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had fallen on the day of his admission a height of about twenty feet from a scaffold.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and spinal column
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jan 1852
Date of death: 13 Jan 1852
Disease (transcribed): Extensive fracture of the ribs. Fracture of the femur, in to the knee joint. Slight rupture of the liver
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Fracture (Leg); Rupture (Liver)
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 brought to the hospital having a short time previously fallen out of a window, a height of almost thirty feet.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Nov 1850
Date of death: 22 Jan 1851
Disease (transcribed): Abscess connected with the right sterno-clavicular articulation. Complete destruction of the joints & caries of contiguous bones. Scrofulous deposits in the ovaries, & on the lining surface of uterus. Tubercle & vomicae in lung. Ulceration of intestines & perforation of rectum
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Chest); Caries (Joints, bones); Tuberculosis (Ovaries, uterus, lungs); Ulcer (Intestines); Perforation (Rectum)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted, under the care of Mr Cutler [Edward Cutler] with an abscess apparently connected with the right sterno-clavicular articulation. There was a small opening over this spot, & a tube having been passed through it, a portion of the sternum & of the clavicle was found to be carious to some extent. She stated that she had noticed some degree of swelling for about six months at the upper part of the sternum’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a