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Occupation or role: Van boy
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Jan 1886
Date of death: 10 Jan 1886
Disease (transcribed): Pyelitis. Dilatation of pelves of kidneys. Calculus in left kidney. Hypospadias
Disease (standardised): Pyelitis (Kidney); Disease (Kidney); Calculi (Kidney); Hypospadias (Urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: In 1880 he was an in patient here for an operation for the relief of a bad hypospadias. Since then he had frequent stoppages of the water.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, aorta, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, ureters, bladder, stomach, intestines and penis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Woodcutter
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Mar 1888
Date of death: 18 Mar 1888
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of cervix uteri. 2ndary deposit in roof of left lung & in thoracic & cervical glands, causing wasting left laryngeal muscles (& death from laryngeal span?). Other 2ndary growths in liver and pancreas
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Cervix); Deposit (Lungs); Growth (Liver, pancreas)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient gave no history of heritable disease, her parents died she said of old age. She was married twice and had eleven children, five of whom died when young. She had no miscarriages’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Neck, chest, thorax, larynx, lungs, abdomen, uterus, vagina, ovaries, liver, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Mar 1888
Date of death: 22 Mar 1888
Disease (transcribed): Old mitral disease. Pulmonary emphysema & bronchitis. Recent acute nephritis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Emphysema (Lungs); Bronchitis (Lungs); Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'When 13 years of age the patient had scarlatina. She occasionally had rheumatic pains in her shoulders. For some time, she could not say how long, she had been disturbed about twice during the night to pass water’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, abdomen, thorax, heart, spleen, kidneys, liver, stomach, eyes

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Coachman
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Mar 1888
Date of death: 22 Mar 1888
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophy of left ventricle. Chronic interstitial nephritis. Pulmonary bronchitis and emphysema (Erysipelas)
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Nephritis (Kidneys); Bronchitis (Lungs); Emphysema (Lungs); Erysipelas (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient had three children and three miscarriages. There was no history of gout. Occasionally she had rheumatic pains. In a year before she came in she suffered much from dyspnoea. For some months she had been disturbed at night about twice to pass urine. From Christmas time she had oedema of the legs & ascites’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Right leg, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach, brian, lungs, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gas fitter
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1889
Date of death: 5 Apr 1889
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Brights disease with ascites from pale granular contracted kidneys
Disease (standardised): Glomerulonephritis (Kidney); Ascites (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Medical notes: He had many attacks of gout, about fifteen altogether. In 1888 the patient had puffiness under his eyes for a week, and swelling of his legs for three weeks.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, trachea, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, stomach, intestines, brain and eyes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Apr 1887
Date of death: 18 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Cerebral haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Granular (Kidney); Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient, who was a painter, was not known by his wife to have had colic gout or any other illness. There was no history of alcohol or syphilis'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Chambermaid
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Mar 1886
Date of death: 31 Mar 1886
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Hypertrophy of the left ventricle. Thickening of the mitral valve
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: Oedema of the legs had existed for two months, varying in amount, with slight oedema of the eyelids and cough with increasing dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, stomach, intestines, uterus and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Porter
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Mar 1888
Date of death: 4 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Bronchopneumonia of both lobes of right lung, and of left lower lobe. Scattered tubercles in lungs, kidneys and liver
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs, kidneys, liver)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The child was ill 3 weeks before she came to the hospital. Her chief symptoms were cough & dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thorax, heart, kidneys, spleen, liver

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Courier
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Apr 1889
Date of death: 8 Apr 1889
Disease (transcribed): Red granular. Contracted kidneys. Mitral incompetence
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Medical notes: The patient was an Italian by birth. For nine or ten months before he came to St George’s the man had a troublesome cough and much dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, pleurae, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, stomach, intestines, bladder and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Template maker
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Mar 1888
Date of death: 8 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Bright’s disease from small, red, granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient said he had suffered from winter cough for many years. He did not know how many. During the last 2 winters the cough gave him more trouble than at any previous time. Just before the celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee (1887) he was an out-patient at St George’s’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, lungs, spleen, kidneys, bladder, liver, stomach, intestines, brain, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Parlourmaid
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1889
Date of death: 13 Apr 1889
Disease (transcribed): Mitral constriction with vegetations. Infarctions in the spleen and right kidney and (probably) in the right lobe of the liver
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Infarction (Spleen); Infarction (Kidney); Infarction (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Medical notes: About five weeks before her admission she had a child. The birth was premature. On the night of March 5th she shivered, and every night afterwards, followed by pains in the right leg and left side of her chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spleen, lungs, heart, spleen, kidneys, uterus, liver, brain and eyes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Groom
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Apr 1886
Date of death: 13 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia. Pustular eruption. Oedema and congestion of the lungs. Fluid blood. Diffluent spleen. Cirrhotic and fatty liver. Congested kidneys. Abscesses in anterior tibialis muscle. Pyrexia
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Acne vulgaris (Skin); Oedema (Lung); Fluid (Blood); Diffulent (Spleen); Cirrhosis (Liver);Congestion (Kidney) ; Abscess (Muscles) ; Fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: He had been ailing for some time and on April 2nd some diarrhoea set it lasting only for twenty four hours.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, pericardium, vessels, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, stomach, intestines and muscles
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Watchmaker
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Dec 1885
Date of death: 14 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of vertebrae. Acetabulum hip. Double psoas abscess. Pyo-nephritis. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Spine); Necrosis (Hip); Abscess (Psoas muscle); Nephritis (Kidney); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship. Rouse, James. Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Bull, William Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: This man was admitted into St George’s on July 13th and remained until August 5th. He was then suffering from rheumatic pains in the right thigh. He was sent to Wimbledon and discharged cured in a month. He was again admitted complaining of pains in the right leg and ankle.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, stomach, intestines, pancreas, muscles, bones, vertebrae, femur, joints and hip
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Feb 1888
Date of death: 14 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Bright’s disease from pale, granular, contracted kidneys. Bronchitis and oedema of lungs
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys); Bronchitis (Lungs); Edema (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient said he had undergone great privations in the France-German war of 1870. On one occasion a Bavarian soldier struck him on the back of his neck. A fatty tumour afterwards appeared on the site of the injury. He was however in good health till a year before admission when he had bronchitis’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, abdomen, thorax, heart, lungs, spleen, liver, stomach, intestines, kidneys, testes

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Mar 1886
Date of death: 18 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Heart dilated and hypertrophied. Pericarditis. Oedema. Ascites. Fluid in pleurae. Oedema and congestion of lungs
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart); Oedema (Systemic); Ascites (Abdomen); Fluid (Pleura);Oedema (Lung) ; Congestion (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: The patient was a carman of fairly temperate habits whose first illness was gout in 1880. He had had a winter cough for the last four winters, but had never been laid up until October 1885 when he had bronchitis. He had bronchitis on and off ever since and oedema of the legs came on three weeks before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, pancreas, stomach and caecum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Feb 1888
Date of death: 14 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Bright’s disease from large white kidneys. Syphilitic thickening of calvarium and scars on liver
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys); Syphilis (Skull); Scarring (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'Twenty years before he came to St George’s the patient had a hard chancre on the penis. He was treated for syphilis. He had neither sore throat nor skin eruption. He was accustomed to drink 4 or 5 pints of the stronger varities of beer daily, and he took spirits occasionally’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Heart, brain, abdomen, kidneys, spleen, liver, stomach, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1888
Date of death: 15 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Bright’s disease from large white kidneys
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient believed that she had had scarlatina when she was very young. For 2 years before admission she had occasional rheumatic pain, but she was not sufficiently ill to lay up. In October 1887 she had ‘inflammation of the veins of her leg’ and she was in bed for a week’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, kidneys, spleen, liver, stomach, intestines, thorax, lungs, larynx, trachea, heart, brain, eyes

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Mar 1888
Date of death: 15 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Bright’s disease from small, red, granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient was a painter. He never suffered from colic nor from ‘dropped wrist’, but he had several attacks of gout. The first occurred 10 years before his admission to the hospital, he was laid up for a month’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, spleen, liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines, thorax, lungs, heart,

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Apr 1888
Date of death: 17 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Bright’s disease from granular contracted kidneys. Superficial cerebral hemorrhages
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys); Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'On Easter day the patient went to church. She became unconscious whilst in the ‘sacred edifice’. When she recovered she found herself in St George’s Hospital. She was reticent about her previous history. She was a thin, grey-haired woman and had ecchymoses round her eyes (‘black eyes’). When she became conscious she complained of headache and nausea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Skull, brain, kidneys, liver, gall bladder, spleen, stomach, intestines, uterus, lungs, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Railway signalman
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Mar 1886
Date of death: 21 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Cerebral haemorrhage. Granular kidneys. Hypertrophy of the left ventricle. Atheroma of arteries
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhage (Brain); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: The patient had rheumatic fever in 1871. He was admitted in 1883 and also in January 1886, both times with symptoms of contracting kidney.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, alimentary tract and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Mar 1890
Date of death: 6 Apr 1890
Disease (transcribed): Bronchiectasis. Large white fatty kidneys
Disease (standardised): Bronchiectasis (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: For thirty years he had been subject to winter cough, and on two occasions had been treated as an outpatient at Brompton Hospital. He had previously had syphilis followed by secondary symptoms.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, suprarenals, lungs, pericardium, heart and larynx
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Painter
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Apr 1888
Date of death: 19 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Bright’s disease from small, red, granular, contracted kidneys
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'She said she was in St George’s about 9 years before her last admission. Her name is in the admission book for the year 1878 No 298, but that in the Medical Register does not correspond. She could give no account of her illness this time, nor could her family’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, kidneys, stomach, intestines, spleen, liver, lungs, heart, brain, eyes

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cabman
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Feb 1886
Date of death: 23 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Acute myelitis of the dorsal region of the cord. Ascending and descending degeneration. Pyonephrosis. Ulceration of the bladder
Disease (standardised): Myelitis (Spinal cord); Pyonephrosis (Kidney); Ulcer (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: The patient fell from his cab five months prior to his admission. Fourteen days before his admission he had numbness over the lower part of the abdomen with weakness of the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, ureters, bladder, stomach, intestines, pancreas, brain and spinal cord
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3 years 9 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Feb 1890
Date of death: 12 Apr 1890
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of lungs, liver and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Liver); Tuberculosis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: The patient had measles a year before her admission and tonsilitis in December 1889. She did not recover from the cough which followed measles.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, bronchial glands, larynx, thyroid, thymus, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, intestines, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, suprarenals, bladder, uterus and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Mar 1886
Date of death: 29 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Large white kidney. Oedema of the lungs
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Oedema (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Allingham, Herbert William. Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: Three months prior to admission he found his sight was dim and there was some oedema of the eyelids, but no actual history of nephritis at any time. Two months prior to admission he had oedema of the legs, his vision was much affected and he had polyuria.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a