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Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Mar 1900
Date of death: 20 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Intra peritoneal adhesions. Intestinal obstruction. Laparatomy
Disease (standardised): Adhesions (Abdomen); Obstruction (Intestines); Laparotomy (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: The patient was ‘quite well’ until the evening of the 8th Mar when she had pain in the stomach, was sick several times and had slight haematemesis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidney, stomach, duodenum, pancreas and pelvic organs
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 1 year three months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Jan 1900
Date of death: 14 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Leucocythemia
Disease (standardised): Leukaemia (Blood)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: Three weeks prior to admission the child became thin and white. The emaciation steadily increased. The child looked weakly and then healthy. She was very anaemic and showed signs of rickets.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, alimentary canal and urinary tract
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Mar 1900
Date of death: 12 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Hepatic Cirrhosis. Fatty degeneration of myocardium. Pleural Effusion
Disease (standardised): Cirrhosis (Liver); Disease (Heart); Effusion (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: The patient had not been able to work since he was inpatient last owing to weakness. Two months ago his breath became short with cough and pain in the chest. He was jaundiced and his legs were swollen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleura, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, throat, valves, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, suprarenal glands, gall bladder, oesophagus, duodenum and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Commissionaire
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1899
Date of death: 7 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Aortic disease and its sequels. Anaemic infarction of lungs.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Aorta); Anaemia (Blood); Infarction (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: This man was an inpatient the previous October with shortness of breath, swelling of the legs and orthopnoea, and signs or aortic regurgitation and bronchitis. He improved and went to Wimbledon, but returned three weeks later with the same symptoms.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, aorta, abdomen and kidney
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1900
Date of death: 4 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Acute Endocarditis. Old Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Endocarditis (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: In February 1899 the patient had rheumatic fever after influenza. She had never been free from rheumatic pains since and her heart was ‘weak’. She was admitted after a ‘cold on the chest’, and suffering from expectoration, palpitations, breathlessness and fainting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, valves, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract and intestines
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jan 1900
Date of death: 2 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Aortic incompetence and its sequels. Lobar Pneumonia, pleurisy and pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: For the last month the patient had had ‘cold and cough’. Ten days before admission he became worse, was sick and short of breath with a continuous pain in the left side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, intestines and urinary tract
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Feb 1900
Date of death: 1 Mar 1900
Disease (transcribed): Bronchopneumonia. Pleural Effusion
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Pleural effusion (pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: The patient for the past four weeks had suffered with sickness and diarrhoea. He is said to have passed blood in his motion on one occasion.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Feb 1900
Date of death: 26 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Mitral stenosis and its results. Ulcus Ventriculi
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Ulcer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: For the last four months the patient had had ‘pain in the stomach and vomiting’. For the last two months he had been short of breath on exertion and had suffered from cough. The legs were swollen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleura, lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Postman
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Feb 1900
Date of death: 25 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Lobar Pneumonia. Grey Hepatization
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Penrose, Francis George
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: About six weeks before admission the patient had shivering attacks. He later had several attacks of breathlessness and acute pain in the side, worse on deep respiration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Oct 1899
Date of death: 23 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Exophthalmic goitre. Adherent Pericardium. Bronchopneumonia
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Thyroid gland); Adherent (Heart); Bronchopneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: Since 1897 she had been troubled with shortness of breath, swelling of the legs, palpitations and pain in the left side of the chest and cough. There was enlargement of the neck.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleura, lungs, thyroid, pericardium, heart, thymus, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, supra renals, cranial cavity and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Feb 1900
Date of death: 22 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia (grey hepatization). Pleural Effusion
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Pleural effusion (pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: No history could be obtained. The patient was flushed and had herpes on the lips. He did not sleep and there was delirium.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, liver, spleen, kidneys, appendix
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Feb 1900
Date of death: 18 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: On 1st February he was ‘shivering all day’. He improved but on the 3rd he had slight pain in the back which then went to the knees and then all the joints.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Messenger
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1900
Date of death: 15 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: About six months ago the patient began to get short of breath and to cough. Later his legs began to swell and he coughed up blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, adrenal glands and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 67
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Feb 1900
Date of death: 14 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Strangulated hernia
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Patterson, Archibald Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The patient was admitted with a strangulated femoral hernia. She was said to have died from suffocation due to impaction of food from vomiting after the operation.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, omentum, alimentary canal and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Dec 1899
Date of death: 14 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Leucocythaemia
Disease (standardised): Leukaemia (Blood)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: He had been an inpatient at the Hospital six months ago complaining of a stabbing pain in the left side with difficulty in breathing. While in hospital a swelling began to form in the left side of the abdomen. An exploratory laparotomy was performed and as soon as the tumour was found to be the spleen, the wound was sewn up.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, trachea and bronchi, thyroid glands, pericardium, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, adrenal glands, stomach and urinary tract.
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Waiter
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Dec 1899
Date of death: 11 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Hepatic Cirrhosis
Disease (standardised): Cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: The patient had been short of breath for two or three years, with a slight cough and occasional spitting of clots of blood. She had recently been subject to epistaxis, swollen abdomen, retching and vomiting, piles and passing blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract, alimentary canal and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Engraver
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jan 1900
Date of death: 3 Feb 1900
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma Pylori
Disease (standardised): Carcinoma (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: About eight months before admission he began to suffer from insomnia and increasing weakness so that a month ago he was unable to walk and confined to bed. Some seven months ago he noticed lumps in his neck.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Jan 1900
Date of death: 31 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Diabetes Mellitus
Disease (standardised): Diabetes Mellitus (Pancreas)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: The patient was well until six months before admission when she experienced pains around the waist and back. Amenorrhoea and shortness of breath started, she said, by sleeping on the floor and ‘catching cold.’ She then began to lose strength in the legs and this gradually ‘worked up in to her body’. She had been very thirsty since the illness began.

Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, thymus, thyroid, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, alimentary canal and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Jan 1900
Date of death: 29 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Morbus Cordis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: The patient had had bronchitis since the beginning of the winter, as for the previous five winters. His feet and legs were swollen, he was short of breath on exertion and he brought up clots of blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Dec 1899
Date of death: 28 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Morbus Cordis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: About three weeks ago he began to get very short of breath on exertion. He also had pain over the precordium on exertion, also below right nipple.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Dec 1899
Date of death: 25 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of oesophagus
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Oesophagus)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: For about a month the patient had soreness of throat and chest with increasing difficulty in swallowing. There was no history of injury to the oesophagus.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, oesophagus, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, urinary tract and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Jan 1900
Date of death: 25 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Miliary Tuberculosis. Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: The patient was brought to the Hospital by friends who said that she had been ill for nearly a month and had vomited two or three times on the day of admission. When admitted the patient was conscious, but soon became unconscious.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, heart, lungs, liver, peritoneum, spleen, kidneys and adrenal glands
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Jan 1900
Date of death: 24 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: The patient had occasionally been an out patient for a cough, which he had suffered from for some years. Four or five years ago he had an attack of haemoptysis. The cough had become worse that winter, and he lost flesh and became very weak.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Policeman
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jan 1900
Date of death: 21 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: The patient had been an in patient under Mr Turner in Mar 1899 with a history of concussion and bleeding from the nostrils. Since recovery he stated that he had been deaf since the injury to his left ear. He later became restless, partially unconscious and his mind began to wander.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, alimentary canal and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1901
Date of death: 4 Jan 1901
Disease (transcribed): Dissecting aneurism of aorta. Rupture into pericardium
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta); Rupture (Aorta)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: The patient was brought in dead.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx and trachea, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract, alimentary canal and testes
Type of incident: n/a