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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 8 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1880
Date of death: 25 Oct 1800
Disease (transcribed): Impaction of a foreign body in the oesophagus. Laryngotomy. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Foreign body (Oesophagus); Laryngotomy (Larynx); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson
Post mortem examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical notes: Eight hours previous to admission whilst eating apples and beans, the child suddenly became black in the face and had urgent dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Air passages, oesophagus, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1875
Date of death: 2 Nov 1875
Disease (transcribed): General tuberculosis. Cirrhosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The first week in December, the patient began, without apparent reason, to shiver and feel chilly. There was also nasal catarrh.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1876
Date of death: 21 Jul 1876
Disease (transcribed): Granular disease and atrophy of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Atrophy (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This patient was always delicate and subject to headache and biliousness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, bladder, rectum, vulvae and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Jul 1876
Date of death: 23 Jul 1876
Disease (transcribed): Broncho-pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The patient had vomiting for six weeks, delirium for three days and retention of urine for twenty four days before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 May 1876
Date of death: 24 Jul 1876
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of liver. Granular kidney. Cardiac hypertrophy
Disease (standardised): Cirrhosis (Liver); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This man had gout for twenty four years and colic several times. He had cough and dyspnoea for two months before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, kidneys, liver and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jul 1876
Date of death: 26 Jul 1876
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia (suppurative) of the right lung
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Suppuration (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in a fit. The next morning he became noisy and had a second fit.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Groom
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Jul 1876
Date of death: 30 Jul 1876
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: He had a history of a fall on the head twenty years before. After a week of languor and depression, with pain in the head and back, he became delirious.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Singer
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Jun 1876
Date of death: 1 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Disease (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: Power of movement was lost in the lower limbs on December 25th previously. Control over the sphincters was complete on admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Farrier
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Jul 1876
Date of death: 1 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Serous apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This man had experienced worry and annoyance for some time. Twitching in the face was noticed the night before admission, almost directly after he began to talk wildly. He continued in a state of furious delirium.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 May 1876
Date of death: 1 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Pleuritic effusion. Tubercular
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Pleura); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The abdomen began to swell two months before admission. It was found on admission to be distended with fluid, resonant only in front.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Jul 1876
Date of death: 1 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of the descending aorta
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: He had suffered from dyspnoea and hoarseness for nine months before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Aug 1876
Date of death: 3 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Adherent pericardium. Mitral contraction
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The patient had rheumatic fever in 1869. Early in 1874 she began to suffer from dyspnoea and palpitation on exertion, with swelling of the ankles.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 57
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Jul 1876
Date of death: 3 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Fatty degeneration of heart. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: Abdominal pain commenced two months before admission, with pains in the hands for one month.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, ovaries and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 71
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Jun 1876
Date of death: 8 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Schirrhus of glands at the oesophageal orifice of stomach
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Lymph nodes); Cancer (Oesophagus)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The patient had suffered from retching, pyrosis and pain in the left side for twelve years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, stomach and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1876
Date of death: 9 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Cardiac hypertrophy. Pulmonary congestion
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The patient had dyspnoea for five or six months before admission, orthopnoea for a week and palpitation for some years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Schoolboy
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Aug 1876
Date of death: 10 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Perforation of appendix vermiform. General peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Perforation (Appendix); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: A fortnight before admission the patient was seized suddenly with pains in the abdomen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, abdomen and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Aug 1876
Date of death: 11 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular disease of the lungs
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: There was a family history of consumption. She had suffered all her life from cough and loss of flesh dated from December last.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Aug 1876
Date of death: 16 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: In April last he was seized with pains which attacked successively the left knee, hip and tendo achilles.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: School master
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Jul 1876
Date of death: 16 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Pleuro-pneumonia. Renal fibrosis
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Lung); Fibrosis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: Two years ago the patient was seized with dyspepsia and vomiting, which had lasted off an on ever since. He had giddiness, staggering, polyuria and loss of flesh ever since.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Charwoman
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1876
Date of death: 24 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular ulceration of colon. Deposit in right lung
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Intestine); Ulcer (Intestine); Deposit (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The patient had suffered from diarrhoea and abdominal pain for five years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and colon
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Jun 1876
Date of death: 27 Aug 1876
Disease (transcribed): Aortic imperfection probably congenital
Disease (standardised): Congenital disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The patient had been subject to occasional colic for twenty years. Since November 1875 he had suffered more or less from cough, dyspnoea and expectoration, which kept him from work almost constantly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Aug 1876
Date of death: 1 Sep 1876
Disease (transcribed): Consolidation of the left lung from purulent pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Consolidation (Lung); Suppuration (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: The present attack began the morning of the day of admission, with a well marked rigor, followed by cough and dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 56
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1876
Date of death: 3 Oct 1876
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhus of glands of duodenal region involving the gall bladder
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Intestine); Cancer (Gall bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This patient’s mother died of cancer of the womb. She herself was in good health until ten weeks before admission. At this time she began to suffer from general malaise and anorexia. A month later the skin assumed an icteric tint.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, kidneys, spleen, liver and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Oct 1876
Date of death: 5 Oct 1876
Disease (transcribed): Post pharyngeal abscess
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: Nine days before admission the child complained of drowsiness. After a sleep of several hours she awoke, suffering from sore throat with dysphagia and some dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Trachea, oesophagus, larynx, heart, kidneys, spleen and glands of abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gate keeper
Age: 72
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1876
Date of death: 9 Oct 1876
Disease (transcribed): Schirrhus of liver
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: No history could be obtained of this patient, on account of deafness. On Admission he was considerably emaciated and tinged deeply with yellow.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a