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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Porter
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1876
Date of death: 7 Nov 1876
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of lungs. Amyloid liver and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Amyloidosis (Liver); Amyloidosis (Kidney)
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: Early in the present year, being in service at a hotel in Margate, he had to sleep in a room which was flooded by high tides. In February he was attacked by a coryza.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidney and intestines
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Kitchen maid
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Oct 1876
Date of death: 25 Oct 1876
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
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: This patient stated that three weeks before admission she was attacked by a stiff neck. This lasted for a week, and on recovering from it she failed to regain her appetitie.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and small intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1876
Date of death: 11 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Old hydatids of the liver. Caseous pneumonia with tubercle. Tubercular laryngitis.
Disease (standardised): Echinococcosis (Liver); Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Larynx)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient had a venereal sore three years before admission, followed by ulcers on the tongue and mouth, and later by a sore throat, dysphagia, dyspnoea and aphonia. The symptoms worsened up to admission when the air passage was suddenly and completely secluded.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and larynx
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1876
Date of death: 4 Nov 1876
Disease (transcribed): Hydrothorax and tuberculous disease of lungs
Disease (standardised): Hydrothorax (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung)
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: At the end of September 1875 he began to be troubled with a slight cough. A months or two later, after frequent wettings, a nasal catarrh and hoarseness marked a considerable increase in the cough.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1876
Date of death: 14 Nov 1876
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin)
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: This patient was admitted with a copious eruption of eczema on the hands, arms and feet, and to an extent on the ears and eye brows.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Skin, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1876
Date of death: 22 Oct 1876
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid ulceration and perforation
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestine); Perforation (Intestine)
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 patient was in excellent health until three weeks before admission, when he began to cough, without dyspnoea or much expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, abdomen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Dispenser
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Nov 1876
Date of death: 9 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Spinal myelitis. Caseous pneumonia with tubercle.
Disease (standardised): Myelitis (Spinal cord); Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient had suffered previously from scarlatina, pneumonia and rheumatism, and had had syphilis 10 years before. He had also been troubled by nervous symptoms resembling hypochondriasis. Up until admission he suffered with a cough and expectoration, severe shaking fits, twitchings and night sweats.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, spleen, liver, kidneys, brain and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Nov 1876
Date of death: 9 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient had been liable all his life to dyspepsia and cough, had drunk about three pints of beer daily, and, during the last ten years and indulged freely in whiskey. His abdomen was swollen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Dec 1876
Date of death: 3 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular Nephritis (chronic)
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Kidney); Nephritis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The family history pointed only to phthisis. The patient had enjoyed good health until the June previous to admission when her legs began to swell, followed by her abdomen. There was a slight cough and dyspnoea on admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Ladiesmaid
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Dec 1876
Date of death: 25 Feb 1877
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Six months before admission, the morning after sleeping in a damp bed, she began to have a slight hacking cough. She began to spit muco purulent matter, to suffer from occasional dyspnoea, to perspire at night, to shiver occasionally, to lose appetite and to fall away in flesh.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum and douglas' pouch
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Dec 1876
Date of death: 8 Dec 1876
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous degeneration of kidney. Enteric fever
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Kidney); Typhoid fever (Systemic)
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: She had always been subject to winter cough, and had once or twice spat a streak of blood. For three weeks or a month she had suffered from constant and increasing languor.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus, ovaries and ileum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Agent
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Dec 1876
Date of death: 19 Dec 1876
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of lungs
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
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: This man had always been troubled by a cough in the winter. For eight months he had suffered from a severe cough, with frequent attacks of haemoptysis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and arteries
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bootmaker
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Dec 1876
Date of death: 7 Mar 1877
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of liver. Granular kidney. Peritonitis. Tubercle of lung.
Disease (standardised): Cirrhosis (Liver); Disease (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Five weeks before admission, his legs began to swell. A fortnight later, came on cough, dyspnoea and pain in the loins, and the abdomen enlarged.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, bronchi, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Washerwoman
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Dec 1876
Date of death: 8 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Typhus
Disease (standardised): Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Four days before admission, the patient was exposed to a severe chill. She began to shiver and the next morning she found herself suffering from cough, dyspnoea and pain in the left side of the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, spleen, liver, kidneys, uterus, heart, intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Jan 1877
Date of death: 7 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): (Retained placenta): acute rheumatic endocarditis
Disease (standardised): Retained (Placenta); Rheumatic Heart Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient was attacked ten weeks before admission with rheumatic fever. A fortnight after getting up she was delivered of a deceased child. From that time she suffered from weakness, severe pains in the abdomen and loins, and constant diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, spleen, liver, kidneys, uterus and intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Jan 1877
Date of death: 9 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular matter in the brain. General tuberculosis.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: No satisfactory history could be obtained as the patient was delirious. She said she had had pains in the limbs for a year, a slight cough lately, and diarrhoea for three weeks.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, uterus, intestine and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Jan 1877
Date of death: 26 Feb 1877
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary Phthisis. Tubercle of intestine.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: No history was obtained of this case. The patient was admitted with cough, mucopurulent expectoration, a little pain in the chest, and diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, bronchi, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, intestine, douglas' pouch and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Children's Nurse
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Jan 1877
Date of death: 15 Feb 1877
Disease (transcribed): Tubercles of lung, peritoneum, intestine and brain.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis (Intestines); Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient was admitted with languor, malaise, diarrhoea, cough and constantly increasing dyspnoea with little expectoration, palpitation, pain in the cardiac region and anorexia of a month's duration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, intestine, abdominal cavity, meninges and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Jan 1877
Date of death: 19 Mar 1877
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular and caseous pneumonia; ulcers of large bowel.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Since early in 1875 he had not been free from cough. He spat a little, but there was no unusual dyspnoea, nor did the sputa even contain blood. About the same time began a looseness of the bowels.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, bronchi, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum and intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Kitchen Maid
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Feb 1877
Date of death: 15 Feb 1877
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid Fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid Fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: No complete history of this case was to be obtained. The patient dated her illness from six days before her admission, and the diarrhoea from two.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus and intestine
Type of incident: n/a