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Occupation or role: Tailoress
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1888
Date of death: 21 Mar 1888
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia. Abscesses in muscles, lungs, liver, spleen. Dilatation of common bile duct
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Abscess (Muscles, lungs, liver, spleen); Disease (Bile duct)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'Two of the patient’s sisters died of phthisis. There is no other family history of disease. The patient has had 4 children, one of whom died of bronchitis. She had scarlatina when a child and two attacks of rheumatic fever, the last 29 years before she came to St George’s. She was in King’s College Hospital about 7 years ago. The nature of her illness was not clear’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, heart, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Apr 1888
Date of death: 10 Apr 1888
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia of left lower lobe. Effusion of lymph into the membranes of the brain
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs); Effusion (Brain)
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 was said by his wife to be a ‘free drinker’, but not a drunkard. He was well till about a week before his admission when he began to suffer to aching of the legs, abdominal pain and vomiting’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, lungs, heart, spleen, kidneys, bladder, liver, intestines, spinal cord

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Dec 1888
Date of death: 18 Dec 1888
Disease (transcribed): Anaemia. Thrombosis of cortical veins over right cerebral hemisphere. Hemorrhages into right hemisphere
Disease (standardised): Anaemia (Systemic); Thrombosis (Brain); Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The woman was a servant. She had generally had good health. She said that about six years before she came to the hospital she had measles, and four years later her tonsils were ‘cut out’. She had always been anaemic, but her catamenia [menstruation] were regular’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Skull, brain, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, uterus, ovaries, stomach, intestines, tongue, oesophagus, teeth, lungs, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Feb 1897
Date of death: 15 Mar 1897
Disease (transcribed): Intra-auricular thrombus obstructing mitral orifice
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: 'Family history nothing of importance, Never had either rheumatism or scarlet fever, Good health as a rule. On Feb 22nd 1896 pain in left side of chest worse on coughing or taking a deep breath. On Feb 25th began to expectorate rusty blood stained very viscid sputum, no rigors, much sweat night, no history of haemoptysis'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 May 1877
Date of death: 6 May 1877
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia. Secondary abscesses. Large perinephritic abscess.
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Abscess (Kidney); Perinephritis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: This patient was admitted into the Surgical Wards on 7th February for abscesses on the right leg and the nape of the neck, the former of one, the latter of five weeks standing. The abscess of the leg was opened in the hospital and she was sent to Wimbledon.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, bronchi, heart, liver, abscess, kidneys, spleen, spinal column, brain and uterus.

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Ladies maid
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Aug 1877
Date of death: 26 Aug 1877
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid ulceration of bowel. Intestinal haemorrhage. Perforations.
Disease (standardised): Typhoid Fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestines); Haemorrhage (Intestines); Perforation (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient had been attacked with weakness and languor, diarrhoea, shivering at night and occasional delirium.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, intestine, skull, dura mater and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Nov 1877
Date of death: 29 Nov 1877
Disease (transcribed): Double pleuropneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Pleura, 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: The patient had been suffering from cough and expectoration, frontal headache, nausea, attacks of vomiting, pain in the chest and catching of the breath.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain and uterus which contained a female foetus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Nursemaid
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Nov 1877
Date of death: 10 Dec 1877
Disease (transcribed): Spontaneous thrombosis in the cerebral sinuses. Inflammatory disintegration in the right sphenotemporal lobe.
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Brain); Inflammation (Brain)
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 was admitted in a delirious condition. She was well nourished but anaemic to a marked degree. She complained of severe pain about the mastoid process, shooting down into the neck and up into the head, thumping sensations in the chest on exertion, and nausea after drinking anything hot.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestinal canal, uterus, skull and meninges
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jan 1877
Date of death: 18 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Haemothorax. Luxation of spine
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Haemothorax (Thorax); Luxation (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Bennet, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: A Dray on which the patient was riding upset throwing his violently to the ground and one of the horses which had also fallen, then rolled on him.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Oct 1877
Date of death: 6 Nov 1877
Disease (transcribed): Hip disease
Disease (standardised): Disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Bennet, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The child left the Small Pox Hospital about a month before her admission into St George's. During her convalescence from Small Pox an abscess formed over the left temporal region which was opened. She had been experiencing great pain about the right hip, and later swelling.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, abdominal viscera, brain, pelvis and hip joint
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Sep 1882
Date of death: Brought in dead
Disease (transcribed): Haemoptysis. Aneurism of aorta. Congestion of lungs. Probable compression of pulmonary veins
Disease (standardised): Haemoptysis (Respiratory tract); Aneurysm (Arteries); Congestion (Lung); Compression (Veins)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Ross, Daniel McClure
Medical notes: Brought in dead
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plumber
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Jan 1895
Date of death: 10 Jan 1895
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Fyffe, William Kington
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: This patient have a history of having had a winter cough for some years and twelve months ago he coughed up blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, suprarenals, intestines and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Waiter
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Mar 1895
Date of death: 4 Mar 1895
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma – Suprarenal – in liver and glands also, as well as in lung
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Adrenal glands); Cancer (Liver); Cancer (Lymph nodes); Cancer (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Fyffe, William Kington
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: He was first taken ill six months ago when he caught cold. Two months ago he had spasmodic attacks of difficulty of breathing, followed by ascites and swollen legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, intestines, kidneys, bladder and testes
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Date of admission: 10 Dec 1877
Date of death: 31 Dec 1877
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid ulcerations; perforation; peritonitis etc
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestines); Perforation (Indeterminate); Peritonitis (Abdomen);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. No heritable disease in the family. Subject to headaches, invariably R [Right] frontal. Diaphoresis scanty. Constitution otherwise sound. In the afternoon of the 4th day before admn [admission], she began to feel chilly: this lasted till she went to bed. Next mom [moment] she was hot, the appetite gone, lumbar pain and occipital headache present: was very weak and had to lay up. She perspired much the first few days. Bowels open on 7th and 9th, with purgatives. She vomited on the 9th'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, intestine, uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Date of admission: 22 Jan 1878
Date of death: 29 Jan 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercle. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Heart);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'No heritable disease. No previous illness: no ailment but occasional diarrhoea: diaphoresis habitually profuse. Catamenia (from 12 yrs [years] old) profuse and frequent; - 3 to 4 wkly [weekly]; with abdominal and lumbar pain. Malaise for 16 mo [months]: - Frequent abdominal pain, 2-4 monthly catamenia, accompanied by much abdominal pain for the first eight. - Amenorrhoea, with cessation of the pains, progressive weakness and wasting; occasional morning retching, occasional scantiness of urine; and increased diaphoresis for the last eight'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pericardium, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach, uterus, ovaries
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Date of admission: 16 Jan 1878
Date of death: 1 Feb 1878
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid ulcerations. Haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestines); Haemorrhage (Indeterminate);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Weakly subject: always 'ailing': constant heavy pain in epigastrium: frequent sore throats and rheumatic pains: occasional diarrhoea, coughs, or headaches: unable to digest fat, which always caused vomiting; occasional pain after food: diaphoresis habitually free: catamenia somewhat irregular. Various pains, in abdomen, flanks of chest and elsewhere from July 1877. […] On Jan [January] 10th, attacked with delirium about noon: headache commenced with it and the appetite failed: the L. [Left] flank became more painful'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, peritoneum, intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Date of admission: 31 Jan 1878
Date of death: 12 Feb 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia from disease of the mastoid cells
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Disease (Ear);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. One brother died of consumption. Scarlatina at 9: abscess in neck following: smallpox at 13: 'inflammatn [inflammation] of lungs' at 18 and again at 19. Otherwise healthy and under good conditions till 12 days before admn [admission]. Onset somewhat gradual except for a slight cough of 1 mo's [month's] standing. 1st to 6th days: - frontal headache: Rt. [Right] earache: anorexia: night sweats: dark urine: confined bowels. Cough ceased on 4th day. 7th day: - Earache ceased: other symptoms cont [continued]? 9th and subseq. [subsequently]: - one or two loose yellow motions daily. 11th : A rigor of 20 minutes duration, about 7p.m. 12th: Similar one [?] the morning: several slight ones: pain in front of chest even: Cough and rusty expectoration: headache lessened'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain, membranes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plasterer
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1878
Date of death: 21 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Simple (acute) meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father's brother d. [died] of consumption. Born at full time: suckled 15 mo [months]: lived badly afterwards: always weakly. Always passed quantities of thread worms: always sweated freely at night: subject from earliest years to attacks of frontal headache, with profuse sweating and feverishness (occurring about every 2 mo [months] lasting 24 hours. Cervical abscess at 3 or 4. Lively disposition: not remarkably clever. Loss of flesh for 6 mo [months]. ? Injury to spine. Nine[?] days before admn [admission] he came home, looking very pale and saying that a workman had seized him and shaken him by the hair. In the evening he complained of headache: next day he went to work as usual but came home with increased headache and was obliged to go to bed. On the third day his neck was found to be bent backwards'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain, spinal cord
Type of incident: Violence

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 38
Date of admission: 27 Jun 1878
Date of death: 8 Jul 1878
Disease (transcribed): Tetanus from extensive cutaneous burn
Disease (standardised): Tetanus (Central nervous system); Burn (Skin);
Admitting doctor: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Contents of lighted Paraffin lamp were upset over Patient. Symptoms. Much collapse – Cold – Shivering – Both arms, lower extremities and greater part of abdomen red and vesicated – In parts epidermis wanting – In parts skin white and leathery'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, intestine, brain
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Date of admission: 17 Jul 1878
Date of death: 26 Jul 1878
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular disease, chiefly affecting the glands. Ascites etc
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Glands); Ascites (Abdomen);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. No heritable diseases in the family. Inflammation of the lungs 20 years before admission: subject to slight coughs since. Otherwise healthy. Diaphoresis habitually profuse. Accustomed to take on an average of 4 pts [pints] of beer and a glass of whiskey daily: frequent excesses. 'Faint feeling' in epigastrium for ½ hr [hour] after food once or twice in last 12 mo [months]. Purpuric maculation on legs from April 1878. About 5 wks [weeks] before admission pain commenced gradually in the abdomen. It continued, increasing steadily in severity, unaffected by period of day, by eating or breathing deeply; - the abdomen at the same time enlarging progressively'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, mesenteric glands, peritoneum, blood
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Hatter
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Date of admission: 24 Jul 1878
Date of death: 31 Jul 1878
Disease (transcribed): ? Rheumatism or pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Rheumatism (Joints, tissues); Sepsis (Systemic);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'Previous history of fairly good health: subject to coughs for 4 yrs [years]: appetite deficient for 3: diaphoresis habitually very profuse. Had drunk beer and spirits to great excess for four years: constantly intoxicated. No intelligible account of his present illness could be obtained: his father, for whom he worked, but who knew little of him, stated that he had had an open wound about the L. [Left] gt. [great] toe joint for 15 wks [weeks], and had been 'ill' for five'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestine, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 4 10/12
Date of admission: 20 Jul 1878
Date of death: 3 Aug 1878
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria. Tracheotomy. Sloughing of the wound etc
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx); Tracheotomy (Trachea); Sloughing (Neck);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Mother d. [died] of consumption: previous history of good health. Quite well till noon on the 7th day before admission: when she was noticed to have a troublesome cough. Towards evening she seemed to be struggling to spit something up and during the night there was severe dyspnoea with marked stridor. Next day all the symptoms were somewhat relieved. During the night they again became severe. On the 3rd day all symptoms had disappeared except a slight cough: she ate with a good appetite. This state of things continued till the 6th. On the 6th she complained of sore throat. The night before admn [admission] the severe dyspnoea and stridor returned, continued all night and part of the next morning, then lessened: as she was being brought up in a cab, these were hardly noticeable, but seemed to return on admission. No nasal discharge or swelling in the neck noticed'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, trachea
Type of incident: n/a

• Occupation or role: Silversmith
  Gender: Male
  Age: 62
  Date of admission: 5 Sep 1878
  Date of death: 17 Oct 1878
  Disease (transcribed): Empyema
  Disease (standardised): Empyema (Lung);
  Admitting doctor: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
  Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
• Margerison, Richard
  PM performed by: Ewart, William
  Medical notes: 'Admission. Brought up in a semidelirious state at times passing into more fully marked delirium: he could give no account of himself, though he answered questions in a misty sort of way. He was very weak and lay on his back. P. [Pulse] 116. R. [Respiration rate?] 52. Lips and face dusky'
  Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen
  Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Date of admission: 17 Oct 1878
Date of death: 20 Oct 1878
Disease (transcribed): Enteric fever. Intestinal perforation
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Perforation (Intestines);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Previous history healthy. Information about present illness very scanty. Some 5 or 6 wks [weeks] before admission she was attacked with chilliness and anorexia. She had previously suffered from cough for an unknown period. The appetite never returned, and she got weaker and weaker. She vomited frequently. About the second week of her illness there was diarrhoea for 6 or 7 days: otherwise the bowels were generally costive. She never laid up permanently till admission'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, intestine, uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bedell
Gender: Male
Age: 59
Date of admission: 23 Oct 1878
Date of death: 28 Oct 1878
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis, emphysema. Chronic pneumonia. Dilated heart
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung); Cardiomyopathy, dilated (Heart);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a condition which precluded examination'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, kidneys, spleen, liver, peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a