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William Hughes, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jan 1858
Date of death: 19 Mar 1858
Disease (transcribed): Prostatic tumour. Abscess between the walls of the bladder. Diseased kidneys. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Prostate); Abscess (Bladder); Disease (Kidneys); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: '4 years before admission was in Brighton Hospital for stricture of the urethra, & after 11 weeks of catheterization was so much relieved that he suffered no more from it till 3 weeks before admission, when he found difficulty in passing his urine which he attributed to having caught cold’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Henry W. Dormer, 3, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Mar 1858
Date of death: 23 Mar 1858
Disease (transcribed): Scald. Tetanus
Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Tetanus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'About half an hour before admission he scalded the upper & inner part of both thighs, genitals, nates & lower part of the body with hot water. On admission he was quiet & sensible. He slept well the next night, & on the following day the pulse was quiet & appetite good, but in the afternoon when about to be dressed, the boy at the time lying on his back, he gave a sudden start & all the muscles of his body became convulsed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spinal cord, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

William Brown , 28, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Mar 1858
Date of death: 23 Mar 1858
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Amaurosis. Valvular disease & hypertrophy of the heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Blindness (Eyes); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'For three months before admission he had gradually been losing the sight of both eyes & did not know what to trace the affection to. On his admission he had some pain at back of eyeballs, & coulod see but little with either eye’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Elizabeth Ward, 41, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Mar 1858
Date of death: 31 Mar 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fatty heart. Abscess of thumb
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Abscess (Thumb)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'Had a chap on her hand a week before admission, when she was washing some clothes, there [?] soda in the water, & from that time, an abscess formed there, getting worse till she came as OP [out-patient] 2 days ago’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, spinal cord, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Thursfield, 60, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Mar 1858
Date of death: 16 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Enlarged prostate. Abscesses between the muscular fasciculi of the bladder. Scattered abscesses of the kidneys. Insanity
Disease (standardised): Enlargement (Prostate); Abscess (Bladder, kidneys); Insanity
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'Was admitted under Dr Page [William Emanuel Page] for fever & slight delirium, having at the same time retraction & incontinence of urine. He says he had never had either of the 2 latter before, nor can any history of diseased prostate be obtained’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Henry Peacock, 40, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Apr 1858
Date of death: 18 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull. Compression & laceration of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Compression (Brain); Laceration (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Percivall, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'Was knocked down by a horse in a cab just before his admission which was at 6.15pm[?]. The house surgeon (Mr Percivall [?William Percivall] says that on admission he was in a state of collapse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

William Guildford, 63, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Apr 1858
Date of death: 20 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Enlarged prostate. Diseased kidney. Stone in the bladder
Disease (standardised): Enlargement (Prostate); Disease (Kidneys); Calculus (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'For the last 14 or 15 years had had retention & incontinence of urine at times for which an instrument (generally No 7 gutta percha) has been passed into bladder. For 20 years past has had occasional severe pains in lower part of abdomen, having at the same time rigors’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

John Barman, 49, Stonemason

Occupation or role: Stonemason
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Apr 1858
Date of death: 21 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of elbow joint. Pyaemia. Secondary pneumonia & pleurisy. Dislocation of the shoulder
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Elbow); Sepsis (Systemic); Pneumonia (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs); Dislocation (Shoulder)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: Stone-mason by trade. Just before his admission he fell from a height of about 30 feet on to some stones. On examination it was found he had a compound, comminuted fracture of elbow-joint & dislocation of head of humerus upwards & forwards with probable fracture of coracoid process of scapula’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, cranium, abdomen, left elbow, left shoulder

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Edmund Bradshaw, 36, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Apr 1858
Date of death: 24 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: 'Whilst working in a house that was being built he fell from one floor to another, a distance of about 12 feet, upon his head & back close to his shoulders, regularly doubled up. Was brought into hospital 3 hours after accident, being then in a state of collapse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Edward W. Muggridge, 32, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Apr 1858
Date of death: 1 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick and Hart, Ernest Abraham
Medical notes: '21 weeks before admission whilst working at a tunnel in France he fell about 20 feet upon his groin over a large stone & about a ton weight of earth at the same time came upon the lumbar region of his back from the same height as where he fell; & on the next day was taken into a hospital, where he remained the whole time, but finding no good was done to him he expressed his wish to come over here’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, larynx, abdomen, pelvis, spine

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Elizabeth Chandler, 32, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Jun 1858
Date of death: 8 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Abscess of sacroiliac joint. Phlebitis
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Pelvis)Phlebitis (Blood vessels)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: '9 months before admission experienced pain at the back part of left hip when she applied to a medical man who told her it was sciatica, treating her for it for 3 months, when an abscess which had been gradually increasing since commencement of pain’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

George Bruce, 32, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jul 1858
Date of death: 5 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Simple fracture of the skull; rupture of the middle meningeal artery
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Rupture (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'On the evening of his admission, it was reported by eye witnesses that he had been run over by some vehicle, & supposed to have ben trodden on by the horse. On examination the face was bruised, there was a small scalp wound, not reaching the bone, on the upper & back part of left side of head no depression of bone could be found’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Mary Quin, 68, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 68
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Jul 1858
Date of death: 9 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'Had suffered from cough for some months past but not more than she had been liable to at time for 2 years. 2 days before admission she fell down 3 or 4 steps striking the back & lower part of right side of chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Hyden, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jul 1858
Date of death: 16 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Primary amputation of the thigh
Disease (standardised): Amputation (Thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'About a quarter of an hour before admission, which was at 8.30am, he was knocked down by a horse in a waggon & the wheel of the latter partially went over his right leg, then returning tearing frightfully the integuments of the thigh, & severely fracturing the lower end of the femur’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thigh, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Mary Holmes, 45, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1858
Date of death: 19 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis. Peculiar deposit beneath the peritoneum
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Deposit (Peritoneum)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'On admission she was evidently moribund, & suffering from great tenderness over whole of abdomen & sickness which it was stated she had had for last 3 days. Her friends also said that there had been no action of the bowels for a fortnight’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Mary Slandage, 70, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Jul 1858
Date of death: 6 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the thigh into the knee joint
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'Two days before admission she slipped down upon the floor & found she was unable to rise again. When her friends came to her assistance, she was found with a sharp piece of bone projecting a little above & to the outer side of knee-joint. A surgeon was called in who returned the bone, but did not put the leg up in splints’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left knee, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Thomas Snooks, 36, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jul 1858
Date of death: 6 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fractured thigh. Compound fracture of tibia (incomplete). Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh, leg); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'About 2 hours before admission he was assisting another man to raise by means of a pulley about 4 tons of copper plate, when some of the machinery gave way: the pipes fell out of the sling, knocked him down & rested on his legs. On admission he was in a state of collapse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right lower extremities, thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

George Gillin, 41, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Jul 1858
Date of death: 11 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Scald
Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'Just previous to admission he jumped into a copper containing a quantity of boiling water, the latter reaching half way up his thighs. On admission the whole of the cuticle seemed destroyed & some skin looked likely to slough & he was greatly prostrated’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Mary Viney, 19, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Aug 1858
Date of death: 13 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: '8 days before admission she suffered from swell of the right ear, & 3 days afterwards the parts about the ear & under the angle of the jaw began to swell & become more painful. At this time she had what she described to be a ‘struggling fit’, that she had had one similar to this 4 years ago’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, neck, thorax, abdomen, ear

Type of incident: n/a

Richard Dunn, 27, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jul 1858
Date of death: 17 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the urethra. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Urethra); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Gray, Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'This man, having been intemperate previously became at Xmas last a total abstainer from spirits &c. He had had a slight stricture for two years, but suffered no inconvenience from it till the 10th Jul when he found great difficulty in passing his water’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Henry Dill, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Apr 1858
Date of death: 18 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Ulceration of the rectum
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Ulcer (Rectum)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Gray, Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'For 7 years before admission he had stricture of the urethra, but as it did not trouble him much he did nothing for it, but of late he has suffered from incontinence of urine, so on admission No 4 silver catheter was introduced into bladder, which he continued to pass daily, with little benefit except for relieving his bladder, as some urine was always retained, till just before his death. He also had a fistula in ano for 9 months before admission, for which he went, 2 months previous to this time, into the Middlesex Hospital where it was twice divided but at neither time did it heal’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Hoare, 6, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Aug 1858
Date of death: 22 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Abscess (periosteal) of tibia. Secondary deposits in lungs & heart
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Leg ); Deposit (Lungs, heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'This boy came to the hospital as out-patient on august 16th, for an injury to the ankle, which, it was stated, had been produced by a fall about an hour previously. The parts were well examined & it appeared to be merely a sprain. He was not seen again until the 19th when he was brought up & found to be suffering from diffuse cellular inflammation of the leg. He was accordingly admitted into the house & on the following evening incisions were made into the leg: the patient being under the influence of chloroform’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, right leg

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Thomas Taylor, 7, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Aug 1858
Date of death: 27 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound to bone. Compression of the brain by blood effused in the sac of the arachnoid
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Compression (Brain); Effusion (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'The child was picked up just before admission close by Chelsea Bridge in a totally insensible state. On admission there was a wound on the left [of his] forehead which he had got from a fall a week previously, but he had had not bad symptoms from it except 2 days afterwards hen he had a fit. This wound was 1 inch long & the bone exposed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Jeremiah McMean, 56, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Aug 1858
Date of death: 30 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of leg. Pleurisy, secondary?
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg ); Pleurisy (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'He stated that as he was going through a passage where some loose boards were resting against the walls, his foot slipped & knocked down some of them which fell on him. He was admitted into the hospital directly afterwards. For 3 months oreviously he had been much troubled with a cough’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left leg, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

William Cowen, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Aug 1858
Date of death: 3 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the base of the skull. Laceration of the brain. Meningitis. Pus in arachnoid & subarachnoid spaces. Compound fracture of the patella. Pus in knee joint &c.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain); Meningitis (Brain); Suppuration (Brain); Fracture (Kneecap); Suppuration
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Cooper, George Frederick
Medical notes: 'This man fell from a loft into a yard, a distance of 12 feet, & directly afterwards was brought up to the hospital, when a scalp wound about as large as a 6 [pence] piece immediately over the frontal sinus was found’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, right shoulder, right knee, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

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