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Occupation or role: Cellarman
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Aug 1908
Date of death: 26 Aug 1908
Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull. Subcranial and subdural haemorrhage. Old tuberculosis of left kidney
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Haemorrhage (Brain); Tuberculosis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Jones, Lawrence
Medical examination performed by: Back, Ivor Gordon
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: The patient was crossing the road when he was knocked down by a bicyclist.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, prostate, alimentary canal and brain
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Feb 1907
Date of death: 4 Mar 1907
Disease (transcribed): Excision of the caecum. Sloughing of port peritoneal tissue. (Hyperplastic tuberculosis of caecum)
Disease (standardised): Excision (Intestines); Sloughing (Abdomen); Tuberculosis (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Jones, Lawrence
Medical examination performed by: Evans, John Howell
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: This patient returned from Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital on February 13th to undergo further operative procedures deemed advisable for the removal of the caecum which was the site of tuberculous disease.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen only examined. See Pathological Report Book No 61
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Painter
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Mar 1903
Date of death: 1 Jun 1903
Disease (transcribed): General septic peritonitis and parametritis of old date. ? Thrush
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Parametritis (Broad ligament); Candida (Vagina)
Admitted under the care of: Dakin, William Radford
Medical examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: This patient was admitted with a history of pain in the left side and vomiting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart, abdomen, liver, gall bladder, portal veins, spleen, pancreas, adrenals, kidneys, bladder, alimentary canal, oesophagus and genital organs
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Dec 1905
Date of death: 12 Dec 1905
Disease (transcribed): Morbus cordis (aortic incompetence). Bruising of legs & tissues over tail of pancreas. Syphilis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Bruise (Legs, tissues); Syphilis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'This man was brought in dead; nothing was known of his past history except that he had received an injury to the abdomen in a fight’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium, genital organs

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Solicitor’s clerk
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Dec 1905
Date of death: 7 Dec 1905
Disease (transcribed): Chronic constipation. Intestinal obstruction. Colotomy. Chronic & acute peritonitis & mesenteritis. Gastric ulcer. Hypertrophy of pylorus
Disease (standardised): Constipation (Bowel); Obstruction (Intestines); Colostomy (Anus); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Mesenteritis (Mesentery); Ulcer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: '3 months before admission patient was in good health, symptoms have all arisen since then. 6 weeks ago he had to give up work and had been in bed since 6 weeks & before’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plumber
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Nov 1905
Date of death: 30 Nov 1905
Disease (transcribed): Intestinal obstruction. Laparotomy. General peritonitis. Suture of [?] in gut. Paralysis of bowels
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Intestines); Laparotomy (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Suture (Stomach); Paralysis (Bowels)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'During the past 5 years there had been 4 attacks of acute abdominal pain with vomiting and constipation, always relieved by medicine’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Nov 1905
Date of death: 11 Dec 1905
Disease (transcribed): Empyema. Pericarditis. Oedema of lungs
Disease (standardised): Empyema (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart); Edema (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, Cyril
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Admitted complaining of pain in right side, of three days’ duration and sudden onset, ushered in by a slight rigor; he had been in bed since onset’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Watchman
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1905
Date of death: 19 Nov 1905
Disease (transcribed): Chronic gastric ulcer – perforated & sealed by a portion of small intestine which forms a hernia into the lesser sac of the peritoneum. Local peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Hernia (Peritoneum); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Admitted complaining of vomiting and epigastric pain. The only important detail in her past history was that she had been treated for gastric ulcer since the age of 21, haematemesis having occurred on one occasion only’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Mason
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Oct 1905
Date of death: 31 Oct 1905
Disease (transcribed): Strangulated hernia & perforation. Gangrene of gut. Early general peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Hernia; Gangrene (Stomach); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'An inguinal hernia had been present for 6 years, which had always been well controlled by a truss’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Oct 1905
Date of death: 28 Oct 1905
Disease (transcribed): Gangrenous appendicitis. Rectocaecal abscess. Operation. Cellulitis of mesentery. Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Appendicitis (Appendix); Abscess (Caecum); Operation; Cellulitis (Abdomen); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Turner, George Robertson
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'This was the first attack of appendicitis. The onset was on the night of Oct 20th, with severe pain in the stomach’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Clerk
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1905
Date of death: 11 Oct 1905
Disease (transcribed): Perforated duodenal ulcer. Suture. Laparotomy. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Duodenum); Laparotomy (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Turner, George Robertson
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted with a history of indigestion for 14 days without haematemesis. Yesterday (Oct 9th) as the pain was very severe, she had nothing to eat in the middle of the day, but had a cup of cocoa at 3.30pm’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Sep 1905
Date of death: 20 Sep 1905
Disease (transcribed): Reduced strangulated inguinal hernia. General early peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Groin); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'This man had been ruptured on the right left side for 6 years, the rupture having been early controlled by a truss. On September 14th, he was wheeling a bicycle, and felt a sudden pain in the right groin’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen (‘partial examination only allowed’)

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Sep 1905
Date of death: 15 Sep 1905
Disease (transcribed): Perforated gastro-duodenal ulcer. Peritonitis. Laparotomy
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Duodenum); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Laparotomy (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Pendlebury, Herbert Stringfellow
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Patient was in excellent health until the evening of Sept 14th, then at 10pm, 2 hours after a light supper, he felt a sudden pain in the upper abdomen, rapidly becoming diffused; and he could only with difficulty get home’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1905
Date of death: 20 Oct 1905
Disease (transcribed): Bronchopneumonia. Fibrosis of heart. Nephrotomy. Perirenal abscess
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lungs); Fibrosis (Heart); Nephrotomy (Kidneys); Abscess (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Pendlebury, Herbert Stringfellow
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with […] signs of renal calculus, dating from August 1904, when he began to complain of pain in the left loin and lumbar spine’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Grocer’s manager
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Sep 1905
Date of death: 14 Sep 1905
Disease (transcribed): Appendicetomy. Early general peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Appendectomy (Appendix); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Symptoms commenced on September 8th about midday, with sudden severe pain in the epigastrium’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Clerk
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Sep 1905
Date of death: 15 Sep 1905
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous meningitis. Phthisis. Appendicitis. Appendicetomy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Appendicitis (Appendix); Appendectomy (Appendix)
Admitted under the care of: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Patient had been attending the Brompton Hospital and at the time of her abdominal seizure was waiting for admission to the Mount Vernon Hospital [for Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Lungs] to undergo the open air treatment’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Aug 1905
Date of death: 15 Sep 1905
Disease (transcribed): General peritonitis. Gangrenous perforated appendix
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Gangrene (Appendix)
Admitted under the care of: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Admitted with a history of having suffered with slight pains in the bowels for a month, becoming, on Aug 16th, localized to the right iliac fossa’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cellarman
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Aug 1905
Date of death: 19 Aug 1905
Disease (transcribed): Haemoptysis. Vomica in left lung filled with blood. Bronchopneumonia. Tuberculosis. Removal of appendix
Disease (standardised): Haemoptysis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Bronchopneumonia (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Appendicetomy (Appendix)
Admitted under the care of: Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Since Xmas the patient had been treated for consumption, a fortnight before admission there had been a profuse haemoptysis. One week later abdominal pain set in’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Aug 1905
Date of death: 17 Aug 1905
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing wounds of thigh. Cellulitis (purulent) of abdominal wall. Purulent peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Wound (Thigh); Cellulitis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Pendlebury, Herbert Stringfellow
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'At 11am on August 10th the man was brought in from Victoria Station with the history that a crane wheel had passed over and crushed his right thigh’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Needlewoman
Age: 65
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1905
Date of death: 9 Sep 1905
Disease (transcribed): Perforated duodenal ulcer. Septic adhesive peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Duodenum); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'During the whole month of June the woman had been feeling far from well; one day, towards the end of the month, she had a sudden very severe pain in the right hypochondrium, so severe that she went promptly to bed and sent for her doctor’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Army pensioner
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Jul 1905
Date of death: 20 Aug 1905
Disease (transcribed): Cut throat. Septic bronchopneumonia. Gangrene of lung
Disease (standardised): Cut (Throat); Bronchopneumonia (Lungs); Gangrene (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Douglas, James Sholto Cameron
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'This old man was an inmate of Chelsea Hospital, and for the past year had been very depressed owing to chronic headache and paralysis agitans; the climax was reached on July 21st when he was found by an attendant with his throat cut’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jun 1905
Date of death: 9 Jul 1905
Disease (transcribed): Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Symes-Thompson, Henry Edmund
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'The condition of the patient on his admission rendered him unable to give a history of his illness, but, later on, he stated that he had had cracks about the hands for a long time and on June 9th the hand began to swell and gave him much pain’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Baker’s assistant
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1905
Date of death: 12 Jun 1905
Disease (transcribed): Gangrenous appendicitis. Perforation of appendix. General peritonitis. Pelvis abscess
Disease (standardised): Appendicitis (Appendix); Gangrene (Appendix); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Abscess (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Not seen by registrar. There was a history of vomiting and abdominal pain for 3 weeks, thought by patient to be due to a dietetic indiscretion’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen (‘a limited examination only through the wound permitted’)

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Roadman
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 May 1905
Date of death: 3 Jun 1905
Disease (transcribed): Perforated duodenal ulcer. Subdiaphragmatic abscess. Lardaceous disease
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Duodenum); Abscess (Diaphragm); Lardaceous disease
Admitted under the care of: Pendlebury, Herbert Stringfellow
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'Patient on admission complained of pains ‘all over stomach’. There was nothing of importance in the past history, beyond ‘dengue’ in India 28 years back and pneumonia 9 years ago’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Carman
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 May 1905
Date of death: 3 Jun 1905
Disease (transcribed): Acute glanders
Disease (standardised): Glanders (Respiratory system, skin)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Symes-Thompson, Henry Edmund
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'On May 18th, the woman was seized with pain in the left chest, without cough (in the percordial area and scapular region): this was said to be ‘pleurisy’, but only lasted one day. On May 20th, pain was felt in the lower left thigh, ‘dragging, aching and gnawing’ ‘
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium, joints

Type of incident: n/a