Occupation or role: Coachman Age: 63 Gender: Male Date of admission: 2 Jan 1869 Date of death: 2 Jan 1869 Disease (transcribed): Wound of leg. Disease of kidneys and heart. Cirrhosis of liver. Effusion of serum on brain Disease (standardised): Wound (Leg); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Cirrhosis (Liver); Effusion (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient was brought to the Hospital in a dying state and died shortly after. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Gardener Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 19 Mar 1869 Date of death: 27 Mar 1869 Disease (transcribed): Rupture of urethra. Perineal section Disease (standardised): Rupture (Urethra); Section (Perineum) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Rouse, James Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical notes: This man had fallen off a ladder a distance of about twelve feet. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Potman Age: 19 Gender: Male Date of admission: 19 Apr 1868 Date of death: 19 Apr 1868 Disease (transcribed): Laceration of liver. Disease (standardised): Laceration (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient was brought in in a profound collapse having fallen from a scaffold on to some bricks. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: School boy Age: 11 Gender: Male Date of admission: 1 Apr 1869 Date of death: 2 Apr 1869 Disease (transcribed): Rupture of liver Disease (standardised): Rupture (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This boy was brought to the hospital having been struck by a fire escape while crossing the road. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Housemaid Age: 50 Gender: Female Date of admission: 27 Apr 1868 Date of death: 27 Apr 1868 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Laceration of lateral sinus. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Transverse sinuses) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient was brought in quite insensible supposedly after having fallen down stairs. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Apr 1869 Date of death: 7 Apr 1869 Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull, ribs and lower jaw. Puncture and collapse of the left lung Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Ribs); Fracture (Jaw); Puncture (Lung); Collapse (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical notes: This man was at work when he got crushed between a wall and a heavy iron girder. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Bootmaker Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 May 1868 Date of death: 5 May 1868 Disease (transcribed): Laceration of bladder Disease (standardised): Laceration (Bladder) Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: While drunk he fell on to his abdomen and had pain over the lower part. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Apr 1869 Date of death: 21 Apr 1869 Disease (transcribed): Punctured wound of chest. Fractured ribs. Wound of lung. Pneumonia. Disease (standardised): Wound (Thorax); Fracture (Ribs); Wound (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This man had slipped off a wall about six feet high on to a spiked railway. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Errand boy Age: 14 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 May 1864 Date of death: 23 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Separation of sutures of skull with fracture Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'This patient was working on a scaffold this afternoon, when he slipped & fell about 14 feet, striking the back of his head, he was insensible when picked up’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Cap maker Age: 66 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 May 1869 Date of death: 8 May 1869 Disease (transcribed): Compound depressed fracture of skull. Fractured rib. Wound of intercostal cavity. Death from haemorrhage. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Ribs); Wound (Thorax); Haemorrhage (Thorax) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This man was at work in the balcony of a first floor window when he fell forwards off it into the area beneath on to his head. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and thorax Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Engine driver Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 13 May 1868 Date of death: 20 May 1868 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound. Diffuse arachnitis Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Arachnoiditis (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This man was working on a crane with a load and the whole fell down a sewer and he with them. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Stoker Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 May 1864 Date of death: 29 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound. Death from nervous shock (?) Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Shock Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'This patient was stoker on an engine proceeding from Victoria Station, when looking back his head came in collision with one of the arches of a bridge & he was knocked off the engine’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Cab driver Age: 46 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 May 1868 Date of death: 27 May 1868 Disease (transcribed): Rupture of hydatid cyst of lung. Pneumo-haemo-thorax. Fractured ribs Disease (standardised): Echinococcosis (Lung); Rupture (Lung); Pneumohaemothorax (Lung); Fracture (Ribs) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: The patient had fallen off a cab and the horses fell over on to him. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Schoolboy Age: 6 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Jun 1864 Date of death: 7 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Run over by a cab. Ruptured liver? Disease (standardised): Rupture (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'Case not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 43 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1868 Date of death: 29 May 1868 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the base of the skull Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient fell off a scaffold about 16 feet high. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Bricklayer Age: 60 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Jun 1864 Date of death: 8 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Injury to back Disease (standardised): Injury (Back) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'Case not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’
Occupation or role: Shoemaker Age: 77 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Jun 1864 Date of death: 10 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Poisoned hand. Inflammation Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Hand) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Williams, Charles Theodore Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted on the 6th of June. Four days before he had run a pin into the hand just between the two middle fingers’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart
Occupation or role: No occupation Age: 38 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 Jun 1864 Date of death: 14 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'This patient was riding his horse this evening in the neighbourhood whn he fell off on to his head (the horse was not running away). Brought in about 7pm, quite insensible, small scalp wound (no bone exposed)’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head (‘no other part of the body was examined’)
Occupation or role: Carpenter Age: 29 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Jun 1868 Date of death: Brought in dead Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Laceration of lateral sinus. Compression of brain Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Transverse sinuses); Compression (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient had fallen off a scaffold. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Bus driver Age: 57 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Jun 1868 Date of death: 9 Jun 1868 Disease (transcribed): Bruising of brain. Blood in arachnoid. Fatty heart. Disease (standardised): Bruising (Brain); Blood (Brain); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient had fallen off a cart was brought in insensible. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Needlewoman Age: 29 Gender: Female Date of admission: 28 Jun 1867 Date of death: 28 Jun 1867 Disease (transcribed): Burn. Died shortly after admission Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: This patient was stooping over the fire when her clothes caught fire and she was enveloped in flames. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 Jun 1867 Date of death: 3 Jul 1867 Disease (transcribed): Fracture: both bones of leg, became compound. Haemorrhage. Ligature of anterior tibia Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Haemorrhage (Leg); Ligature (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: Not entered Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Engraver Age: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Jul 1867 Date of death: Brought in dead Disease (transcribed): Cut throat Disease (standardised): Cut (Throat) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: Not entered Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: Suicide
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 18 Jun 1864 Date of death: 21 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'Case not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 25 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Jun 1867 Date of death: 6 Jul 1867 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound. Pyaemia Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Sepsis (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This patient was kicked by a horse on the forehead on the 29th May last. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
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