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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Jan 1855
Date of death: 27 Jan 1855
Disease (transcribed): Lobular Pneumonia. Diseased Kidneys
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This patient was said to have been ill only three days before admission. She complained of the left hip and underwent leeching and blistering; then giddiness, loss of power in the legs and imperfection in articulation came on.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, hip joint and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Dec 1850
Date of death: 10 Feb 1851
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of uterus
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Uterus)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner and Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This woman, who was of gipsy origin, was admitted into the hospital under the care of Dr Nairne [Robert Nairne] in May last, when she reported that she had had 13 children, the last having been born only in February, She had a flooding last autumn in her confinement, but since the birth of her child the catamenia [menstruation] had returned regularly till a month before admission when she had missed on one occasion. She was then suffering from constant discharge with pain at lower part of abdomen, which was most severe in making water’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'In this case, the uterus was the only part which was examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Nov 1872
Date of death: 29 Nov 1872
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Atheroma. Hypertrophied heart. Sanguineous apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Disease (Heart); Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man was a patient in the hospital in April of this year with cephalalgia. From that date up to his admission he had had two slight fits.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Dec 1856
Date of death: 25 Dec 1856
Disease (transcribed): Retention of urine. Sloughing of perineum and penis. Ulceration of Urethra.
Disease (standardised): Retention of urine (Bladder); Sloughing (Perineum); Sloughing (Penis); Ulcer (Urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: ?? Frederick F W Whitler
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was admitted into the Hospital having had retention of urine for thirty hours.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Oct 1873
Date of death: 25 Nov 1873
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Ulcerative endocarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Ulcer (Heart); Endocarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This woman stated that for three months she had had swelling of the legs and belly with much cough and spitting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 82
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Dec 1856
Date of death: 26 Dec 1856
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Bladder and Prostate (malignant)
Disease (standardised): Disease (Bladder); Disease (Prostate)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: The notes of this case were accidentally lost.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Dec 1856
Date of death: 26 Dec 1856
Disease (transcribed): Extensive disease of Kidneys. Calculi in Kidney
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Calculi (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was confined nine months ago. Soon after getting about she caught cold and had never felt well since. About a month after confinement her legs, hands and face began to swell.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Oct 1866
Date of death: 7 Nov 1866
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Amyloid degeneration
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Amyloidosis (Kidney); Amyloidosis (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: She had rheumatic fever seventeen years ago and an attack of haemoptysis six years before admission. She had been losing flesh for four years and had a cough in the morning for two years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Date of admission: 23 Aug 1854
Date of death: 25 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys & liver. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Liver); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Tatum, Thomas
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman, who was much aged, was admitted on account of ordinary ulcers of the leg, which had existed according to her account about 6 weeks’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Date of admission: 18 Aug 1854
Date of death: 30 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Vomicae. Pneumonia. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Abscess (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man was reported to have enjoyed very good health until a month ago when he found his strength begin to fail him, and was at the same time attacked by cough which because so severe as to oblige him to lay up on the 8th inst’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Date of admission: 27 Sep 1854
Date of death: 2 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Pleural effusion
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Effusion (Pleura)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'Was originally admitted on the 5th April, when she stated that she had been subject to cough for years past, that she had suffered more during the last winter and that her legs had begun to swell at Xmas’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Date of admission: 4 Oct 1854
Date of death: 6 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of urethra. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Stricture (Urethra); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had, it appeared, been suffering from stricture for many years, having been a patient of the late Mr Stafford [Richard Anthony Stafford, St Marylebone Dispensary]. He had also been an out-patient of this hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, urethra, thorax, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Farmer
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jan 1857
Date of death: 5 Feb 1857
Disease (transcribed): Lithotrity
Disease (standardised): Lithotrity (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wintle, Frederic J.W.
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man came to the hospital having suffered from symptoms of stone for many years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Date of admission: 27 Sep 1854
Date of death: 14 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposit in lungs, kidneys. Diseased heart
Disease (standardised): Deposit (Lung); Deposit (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man, who presented an appearance of great emaciation and seemed exceedingly languid & depressed, stated that he had had several severe illnesses, and was now much worse than usual for a month past. He had spit blood on several occasions, & had severe night sweats’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 52
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1855
Date of death: 4 Dec 1855
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Kidneys and Heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Two months before admission this woman had caught cold, and for a time 'doctored' herself, but as her legs became oedematous and her breathing very short, she applied as an outpatient to the Hospital.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Soldier
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Feb 1853
Date of death: 10 Feb 1853
Disease (transcribed): Extravasation of blood into the texture of the lung. Diseased heart. Extensive atheromatous state of the aorta. Diseased liver and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Extravasation (Lung); Disease (Heart); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Disease (Liver); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A soldier who had been discharged two months before in consequence of shortness of breath. He had been subject to colds for four years past.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Jan 1856
Date of death: 17 Feb 1856
Disease (transcribed): Single horse-shoe Kidney which was diseased. Diseased Heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been in the Hospital two or three times before for Dropsy and albuminuria. He had become worse since October with oedema of the feet and legs and in December his abdomen was much distended.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Domestic servant
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1854
Date of death: 21 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. False membrane in arachnoid sac owing to extravasated blood, the result of a blow on the head. Atheromated cerebral arteries
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); False membrane (Brain); Blow (Head); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Wilson, James Arthur
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had been a domestic servant, & appeared to have been of dissipated habits. He was admitted under the care of Mr Hawkins [Caesar Hawkins], on account of a stricture of the urethra, which had existed for some years & had been ascribed originally to an attack of gonorrhoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Date of admission: 27 Sep 1854
Date of death: 21 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient stated that he had been ailing some six months, and had been almost entirely laid up during the last two. He had no pain, and could not give any distinct account of his suffering, but had felt ‘bilious’, was sick, had no appetite, was losing flesh & strength constantly’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Dec 1855
Date of death: 19 Dec 1855
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Heart and Kidneys. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A week before admission her legs began to swell and she suffered from giddiness and tinnitus with occasional numbness of the hands. She also complained of slight cough and fluttering in the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1868
Date of death: Brought in dead
Disease (transcribed): Morbus cordis. Granular kidneys. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: This man had never complained of illness. He had been working until he fell down suddenly and died.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Monthly nurse
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Nov 1868
Date of death: 9 Nov 1868
Disease (transcribed): Gout. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Gout (Joints); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: She had suffered for four years before admission from gout which affected the side of the foot. One month ago she had a second attack in the foot, knees and hands and she was treated with mercury.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 66
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1854
Date of death: 24 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Diseased kidney & heart
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with dropsy of 6 weeks’ standing. Three weeks before his admission he had applied a blister’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Date of admission: 23 Oct 1854
Date of death: 25 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of urethra. Extravasated urine
Disease (standardised): Stricture (Urethra); Extravasation
Admitting doctor: Tatum, Thomas
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the case is not reported’
Post mortem notes: 'The body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Nov 1867
Date of death: 9 Dec 1867
Disease (transcribed): Old phthisis. Amyloid disease
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Amyloidosis (Liver); Amyloidosis (Spleen); Amyloidosis (Kidney); Amyloidosis (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: This woman had suffered from cough for one winter and had been ill since August with pain across the stomach, purging, sickness and rolling of the bowels.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a