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Occupation or role: Designer
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Aug 1858
Date of death: 12 Nov 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Encysted emphysema
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Emphysema (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A designer who had been out of health three months with general languor & shortness of breath. For some little time he had also suffered from oedema of the feet and legs. Three weeks before admission he observed a swelling on the right side of the chest & when he came to the hospital there was a fluctuating tumour of considerable size about two inches below the right nipple’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1860
Date of death: 30 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian tumour. Disease of liver. Dropsy. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Ovary); Disease (Liver); Edema (Systemic); Hydrothorax (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Roberts, Arthur
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A married woman, though never pregnant. About 6 years before admission a yellow discharge commenced from the vagina, this was followed by swelling of the abdomen and cessation of the catamenia [menstruation]’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1870
Date of death: 29 Sep 1870
Disease (transcribed): Acute Tuberculosis.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The patient was admitted with pain in the right thigh which she attributed to a strain. A few days after admission symptoms of acute tuberculosis developed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Feb 1855
Date of death: 5 Oct 1855
Disease (transcribed): Amputation of foot at ankle joint. Sloughs. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Amputation (Foot); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman was admitted on account of some disease of the foot.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Nov 1857
Date of death: 21 Nov 1857
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophy of the heart. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Hydrothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: This man was in the Hospital a few weeks ago on account of tightness across the chest and dyspnoea, from which he had suffered for eleven weeks.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1860
Date of death: 5 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Vegetations on valves of heart. Fibrinous block in spleen. Secondary lobular pneumonia. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Vegetations (Heart); Disease (Spleen); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This young woman had had pain and swelling in the left hand, which was believed to be rheumatic, for a week before admission. This could not be traced to any injury but appeared to have been the result of exposure to cold. She admitted indeed, after many leading questions and much cross-examination, that about a fortnight previously she had pricked her hand with a pin but there did not appear to be any reason for connecting this with the present swelling’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Nov 1858
Date of death: 19 Nov 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A butler who had suffered from cough more or less since last January. Two weeks ago he began to spit blood & continued to do so each succeeding day. He had no pain in the chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Nov 1857
Date of death: 28 Nov 1857
Disease (transcribed): Dilated heart, especially right auricle. Old pneumonia. Pulmonary apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung); Haemorrhage (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: She had been seriously out of health for nine weeks, but had never felt thoroughly well since her nineteenth year, having been subject to more or less dyspnoea from that date.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Nov 1858
Date of death: 20 Nov 1858
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This patient was attacked a fortnight ago with pain in the lower part of the left chest followed by great dyspnoea which continued up to the time of her admission. She had been under medical care & the chest was blistered’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Nov 1857
Date of death: 30 Nov 1857
Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy and pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: This man died very shortly after his admission and was seen only by the Apothecary of the Hospital, who considered the case to be one of pneumonia.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Nov 1857
Date of death: 1 Dec 1857
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: He stated that a fortnight ago he got chilled by going out into the damp. Cold and cough followed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Jul 1875
Date of death: Nov 1875
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Secondary deposits
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Deposits (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Jan 1858
Date of death: 30 Jan 1858
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard and Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'A single woman who had been ill with cold & cough 3 or 4 months during which time she had lost much flesh. She had been worse for the 10 days preceding her admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Jan 1852
Date of death: 2 Feb 1852
Disease (transcribed): Caries of the iliac bone of the pelvis. Vomicae in the lungs. Small heart
Disease (standardised): Caries (Pelvis); Vomicae (Lung); Small (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Ten days before her admission she had observed a swelling in the left thigh. She had suffered for some time under what was judged to be rheumatic pains about the pelvis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pelvic region, abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 1 year 6 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Nov 1856
Date of death: 13 Dec 1856
Disease (transcribed): Scald. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Scald (Skin); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This child had scalded itself by pulling on the tea kettle.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Dec 1871
Date of death: 13 Dec 1871
Disease (transcribed): Bronchopneumonia
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lungs)

Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'The mother stated that the child had had pain & redness about perineum a year, and ulceration of labia several months, which had not improved under treatment’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Sep 1868
Date of death: 26 Sep 1868
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Fracture of lower jaw, sternum and right femur
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Fracture (Jaw); Fracture (Sternum); Fracture (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: This patient was found on the banks of the Grosvenor canal, wet and cold. It was supposed that he had fallen over an embankment.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident?

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Nov 1858
Date of death: 3 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Diseased kidneys. Hypertrophy of heart
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys, heart)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man had been under the care of the surgeon for a wound of the hand from which he had nearly recovered & was within three days of leaving the hospital when cough & expectoration with extreme dyspnoea came on & he sank in a very few days from suffocation’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1858
Date of death: 4 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Arachnitis. Softening of the brain. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain); Softening (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with what appeared to be rheumatic pain in the head, knees & back. It came on 10 weeks ago without any assignable cause. His manner was dull & sluggish & his expression heavy’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Oct 1855
Date of death: 30 Oct 1855
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous disease of the testes. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, Lymph Node (Testis); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This man was admitted on account of disease of the testicles. He said he had suffered from in for about three months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Oct 1887
Date of death: 13 Oct 1887
Disease (transcribed): Hypospadias. Stricture of urethra. Distended bladder. Dilated uretus and pelver[?] of kidneys. Congestion of kidneys. Bronchitis. Bronchiectasis
Disease (standardised): Hypospadias (Penis); Constriction (Urethra); Disease (Bladder, ureter, kidneys); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Bull, William Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'No clear history could be got from the man. He had suffered from stricture for many years. A few years ago, he got an attack of retention & states that the urethra burst while a surgeon was attempting to pass an instrument. Since then the urine has dribbled from a small orifice'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Dec 1857
Date of death: 9 Dec 1857
Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound. Diffuse inflammation of the scalp. Fractured ribs. Pneumonia. Dislocation of the knee
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Inflammation (Scalp); Fracture (Ribs); Pneumonia (Lung); Dislocation (Knee)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and right knee
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1880
Date of death: 24 Sep 1880
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Clot in pulmonary artery
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Thrombosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy. Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson
Post mortem examination performed by: Evans, Arthur Owen
Medical notes: This man was admitted under the care of Dr Barclay suffering with pneumonia. It was subsequently discovered that nine days previously he had sustained an injury of the left side of his chest, and he was transferred to the care of Mr Holmes.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen and ribs
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860
Date of death: 2 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of the arch of the aorta, bursting into the pericardium. Inflammation & gangrene of the lung
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta, pericadium); Inflammation (Lungs); Gangrene (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted on the 16th of Nov 1859. He then said that he had suffered from cough and expectoration for six weeks, for the same time he had been getting thinner and his voice had been becoming hoarse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Sep 1858
Date of death: 7 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with haemoptysis. For a month he had had slight attacks, & for eleven months cough had troubled him. He was sallow-looking & much emaciated’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a