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Occupation or role: Dockyard labourer
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1860
Date of death: 26 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was deposited in the hospital by his wife and immediately left, no clue was obtained during his life as to the nature of the preceding symptoms. He was delirious and rapidly becoming comatose [….] He had been a labourer in Woolwich Dockyard. On the 22nd of March while at work, some sand bags weighing 30lb fell upon his head from a height of 20 feet, and knocked him down’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plasterer
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Apr 1860
Date of death: 29 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A plasterer. He had been pretty well, and at work, all day. In the evening he went to a public house and drank, as was stated, only two glasses of ale. Walking home he staggered and could not have got along, had not his friends supported him. He complained, at the same time, that he could not see. He was at once brought to the hospital and was then perfectly coherent and sensible, but appeared to have no power in his legs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1860
Date of death: 30 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Hypertrophy of cranium. Meningeal apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Brain); Stroke (Brain)
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 patient came into the house with cough, expectoration and other symptoms of phthisis which she had had for 4 months. She took cascarilla with ipecacuan, and wine, and her case did not attract much attention until the 25th when she suddenly lost her power of distinct speech. She looked intelligent and appeared to understand all that was said to her’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, neck

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1860
Date of death: 6 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Strumous meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Tuberculosis
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child, who had long eyelashes and light hair and was of obviously tubercular aspect, became a surgeon’s patient for stiffness of neck Feb 29th, and on the 10th of the following month was transferred to the physicians. He had been under-fed, complained of pain in the belly, and stiffness of the neck, and pains about the occiput’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 May 1860
Date of death: 8 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Softening of spinal chord & brain
Disease (standardised): Softening (Spinal cord, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A footman. He was said to have been ill for only a week, suffering especially from pain in the back, which had been attributed to an injury received while lifting a piano a fortnight ago’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Nursery maid
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1860
Date of death: 17 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A nursery maid. Subject from her earliest years to pain in the head, this was relieved, during her childhood, by occasional bleeding’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 May 1860
Date of death: 24 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the brain
Disease (standardised): Softening (Brain)
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 man, who had had pretty good health, except that during the preceding 6 years he had suffered much from carbuncles, became a patient on Mar 15, under Dr Page [William Page]. He then had the symptoms of not very severe pleurisy, sharp pain and dullness at the lower portion of the right lung, and a slight dry cough’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1860
Date of death: 19 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Arachnitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Arachnitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A gardener, temperate in his habits. His health was apparently good until the 6th of April since which he had cough, without expectoration’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, larynx, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Prostitute
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Jun 1860
Date of death: 22 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Abscess of the brain
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Brain)
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 woman was said to have been a prostitute and much given to drinking. For the two days preceding her admission she had been in a state of continued intoxication. She was supposed to have been insensible in the night of the 15th as she was found in that state on the following morning. She was not known to have had any previous cerebral symptoms’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jun 1860
Date of death: 24 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the brain
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Jul 1860
Date of death: 16 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Miscarriage. Clot in uterine vein. Deposit (?secondary) in brain
Disease (standardised): Miscarriage (Uterus); Clot (Blood vessels); Deposit (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Rouse, James
Medical notes: 'This woman, whose name was not Guthrie but Catharine, was the mother of 8 children. A fortnight before her admission she miscarried of a 2 months foetus, having up to that time enjoyed, as far as could be ascertained, perfectly good health. The abortion was attended with much haemorrhage, but she went on pretty well until 2 days before her admission, when she became delirious. She had been much neglected during her illness, and the precise manner of her seizure could not be ascertained’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Jun 1860
Date of death: 20 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Exhaustion after puerperal mania
Disease (standardised): Postpartum depression (Brain); Exhaustion
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 girl, who was unmarried, was delivered of a dead child in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, 11 days previous to her admission here. She soon afterwards became delirious and attempted to destroy herself by cutting her throat with a common dinner knife’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: Suicide

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 9
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1860
Date of death: 27 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'This case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Sep 1860
Date of death: 4 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A tailor of very debauched habits. On the day of admission having been at work until the evening he adjourned to a neighbouring beer shop and was there seized with a fit which was said to have been accompanied with struggling’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Sep 1860
Date of death: 24 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull. Laceration of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'Shortly before admission this man was knocked down by some planks falling on him from a height of 8 feet, he fell down upon the pavement & struck the back of his head’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Sep 1860
Date of death: 3 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had been a footman and an excessive drinker of beer and whiskey, of late he had not been soaking more than usual, not to the extent of intoxication. He remained at his usual vocation until the day of admission when while riding behind his mistress’ carriage he was seized with epileptic convulsions, and was soon afterwards brought to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 72
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1860
Date of death: 20 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A carman. Except that he had suffered from diarrhoea for some time, he had enjoyed good health up to his present attack. In the morning of the 20th he went to work as usual but was picked up insensible afterwards and at once brought to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tinman
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Nov 1860
Date of death: 6 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Jones, ?
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A tinman. A short time before admission, while at work, he was seized with pain in the head which caused him to exclaim, this was accompanied with tremblings of the limbs and immediately followed by total loss of consciousness’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1860
Date of death: 6 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Chorea. Abscesses. Haemorrhage into abscess
Disease (standardised): Chorea (Central nervous system); Abscess; Haemorrhage
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child who was said always to have been nervous and excitable. Three weeks before she came in she was pushed into a ditch and much frightened, 10 days after this chronic convulsions came on, in the interval she had been unusually excitable, as her mother said, ‘out of her wits’. When admitted there were evident choreic movements affecting both sides’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1860
Date of death: 21 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Jones, ?
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A painter, of tolerably stout, muscular frame. He usually had pretty good health, excepting that 20 years ago he had an attack of lead colic with dropped hands, and 8 years later another attack, in which the hands were not affected, but which was immediately succeeded by some kind of fit with convulsions or delirium’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1860
Date of death: 24 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): General paralysis. Effusion in spinal canal
Disease (standardised): Paralysis (Brain); Effusion (Spinal canal)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'This case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was sent to the dissecting room, unexamined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1860
Date of death: 28 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Tumour of the brain. Strumous disease of kidney, lungs &c
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Brain); Tuberculosis (Kidneys, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had been a carpenter. He was at first a surgical patient, complaining of pain in the right knee and hip, which was severe enough to prevent his walking, though not to confine him to bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, right hip

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Dec 1860
Date of death: 9 Jan 1861
Disease (transcribed): Cyst of the Cerebellum
Disease (standardised): Cysts (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient began to be frequently giddy 4 weeks before admission. When in the hospital he was odd in his manner, as if insane, frequently asking to be killed. When he had been in hospital for a few days it was found out that he had considerable loss of power in the left limbs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Jan 1861
Date of death: 12 Jan 1861
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of the temporal bone. Abscess of the brain
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Skull); Abscess (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The first symptoms were observed 6 weeks before admission, when he returned home cold and half starved. He then had a fit described as apoplectic; there were no convulsions. He partially recovered, never had any paralysis but complained constantly of pains in the forehead.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Pageboy
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jan 1861
Date of death: 30 Jan 1861
Disease (transcribed): Strumous tubercle of cerebellum. Arachinitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Arachnoiditis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The boy had said to have been quite well until ten days before admission when he was suddenly vomiting; three or four days afterward violent convulsing followed by complete insensibility.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a