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Occupation or role: [Child of] Carpenter
Age: 1 ¾
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1888
Date of death: 14 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not reported here’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Shoemaker
Age: 8 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 May 1888
Date of death: 17 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Bronchopneumonia
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not reported’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 9
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Jan 1888
Date of death: 23 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Adherent pericardium. Mitral incompetence. Cardiac dilatation & hypertrophy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'In 1885 the patient was treated at St George’s Hospital for hip disease. About 8 months before she came to the hospital for the second time she had an abscess about the hip. There was no history of rheumatism. About 3 weeks before admission she suffered much from dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Heart, spleen, kidneys, liver, lungs, stomach, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Butler
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 May 1888
Date of death: 23 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Haemorrhage into the left corpus striatum. Old softening of right hemisphere. Red granular contracted kidneys
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhage (Brain); Softening (Brain); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'No history could be obtained from the patient. Her husband said that her mother had died suddenly at the age of 60, of apoplexy. The patient had been married for 8 ½ years during which period she suffered neither from gout, rheumatism, dropsy nor palpitation. She frequently, however, had headache and was habitually disturbed once or twice during the night to pass water’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, kidneys, heart, spleen, liver, lungs, stomach, eyes

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 May 1888
Date of death: 28 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not reported here’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Grocer
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 May 1888
Date of death: 30 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis and general tuberculosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The child’s father and mother were healthy. Three of her brothers and sisters were dead, one died in infancy, a second of bronchitis and the third of ‘croup’. The child had hooping cough and measles, and afterwards inflammation of the eyes. She was a bright and intelligent child, she did well at school and was interested in her work till about 6 weeks before her admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, lungs, heart, spleen, liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 1 ¾
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 May 1888
Date of death: 31 May 1888
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not reported here’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’
Illustrations or photographs: Yes (relating to case PM/1888/238)
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Labourer
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 May 1888
Date of death: 2 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Dewsnap, William Frederick
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient was married for 15 years. She had seven children and no miscarriages. Her last confinement took place on April 7th 1888. The child was living when she came into the hospital. She did not suckle it. Seven days after her confinement she had ‘cold shivers’. She had afterwards great pain in her legs and much dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 May 1888
Date of death: 15 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia (bronchopneumonia)
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Davidson, William Marshall
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'For seven weeks before his admission the patient suffered from cough’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, alimentary canal

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Monthly nurse
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Jun 1888
Date of death: 24 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): Right pleurisy and pneumonia of right lung
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The woman was said to have been in good health till June 20th, when she began to be ill. On the 22nd she had much cough. On the 23rd she was moved from Turnham Green to St George’s and arrived in a state of great prostation’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thorax, pleurae, lungs, heart, kidneys, spleen, liver, stomach, uterus, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Unmarried child of] Machinist
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Jun 1888
Date of death: 24 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The child was well till the day before her admission, when she woke up and complained of ear ache and pain in her neck. Her mother noticed that her neck was slightly swollen. The child did not then complain of sore throat. The drains of the house were ‘done up’ at the beginning of the year. The child lived in a neighbourhood infected with diphtheria, Lupus Street, and she went to St Gabriel’s School (where diphtheria was prevalent apparently)’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thorax, pharynx, heart, pericardium, larynx, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, stomach, lungs, intestines, ovaries

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Jun 1888
Date of death: 27 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): ?Septicaemia. Fits. Parotid buboes
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Seizure; Swelling (Parotid glands)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient’s mind was not clear, a history was obtained with difficulty and the man’s statements did not appear to be very reliable. Six days before he came in he said he had vomiting, headache and pain in his chest. He was however able to get about till the day of his admission. The man’s wife thought he had been injured, but there was no clear evidence of this, and there was no objective sign of it. The patient said he drank only a pint of beer a day, except when he ‘had company’ ‘
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Skull, brain, thorax, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach, intestines, pancreas, mesenteric glands, shoulder joint, left hip
Illustrations or photographs: Yes (see PM/1888/202)
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Fitter
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jun 1888
Date of death: 4 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): ?cause of death. Oedema of lungs. Old pleuritic adhesions, left lung. Enlarged spleen. Old hydatid of liver. Taenia mediocanellata in small intestine
Disease (standardised): Edema (Lungs); Disease (Pleura, spleen, liver); Tapeworm (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man said he had not suffered from rheumatism nor from gout, that he had burnt his legs about 40 years before he came to the hospital, but that he had never been laid up with any bodily illness. He gave no history pointing to syphilis, and denied having had it. He drank chiefly beer and did not take more than 3 pints a day, as a rule. A week before Christmas 1887 he began to suffer from pain at the lower part of his chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thorax, abdomen, heart, lungs, spleen, liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jun 1888
Date of death: 5 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Bright’s disease. Dilated & fatty heart. Pericarditis. Pulmonary apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys); Disease (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart); Stroke (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man was born on the same day as HRH the Queen. He had generally had good health. He said that he had suffered from small pox about 50 years before his admission, that he had never had scarlatina, and that he had not been laid up with any illness for 43 years’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, lungs, larynx, trachea, kidneys, spleen, liver, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Riding master
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jun 1888
Date of death: 7 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. General infiltration of both lungs with tubercle. Several vomicae in each lung. Femoral arteries remarkably atheromatous. Antemortem clot in left femoral vein
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Blood vessels)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man’s mother died of cancer of the breast. There was no other history of hereditary disease. For 6 years the patient had suffered more or less from cough. He was not free from it during the summer’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, thorax, heart, larynx, lungs, spleen, liver, kidneys, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Labourer
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1888
Date of death: 20 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Old stuck peritoneal adhesions. Cirrhotic fatty liver
Disease (standardised): Disease (Peritoneum); Liver cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The woman said she had suffered from scarlating when 7 years of age. In the winter of 1887-8 she had cough, and spat up some bright red blood. She could however give no good account of herself’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, thorax, liver, kidneys, stomach, lungs, spleen, uterus, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Fitter
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jun 1888
Date of death: 21 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Granular contracted kidneys. Dilated & hypertrophied heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient had pneumonia when he was about 26 years old. He was then laid up for 7 weeks. When 34 he had scarlatina. It was not followed by dropsy. There was no history of gout nor of rheumatism. For 10 years before he came to the hospital he had occasional attacks of dyspnoea. For 5 weeks before his admission he had suffered from dropsy of his legs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, eyes, thorax, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, lungs, larynx, trachea

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 1
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1888
Date of death: 23 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): ?Pyaemia. Empyema at both bases. Meningitis, cerebral and spinal. Epiphysitis of lower end of left humerus with destruction of left elbow joint
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Empyema (Lungs); Meningitis (Brain, spine); Epiphysitis (Arm, elbow)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The child came from the Victoria Hospital for Children, where she had been treated for about 3 weeks for cough and dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, spinal cord, ears, lungs, abdomen, stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, kidneys

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: House porter
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1888
Date of death: 24 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Granular contracted kidneys. Emphysema and bronchitis. Pleuritic effusion & ascites
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Emphysema (Lungs); Bronchitis (Lungs); Effusion (Pleura); Ascites (Peritoneum)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man came into the hospital first in 1878, when he was under Dr Whipham [Thomas Tillyer Whipham] (see Hospital Register 1878, No 917). He was then suffering from cough, dyspnoea and dropsy. He said he had not been laid up before, he ascribed his illness to getting wet in a ditch’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thorax, heart, lungs, larynx, trachea, bronchi, spleen, kidneys, liver, testes, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1888
Date of death: 24 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Laryngeal and pulmonary phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Larynx, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient gave no history of having had scarlatina or rheumatism. He said for 11 months [he] had had ‘slow fever’ and had spent 3 or 4 months in bed, and for eight months sore throat (pain in his larynx)’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, thorax, lungs, larynx, heart, spleen, liver, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jul 1888
Date of death: 26 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Mitral valve disease with very large vegetations. General purpura
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Purpura (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient gave no history of rheumatism. He had bronchitis in January 1885 and was laid up in bed for a fortnight. Three weeks before his admission he had a sudden attack of syncope. There was no paralysis. For 10 days before he came in he felt very weak; for a week he had oedema of the legs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, thorax, pericardium, heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, bladder, liver, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Bootmaker
Age: 11
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1888
Date of death: 25 Jul 1888
Disease (transcribed): Endocarditis. Vegetations on mitral valve. Hypertrophy of both sides of the heart. Splenic & renal infarctions
Disease (standardised): Endocarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart); Infarction (Spleen, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The boy had had two attacks of rheumatic fever, the first 2 years, the second one year before he came to St George’s. He gave no history of earlier complications during the attacks. He had not had chorea. He began to suffer from cough and dyspnoea and went to the Victoria Hospital for Children where mitral disease was diagnosed. He was treated with digitalis’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thorax, lungs, heart, spleen, kidneys, liver, stomach, brain, ears

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Soldier
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Aug 1888
Date of death: 17 Aug 1888
Disease (transcribed): Dysentery. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Dysentery (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man gave no history of having had rheumatism, nor of scarlatina. He was a soldier and in 1884 was in South Africa where he said he had dysentery. He was not however laid up in bed. His bowels acted 11 or 12 times a day’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, intestines, peritoneum, kidneys

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [[Child of] ] Carman
Age: 9 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Aug 1888
Date of death: 18 Aug 1888
Disease (transcribed): Catarrhal enteritis. Rickets
Disease (standardised): Enteritis (Intestines); Rickets (Bones)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not seen by registrar’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Thymus, brain, heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, spleen, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Decorator
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Aug 1888
Date of death: 22 Aug 1888
Disease (transcribed): Actinomycosis
Disease (standardised): Actinomycosis
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer and Gamgee, Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man had measles and scarlatina when young, and when he was about 25 fell and hurt his spine, but he soon recovered. He denied having had syphilis. In 1887 he had abscesses in his abdominal wall and was treated in University College Hospital by Dr Roberts and Mr Beck. He was in the hospital 4 months […] Two months before he came to St George’s he went to Eastbourne. He stayed there a month’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, brain, spinal cord

Type of incident: n/a