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Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jan 1871
Date of death: 6 Mar 1871
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This patient came in to the hospital for an inflamed leg which had followed a blow a week previously. He had also a cough, and was emaciated. The inflammation of the leg soon subsided, but on Feb 1 his cough became worse, the expectoration tinged with blood’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Feb 1871
Date of death: 18 Mar 1871
Disease (transcribed): Injury to hand. Fracture of metacarpal bones. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Injury (Hand); Fracture (Hand); Sepsis (Systemic)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'A railway ‘sleeper’ fell onto his right hand. On admission, the palm & dorsum of the right hand were much crushed, and a lacerated & contused wound existed on each. There was free haemorrhage from several small vessels’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Mar 1871
Date of death: 27 Mar 1871
Disease (transcribed): Scalp wounds. Erysipelas. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Erysipelas (Skin); Pneumonia (Lungs)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This man received a blow on the forehead from a poker, & attended as out-patient for the scalp wound caused thereby. March 7 erysipelas set in, and he was admitted next day. There was then redness & swelling of face, eyelids & neck, and oedema of anterior part of scalp’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Oct 1870
Date of death: 21 Apr 1871
Disease (transcribed): Caries of lumbar vertebrae. Psoas abscess. Lardaceous disease. Scrofulous disease of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Abscess (Psoas muscle); Disease (Kidney)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'A year before admission this man fell off a carriage and received some [?]. Soon after this he observed a swelling in the right thigh. To this leeches were applied & it subsided leaving only a little stiffness of hip’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, bones, joints

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Housekeeper
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Jul 1871
Date of death: 20 Jul 1871
Disease (transcribed): Syphilitic contraction of rectum. Passage of bougie. Perforation of rectum. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Syphilis (Rectum); Dilation (Rectum); Perforation (Rectum); Peritonitis (Abdomen)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This patient had had discharge of matter and occasionally of blood from rectum, for three years, with increasing difficulty of passing motions. Two years ago some diseased bone came away from right ulna’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, organs of generation, bones

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jul 1871
Date of death: 24 Jul 1871
Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull. Extravasation of blood into & compression of brain. Pyaemia?
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Extravasation (Brain); Compression (Brain); Sepsis (Systemic)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'He fell head foremost down the height of 15 steps to the ground. On admission was quite insensible’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Sep 1871
Date of death: 20 Sep 1871
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of patella (compound). Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Knee); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer and Foster Palmer, James
Medical notes: 'On stepping down from an omnibus he fell forwards and struck the right knee, probably on a sharp stone in the road: he could not get up, and was at once brought to the hospital (about ¼ mile). When admitted, was slightly stupid, apparently from drinking’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, bones, joints

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Nov 1871
Date of death: 1 Dec 1871
Disease (transcribed): Syphilitic ulceration of soft palate & fauces. Intense congestion of both lungs
Disease (standardised): Syphilis (Mouth); Ulcer (Mouth); Congestion (Lungs)

Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with syphilitic ulceration of the throat of 6 weeks’ duration. Was very pale and weak and in a good deal of pain from the throat soreness’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, organs of generation, fauces

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 2
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 May 1871
Date of death: 21 May 1871
Disease (transcribed): Rickets. Scrofula. Scrofulous pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Rickets (Bones); Tuberculosis (Lymph nodes); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This child had been vaccinated 2 months before admission in three places on left arm. All became sore in a fortnight and remained open six weeks. There was no history of ‘snuffles’. The mother said she had one other child, which was healthy, but that it had a rash about head and face when about seventeen months old. The mother had frontal headache, but no rash, nor other signs of syphilis. Hair not thin. Father said to have died four months before, from ‘consumption’. Before marriage he had eruption on legs’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, bones, joints, glands

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clicker
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Nov 1863
Date of death: 4 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of knee. Abscess in thigh. Ulceration of branch of femoral
Disease (standardised): Disease (Knee); Abscess (Thigh); Ulcer (Thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'Enjoyed good health till May 1860 when he noticed slight swelling about his right ankle’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thigh, chest

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Nov 1863
Date of death: 5 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Laryngeal phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Larynx)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Schoolgirl
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Jan 1864
Date of death: 20 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Traumatic tetanus
Disease (standardised): Tetanus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'On the 26th of December she trod on an old iron meal stand and received a small wound on the ball of the toe of the right foot, some pain & inflammation followed and the part was kept poulticed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Section of post-tibial nerve, brain, spinal cord, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Feb 1864
Date of death: 3 Mar 1864
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of leg and ankle. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'Fell from a scaffold a distance of forty feet. He was admitted into the Oxford Ward on February 8th with a compound fracture of the right leg. The wound was about an inch in length, and the end of the upper fragment protruded through it’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, legs

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Apr 1864
Date of death: 8 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'Case not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 62
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 May 1864
Date of death: 11 Jun 1864
Disease (transcribed): Inflamed legs, with sloughy sores
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Williams, Charles Theodore
Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William
Medical notes: 'This patient admitted May 25th with inflamed leg & sloughing of the cuticle’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Oct 1864
Date of death: 24 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Wound of hand. Phlebitis. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Wound (Hand); Phlebitis (Blood vessels); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: 'Case not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1864
Date of death: 26 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus. Pneumonia. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic); Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: 'Was admitted under the surgeons, since he had been an out-patient for the wound of thumb. He was however immediately on admission transferred to the physicians’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Veins of arm, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 74
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Nov 1864
Date of death: 7 Dec 1864
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Unknown); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: 'Case not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Jul 1858
Date of death: 2 Sep 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fibrous tumour of the uterus. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Uterus); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard and Hooper, John Henry
Medical notes: 'A single woman who had always enjoyed good health & had led a laborious life. A fortnight before admission she first had difficulty in making water, then pain came on in the lower part of the back, but there was no vaginal discharge. However after she had been in the hospital two days yellowish vaginal discharge appeared & was accompanied by lassitude & aching in all her limbs. A hard mass was felt in the left iliac & hypogastric regions which was not tender to the touch & was immovable’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Uterus

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Dec 1876
Date of death: 26 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Syphilitic disease of bone. Gummata of liver. Pneumonia and lobular congestion of lungs. Erysipelas.
Disease (standardised): Syphilis (Bone); Gummata (Liver); Pneumonia (Lung); Congestion (Lung); Erysipelas (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient had had constitutional syphilis for nine years. Twelve months before he injured his face and this was followed by caries of the nose. At the same time a node came on the skull, which suppurated and exposed the bone, and two others followed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, peritoneum and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Jan 1877
Date of death: 27 Jan 1877
Disease (transcribed): Wound of hand. Pyaemia.
Disease (standardised): Wound (Hand); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: The case was not reported here.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Aug 1877
Date of death: 9 Sep 1877
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of leg. Diffuse cellulitis.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Cellulitis (Tissues)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: The case was not reported here.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Messenger
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 July 1877
Date of death: 15 July 1877
Disease (transcribed): Purulent Peritonitis (Hernia)
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Suppuration (Abdomen); Hernia (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Bennet, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Five days before admission the patient exerted himself much in playing cricket. On the following day he felt some pain and stiffness across the lower part of the abdomen. Three days before admission he noticed that a rupture, which had troubled him for seven years, was down and much longer than usual.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum and intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 5 weeks
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1877
Date of death: 15 Dec 1877
Disease (transcribed): Congenital hernia. Enteritis. Syphilis
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Enteritis (Intestines); Syphilis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Bennet, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The mother stated that she had noticed a swelling in the right side of the patient's scrotum three days before admission. Vomiting came on and returned at intervals.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, brain and hernia
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation]
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1877
Date of death: 8 Oct 1877
Disease (transcribed): Tetanus, the result of a cutaneous burn.
Disease (standardised): Tetanus (Systemic); Burn (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Bennet, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: This child was found with its clothes on fire. The upper extremities, shoulders, neck and lower part of face were burned.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain and spinal cord
Type of incident: Trauma/accident