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Occupation or role: Plumber
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Date of admission: 14 Jan 1878
Date of death: 11 Feb 1878
Disease (transcribed): Chronic bronchitis. Pneumonia chiefly catarrhal. Bronchial haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung); Haemorrhage (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Robust and healthy man: accustomed to sweat profusely: used to take 4-5 pts [pints] of beer and a glass of gin or whiskey daily: infected with syphilis 9 ½ yrs [years] before admission. Epigastric pain after food for 9 mo [months]. Cough (constantly increasing, wasting, scanty diaphoresis, and much pain in the chest for 7 wks [weeks]: onset gradual, without other [?] symptoms. Dyspnoea, hoarseness, wheezing, expectoration, and diminution of pains, - 9 days'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Needlewoman
Gender: Female
Age: 40
Date of admission: 12 Sep 1877
Date of death: 24 Feb 1878
Disease (transcribed): Amyloid disease of the kidneys. Ascites. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Amyloidosis (Kidneys); Ascites (Abdomen); Hydrothorax (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Mother suffered from haemorrhagic diathesis. Patient had suffered from chorea at 8: otherwise had enjoyed fair health, but for irregular catamenia: had drunk beer freely. Suppurating disease of the Rt. [Right] knee 10 yrs [years] before admn [admission]: much discharge. The face began to swell 6 or 7 mo. [months] ago: the legs and hands 2 or 3 mo [months]: At the latter period the desire to micturate grew frequent, though the quantity of urine diminished. Since then she had suffered from headaches and dyspeptic pains, shortness of breath and palpitation, slight cough'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, peritoneum, uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Policeman
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Date of admission: 24 Feb 1878
Date of death: 26 Feb 1878
Disease (transcribed): Traumatic tetanus
Disease (standardised): Tetanus (Central nervous system);
Admitting doctor: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Ten days before admission. Patient received a wound from wheel of a carriage on back of Rt. [Right] Hand. Wound seemed to do well, and was not more painful that [sic than] would have expected from the nature of injury– Evening before admission felt some stiffness at back of neck and soft difficulty in opening mouth. Pain and stiffness increased and extended down back – Had not been exposed to wet, or any sudden change of Temperature'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Limbs, abdomen, blood, spinal cord
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Butler
Gender: Male
Age: 79
Date of admission: 26 Feb 1878
Date of death: 28 Feb 1878
Disease (transcribed): Inguinal hernia – Operated
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Indeterminate);
Admitting doctor: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Rupture on right side for 12 years – Has always worn a truss which usually kept rupture up. Twelve hours before admission had a violent attack of coughing which forced ruptured down. On attempting to do so Patient could not reduce it'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Date of admission: 5 Feb 1878
Date of death: 3 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of the liver. Catarrhal pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Pneumonia (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Patient habitually languid: small appetite: ate meat about once a week only: had a strong disgust to fat: liable to vomiting. Increased lassitude, with pains in back and loins and diarrhoea about every 3 mo. [months] for 10 yrs [years]. Lassitude and pains increased much for two. Free haemorrhage from bowel 15 mo. [months] before admn [admission]. Epigastric pain after food for 10 mo. [months] with occasl [occasional] streaks of blood in sputa. Anorexia 6 mo [months]. Constant cough, swelling of face and legs, and night sweats for 3 mo [months]'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Steward
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1878
Date of death: 4 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Chronic pericarditis. Great thickening of the membrane. Tubercular disease of lung. Hydrothorax – etc
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart); Tuberculosis (Lung); Hydrothorax (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'The patient was admitted with extensive oedema of trunk and limbs; great dyspnoea, slight cough and expectoration. He was obese, but anaemic. The face was cyanosed. Pulse weak and stringy. There was no arcus senilis. Chest no loss of resonance or vocal fremitus: harsh blowing respiration. Heart's area of dulness increased to L [Left]: no impulse: sounds hardly audible. Liver dulness from 5th rib to thoracic margin. Urine golden, acid, lithatic, highly albuminous'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pericardium, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, peritoneum, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stableman
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1878
Date of death: 8 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs, pneumonia. Fatty heart, etc
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Heart);
Admitting doctor: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Patient stated that he had fallen down some days before admission and struck his side – Could give no other information. Symptoms Feb [February] 28. Tremulous – Cyanosed – Sweating – Pulse quick and feeble – Tongue foul – Complained of Pain over middle of 6 and 7 ribs on right side – No fracture detected – Bronchitis throughout both lungs – Urine albuminous'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, stomach, ribs
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Carrier
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Date of admission: 15 Feb 1878
Date of death: 15 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercle with fibrosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pulmonary fibrosis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. The patient too deaf for a complete history to be taken. He had had a cough since childhood, which had been severe and accompanied by expectoration for three months. On Feb. [February] 6th he was attacked with shivering, and pain in the L. [Left] flank, which lasted all day. From that time dyspnoea set in and was unrelieved till admission, with occasional recurrence of the pain, but without wasting, haemoptysis, sweating, or repetition of the rigor'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 8 months
Date of admission: 18 Mar 1878
Date of death: 18 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Atelectasis pulmonary
Disease (standardised): Atelectasis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'Admitted dead. No record'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, stomach, kidneys, brain, trachea, bronchi, intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bootmaker
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Date of admission: 11 Mar 1878
Date of death: 20 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Weak heart – no important structural lesion – Dysentery. Old intestinal ulcers
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Dysentery (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. A Healthy man previously; without constitutional peculiarity: temperate in liquor: In the spring of 1875 diarrhoea commenced, with blood and slime in the motions: it continued at intervals till October 1876. He was in India during all this time. He left the country in 1877, arriving in England during July. From the following October diarrhoea was present to the extent of 4-20 motions daily, no blood or slime was passed, the looseness of the bowels was aggravated by cold. He uniformly lost flesh while the diarrhoea lasted, and recovered it in the intervals: Cough 1 mo. [month] before admn [admission]: onset sudden, with nasal catarrh. Lumbar pain and difficult micturition 1 week'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Date of admission: 13 Mar 1878
Date of death: 23 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Croupous pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Mother, two sisters and other relatives died of consumption: father's father of cancer. Patient had suffered from typhoid, and smallpox; and from 'inflammation of the lungs' in 1851. Otherwise was of healthy constitution. He took 2-3 pts [pints] beer and 1 gl. [glasses] gin daily. He was admitted on Dec. [December] 20th 1876 for bronchitis of about 2 mo. [months] date; from which he had suffered twice before, in Ap[April?] previous and in 1872. Cough never left him after this. Pleurisy. During his residence, of about a month in hosp. [hospital] he was attacked with catching pains in both sides of the chest in succession, apparently dependent on pleuritic inflammation; though the phys. [physical] signs were by no means clear'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 44
Date of admission: 20 Mar 1878
Date of death: 29 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Fibroid phthisis. Secondary venous congestion
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Veins);
Admitting doctor: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. One sister died of consumption. Very subject to attacks of 'inflammation on the lungs [sic '). Never robust: bad living for 17 yrs [years]: dyspeptic symptoms for six. Always very subject to coughs: haemoptysis ('1 ½ pint') 6 yrs [years] before admn [admission] occasional palpitation: diaphoresis habitually scanty. Catam. [Catamenia] ceased in Aug. [August] 1876. Diaphoresis increased for 2 years. Cough, dyspnoea, frothy expectoration, loss of flesh, costiveness, chilliness at times for 12 months, increasing in severity. The abdomen swelled (?) during the first two months. Oedema of legs and scantiness of urine for 3 months'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, spleen, stomach, intestine, kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Gender: Male
Age: 59
Date of admission: 29 Mar 1878
Date of death: 1 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Chronic disease of spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Disease (Spinal cord);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'March 29th. Admitted, complaining of great general weakness and pain in the insteps. Cough and slight expectoration: no dyspnoea. P. [Pulse] 90 moderate. R. [Respiration rate?] 30. Appetite deficient: tongue red, dry, freely fissured. He was greatly emaciated, anaemia, and sickly. Apparently very weak in back and limbs: sat up with difficulty and could not stand on his feet: the latter, he said was owing to the pain […] Excitable, fidgetty and 'nervous': did not seem to know how to set about things: fumbled with his fingers in attempting to unbutton his clothes. He shrunk when touched about the trunk. He took time to understand what was said to him: requests to do anything had to be repeated. […] History. No hist. [history] of the present illness could be obtained; his statements being hopelessly contradictory. His mother's father was gouty: 1 sist. [sister] d. [died] of consumption. He himself was of healthy constitution, and accustomed to take 2 pts [pints] of beer and about 2 ½ glasses of whiskey daily'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Date of admission: 29 Mar 1878
Date of death: 3 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Old stricture, cystitis; cirrhosis from Biliary obstructions, etc. [?] abscesses in the kidney
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Indeterminate); Cystitis (Bladder); Liver cirrhosis, biliary (Liver); Obstruction (Biliary tract); Abscess (Kidney);
Admitting doctor: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Stricture for many years – For 10 or 12 has been in Habit of passing an instrument – for 4 years, much pain about bladder and urine ill smelling, thick and often bloody – A fortnight before admission passed [?] catheter with difficulty and on withdrawing it found that the point had broken off – for 10 days urine had been dribbling from him. Bladder was aspirated by a Surgeon 2 days before admission'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Liver, gall bladder, pancreas, intestine, spleen, kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Attendant asylum
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Date of admission: 11 Mar 1878
Date of death: 3 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Aortic and mitral stenosis etc.
Disease (standardised): Aortic valve stenosis (Heart); Mitral valve stenosis (Heart);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. One sister died of consumption. Scarlatina at 9: 'maltese fever' in 1856: Venereal sore in 1858: no bubo or constl. [constitutional] symptom. A healthy man, without constitutional peculiarity: accustomed to take 2-3 pints of beer daily: spirits on occasions. Subject to coughs for 5 or 6 yrs [years]: Breathing shorter than usual for two. Five weeks before admn [admission], - attacked with cough and pain from the epigastrium to the back, with malaise. After a week, during which he had profuse night sweats, the cough was relieved by treatment. (? diaphoretics) and the pain disappeared, not to return again till admission to St Geo [St George's Hospital]. Urine high coloured and turbid since the cough lessened. Increased cough, dyspnoea, swelling of legs and abdomen, sense of distension after food, and palpitation for a fortnight. Epigastric and interscapular pain returned on admission'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Laundress
Gender: Female
Age: 73
Date of admission: 23 Feb 1878
Date of death: 8 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian cyst, with bloody contents. Pulmonary oedema
Disease (standardised): Cyst (Ovary); Oedema (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Ruptured for 15 years – Always reducible – No truss – Four days before admission rupture came down and could not be reduced – Sickness soon followed – 5 days since bowel acted – Symptoms. Face flushed and anxious – Pulse quick – Tongue furred and moist – Abdomen distended but not tender'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Glottis, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, abdomen, uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: [No age stated]
Date of admission: n/a
Date of death: n/a
Disease (transcribed): Abscess of thigh; early hip joint disease. Amyloid degeneration of organs
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Leg); Disease (Hip); Amyloidosis (Indeterminate);
Admitting doctor: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abscess, hip joint, thyroid gland, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, uterus, kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Single
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Date of admission: 4 Feb 1878
Date of death: 25 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Tumour of the parotid region (operation); Pyaemia. Gangrene of the lung. Intracranial tumour
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Face); Operation (Face); Sepsis (Systemic); Gangrene (Lung); Tumour (Head);
Admitting doctor: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Nine months ago a hard movable lump appeared appeared [sic] behind angle of jaw (left side). This increased in size and 6 wks [weeks] ago was punctured by a surgeon and a seton passed through. The wound thus made soon began to fungate – An incision was then made and followed by free bleeding – Since that the tumour has been increasing and the tendency to bleed has been very great. Family history. Has been gaining flesh of late'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, kidneys, spleen, wound, abscess, intracranial abscess
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Medical man
Gender: Male
Age: 85
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1878
Date of death: 29 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull);
Admitting doctor: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Knocked down by a Railway Engine. Symptoms 25. Much collapse – Sensible but drowsy. On right side of forehead above eyebrow a small contused wound – Swelling with Emphysema about right orbit – Subconjunctival haemorrhage. Profuse bleeding from nostrils and left ear'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Skull, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 38
Date of admission: 3 Apr 1878
Date of death: 8 May 1878
Disease (transcribed): Catarrhal pneumonia and tubercular phthisis
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father gouty. Had suffered from typhus, and scarlatina: from 'fits' from 15 to 18. Never robust: appetite always small: subject to headaches, sick headaches, diarrhoea, and coughs. Dyspeptic symptoms for 30 years. Diaphoresis habitually scanty. Catam. [Catamenia] from 14 to 41 ½[?] regular but scanty. Languor, weakness, anorexia, and slight pains about the joints for 3 yrs [years]. Wasting, pubic pain, frequent, difficult and painful micturition 13 mo [months]. O.P. [Out-patient] the first three: symptoms partially relieved by instrumental interference. Constant slight cough, with coughing of black of red blood several times a week'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: [No age stated]
Date of admission: 15 May 1878
Date of death: 15 May 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercular phthisis. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Heart);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'Patient admitted dead'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Merchant
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Date of admission: 3 Apr 1878
Date of death: 19 May 1878
Disease (transcribed): (Hard sarcoma) of the head of the pancreas. Biliary obstruction. Atrophy of the liver
Disease (standardised): Sarcoma (Pancreas); Obstruction (Biliary tract); Atrophy (Liver);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. One brother died of haemoptysis: no other sign of heritable disease. Previous history of robust health and temperance: Typhoid fever in 1870. No peculiarity of digestion. Quite well till the end of September 1877, when he was attacked with a griping in the abdomen and pain in R. [Right] iliac region, with loss of appetite. The pain lasted 3-4 days: the appetite never returned. He lost flesh from this time'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Liver, stomach, duodenum, pancreas, portal vein, peritoneum, spleen, kidneys, colon
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jul 1879
Date of death: 30 Jul 1879
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of the pancreas involving neighbouring glands, the stomach and the peritoneum. Secondary cancer in the lungs.
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Pancreas); Cancer (Lymph nodes); Cancer (Stomach); Cancer (Abdomen); Cancer (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: He was readmitted complaining of great weakness and prostration, of dull aching pain at irregular times in the back and abdomen, the latter being especially excited by ingestion of food, and of cough, dyspnoea and palpitation as well.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, abdomen and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Jul 1879
Date of death: 9 Aug 1879
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease with fibrinous vegetations. Infarction of the lungs and other organs. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Infarction (Lung); Infarction (Viscera); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Three months before admission she was at Walton Convalescent Hospital, when one day at noon as she was getting up she found the legs and hands swelled. She began at the same time to suffer from pain in the left flank and from persistent vomiting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 1
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Aug 1879
Date of death: 13 Aug 1879
Disease (transcribed): Generalised tuberculosis and bone necrosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Systemic); Necrosis (Bone)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient was said to have been healthy till three months old when it was vaccinated. Three weeks later it appeared unwell and grew fretful and sleepless.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, glandular swelling, heart, liver, spleen, suprarenal bodies, kidneys, intestines and brain
Type of incident: n/a