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Louis Cheviot, [Age not stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [Age not stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Sep 1849
Date of death: 16 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Gunshot wound in the left hypocondriac region. Wound of the spleen and the vessels of this organ. Extensive haemorrhage into peritoneal cavity
Disease (standardised): Wound (Brain, spleen); Haemorrhage (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with a gun shot wound situated in the left hypochondriac region which he was reported to have inflicted upon himself by means of a pistol loaded with slugs. He was brought to the hospital about ½ an hour after the receipt of the injury, cold and collapsed & apparently dying, his pulse scarcely perceptible’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Suicide

Maria Pearman, 37, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Sep 1849
Date of death: 18 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Fractured base of the skull through tympanic cavity. Blood effused between the bone and dura mater, & in arachnoid cavity. Brain bruised and lacerated
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Bruise (Brain); Laceration (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This woman fell down a flight of 12 or 14 steps & was picked up insensible. She was admitted at 10 1/2pm, about ¾ of an hour after the accident, cold & senseless’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

H.S. Garman, 50, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 50
Gender: n/a
Date of admission: 9 Jul 1849
Date of death: 25 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Compound comminuted fracture of the leg. Extensive suppuration, sloughing of post-tibial artery. Haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Suppuration (Leg); Haemorrhage (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined’

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

William Bleach, 16, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Aug 1849
Date of death: 27 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Inflammation & abscess of the tibia. Ulcerated cartilage of the right knee. Amputation. Inflammation & pus in femoral vein. Pleurisy. Secondary deposits in the right lung
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Leg); Abscess (Leg); Ulcer (Knee); Amputation (Leg); Pleurisy (Lungs); Deposit (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This boy struck his right knee against a pitcher which he was carrying in his hand. He felt but little pain at the time but the next day the knee was painful & swollen & he was brought to the hospital. He had then much fever, his pulse very frequent but without power. His mother stated that three weeks before he was laid up with erysipelas and that he was still in bad health at the time of the accident’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right thigh

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Ann King, 36, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Oct 1849
Date of death: 1 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Effusion of blood into the spinal canal. Fracture of the pelvis. Fracture of the femur
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Spinal canal); Fracture (Pelvis, thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This woman threw herself out of the attic window of a two-sory house and was picked up insensible but on admission shortly after the receipt of the injury she had completely recovered her sense, but she was cold & collapsed, her pulse scarcely perceptible’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, pelvis, right lower extremity

Type of incident: Trauma / accident / suicide

Patrick Sulivan, 62, Bricklayer

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jul 1849
Date of death: 28 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Displacement of the body of the 6th from the seventh cervical vertebrae. Rupture of the interarticular cartilage between them, compression of the cord, & softening of [cord]
Disease (standardised): Displacement (Spine); Rupture (Spine); Softening (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a scalp wound 3 or 4 inches longs, extending obliquely over the left parietal bone, which had been inflicted by a fall from a scaffolding from a height of about 11ft into an area’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Charles Rowe, 12, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Sep 1849
Date of death: 6 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Extensive fracture of the pelvis. Rupture of the anterior wall of the bladder. Extravasation of urine in both thighs
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Pelvis); Rupture (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This boy was admitted in collapse at 11 1/2am having early in the morning of the preceding day received a severe contusion across the hypogastrium & left groin. It appeared that in climbing some iron railings they gave way & caused him to fall with the railings’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Mary Ann Lloyd, 37, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Oct 1849
Date of death: 8 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Abscess of the thigh. No disease of the vertebrae, hip or sacro-iliac joints
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, a thin, unhealthy-looking woman, was admitted with a very large abscess situated in the right gluteal region. It had been forming for about three weeks or a month’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

George Broadway, 25, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Oct 1849
Date of death: 12 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Fractured base of the skull, through tympanic cavity. Membrana tympani not ruptured. Blood found in tympanic cavity
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man fell from the top of an omnibus on which he was riding whilst in a state of intoxication. He was picked up insensible and in this state brought to the hospital but he died about 5 minutes after his admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Joseph Sargent, 70, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 70
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Oct 1849
Date of death: 19 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia. Operation. Intestine sloughy. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation Sloughing (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted at 12 1/2pm with a small, tense & excessively tender tumour, about the size of a pidgeon’s egg, situated in the right groin below poupart’s ligament. He stated that having felt indisposed for a day or two, he took on the evening of the 13th a dose of medicine which on the following morning acted on the bowels, and that while straining at stool the swelling made its appearance’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Letitia Joyner, 40, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Jun 1849
Date of death: 13 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Malignant tumour of the breast
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Breast)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

John Exton, 67, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Oct 1849
Date of death: 16 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Cut throat, dividing the thyrohyoidean membrane, & separating the epiglottis from its connection with the larynx
Disease (standardised): Cut (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted at 11am, with an incised wound of the throat which, it was stated, he had inflicted upon himself some time in the course of the preceding night, and when discovered in the morning, he was faint & much exhausted from loss of blood which was said by the persons who accompanied him to the hospital to have been considerable’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Suicide

Isaac Evans, 45, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1849
Date of death: 28 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Displacement of the vertebrae. Ruptured intervertebral disc. Cord compressed & softened. Fractured sternum. Congested lungs, intestines, bladder. Inflamed kidneys
Disease (standardised): Displacement (Spine); Rupture (Spine); Softening (Spinal cord); Fracture (Sternum); Congestion (Lungs, intestines, bladder); Inflammation (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man, on the morning of the 20th, fell out of a cart & pitched on the back back of his neck. He was stunned for a short time & obliged to be carried and had not since been able to stand. On the following day he was brought to the hospital palsied in the lower extremities’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Sarah Pope, 40, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Aug 1849
Date of death: 31 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Prolapsus uteri. Semi-purulent fluid in the peritoneal cavity
Disease (standardised): Prolapse (Uterus); Suppuration (Peritoneum)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with prolapsus uteri from which she suffered for several months. The greater portion of the organ was lying external to the labiae vaginae and enormously enlarged’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Elijah Marlow, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Oct 1849
Date of death: 28 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Henry Clarke, 6 months, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 6 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1849
Date of death: 31 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Burn. Serous effusion in the ventricles & beneath the arachnoid. Vascularity of the duodenum
Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Effusion (Brain); Disease (Duodenum)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This child was admitted with extensive ulceration of the inner side of the right arm and chest caused by its having, about a month before, scalded itself by upsetting a cup of hot coffee’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, larynx, trachea, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

James Smith, 63, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Nov 1849
Date of death: 20 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Extensive fracture of the pelvis. Laceration of the femoral vein
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Pelvis); Laceration (Thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, a master builder, whilst superintending the construction of a house, fell from a ladder & was precipitated from a height of nearly 40 feet into the area below. In the fall he struck against the railings which surrounded the area, from the spikes of which the punctured wound which he had received, and are described in the account of the post mortem appearances, were inflicted’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Walter Lawler, 14, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Jul 1849
Date of death: 5 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised):

Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined at the request of the friends’

Type of incident: n/a

Elizabeth Taylor, 59, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Oct 1849
Date of death: 13 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised):

Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body at the request of the friends was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

James Body, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1849
Date of death: 6 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Compound fractured left leg. Purulent blood in femoral vein. Secondary deposits in the right lung, and corresponding pleura
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Suppuration (Thigh); Deposit (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a compound fracture of the left tibia & fibula about 4 inches above the ankle, caused by a fall from a cart which he was driving whilst drunk, the wheel of which passed over his leg’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Thomas Reiner, 21, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Nov 1849
Date of death: 30 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the leg. Diffuse inflammation of the leg and thigh
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Inflammation (Leg, thigh)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of collapse with a compound comminuted fracture of the left tibia & fibula a little below the middle of the leg, which had been caused by his getting the limb entangled in some machinery’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left lower extremity

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

George Davey, 25, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1849
Date of death: 5 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Wound of the scalp. Separation of pericranium from bone. Suppuration between bone & dura mater. Trephining. Pus in arachnoid. Abscess in brain. Secondary deposits in both lungs
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Suppuration (Skull, brain); Trephining Suppuration (Brain); Abscess (Brain); Deposit (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a scalp wound a little to the right side of the middle of the forehead and another at the vertex of the head, the latter exposing the bone. He was stunned at the time of the accident but on admission he had nearly recovered himself’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Sophia Ridley, 20, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1849
Date of death: 4 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Ulceration of the cartilages and abscess of both hips. Sloughs on both hips
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Hips); Abscess (Hips); Sloughing (Hips)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with disease of the right hip joint. There was considerable fulness in the neighbourhood of the joint & exquisite pain on the slightest motion of the limb, without any alteration in its length as compared with its fellow’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, lower extremities

Type of incident: n/a

William Kent, 18, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jul 1849
Date of death: 10 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous disease of the hip. Abscess of [the hip]
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Hip); Abscess (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body at the particular desire of the friends was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

William Bryden, 53, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Oct 1849
Date of death: 27 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Fractured base of the skull 3 months’ duration, irregular deposit of new bone. False membrane on the internal surface of the dura mater
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); False membrane (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man fell down a flight of stairs while in a state of intoxication & was picked up completely insensible, having inflicted a scalp wound on the outer side of the right frontal eminence exposing the bone. The wound was dressed by a surgeon & he was put to bed, but nothing further was done. On the following day, about 12 hours after the accident, he was admitted into the hospital, still insensible’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

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