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Occupation or role: Plumber
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Date of admission: 15 Nov 1878
Date of death: 20 Nov 1878
Disease (transcribed): Diffuse peritoneal cancer. Cancerous stricture in the transverse colon. Gastrotomy
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Abomden); Constriction (Intestines); Operation (Stomach);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'One brother gouty: no other heritable disease in the family. Gonorrhoea and orchitis in 1870: disgust to fat: three or four pints of beer daily. Nothing else worthy of mark in the previous history. Malaise. From Xmas 1877, his appetite was deficient. Wasting. For about 6 mo [months] before admission he had been losing flesh. Pain and constipation. Otherwise he was quite well till 28 days before admission, where he woke with severe pain in the hypogastrium and abdomnen generally; the bowels being confined. […] About a fortnight before admission he suddenly began to vomit clear green'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, peritoneum, artificial anus, cancerous mass, stricture, liver, kidneys, spleen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Pensioner
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Date of admission: 9 Oct 1878
Date of death: 28 Nov 1878
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of the pancreas and liver
Disease (standardised): Carcinoma (Pancreas); Carcinoma (Liver);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. No heritable disease in the family. Nothing noticeable in previous history. About the middle of August, he was attacked quite suddenly with a sharp cutting pain in the loins, which persisted, though with intervals of relief. A fortnight or so later, it extended all over the hypogastrium, and gradually all over the abdomen. It now frequently alternated between there and the loins. The urine, hitherto natural, now grew darker and he began to lose flesh. On Sept [September] 27th the severity of the pain compelled him to take to bed. At the same time dull pain appeared in the epigastrium, the bowels became constipated, and he began to vomit. The last symptom continued violently for nine days'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, pancreas
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stonemaker
Gender: Female
Age: 18 months
Date of admission: 29 Nov 1878
Date of death: 4 Dec 1878
Disease (transcribed): Cutaneous burn. Congestion of the lungs and brain
Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Congestion (Lung); Congeestion (Brain);
Admitting doctor: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Not known – Child was found with its clothes on fire'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys, uterus, brain
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: Trauma/accident?

Occupation or role: Joiner
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Date of admission: 20 Nov 1878
Date of death: 11 Dec 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercular disease (fibrosis)
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Fibrosis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Two brothers died of consumption. Disgust to fat: headache and 'rising' after eggs: sick headaches. Coughs in winter from early years: otherwise healthy. Had drunk great quantities of beer, often a gallon a day: spirits seldom. Anorexia and disgust at the sight of food, about 2 yrs [years] (dates all vague). Epigastric pain after food, nearly as long: severe from the summer of 1877. Wasting for about 12 mo [months] (6 stone weight lost). Pain and swelling of knee; frequent micturition, scanty dark urine, from about Feb [February] 1878. Severe pains in the chest, about 'ten weeks'. Cough for 'eight or nine weeks' '
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Date of admission: 9 Dec 1878
Date of death: 13 Dec 1878
Disease (transcribed): Double pleurisy. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lung); Hydrothorax (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father's brothers gouty: diaphoresis habitually profuse: fat always deprived him of appetite. Otherwise healthy. He took 2-3 pints of beer daily with occasional excesses. Slight nasal catarrh, sleeplessness, and deficient appetite for about 4 weeks. Complete anorexia supervened 15 days before admn [admission]. Next day, suddenly seized with severe dyspnoea: he almost fell down, and clung to the railings for support. In the evening he began to cough and spit. Coughing seemed to 'bring on' pain in the L. [Left] flank. The symptoms remained pretty constant thenceforth: he sweats a good deal and lost flesh: no rigors'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Nurse
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Date of admission: 11 Dec 1878
Date of death: 26 Dec 1878
Disease (transcribed): Single ulcer of the stomach. Haematemesis
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Haematemesis (Intestines);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Subject to sick headaches: fat productive of nausea: nothing else remarkable in the previous history. Occasional epigastric and interscapular pain after meals for two years. The same symptom constant from the beginning of May, the pain starting half an hour after each meal and lasting almost till the next. Bowels irregular during this period (either too loose or too confined), appetite small, and the patient weak. Vomiting about once a day from July (generallly an hour after dinner) and catamenia scanty. Vomiting of '1 ½ pint' of blood seven days before admn [admission], suddenly and without warning'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach, uterus
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] footman
Gender: Male
Age: 8
Date of admission: 20 Dec 1878
Date of death: 30 Dec 1878
Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess; bronchopneumonia; cerebral congestion
Disease (standardised): Psoas abscess (Psoas muscles); Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Congestion (Brain);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'Symptoms. This child was admitted complaining of frontal headache, which was the only definite symptom during the progress of the case. (No history was obtainable). The headache persisted without variation: the temperature was an shown on the chart: the bowels acted regularly. About the 27th he began to wander in mind, and gradually sank into a state of stupor with occasional intervals of consciousness: the pupils being dilated'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, psoas abscess, spine, spinal cord, brain
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Date of admission: 31 Mar 1878
Date of death: 21 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercular phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'Admission. Admitted complaining of sore throat, with loss of voice and dyspnoea at times: slight cough. General weakness, small appetite. P. [Pulse] 120 very weak. R. [Respiration rate?] about 20: irregular. Ill nourished and pale: tremor of hands: delicate skin: long eyelashes. […] History. She was deaf and very weak: the following history only was obtained: - No heritable disease: no illness, ailment or constitutional peculiarity, except leucorrhoea for 4 yrs [years]: from birth of last child. Present symptoms of 6 mo [months] date: onset gradual: severe for 3 mo [months]. Much weakness for 1 mo [months]'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, kidneys, spleen, liver, uterus
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Date of admission: 16 Mar 1878
Date of death: 30 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid cancer of the liver
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father consumptive. Patient healthy and without constitutional peculiarity: had suffered from nothing but an attack of rheumatism previously. The catamenia ceased to appear regularly 7 mo. [months] before admn [admission]: occurring twice subsequently; the last about the middle of February. She noticed a swelling in the waist preventing her stays meeting 7 wks [weeks] before admn [admission]. At the time, she was in perfect health, but a week later languor commenced, and was so severe as to make her take to her bed. She lost flesh from that time. Pain, increasing, for about 1 mo [month]. Epistaxis twice or thrice in the 3 wks. [weeks] previous to admn [admission]. Nausea and frequent severe mucous vomiting for a fortnight. The bowels had acted regularly'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spleen, liver, lungs, gall bladder, mesenteric glands, intestines, stomach, pancreas, uterus
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Nov 1878
Date of death: 17 Mar 1879
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary phthisis (tubercular. Numerous suppurating cavities)
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Suppuration (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: In November 1878 he spat up while coughing about three tablespoonfuls of blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jun 1879
Date of death: 3 Jul 1879
Disease (transcribed): Hard cancer of the liver. Biliary obstruction
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver); Obstruction (Bile ducts)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient was suddenly attacked, five months before admission, with vomiting and faintness, followed after a few hours by severe pain in the epigastrium and right hypochrondrium which extended all over the abdomen and right side of chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, peritoneum, liver, pancreas, stomach, spleen and kidneys
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Jun 1879
Date of death: 23 Jul 1879
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophy of heart (Cirrhosis of liver)
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Tidswell, Herbert Henry
Medical notes: As far as he remembered, he was quite well until the last week in April, when he had to lay up for about four days in consequence of a tooth abscess. While laying up, he recollected applying a poultice to the chest to ease a cough and dyspnoea from which he was suffering.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and peritoneum
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plumber
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1879
Date of death: 16 Sep 1879
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular pulmonary phthisis (tapping of a vomica)
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tapping (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: This patient was transferred from University College Hospital on its closing for repairs. The patient was admitted there on June 23rd and he was then suffering from intermittent pyrexia. There was cough and free purulent expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Aug 1879
Date of death: 20 Sep 1879
Disease (transcribed): Tubercle of lungs. Emphysema (pulmonary). Hydropericardium
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung); Hydropericardium (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter
Post mortem examination performed by: Tidswell, Herbert Henry
Medical notes: He was an in-patient in this hospital in 1877 for haemoptysis. He had suffered from dyspnoea more or less for ten years, and the cough had steadily increased since 1877.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Sep 1879
Date of death: 8 Oct 1879
Disease (transcribed): Mitral stenosis. Pneumonia. Tubal nephritis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung); Nephritis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: About the end of November cough commenced gradually and increased steadily, being accompanied from the first by pain in the epigastrium and cardiac region. Her child was born February 28th 1879.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pericardium, liver and uterus
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Jun 1879
Date of death: 2 Nov 1879
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of the ovary and of the peritoneum
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Ovary); Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: Early in march, severe pains in the hypogastrium, resembling labour pains, set in and were very acute for some three weeks.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and abdomen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Policeman
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Oct 1879
Date of death: 8 Nov 1879
Disease (transcribed): Atheroma. Cardiac hypertrophy and dilatation
Disease (standardised): Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Disease (Heart)
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 quite well till Christmas 1878. He was not certain whether or not he had a slight cough, when one day after standing in the wet, he felt the cold strike his stomach, producing chilliness and a sense of tightness in the abdomen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and intestines
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1879
Date of death: 1 Dec 1879
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhous disease of head of pancreas. Biliary obstruction. Gall stones. Bronchopneumonia. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Pancreas); Obstruction (Bile ducts); Gall stone (Gall bladder); Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: She was quite well till sixty six days before admission, when she began to suffer from heaviness of the head and eyes. On the following day icterus appeared.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, duodenum, spleen, kidneys, peritoneum, ovaries, uterus, mamma, skin, suprarenals, portal glands and stomach
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Nov 1879
Date of death: 30 Nov 1879
Disease (transcribed): Enteric fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Not reported here, as no PM was made
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: No occupation
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1879
Date of death: 16 Dec 1879
Disease (transcribed): Fibroid tubercle of the lung. Old aneurysm of the aorta filled with consolidated fibrin
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Aneurysm (Aorta)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: About seven months before admission she had to give up work on account of weakness, emaciation and dyspnoea. This was referred to as bronchitis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus and spinal column
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Dec 1879
Date of death: 20 Dec 1879
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Not given here, as the body was not examined.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Dec 1879
Date of death: 26 Dec 1879
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical notes: The patient was admitted in a state of coma.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Skull, brain, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Dec 1879
Date of death: 31 Dec 1879
Disease (transcribed): Cut throat. Tracheitis and bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Wound (Throat); Tracheitis (Trachea); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, air passages, lungs, heart, aorta, liver, spleen and kidneys
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: Murder/homicide

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Nov 1878
Date of death: 19 Feb 1879
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular peritonitis and meningitis “of the convexity”
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain)
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 quite well until November 8th, when after working hard in the wet, he began towards evening to feel chilly and shiver. After going to bed he grew hot and sweated profusely.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, intestines and brain
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Feb 1879
Date of death: 21 Feb 1879
Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull. Compound fractured arm
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Arm)
Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering
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: Trauma/accident