Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1851
Date of death: 23 Mar 1851
Disease (transcribed): Laryngitis, supposed to have origin in the presence of a button accidentally ‘swallowed’ three days previous to earliest symptoms. Laryngotomy resorted to 14 days after commencement of the attack. Inflammation of mucous membrane about the glottis & of larynx was found, & also bronchitis & early stage of pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Laryngitis (Larynx); Laryngotomy (Larynx); Inflammation (Glottis, larynx); Bronchitis (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'The following history was given by the child’s mother. On the 5th of March, while playing with a small button of the size of a fourpenny piece, he put it in his mouth & it was supposed to have slipped down his throat. He had been previously in good health & continued so for three days after the occurrence. On the 8th there was difficulty of breathing coming on at intervals, with convulsions, foaming at the mouth & lividity of countenance’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Trachea, larynx, abdomen (‘the foreign body which was sought for was not found in any part of the body’)
Type of incident: Trauma / accident?