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Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1852
Date of death: 10 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in lungs and kidneys and under the pleural membrane and arachnoid membrane
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Pleura); Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A Welsh girl who had not long been in service in London, she was admitted in such a wandering state of mind that she was unable to give any distinct amount of herself.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1852
Date of death: 4 Jan 1853
Disease (transcribed): Imperfect paraplegia. Scrofulous deposits in the lungs, bronchial glands, peritoneal cavity and spleen. Ulcerated intestines
Disease (standardised): Paraplegia (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Bronchial glands); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis (Spleen); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: He was admitted in a condition of imperfect paraplegia which commenced after severe exposure.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gentleman's servant
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1853
Date of death: 1 Apr 1853
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Cut throat. Epileptic fit. Slight disease of the kidneys. Softening of central parts of the brain
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Wound (Throat); Epilepsy (Brain); Disease (Kidney); Softening (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been in the habit of drinking to excess, and being discharged by his master, he cut his throat with a razor while in a fit of delirium tremens.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: Suicide

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 May 1853
Date of death: 12 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Head symptoms. Diseased kidneys. Enormously dilated ventricle of brain. Enlarged heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: He was admitted in a state of great confusion of mind with tremulous movements and a large oedematous tongue, having the appearance of salivation.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 59
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Aug 1853
Date of death: 17 Aug 1853
Disease (transcribed): Comminuted fracture of the cranium. Bruising of the brain. Laceration of the meningeal arteries
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Bruising (Brain); Laceration (Arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Wyndowe, Samuel Jardine
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This patient was brought in dying.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and left hand
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Apr 1853
Date of death: 11 Dec 1853
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the liver. Scrofulous deposit in the lungs. Peculiar deposit of recent fibrin in the arachnoid cavity
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver); Tuberculosis (Lung); Fibrin (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This patient had suffered more or less from sickness and vomiting during two years past.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1853
Date of death: 27 Dec 1853
Disease (transcribed): Epileptic attacks. Peculiar cyst on surface of the brain producing atrophy of convolutions
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Cysts (Brain); Atrophy (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A person of rather diminutive size who stated that she had been suffering five or six months from fits of some sort in which she stated that she was entirely unconscious.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Date of admission: 20 Jan 1854
Date of death: 22 Jan 1854
Disease (transcribed): Fractured cervical vertebrae. Softening of spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Vertebrae); Softening (Spinal cord)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This was an adult labourer, a man of great size & weight, who was admitted at about ½ past 2 o’clock in the afternoon, having fallen from a scaffold a short time previously, a height of 10 feet, striking himself against some obstacles in his descent and lighting upon his head, as was conjectured from an abrasion on the scalp’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Grocer
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Date of admission: 11 Jan 1854
Date of death: 29 Jan 1854
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the spinal cord. Engorged lungs. Bronchitis. Diffuse areola. Inflammation of the arm
Disease (standardised): Softening (Spinal cord); Disease (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung); Areola (Skin); Inflammation (Arm);
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'Rather a stout man of full habit, who had been in the enjoyment of very good health until 3 months ago, having been in business as a grocer & retired about 12 months since. He was now living in Chelsea, and had returned from town. Outside an omnibus on a Saturday evening when he had been warm with walking, he felt very chilly & experienced much pain in the back. Next day he experienced great difficulty in moving’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spinal column, abdomen, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Date of admission: 1 Mar 1854
Date of death: 5 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Injury from a fall. Fracture of the jaw & femur & radius. Extravasation of blood into arachnoid sac
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Thigh); Fracture (Arm); Extravasation (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had fallen off a building (Brompton Hospital), a height of about 40 feet’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Fractured radius & femur, cranium

Type of injury: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Date of admission: 8 Mar 1854
Date of death: 11 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Effusion of fluid into cerebral ventricles. Softening of the central white structures of brain
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Brain); Softening (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This girl had been suffering from pain in the head for a fortnight before her admission. She had had no shivering or pain elsewhere. No cause for its occurrence could be assigned. She imagined it to be nervous headache, from which she had formerly suffered’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Date of admission: 26 Apr 1854
Date of death: 3 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Albumenous urine. Epileptic convulsions
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Kidney); Epilepsy (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Post mortem notes: 'This body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1854
Date of death: 20 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Scrofulous meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient reported that she had been suffering from headache 9 months, coming in paroxysms, and accompanied with flushing of the face. On the 9th inst she had observed double vision’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Domestic servant
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Date of admission: 11 Oct 1854
Date of death: 21 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. False membrane in arachnoid sac owing to extravasated blood, the result of a blow on the head. Atheromated cerebral arteries
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); False membrane (Brain); Blow (Head); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Wilson, James Arthur
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had been a domestic servant, & appeared to have been of dissipated habits. He was admitted under the care of Mr Hawkins [Caesar Hawkins], on account of a stricture of the urethra, which had existed for some years & had been ascribed originally to an attack of gonorrhoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Dec 1854
Date of death: 14 Jan 1855
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in the Brain. Softening of the brain.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Softening (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Some days after admission it was learned that the patient had had a fit about a fortnight before in which he had remained unconscious for three days. He had been ill altogether some five months, but of his symptoms, nothing was accurately known.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Jan 1855
Date of death: 15 Feb 1855
Disease (transcribed): Paralysis following a ‘fit’. Extravasation of blood into substance of the brain. Remains of old extravasations
Disease (standardised): Paralysis (Central Nervous System); Extravasation (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Nothing of his previous state could be learnt except that on the preceding day he had been seized with a fit and had subsequently lost the use of his right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Feb 1855
Date of death: 6 Mar 1855
Disease (transcribed): Red and grey hepatization of lungs. Diseased Heart and Kidneys. Growth from the Dura Mater
Disease (standardised): Disease (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Tumour (Meninges)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was the mother of thirteen children, and had been exposed to cold and damp in the low parts of Rotherhithe. Three weeks before Christmas her breathing became very short, accompanied with violent cough. She had been subject for six years to palpitations, but had never suffered from any difficulty of breathing.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1855
Date of death: 2 Jun 1855
Disease (transcribed): Paraplegia. Softening of spinal chord.
Disease (standardised): Paraplegia (Central Nervous System); Softening (Spinal Cord)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was admitted into the Hospital on account of incontinence of urine. He had been complaining for about a fortnight of pain in the loins, numbness and loss of power in the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, cranium and spinal column
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jun 1855
Date of death: 1 Jul 1855
Disease (transcribed): Arachinitis
Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Meninges)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Sep 1855
Date of death: 23 Sep 1855
Disease (transcribed): Paralysis from lead. Fibrin in Pericardial and Pleural sacs
Disease (standardised): Paralysis (Central Nervous System); Thrombosis (Heart); Thrombosis (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had suffered from more than one attack of colic. Three weeks before his admission he had an attack of acute rheumatism, resulting from exposure to severe cold. He complained when first seen of shortness of breath, pain in the right side, cough and thin watery expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Dec 1855
Date of death: 9 Jan 1856
Disease (transcribed): Cysts occupying the left corpus striatum
Disease (standardised): Cysts (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been paralysed ever since he was seven years old and his right arm was deformed. He came in to the Hospital complaining of retention of urine.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Dec 1855
Date of death: 23 Jan 1856
Disease (transcribed): Paralysis of long standing. Large ulcers on both legs.
Disease (standardised): Paralysis (Central Nervous System); Ulcer (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was admitted in a very bad state of health. She had suffered for about a year and a half with paralysis of the lower extremities, but applied for admission on account of ulcers on each leg.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Billiard maker
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Jan 1856
Date of death: 10 Feb 1856
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in Lungs and Brain
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man stated that whilst in the room at work he was seized with a fit, apparently of an epileptic character. He remained unconscious for about ten minutes. Six weeks later he had another fit, and another three months before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, cranium and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Feb 1856
Date of death: 23 Feb 1856
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: No history could be obtained from this patient, but according to his friends he had been ill a year with pain in the head. Four days before his admission he had a fit.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Mar 1856
Date of death: 13 Apr 1856
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Ear. Abscess of the Brain
Disease (standardised): Disease (Ear); Abscess (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had only left the Hospital about seven or eight days after recovering from an acute rheumatism. On going out he caught cold and the pain returned, confining itself to the smaller joints and assuming the character of rheumatic gout.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a