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Occupation or role: Soldier
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 01 Sep 1847
Date of death: 27 Sep 1847
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis. Pleuritis with purulent effusion. Extensive ulceration of small intestines
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura); Suppuration (Pleura); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This man who had formerly been in the Blues and had led an irregular intemperate life was admitted suffering from cough with slight anasarca of the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1849
Date of death: 28 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): ?Typhoid fever. Pericardium & surface of the heart very vascular. Ulcerations of the small intestines & portion of large. Blood extravasated beneath mucous membrane
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Disease (Heart); Ulcer (Intestines); Extravasation (Tissues)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'No distinct account could be obtained from this patient of the commencement of his illness or the nature of his symptoms. He was said to have been ill a fortnight, and he alleged that his chief suffering had been headache, and pain in the chest’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1854
Date of death: 11 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposit in lungs & kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man, who was stout & well-made, had been suffering for 3 months previous to his admission from the effects of a hurt to this back, & had passed blood in his urine for many weeks’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Aug 1858
Date of death: 8 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fever. Phthisis. Strumous tubercle of cerebrum. Arachnitis
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Tuberculosis (Lungs, brain); Arachnoiditis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'When this patient was brought to the hospital on the 4th suffering from continued fever the friends who accompanied him stated that although he had only been ill about twelve days yet that he always complained of his head & had had several fits. The bowels had been very relaxed but were subsequently constipated’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1852
Date of death: 29 Oct 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in both lungs with vomicae. Emphysema. Scrofulous deposits in the bronchial glands. Ulceration of the intestines
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung); 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: This man was said to have caught cold two months before, and to have been suffering ever since from cough and expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Sep 1846
Date of death: 24 Sep 1846
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Pulmonalis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: The body was not examined, and consequently the case is not reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Oct 1849
Date of death: 9 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Fever after cholera. Membrane of brain congested, sinuses loaded. Lungs congested. Blood fluid. Stomach & small intestine very vascular
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Cholera (Intestines); Congestion (Brain, lungs); Disease (Stomach, intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, whose general state of health was said to be good, was seized on the morning of her admission with sickness & pain of abdomen about 7am, but first complained of illness at 8 ½. She was proceeding to the house of a surgeon at 10 when seized in the street with vomiting & purging, and carried into a house from whence she was brought to hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 06 Sep 1847
Date of death: 17 Oct 1847
Disease (transcribed): Congested brain. Scrofulous tubercles in substance of 6” nerve and on medulla. Mucous membrane of kidney inflamed and bladder also. Paralysis. Extensive sloughs on sacrum.
Disease (standardised): Congestion (Brain); Tuberculosis (Brain); Inflammation (Kidney); Inflammation (Bladder); Paralysis (Central nervous system); Sloughing (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel. Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in a state of almost total insensibility, paraplegia, and paralysed also to a certain extent in his upper extremities. He was reported to have enjoyed excellent health up to seven weeks before admission, when he had a fall from a scaffold.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and spinal chord
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1854
Date of death: 20 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Ulceration & thickened walls of stomach. Symptoms not unlike cholera
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This young woman stated that she had suffered 9 weeks before her admission from pleurisy. Since that time she had not been able to eat or keep any solid food on her stomach. She was much emaciated, had not menstruated for 6 months’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 01 Sep 1847
Date of death: 23 Oct 1847
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas of head and neck. Diseased heart, old pleuritis and contraction of effused lymph. Diseased kidneys.
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Disease (Heart); Pleurisy (Pleura); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This woman was admitted suffering from excessive dyspnoea, palpitation, and anasarca with sloughing of the toes and great inflammation of the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Sep 1852
Date of death: 1 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in the lungs, peritoneum, mesenteric glands and intestinal glands
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis (Lymph nodes); Tuberculosis (Intestinal mucosa)
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: This woman presented herself with considerable enlargement of the abdomen, stating that it had been increasing in size during the previous five months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Aug 1846
Date of death: 10 Oct 1846
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis with congestion and hepatisation of lungs. Blood fluid. Atheromatous deposit on aorta. Ulceration of mucous membrane of glottis and trachea. Granular kidneys. Mesenteric glands enlarged and ulceration of bowels.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Lung); Plaque, Atherosclerotic (Arteries); Ulcer (Glottis); Ulcer (Trachea); Disease (Kidney);Enlarged (Mesenteric gland) ; Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted complaining of great debility, consequence as he stated on long continued diarrhoea accompanied by loss of appetite.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, trachea and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Nov 1850
Date of death: 9 Dec 1850
Disease (transcribed): Haemoptysis. Tubercles in lungs. Old adhesions. Fatty liver
Disease (standardised): Haemoptysis (Respiratory tract); Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient stated that she had been ailing for about a year, suffering from general weakness, and had only begun to cough about two months ago.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Jun 1860
Date of death: 3 Aug 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Harvey, Edward Robinson
Medical notes: 'This child was under treatment as out-patient at the Children’s Hospital for some weeks before his admission here. His mother had died of consumption and his brother manifested symptoms of the same complaint. Three month before he was admitted he caught hooping [whooping] cough’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1855
Date of death: 2 Aug 1855
Disease (transcribed): Rheumatic Fever
Disease (standardised): Rheumatic Fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman had been living of late in a house where the kitchen was very damp, and a week before admission she had rheumatic pain and some swelling of the legs and feet. Her hands then became painful, but she did not give up work until the day preceding her admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jan 1848
Date of death: 20 Jan 1848
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Pulmonalis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This case is not reported in consequence of the removal of the body without examination.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined at the request of friends
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Mason
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Dec 1863
Date of death: 14 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Softening of cord (myelitis). Typhus
Disease (standardised): Myelitis (Spinal cord); Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient, a healthy-looking man, whose manner was natural and intelligent, entered the hospital suffering from palsy, which was becoming general. He was by trade a mason, had never contracted syphilitic sores’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, cord, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Aug 1860
Date of death: 7 Aug 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pnemothorax (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'The mother of five children, the youngest born ten months ago. The first indications of impaired health occurred two or three years back when she began to suffer from disordered digestion, abdominal and epigastric pain with frequent vomiting and relaxed bowels’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Dec 1850
Date of death: 19 Dec 1850
Disease (transcribed): Emphysema of lungs, miliary tubercles.
Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: No history of this case was obtained. The patient had been brought into the hospital having fainted in the street.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Oct 1853
Date of death: 1 Nov 1853
Disease (transcribed): Scarlatina followed by diseased kidneys. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Disease (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
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: This child was admitted with general ansarca alleged to be of three days duration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Oct 1848
Date of death: 29 Oct 1848
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles
Medical notes: This man was so delirious when admitted that it was necessary to apply the straight waistcoat and fasten also his feet.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, neck, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: [No age stated]
Date of admission: 23 Aug 1854
Date of death: 25 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Cholera
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was brought to the hospital by some policemen, who found him in the park where he had passed his nights. He told the police he had been taken with cramps 2 hours & that he had been very sick & purged all night, passing blood in his motions’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Date of admission: 25 Aug 1854
Date of death: 26 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Cholera
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This patient, who came to the hospital at 6am, said that he had been well the day before, & that when in bed at ½ past 2 he was taken with purging & vomiting of watery fluid. These symptoms were soon followed by cramps which were most violent in the legs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Date of admission: 5 Jul 1854
Date of death: 26 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of tibia. Operation. Erysipelas
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Leg); Operation (Leg); Erysipelas (Skin)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the case is not reported’
Post mortem notes: 'The body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Oct 1849
Date of death: 15 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Diffuse inflammation of the left leg and thigh. Pus in left knee. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Leg, thigh); Suppuration (Knee); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was in the first instance admitted with rheumatism of a chronic character affecting chiefly the right knee. She had been ill 7 weeks, and the rheumatic pains had been in her shoulder & hips as well as in the knees: she had had no similar attack previously’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a