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Occupation or role: Cabman
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Sep 1864
Date of death: 25 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Peritonitis (Peritoneum)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'A large-framed man, deeply jaundiced, a cabdriver representing himself as of very sober habits. He had noticed the yellow colour of his skin for two weeks and had formerly had an attack of jaundice lasting for two months at the beginning of the year’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Dec 1849
Date of death: 27 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Empyema. Lung condensed. Old pleuritic aches on opposite side
Disease (standardised): Empyema (Lungs); Pleurisy (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 stated that his illness had commenced between 5 & 6 weeks previously, on the evening of a Sundau with pain in the right side & cough. He had enjoyed good health previously. The pain in the side had not latterly been so severe but the cough had continued with expectoration scanty at first but gradually increasing in quantity and latterly becoming very foul and offensive’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Sep 1864
Date of death: 28 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Tubercle of brain. Epilepsy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Epilepsy (Brain)
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, who was dark-haired and fairly nourished, complained on his admission of a number of vague symptoms of which diarrhoea was the most definite. He had had several fits described as of an epileptic character, and supposed due to a fall he had in the spring. In manner he was dull and stupid and nothing could be made of him’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Date of admission: 2 Sep 1854
Date of death: 10 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Chlorosis. Phlebitis. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Anaemia (Systemic); Phlebitis (Blood vessels); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: n/a
Physician: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Post mortem notes: n/a

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Dec 1848
Date of death: 27 Dec 1848
Disease (transcribed): Scarlet fever. Purpura. Haemorrhage from the bowels.
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Purpura (Skin); Haemorrhage (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: It appeared that this person, having been ailing more or less for a fortnight, was seized with shivering and an eruption had appeared with a sore throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, oesophagus and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Dec 1853
Date of death: 21 Dec 1853
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
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 when admitted was in a very low and depressed state, and almost moribund. He had been suffering for some time from cough and spitting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Oct 1864
Date of death: 25 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (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 woman was said to have been ill a week with pains in the [?] and violent diarrhoea. The latter symptom had now subsided. She was now rather venous in complexion, with a perplexed, rather wild expression. She answered questions readily but the answers were not trustworthy […] It was learnt from her friends that six weeks before admission she had had a fright and that from that time she had often complained of headache and failing memory’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1864
Date of death: 26 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus
Disease (standardised): 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 stableman, whose previous history and habits could not be learnt, was said to have been ill a week on admission. His skin was now covered with an abundant typhus mottling, it was dry and very hot’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Oct 1864
Date of death: 28 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus fever
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not entered’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1858
Date of death: 4 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Arachnitis. Softening of the brain. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain); Softening (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with what appeared to be rheumatic pain in the head, knees & back. It came on 10 weeks ago without any assignable cause. His manner was dull & sluggish & his expression heavy’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Date of admission: 23 Aug 1854
Date of death: 2 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Cholera
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This woman who was suckling her child, was attacked in the morning of the 23rd at 11am with purging, vomiting, & cramps, and she was in a condition of considerable collapse at the time of her admission 4 pm’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Oct 1864
Date of death: 4 Nov 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus fever
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'The case is omitted’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1864
Date of death: 9 Nov 1864
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
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 woman, who had travelled from Reigate for the sake of treatment in London, was on admission in a very exhausted state [….] According to her own story she had been quite healthy till six months before when slight cough commenced. She had not laid up until the birth of her child (her first), who was now three months old and had been weaned two months’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, veins

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housekeeper
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Sep 1864
Date of death: 10 Nov 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic); Bronchitis (Lung)
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 was a spare and rather fragile woman, admitted in the first instance with sore throat and the rash of scarlatina. Recovering from this with no bad symptoms, very slight desquamation of skin taking place and the urine at no time containing albumen, she was about to be dismissed after a residence of thirty days when she caught the disease of which she died, probably from a patient in the bed next hers’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Nov 1855
Date of death: 17 Nov 1855
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Adherent Pericardium
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Adherent (Heart)
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 woman had been an inpatient last August. She had perceived swelling of the abdomen since January. In May she caught cold and suffered from rheumatism and the catamenia suddenly stopped.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Nov 1859
Date of death: 4 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Scarlatina
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: ‘As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: n/a

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Date of admission: 20 Sep 1854
Date of death: 25 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Cholera
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man had had some diarrhoea on the 17th, supposed to be in consequence of eating some fruit at dinner, but he had felt pretty well until the afternoon of his admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Nov 1858
Date of death: 21 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A footman who was admitted in an emaciated state with an anxious countenance & cachectic appearance. The pulse was frequent, soft & small. He complained of pain in the abdomen’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1854
Date of death: 29 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Cholera
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted in the collapsed stage of cholera. She had been attacked by diarrhoea & vomiting on the 25th at 5pm’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Oct 1864
Date of death: 24 Nov 1864
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1860
Date of death: 28 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Tumour of the brain. Strumous disease of kidney, lungs &c
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Brain); Tuberculosis (Kidneys, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had been a carpenter. He was at first a surgical patient, complaining of pain in the right knee and hip, which was severe enough to prevent his walking, though not to confine him to bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, right hip

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1864
Date of death: 25 Nov 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'A fine-looking girl, who lived in service at Wilton Place & had been ill a week, she complained very much of her head, her bowels had operated 3 or 4 times today’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Nov 1855
Date of death: 7 Dec 1855
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
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 patient stated that his general health had been tolerably good but that the previous winter had reduced him very much. Eleven weeks before admission he began to cough and felt great tightness across the chest and shortness of breath. He later spit a considerable quantity of blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Feb 1851
Date of death: 13 Feb 1851
Disease (transcribed): Ulcer of stomach, perforation. Old adhesion to liver. Recent peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Perforation (Stomach); Adhesions (Liver); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan and Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This girl was walking with her mistress across the park on the evening of her admission, when she was seized with violent pain in the abdomen, and was immediately brought to the hospital with symptoms of acute peritonitis. It was stated that she had been out of health for 2 or 3 weeks, suffering from pain occasionally in the stomach attended with sickness’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1854
Date of death: 18 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Fever after cholera
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines); Fever (Systemic)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This boy was brought into the hospital in a moribund state, with a report that he had had a severe attack of cholera, from which he was supposed to be recovering’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a