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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Jul 1856
Date of death: 31 Aug 1856
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This man had been out of health since Christmas, chiefly complaining of sore throat. His voice became considerably affected, he had a frequent and hacking cough, and in a few weeks he began to expectorate.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx and trachea, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Barmaid
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Aug 1856
Date of death: 28 Aug 1856
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman was admitted in a very anaemic and emaciated condition. Her situation exposed her to standing a great deal in draughts of cold air and she repeatedly took cold.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jun 1857
Date of death: 13 Aug 1857
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: He was admitted with slight fever and cough.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Date of admission: 13 Apr 1854
Date of death: 7 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing sores on the nates &c. Superficial caries of the crests & other parts of the iliac bones. Slight scrofulous deposits in the lungs. Scrofulous peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Sloughing (Buttocks); Caries Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This lad was admitted under Mr H.C. Johnson [Henry Charles Johnson] complaining of pain in his hip & back, and of some slight pain in his shoulder. The pain was confined to the left side of the body’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Date of admission: 7 Jun 1854
Date of death: 5 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Sloughing scrotum. Fibrin in pleural sac. Purulent deposits (secondary?) in the lungs
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Sloughing (Scrotum); Thrombosis (Pleura); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This patient on his admission stated that he had suffered from shortness of breath for some 7 or 8 weeks which had become worse during the last fortnight & for a week past his legs had swelled’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Dec 1855
Date of death: 24 Jan 1856
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: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: An emaciated and anaemic woman who had been ill about two months with cough, loss of appetite and gradual wasting which she attributed to a cold caught after confinement ten weeks before.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and larynx
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: [No age stated]
Date of admission: 6 Aug 1854
Date of death: 6 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Scarlet fever. Sloughing tonsils. Congested kidneys
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Sloughing (Throat); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'No history could be obtained of this case from the people who brought the man to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, pharynx, abdomen, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jun 1857
Date of death: 11 Aug 1857
Disease (transcribed): Strumous tubercle in cerebellum, lungs, liver, spleen and various systems of glands
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Liver); Tuberculosis (Spleen); Tuberculosis (Lymph nodes)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: This body was born and reared at Gibraltar. He came to England six months ago and a month after his arrival he was observed to pine and become fretful and irritable.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 April 1855
Date of death: 6 Jul 1855
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: A cachectic and emaciated lad who had been ailing all winter with cough and pain in the chest. He had profuse night sweats, cough and purulent expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Jul 1858
Date of death: 12 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria. False membrane in larynx. Tracheotomy
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx); False membrane (Larynx); Tracheotomy
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 little child was admitted on the morning of the 11th with what was supposed to be croup. Her face was perfectly livid & of course her respiration was performed with very great difficulty. She had been ill three days before admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Neck, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 May 1857
Date of death: 31 Jul 1857
Disease (transcribed): Strumous tubercle of cerebellum and medulla oblongata. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: This boy came to the hospital suffering from slight fever and headache, the latter caused by his mother having given him an overdose of laudanum.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4 years 6 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Jul 1857
Date of death: 30 Jul 1857
Disease (transcribed): Pleuropneumonia, after hooping cough. Phthisis. Tubercular disease of the thymus gland, pressing on pneumogastric nerves
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Lung); Whooping cough (Respiratory tract); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Thymus gland); Compression (Vagus nerve)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The mother of this girl stated that she had been gradually wasting and losing strength for six months but without any cause so far as could be ascertained.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Saddler
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Jun 1858
Date of death: 3 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing sore throat
Disease (standardised): Sloughing (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man worked in a saddler’s shop near Leicester Square. He was well until a fortnight (ten days?) before admission, when he began to feel languid, & had rigors followed by sickness & loss of appetite. Twenty four hours later he experienced pain in the throat, especially on the right side, and this uneasiness grew worse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Jun 1855
Date of death: 18 Jun 1855
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Scrofulous deposit in Brain
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: For fifteen months of the time she had been in London she had never menstruated. The catamenia then suddenly appeared and lasted a fortnight, She had no further discharge until a fortnight before admission when she again menstruated. This was accompanied by a headache, feeling of languor and weakness. Her behaviour became more strange and she took dislike to various articles of furniture in the house.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Dec 1857
Date of death: 18 Jan 1858
Disease (transcribed): Strumous tubercles of the brain & lungs
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Gray, Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A poor, scrofulous-looking child who had been out of health two months according to the mother’s account. Probably he had always been ill-nourished & sickly’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Jul 1858
Date of death: 1 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Tubercle in bronchial glands, pressure on & ulceration of the bronchus
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs, bronchial glands); Ulcer (Bronchus)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A strumous-looking child with tumid abdomen who was brought to the hospital suffering from dyspnoea, with livid face & croupy breathing. A medical man who saw the care had opened the jugular vein without affording relief. The child was reported to have been ailing five weeks with ‘general debility’, for which cod liver oil had been prescribed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Trachea, thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clergyman’s daughter
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Jun 1858
Date of death: 26 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing sore throat
Disease (standardised): Sloughing (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This little girl was the daughter of a clergyman in the neighbourhood whose family have all had sore throat affection which has proved fatal. On Thursday the 24th three of the children were buried; on the Friday the mother sank; and the subject of the present notice died on Saturday the 26th. She had been four days visiting at Sydenham. When she left home two of the family were already dead’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 April 1855
Date of death: 16 Jun 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: For a fortnight she had suffered from violent cough, pain in the left side and shortness of breath. She perspired much at night and had lost much flesh.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx and trachea, and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1856
Date of death: 22 Jul 1856
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Scrofulous deposits in the 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: According to the account given by the friends, this girl was quite well when she came to London three weeks ago to attend a school in Sloane Street. In little more than a week she began to complain of pain in the head, was sometimes sick and used to scream in the night.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 9
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Jul 1857
Date of death: 19 Jul 1857
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not given.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Jun 1858
Date of death: 22 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Strumous peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A wretchedly emaciated & half-starved child who had been ailing, according to the account of some relatives, for about five months. His pulse was very feeble, tongue foul, skin hot & dry & the abdomen tumid’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 April 1855
Date of death: 24 May 1855
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diseased Kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: When this patient was admitted she was suffering from slight fever. She had been ill four days and complained of giddiness, want of sleep and headaches which came on towards morning.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1858
Date of death: 17 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Encephalitis. Psoas abscess
Disease (standardised): Encephalitis (Brain); Abscess (Hip)
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 woman was not able to give any clear statement of her own case. It was ascertained that she had been out of health a fortnight but had been worse for a week. She was not delirious until the night of 10th’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, spinal column

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Apr 1857
Date of death: 9 Jul 1857
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the rectum. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Rectum); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Hastings, Cecil William
Medical notes: This woman had been for many weeks under the care of the surgeon for stricture and incurable disease of the rectum.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Under butler
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Jul 1857
Date of death: 5 Jul 1857
Disease (transcribed): Arachinitis. Effusion into the ventricles. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Hastings, Cecil William
Medical notes: This man was admitted for what was at first state supposed to be delirium tremens, but no history of any intemperate habits could be obtained.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a