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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1850
Date of death: 8 Jun 1850
Disease (transcribed): Tubercles and vomicae in lungs. Diseased kidneys. Albuminuria. Granular liver
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney); Albuminuria (Kidney); 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 having been some years subject to winter cough, he had been seized five days before Christmas with a more severe attack than usual accompanied by haemoptysis, and had never been well since.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: [No age stated]
Date of admission: n/a
Date of death: n/a
Disease (transcribed): Abscess of thigh; early hip joint disease. Amyloid degeneration of organs
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Leg); Disease (Hip); Amyloidosis (Indeterminate);
Admitting doctor: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abscess, hip joint, thyroid gland, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, uterus, kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Feb 1890
Date of death: 7 Mar 1890
Disease (transcribed): Diabetes mellitus (phthisis)
Disease (standardised): Diabetes mellitus (Pancreas); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Bennett, Lawrence Henry
Medical notes: In September 1889 he began to suffer from thirst and loss of flesh. He consulted a doctor, and in November it was discovered that the had diabetes.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stablewoman
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Dec 1884
Date of death: 8 Apr 1885
Disease (transcribed): Caries of spine. Tubercular meningitis
Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Margerison, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical notes: This patient was originally under the care of Dr Wadham in the medical floor suffering from rheumatic pains. He was sent to Wimbledon where the pains became fixed and localised in the middle of the back.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, brain and spine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Apr 1887
Date of death: 9 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Cerebro-spinal meningitis (no tubercle)
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient had been healthy since birth and was of a healthy, non-tubercular family'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1894
Date of death: 1 Apr 1894
Disease (transcribed): Malignant stricture of Sigmoid flexure. Perforation of intestine. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Intestines); Perforation (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Fyffe, William Kington
Medical notes: 'There was little of note in the family history of the patient except that a brother seems to have died of 'cancer of the stomach'- She herself had had acute rheumatism twice when young and twice had suffered from pain in the right side and difficulty breathing, once twenty years ago, and again six weeks ago. For nine months she had had persistent diarrhoea'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Feb 1858
Date of death: 20 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
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: Clerk
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Feb 1889
Date of death: 30 Mar 1889
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis and haemoptysis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Haemoptysis (Respiratory tract)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Medical notes: The man suffered from cough for two years before his admission. He first had slight haemoptysis three months before he came to the hospital.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach, intestines, brain, larynx and trachea
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Packer
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Mar 1917
Date of death: 5 Apr 1917
Disease (transcribed): Empyema. Multiple abscesses of leg & arm. Septicaemia. Pyorrhoea alveolaris
Disease (standardised): Empyema (Lungs); Abscess (Leg, arm); Sepsis (Systemic); Periodontitis (Mouth)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, George Arthur
Medical examination performed by: O’Flynn, Elizabeth
Post mortem examination performed by: Shepherd, Alan
Medical notes: 'Patient came up to hospital complaining of pain in right shoulder of three days’ duration. There was nothing else of importance in her previous history’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 7 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1909
Date of death: 26 Mar 1909
Disease (transcribed): Congenital syphilis. Septic rash on buttocks. Marasmus
Disease (standardised): Congenital syphilis (Systemic); Sepsis (Systemic); Exanthema (Buttocks); Protein-energy malnutrition (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Fox, Wilfred Stephen
Medical examination performed by: Higgs, Frederick William
Post mortem examination performed by: Torrens, James Aubrey
Medical notes: The patient had been under treatment was an out patient for marasmus and congenital syphilis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys and suprarenals
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Apr 1846
Date of death: 26 Apr 1846
Disease (transcribed): Ulceration of small intestine, cicatrisation and contraction of the gut, reducing its canal to the size of a small quill. Dilatation of gut above. Stercoraceous vomiting. Tubercular and cretaceous deposit in mesenteric glands, but no where else.
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Intestines); Cicatrix (Gastrointestinal tract); Contraction (Gastrointestinal tract); Fecal vomiting (Intestines); Tuberculosis (Mesenteric gland); Cretaceous deposit (Mesenteric gland)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: This patient presented himself for admission stating that his bowels had not acted for nine days, and that he felt heavy and unwell.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Railway porter
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Apr 1860
Date of death: 11 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A railway porter. He had pretty good health until 10 weeks before admission, when he began to suffer from cough and expectoration, never of blood. He had occasional bleeding at the nose during his illness’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 May 1871
Date of death: 18 May 1871
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Gouty deposit in great toe joint. Phthisis. Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Gout (Toe); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Peritonitis (Abdomen)

Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This man, who for the last nine years had suffered from frequent attacks of gout was seized five weeks before he came in with cough & much soreness of the throat. He had lost flesh very much. There had been no haemoptysis’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, bones, joints

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1877
Date of death: 18 Mar 1877
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: The case was not given, as the body was not examined.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 May 1849
Date of death: 19 May 1849
Disease (transcribed): Abscess in right kidney. Circumscribed abscess in peritoneal cavity. Left kidney enormously hypertrophied. Tuberculosis of the peritoneum. Extensive peritonitis. Scrotal hernia
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Kidneys, peritoneum); Disease (Kidneys); Tuberculosis (Peritoneum); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Hernia (Scrotum)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert and Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a scrotal hernia of the left side of 17 years’ duration, never wholly reducible. He had always worn a truss which had prevented the hernia increasing in size until the 3rd of May, when he observed it rather larger than usual, but free form pain. In the evening of the 3rd he had vomiting once, & the bowels acted scantily on the following morning; & then, not again till the evening of the 7th, by injection’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Waiter
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Mar 1876
Date of death: 3 Apr 1876
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Tubercle
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This man said he had been in good health until a fortnight before his admission, at which time he had a tooth abscess which was followed by some suppuration and several rigors.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 11 months
Date of admission: 22 Mar 1904
Date of death: 29 Mar 1904
Disease (transcribed): Confluent broncho-pneumonia. Pleurisy. Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Lung); Meningitis (Brain);
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Pearson, Sidney Vere
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted for measles. Broncho-pneumonia soon arose and became severe, finally symptoms of meningitis made their appearance, the infant succumbing on the tenth day of his illness. There had been slight otorrhoea for several weeks before the measles started. The onset of the latter was ushered in by a fit. There was much high fever'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Waiter
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1905
Date of death: 18 Apr 1905
Disease (transcribed): Chronic pulmonary tuberculosis. Pulmonary aneurism
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Aneurysm (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Symes-Thompson, Henry Edmund
Post mortem examination performed by: Jex-Blake, Arthur John
Medical notes: 'Patient was seen in the out-patient department for the first time two days before his death. He was then pale, cadaverous, rather cyanosed, not short of breath, weak’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Shop assistant
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Apr 1918
Date of death: 6 May 1918
Disease (transcribed): Ulcerative colitis. Perforation. Commencing peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Colitis (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Collier, James Stansfield and Ewart, George Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Ingleby, Helen
Post mortem examination performed by: Claremont, Hetty Ethelberta
Medical notes: '6 months ago she passed bright red blood after the motions, which were accompanied by pain in the lower part of the back. In the course of 2-3 months this got better, but the abdomen used to feel full, and as though it were ‘working about inside’. Bowel costive all the time’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 51
Date of admission: 9 Apr 1920
Date of death: 20 Apr 1920
Disease (transcribed): Fibro caseous tubercle of lungs. Oedema of brain
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Oedema (Brain);
Admitted under the care of: Back, Ivor Gordon
Medical examination performed by: L.C.H.
Post mortem examination performed by: Neighbour, Philip Morgan
Medical notes: 'Pt [Patient] admitted on Apr. 9 when he had sustained a fracture through the middle of the thigh by a fall. This was put up in an Horgen's splint. A history of his being an O.P. [Out-patient] at Brompton was obtained and his sputum contained TB [tuberculosis]'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, pleurae, lungs, larynx, trachea, heart, valves, vessels, pericardium, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, prostate, adrenals, intestines, stomach

Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1842
Date of death: 30 Dec 1842
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular deposit in lungs, kidneys, ureter and Bladder and back part of urethra.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Kidney, ureter, bladder, urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Jan 1857
Date of death: 7 May 1857
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous abscesses
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Indeterminate); Abscess (Indeterminate)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Wintle, Frederic J.W.
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined no report of the case is given.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: This body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1859
Date of death: 7 May 1859
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of finger. Tetanus
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Finger); Tetanus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Therefore the case is not given
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: Trauma/accident