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Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 3
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 May 1913
Date of death: 12 Jun 1913
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous meningitis. Generalized tuberculosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain); Tuberculosis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, Cyril
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No necropsy
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Aug 1851
Date of death: 4 Aug 1851
Disease (transcribed): Wound of the abdomen above the umbilicus & piercing the ileum about 14 inches from ileocaecal valve. Escape of foecal matter & peritonitis. Old pleurisy on the right side. Hypertrophied heart
Disease (standardised): Wound (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Pleurisy (Lungs); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man was a butcher, on the evening of admission he was romping with another butcher who had his knife in his had at the time. He ran against the knife accidentally. On admission (about 10 o’clock in the evening) a wound was discovered, just above the umbilicus’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 69
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Jul 1853
Date of death: 7 Aug 1853
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Ulceration of the mucous membrane of the trachea and intestines
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Trachea); 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 woman was admitted in a very low and emaciated state and said that her illness began three weeks before Christmas with sore throat and cough, with a sensation of pinching and shooting in the throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Date of admission: 19 Jun 1854
Date of death: 23 Jun 1854
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen)
Admitting doctor: Wilson, James Arthur
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'A woman apparently in perfect health, who could assign no cause whatever for her attack. The catamenia [menstruation] had occurred in regular time & manner about a fortnight ago. She was attacked about midnight of the 14th with severe pain in the abdomen, beginning at the lower part & spreading all over it. Towards morning sickness set in’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Jun 1860
Date of death: 13 Jun 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: 'This man, who had been a coachman, stated that excepting a rather severe cold with cough, two months ago, he had good health till within a fortnight of admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax (‘the rest of the body was, by the desire of his friends, left unexamined’)

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Jun 1873
Date of death: 28 Jun 1873
Disease (transcribed): Scalatina. Cervical buboes. Nephritis
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Bubo (Lymph nodes); Nephritis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This man was quite well up to three weeks before admission when sore throat commenced with general feverish symptoms.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and glands
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1870
Date of death: 5 Jun 1870
Disease (transcribed): Miliary tubercles in Peritoneum. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man stated that he had been ill for a month with pains in all his joints, a slight cough, and, for three weeks, with dropsy which he had first noticed in his ankles.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Waiter
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Jan 1898
Date of death: 13 May 1898
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of intestines, lungs
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Intestines); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Collard, Frederic Stuartson
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: He appeared to have had an abdominal swelling, which diminished much in size under treatment, but returned as soon as he was able to get about.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, abdomen, stomach, mesenteric glands, douglas’ pouch, suprarenals, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder and pancreas
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Aug 1849
Date of death: 13 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Stone in the bladder. Dilatation of the ureters & pelves of the kidneys. Inflammation of the lining membrane of the bladder, ureters, pelves of both kidneys, with abcesses
Disease (standardised): Calculus (Bladder); Disease (Ureters, kidneys); Inflammation (Bladder, ureters, kidneys); Abscess (Bladder, ureters, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This girl stated that she had been taken ill 3 weeks ago with severe pain in the back, and stiffness in the knee-joints, with straining & scalding in passing water. She had a shivering fit last week and five days ago pain came on in the lower part of the abdomen and for the last 2 or 3 days the bowels had been relaxed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 May 1860
Date of death: 13 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A gardener, accustomed to working in a hot-house. He had good health, excepting occasional dyspepsia, until 3 weeks before admission when he began to suffer from cough with scanty expectoration, never of blood. Latterly he had night sweats with loss of appetite’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Date of admission: 22 May 1878
Date of death: 14 Jun 1878
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercular phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Subject to diarrhoea: dyspeptic for 3 yrs [years]: diaphoresis is habitually profuseL accustomed to take 4-5 pints of beer daily: spirits only occasionally. About 10 yrs [years] before admission, he was laid up 13 weeks during the latter part of the summer with debility and pains in the R. [Right] side and elsewhere, which his medical attendant called 'dyspepsia': During the early part of this time he found that his perspiration had altogether ceased. About a month after the cessation, he commenced gradually to cough: since then he had been free from cough only in the hot weather. It usually attacked him in paroxysms of half and hour's duration, in the morning after going out of doors and in the cool of the evening. He had also suffered from dyspnoea, which was severe in hot weather, and from frequent attacks of chilliness and shivering, except in hot weather. For 3 yrs [years] the paroxysms of cough had ended in free expectoration. During the same period he had suffered from palpitation. He lost flesh from Xmas 1877'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Bricklayer
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1907
Date of death: 31 May 1907
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous pyonephrosis (L). Tuberculous disease of cervix uteri and of abdominal glands. Cystitis. [L. lumbar nephrotomy]
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Kidney); Nephrosis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Uterus); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Cystitis (Bladder); Nephrotomy (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Turner, George Robertson
Medical examination performed by: Evans, John Howell
Post mortem examination performed by: Higgs, Frederick William
Medical notes: On March 14th 1906 Dr Stabb performed a left salpingo-oophorectomy with the result of a primary temporary improvement.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, bronchial glands, lungs, larynx, trachea, thyroid, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, suprarenals, liver, bladder, uterus, ovaries and tubes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 May 1917
Date of death: 12 Jun 1917
Disease (transcribed): Suppuration in left maxillary antrum. Suppurative frontal sinusitis. Cerebral abscess in right frontal lobe. Septic meningitis. Pyocephalus & purulent encephalitis
Disease (standardised): Suppuration (Nose); Sinusitis (Sinuses); Abscess (Brain); Meningitis (Central nervous system); Pyocephalus (Brain); Encephalitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Barwell, Harold Shuttleworth
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Ellison, J.
Medical notes: 'Left maxillary antrum was opened a month ago at the Golden Square Hospital. Three weeks ago a second had been formed which was opened through the mouth’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium, skull

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 May 1910
Date of death: 16 May 1910
Disease (transcribed): Dilated heart with anti-mortem thrombosis. Infarction of kidneys. Nephritis. Embolism of aorta. (Diphtheria)
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Thrombosis (Heart); Infarction (Kidney); Nephritis (Kidney); Embolism (Aorta); Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Collier, James Stansfield
Medical examination performed by: Higgs, Frederick William
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: The patient had a cold with swellings in the neck two weeks before admission. She had vomited daily during the second week.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, suprarenals, bladder and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jul 1844
Date of death: 27 Jul 1844
Disease (transcribed): Old Arachinitis. Ventricles of brain distended. Softening of fornix and septum lucidum and of anterior lobes of brain. Tubercles in lungs. Old adhesions and recent pleurisy.
Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain ); Softening (Brain ); Tuberculosis (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: The patient was admitted into the Hospital complaining of a severe pain in the head which he had had about a week, and had been under treatment for it. The mouth and breath bore evidences of mercurial action.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 May 1870
Date of death: 5 Jun 1870
Disease (transcribed): Enteric Fever. Ulceration and perforation of the large intestine. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Typhoid Fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestine ); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This girl had been a patient of the Fever Hospital for measles and on her discharge was sent to the servants home. While there she was seized with pain and aching in the limbs and diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1899
Date of death: 8 May 1899
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung);
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Powell, Llewellyn
Post mortem examination performed by: Belcher Hickman, H. R.
Medical notes: 'Patient was admitted for haemoptysis having coughed up about ½ a pint the days before admission. He had suffered from slight attacks of haemoptysis for some years and had been attending Brompton Chest Hospital since 1895. His father died of bronchitis. He had always been 'delicate' but had had no definite illness'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1841
Date of death: 7 Oct 1841
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the back of the skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Babington, George Gisborne
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 May 1865
Date of death: 25 May 1865
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: The patient, already at the point of death, was in the Hospital a year ago with cough then of two months duration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Butler
Gender: Female
Age: 13 months
Date of admission: 1 Jun 1906
Date of death: 13 Jun 1906
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Tuberculous);
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Golla, Frederick Lucien
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: 'Previous History – Always been healthy. F.H. [Family History] Father phthisical. Three other children healthy. P.I. [Present Illness] Few months before admission had suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting. Pains in abdomen. Getting thinner'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Carman
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 May 1905
Date of death: 3 Jun 1905
Disease (transcribed): Acute glanders
Disease (standardised): Glanders (Respiratory system, skin)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Symes-Thompson, Henry Edmund
Post mortem examination performed by: Jones, Lawrence
Medical notes: 'On May 18th, the woman was seized with pain in the left chest, without cough (in the percordial area and scapular region): this was said to be ‘pleurisy’, but only lasted one day. On May 20th, pain was felt in the lower left thigh, ‘dragging, aching and gnawing’ ‘
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium, joints

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Roadman
Age: 9 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Apr 1901
Date of death: 2 May 1901
Disease (transcribed): Confluent bronchopneumonia. Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Stokes, Whitley Bland
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: The patient was admitted for lobar pneumonia.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx and heart
Type of incident: n/a