Occupation or role: Married Age: 51 Gender: Female Date of admission: 1 Jun 1864 Date of death: 3 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of aorta Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Blood vessels) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'On this woman’s first admission into the hospital in November ‘63, the following note was made. A spare woman with a full face and congested veins. In bed she assumes no particular posture, but is unable to lie on the right side for pain’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Sternum and ribs, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: General servant Age: 18 Gender: Female Date of admission: 30 Mar 1864 Date of death: 1 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Disease of knee joint Disease (standardised): Disease (Knee) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: 'Always enjoyed good health and performed domestic work as a housemaid till 24 March, when in the evening without any previous warning, her right knee became very painful, and the next morning she found it was much swollen’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, knee
Occupation or role: Stableman Age: 37 Gender: Male Date of admission: 24 Feb 1864 Date of death: 5 Jun 1864 Disease (transcribed): Disease of heart Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This patient was a stableman of sober habits, and was first admitted on the 2nd of December 1863, At that time he stated that for two months he had felt pains about the limbs, especially in the ankles, which were wont to swell at night’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Stoker Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 May 1864 Date of death: 29 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound. Death from nervous shock (?) Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Shock Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'This patient was stoker on an engine proceeding from Victoria Station, when looking back his head came in collision with one of the arches of a bridge & he was knocked off the engine’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Porter Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 May 1864 Date of death: 27 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Diabetes Disease (standardised): Diabetes mellitus (Pancreas) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This man, who had been formerly under treatment in the hospital, was now admitted in a dying state, too prostrate to give much account of himself. He had a wearied, painful expression’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 May 1864 Date of death: 29 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This patient was first admitted on the 20th April, complaining of cough & dyspnoea, but without dropsy. He had been troubled in this way for five months. He was a labouring man of pale, pasty complexion’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 55 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 May 1864 Date of death: 30 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This patient was on his admission suffering extreme dyspnoea. He had been troubled with cough continuously for six months, attended with profuse spitting, and had wasted rapidly’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 26 Gender: Female Date of admission: 18 May 1864 Date of death: 21 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart, hypertrophy, dilatation Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This patient, who on admission was breathing with great difficulty with orthopnea and had considerable oedema of the legs and some ascites, dated his illness from one attack of rheumatism two years back, his previous health havivng been perfect. He had been a labourer employed in ground work’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Painter Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Apr 1864 Date of death: 23 Mar 1864 Disease (transcribed): Disease of heart and kidneys Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'A painter, a large man with a sallow face, was admitted in consequence of palpitation with dyspnoea and some cough, without any oedema’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Errand boy Age: 14 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 May 1864 Date of death: 23 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Separation of sutures of skull with fracture Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William Medical notes: 'This patient was working on a scaffold this afternoon, when he slipped & fell about 14 feet, striking the back of his head, he was insensible when picked up’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Carpenter Age: 64 Gender: Female Date of admission: 20 Jan 1864 Date of death: 22 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This was a case of a miserable, emaciated old man having the withered and wrinkled face of a mummy, who for four months lingered out his existence in the hospital dying of phthisis’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Needlewoman Age: 38 Gender: Female Date of admission: 13 May 1864 Date of death: 16 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Pericarditis Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pericarditis (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted suffering severe dyspnoea, the act of breathing being acutely painful to her. She was a dark, spare person of melancholy aspect, a needlewoman. She attributed her illness to having slept with her window open two weeks before’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Widow Age: 40 Gender: Female Date of admission: 11 May 1864 Date of death: 17 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Supra-renal disease. Bronzing of skin Disease (standardised): Disease (Adrenal glands); Bronzing (Skin) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Skin, ‘skin under microscope’, head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 54 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 May 1864 Date of death: 18 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Operation for femoral hernia Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation (Thigh) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: 'Had suffered from femoral hernia for twelve months, but had never worn a truss. On the 9th of May she found she was unable to reduce the hernia, which was painful’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Wound (‘there was a wound made for the relief of strangulated femoral hernia in the left groin’)., chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Cook Age: 48 Gender: Female Date of admission: 4 May 1864 Date of death: 11 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Granular degeneration of kidney Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'The patient was a fat woman of dark, sallow complextion and nervous temperament. For many years she had been subject to heart palpitation from trifling causes & to frequent dyspeptic attacks’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Packer Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Apr 1864 Date of death: 10 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Typhus Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This man was admitted on the eighth day from the first appearance of the symptoms. He was then extremely weak and breathless, he described that a sudden pain in the head had seized him a the commencement of illness, that he had fallen down and remained insensible for about five minutes’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 70 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864 Date of death: 5 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Excision of eye. Arachnitis Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain); Excision (Eye) Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: 'In the early part of December 1863, received a blow from a fist on the left eye, the ball of which was ruptured and the contents escaped; the wound healed kindly under treatment, but in a few weeks the vision of the remaining eye became much impaired’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Cooper Age: 32 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864 Date of death: 6 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Disease of kidneys. Empyema. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Empyema (Pleura); 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: 'This man had been under treatment nine months before for an abscess near the right mamma accompanied by cough and great debility. Of this illness no accurate account could be obtained (the patient was Irish)’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Carman Age: 47 Gender: Male Date of admission: 2 May 1864 Date of death: 5 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: 'Fell from the timber carriage on which he was riding, and the edge of the wheel inflicted a large semi-circular wound extending from the forehead just above the middle of right eyebrow to the upper edge of auricular cartilage’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 50 Gender: Female Date of admission: 6 May 1864 Date of death: 6 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (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 was admitted in a dying state and did not survive the day. She had had cough since Christmas but was not much emaciated’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Porter Age: 54 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 May 1864 Date of death: 7 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Granular kidneys Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Disease (Kidneys) 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 man was brought to the hospital perfectly unconscious and died the following day. He had been seized with a fit the same morning, while at his occupation and in his usual health’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 61 Gender: Male Date of admission: 22 Apr 1864 Date of death: 8 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Deep wound of brain Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Wound (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: 'On the 22nd of April while engaged in blasting some earth, the powder he was using suddenly exploded, and blew a quantity of stones and dirt up into his face Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head (‘no other part of the body was examined’)
Occupation or role: Hairdresser Age: 72 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Apr 1864 Date of death: 29 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Granular degeneration of kidney Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse Medical notes: 'During the whole of 1863 he suffered from many attacks of boils on various parts of his body, and was generally out of health’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 25 Gender: Male Date of admission: 27 Jan 1864 Date of death: 30 Apr 1864 Disease (transcribed): Hepatic ascites. Tapping. Fatal Haemorrhage from puncture Disease (standardised): Ascites (Peritoneum); Bleeding ; Haemorrhage Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This man was in the hospital three months during which he twice underwent paracentesis for extreme ascites, dying shortly after the second operation. He was a labouring man of youthful appearance and pale, pasty face, addicted to free drinking especially of spirits’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen
Occupation or role: Married Age: 32 Gender: Female Date of admission: 30 Mar 1864 Date of death: 3 May 1864 Disease (transcribed): Amyloid degeneration of kidney and liver Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney, liver) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted with considerable oedema of the legs and some general dropsy. She was not wasted, and her countenance was not expressive of any particular disease’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, kidney