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Mary Donovan, 16, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Nov 1858
Date of death: 24 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Chorea
Disease (standardised): Chorea (Central nervous system)
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

John Reardon, 27, [Occupation not stated]

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

William Vinson, 33, Cab driver

Occupation or role: Cab driver
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1858
Date of death: 9 Dec 1858
Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Cirrhosis. Delirium tremens
Disease (standardised): Ascites (Peritoneum); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A cab driver who had been ill three weeks. His habits were very intemperate & in May last he had an attack of delirium tremens. He attributed his present illness to cold; having been exposed to the rain for 16 hours. For three weeks he had been troubled with vomiting after meals’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Hinks, 63, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Oct 1858
Date of death: 25 Oct 1858
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted having fallen down in a fit in Sloane Street. There was hemiplegia of the right side with occasional spasmodic action of the muscles of the leg & arm. On the left side some twitching was also observed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Wheeler, 30, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Oct 1858
Date of death: 21 Oct 1858
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
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 was a patient in August with hemiplegia of the right side. He had an apoplectic seizure in the autumn of 1857 which had left him in this state. However he left the hospital very much improved & had continued in his usual good health until the 17th October, when he had another fit, & was at once brought to the hospital with hemiplegia well marked, & perfectly unconscious, and in this state he remained until his death which occurred within a few days’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Tierney, 42, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1858
Date of death: 9 Oct 1858
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Phthisis. Strumous disease of supra-renal bodies
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Kidneys)
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 man was admitted with all the symptoms of delirium tremens, but his friends asserted that he had been ‘lightheaded’ for two months. This was all that could be ascertained of his previous history. When first seen he answered rationally though with hesitation. His memory was defective & he had a hurried, fidgety manner with tremors & jerking’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Snighton, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Sep 1858
Date of death: 29 Sep 1858
Disease (transcribed): Abscess in the brain. Arachnitis
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Brain); Arachnoiditis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'Nothing was known of this man’s history. He was brought in complaining of excruciating pain at the back of the neck & in the head, & for this he had applied to a medical man who treated the case as one of rheumatism. He could give no account of his symptoms & died in great suffering within two hours’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium (‘at the request of the friends no other part of the body was examined’)

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Southwood, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Sep 1858
Date of death: 29 Sep 1858
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the lungs & dura mater
Disease (standardised): Malignant disease (Lungs, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was brought in in a state of epileptic coma. He was found in a fit in the street & was taken to the police station, where at first the case was looked upon as one of drunkenness; but as three or four more fits attacked him he was brought to the hospital where he lay in a state of insensibility up to the time of his death, with almost complete hemiplegia of the left side. He recovered his consciousness for a minute or two in the station house, & informed those present where he lived. It appeared that for four years he had been subject to epileptic fits, & that there was a family history to them. One relative died from disease of the brain & epilepsy, another is at present confined in Hanwell Asylum, & I believe some mention was made of a third member of the family who is of unsound mind’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Thomson, 15, Farm labourer

Occupation or role: Farm labourer
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Sep 1858
Date of death: 28 Oct 1858
Disease (transcribed): Hydrocephalus interim. Ecchymosis in spinal canal
Disease (standardised): Hydrocephalus (Brain); Ecchymosis (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry and Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A farm labourer who had suffered for a twelvemonth from pain in the head which was increased by working in the sun. Six months later it became so bad & was accompanied with such frequent vomiting that he went under medical care & was leeched & blistered. This treatment did him some good for a time. When he came to the hospital there was tenderness all down the spine & partial paralysis of the lower limbs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spinal cord, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Richard Cowper, 29, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Aug 1858
Date of death: 8 Aug 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fever. Phthisis. Strumous tubercle of cerebrum. Arachnitis
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Tuberculosis (Lungs, brain); Arachnoiditis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'When this patient was brought to the hospital on the 4th suffering from continued fever the friends who accompanied him stated that although he had only been ill about twelve days yet that he always complained of his head & had had several fits. The bowels had been very relaxed but were subsequently constipated’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Francis Connelly, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jul 1858
Date of death: 14 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull. Effusion in arachnoid cavity
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Effusion (Brain)
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 stated to have been drinking for the last few days. HE was found lying in the road in the neighbourhood of Kensington & was taken to the police station where he remained during the night. In the morning the surgeon to the force was sent for & pronounced him to be suffering from ‘effusion on the brain’. He was at once brought to the hospital, being then in a complete state of coma’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Flynn, 69, Gardener

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jun 1858
Date of death: 20 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the bladder, iliac glands and dura mater
Disease (standardised): Malignant disease (Bladder, lymph nodes, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A gardener, who had been out of health for two months with some shortness of breath & slight oedema of the legs, but his chief complaint was that his urine was often thick & of the colour of blood, & that he felt extremely giddy’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Harriet Balcombe, 25, [Occupation not stated]

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

John McCannon, 43, Upholsterer

Occupation or role: Upholsterer
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jun 1858
Date of death: 7 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'An upholsterer admitted with delirium tremens. He owned that he had been indulging freely in gin for nearly a fortnight previous. He was very tremulous, quite rational & gave a full account of his feelings. For three nights he had not closed his eyes’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Margaret Millett, 25, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Jun 1858
Date of death: 21 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the brain? Partial paralysis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Paralysis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
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

Elizabeth Connor, 63, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Jun 1858
Date of death: 2 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This woman came in complaining of weakness & numbness of the left side. When first attacked a month previous the mouth was drawn, but neither she nor her friend gave any history of a fit. Her tongue was very foul & protruded to the left. She complained of headache & said that for some time past she had been troubled with rheumatism’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

William Cottrell, 38, Gentleman’s servant

Occupation or role: Gentleman’s servant
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Jun 1858
Date of death: 7 Jun 1858
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain)
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 gentleman’s servant admitted in a state of great nervous tremor with every character of delirium tremens but all attempts to get a clear history of intemperance failed. He had been under the care of a medical man in the neighbourhood for a long time (nearly a year) and it never could be ascertained that he indulged’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Isaac Aldridge, 44, Potman

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Apr 1858
Date of death: 5 May 1858
Disease (transcribed): Epilepsy. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A potman, who was stated to have had ‘fits’ of an epileptic character during the week preceding his admission, but how many of them was not ascertained. He had been ailing for some months whilst down in the country, & was treated by a medical gentleman for ‘languor & debility’. Two days before admission he had a severe seizure, & for a short time lost the power of his right side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Philip Perry, 5, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Apr 1858
Date of death: 27 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Chorea
Disease (standardised): Chorea (Central nervous system)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
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

Louisa Clarke, 34, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Apr 1858
Date of death: 13 May 1858
Disease (transcribed): Cystic tumour of the choroid plexus
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A married woman, the mother of four children. According to the account of the friends she was confined three months ago of a dead child. The labour was tedious, & afterwards violent pain settled in the head & she grew drowsy & languid. She was then said to have lost all power of using her lower limbs but sensation was fully marked at the time of her admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

James Jeffries, 36, Butler

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Apr 1858
Date of death: 17 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (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: 'A butler who was admitted on account of delirium tremens. He had been under medical care four days, but previous to the attack his health had been impaired. For two months he had complained of sore throat & cold & the week before his admission he spat a little blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Jane Weedon, [No age stated], [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Mar 1858
Date of death: 11 May 1858
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis. Diseased kidneys. Umbilical hernia
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Disease (Kidneys); Hernia (Abdomen)
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 woman was admitted under the surgeon for umbilical hernia from which she had suffered many years. She had also pinging[?tinnitus] & sickness, with violent delirium & she was pulseless at the wrist. This sickness &c came on the day before admission. Her legs & arms were somewhat anasarcous’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Alexander McDonald, 17, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Mar 1858
Date of death: 20 Mar 1858
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the brain. Phthisis. Ulcerated intestines
Disease (standardised): Softening (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Ulcer (Intestines)
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 lad was brought to the hospital in a state which showed that he had been very much neglected. He was then in a dying state, quite delirious, & unable to give any account of his feelings. It appeared that before Christmas he had been in University College Hospital with remittent(?) fever. After leaving the hospital in January he came home & never seemed to rally thoroughly, creeping about the house & existing rather than living. He had no nurse to attend upon him & was consequently in an extremely filthy condition’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Kirscher, 32, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Feb 1858
Date of death: 2 Mar 1858
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the liver, mesentery, omentum, dura mater &c
Disease (standardised): Malignant disease (Liver, mesentery, omentum, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'An anaemic individual who stated that he suffered severely from diarrhoea last September. Ever since he had been dyspeptic, but had never had vomiting. About 5 days ago for the first time he noticed a swelling in the epigastric region. The bowels were very costive’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Alexander Fraser, 7, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Jan 1858
Date of death: 28 Jan 1858
Disease (transcribed): Epilepsy. Albuminuria
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Albuminuria (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
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

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