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Occupation or role: Farm labourer
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Dec 1887
Date of death: 1 Jan 1888
Disease (transcribed): Pleuropneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Medical notes: 'A healthy man, who for a fortnight has had a cough with considerable expectoration. Six days before admission he grew worse & had severe rigors, pain in the point of the chest, some diarrhoea, much dyspnoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Tile-layer
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Mar 1887
Date of death: 8 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (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 a phthisical, neurotic & specific family history. She herself was born healthy & remained in good health until Xmas last [

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Mar 1887
Date of death: 9 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient, who was a dressmaker, was of a non-tubercular family and had had good health until 7 months before admission'

Illustrations: No
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: [Child of] Gardener
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Apr 1887
Date of death: 8 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'Family history unknown. The patient has been an inmate of an orphan asylum'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 5 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Apr 1887
Date of death: 9 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'Patient was the child of a patient in the hospital suffering form phthisis'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Apr 1887
Date of death: 11 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Aortic & mitral disease
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'He was a delicate-looking man with slight cyanosis, orthopnaea and profuse general sweating'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Apr 1887
Date of death: 14 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'Little was known of the patient except that she had been vaguely unwell when she travelled from Scotland to her situation in London on Ap 1st'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Apr 1887
Date of death: 15 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Mitral disease
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
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's mother was rheumatic, but he himself has never had more marked rheumatism than pains in the back & shoulders. Measles was the only specific fever he had had'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Army pensioner
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jan 1887
Date of death: 15 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Mitral stenosis and sequelae
Disease (standardised): Stenosis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient had served 11 years in Royal Horse Artillery, part of the time in India, but beyond slight muscular rheumatism had had good health'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Apr 1887
Date of death: 16 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Gangrene of the lungs
Disease (standardised): Gangrene (Lung)
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 a soldier & was said to have had a sunstroke in Aden [Yemen]. Subsequently he was a road sweeper of intemperate habits'
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Apr 1887
Date of death: 18 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Cerebral haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Granular (Kidney); Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient, who was a painter, was not known by his wife to have had colic gout or any other illness. There was no history of alcohol or syphilis'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Courier
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1887
Date of death: 19 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of the liver
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient was a married woman, who had had 5 children & a miscarriage, & who was of somewhat intemperate habits. She had suffered for years with internal piles and lost much blood. She dated her present illness from her removal to a damp house 3 months before admission'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Postman
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Apr 1887
Date of death: 20 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'There was no phthisical history. The mother died in an epileptic fit. He said that he was perfectly well until Ap 4th and that on the 5th he was drowsy, disinclined to work (he was a letter carrier and shoemaker) and had suffered from gradually increasing weakness'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Unmarried child of] Charwoman
Age: 4
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1887
Date of death: 21 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The child had a phthisical history & had been treated here when 15 months old for inflammation of the lungs'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Mar 1887
Date of death: 22 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic)
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 was a stableman subject to frequent attacks of bronchitis and rheumatism. He had occasional bouts of intemperance'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Policeman
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Mar 1887
Date of death: 23 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient was of a non-tubercular family and had had very good health until 6 weeks before admission'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Lady's maid
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1887
Date of death: 26 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Pleuropneumonia. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Lung); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard and Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The patient, a lady's maid, was of a tubercular family & had always been liable to colds'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1887
Date of death: 26 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Hydro-pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Hydropneumothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard and Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The patient, who had been a soldier & served in India, was of a healthy family and had himself been free form illness until the commencement of his present attack. There was a history of alcoholic excess'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Labourer
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1887
Date of death: 28 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Mitral stenosis. Hydro-pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Stenosis (Heart); Hydropneumothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard and Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The patient's father suffered from gout and both he & a brother died of heart disease. Six years previous to admission the patient had rheumatic fever'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Child of] Clerk
Age: 11 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Apr 1887
Date of death: 29 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Broncho-pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard and Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'There was a strongly marked history of phthisis on the mother's side'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Unmarried child of] Tailoress
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Jan 1887
Date of death: 11 Jan 1887
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria. Death from syncope
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx); Syncope (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 returned home on Dec 31st from Kilburn where she had been nursing a baby who was unwell. The nature of the baby's illness was not known, but is recovered'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, alimentary tract, stomach, intestines
Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Shop boy
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1887
Date of death: 29 Apr 1887
Disease (transcribed): Stenosis of trachea & right bronchus
Disease (standardised): Stenosis (Trachea, bronchi)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The patient's father died of phthisis, but no other members of the family were known to be affected. The boy himself had been quite free from illness until 9 months before admission when he got wet through and subsequently had cough & expectoration'
'It was only allowed to examine the neck, so the wound was extended an inch in either direction'
Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Lead-roller
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Apr 1887
Date of death: 2 May 1887
Disease (transcribed): Suppurative portal phlebitis. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Phlebitis (Blood vessels); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The patient was a lead roller who had had good health with the exception of 3 attacks of colic, the last 1 year before admission'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 May 1887
Date of death: 5 May 1887
Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'Patient, a butler, with no inherited disease had had good general health with the exception to a liability to winter cough for some years'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a