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John Deezkiamz, 53, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Apr 1847
Date of death: 23 Apr 1847
Disease (transcribed): Purpura of both legs. Extensive pleurisy with considerable purulent effusion. Lung greatly compressed. Dilatation of cavities of heart. Slight hour glass contraction of stomach
Disease (standardised): Purpura (Leg); Pleurisy (Pleura); Compressed (Lung); Disease (Heart); Contraction (Stomach); Suppuration (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: It appeared from the meagre account which could be obtained of his symptoms, that he had long been suffering from could and cough, and on one or two occasions had had slight haemoptysis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Isaac Gillings, 47, Dyer

Occupation or role: Dyer
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1867
Date of death: 20 Apr 1867
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of liver
Disease (standardised): Malignancy (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: This man was thrown out of a cart in November and in two weeks was attacked with jaundice. The first symptom observed was the presence of bile in the urine.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Ellen Weller, 24, [Child of] Gardener

Occupation or role: [Child of] Gardener
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Mar 1888
Date of death: 16 Mar 1888
Disease (transcribed): Abscess between stomach and diaphragm. Possibly started originally from a gastric ulcer. Bursting of the abscess into the general peritoneal cavity
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Stomach, diaphragm); Ulcer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The father of the patient said that about a year before she came to St George’s she had an attack of ‘pleurisy’ and was ill for 5 months. The patient herself gave no account of an illness resembling pleurisy, but said she had suffered from palpitations and ‘globus’. When she came into the hospital she complained of pain at the lower part of the thorax’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, ovaries, heart, lungs

Type of incident: n/a

Annie Green, 25, Dressmaker

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

William Johnson, 64, Taxi-driver

Occupation or role: Taxi-driver
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Mar 1922
Date of death: 2 May 1922
Disease (transcribed): Multiple gastric ulcers. Hypostatic pneumonia. Empyema
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Pneumonia (Lung); Empyema (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Pendlebury, Herbert Stringfellow
Medical examination performed by: Pidcock, Bertram Henzell
Post mortem examination performed by:
Medical notes: The patient had indigestion on and off for many years with pain and vomiting, and also had lost weight.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Tongue, larynx, trachea, pleurae, lungs, heart, coronary vessels, peritoneum and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 59, Landlady

Occupation or role: Landlady
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Apr 1926
Date of death: 29 Apr 1926
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of rectum. Obstruction. Perforation of ascending colon. Peritonitis. Secondary growths in glands and liver
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Rectum); Obstruction (Intestines); Perforation (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Cancer (Lymph nodes); Cancer (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Fedden, Walter Fedde
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, Henry Cecil Herbert
Medical notes: This patient had been costive and flatulent for years. She had passed blood and mucus per rectum for some weeks, and had abdominal distension for five days with abdominal pain and vomiting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, trachea, thyroid, pericardium, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, suprarenals, ureters, bladder, uterus and ovaries
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 67, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 67
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 May 1942
Date of death: 7 Jul 1942
Disease (transcribed): Clinical findings: Chronic G.U. adherent to pancreas. Gastrectomy. Acute obstruction. Caecostomy
Disease (standardised): Gastrectomy (Stomach); Obstruction (Stomach); Caecostomy (Intestines); Adhesions (Pancreas)
Admitted under the care of: Riddell, Victor Horsley
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: No autopsy
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No autopsy
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 8, [Child of] Painter

Occupation or role: [Child of] Painter
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Jul 1937
Date of death: 4 Jul 1937
Disease (transcribed): Perforated appendix
Disease (standardised): Perforation (Appendix)
Admitted under the care of: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, James William Douglas
Medical notes: She had severe abdominal pain since the night before admission. She vomited once and had diarrhoea three times. She had no previous history of pain. She had tonsillitis three weeks ago and had not been well since. She had a cough for a few days.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pleurae, heart, abdomen, liver, gall bladder, spleen, kidneys and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Perrins, 43, Whip maker

Occupation or role: Whip maker
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1882
Date of death: 11 Apr 1882
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular ulceration of intestines and lungs. Lardaceous disease of liver, spleen and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Intestines, Lung); Ulcer (Intestines, Lung); Amyloidosis (Liver, Spleen, Kidney )
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Post mortem examination performed by: Margerison, Richard
Medical notes: He was admitted in 1881 with much albuminuria. He was discharged but his appetite remained poor. His cough increased and oedema set in in January 1882.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys and intestines
Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Ward, 25, Clerk

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Mar 1893
Date of death: 30 Mar 1893
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of lungs and intestines. Suffocative haemoptysis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Intestines); Haemoptysis (Respiratory tract)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: The patient was admitted for haemoptysis which had been free, but very little blood was coughed up inside the hospital.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, kidneys, bladder, prostate and vesicula seminales
Type of incident: n/a

James Norton, 18, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1901
Date of death: 25 Mar 1901
Disease (transcribed): Acute grangrenous appendicitis. General purulent peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Gangrene (Appendix); Appendicitis (Appendix); Suppuration (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Keyser, Charles Ralph
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: See surgical notes
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No autopsy
Type of incident: n/a

George Froggall, 42, Shoemaker

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 May 1851
Date of death: 13 May 1851
Disease (transcribed): Cut throat in the person of a drunkard. Death from coma, following delirium & ‘furor’, the result partly of loss of blood & sleeplessness & partly doubtless combined with habitual delirium tremens. Low pneumonia & quiescent tubercle in the apices of both lungs
Disease (standardised): Wound (Throat); Coma (Systemic); Delirium (Brain); Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Pneumonia (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient was by trade a shoemaker, & was a habitual drunkard & during a fit of intoxication shortly before his admission he inflicted a wound on his throat with a razor. When he was brought to the hospital there was free haemorrhage’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident / suicide?

Robert Bentley, 5, No occupation

Occupation or role: No occupation
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1885
Date of death: 4 Apr 1885
Disease (transcribed): Collapse after diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical notes: A boy in the family had diphtheria sixteen days before and then a girl, who died. A doctor said diphtheria. The patient began to complain of sore throat, failing and bad appetite.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, bronchi, larynx, trachea, pharynx, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Alfred Arthur, 48, Taxi driver

Occupation or role: Taxi driver
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Mar 1817
Date of death: 5 Apr 1917
Disease (transcribed): Syphilis. Cirrhosis. Ascites. Fibroid heart. Oesophageal varix. Splenomegaly
Disease (standardised): Syphilis; Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Ascites (Peritoneum); Disease (Heart); Varicose veins (Oesophagus); Splenomegaly (Spleen)
Admitted under the care of: Jex-Blake, Arthur John
Medical examination performed by: O’Flynn, Elizabeth
Post mortem examination performed by: Ingleby, Helen
Medical notes: 'First symptom 1 year ago when he had slight haematemesis. He has been inable to work 6 months owing to bronchitis. On March 13th, he went to work but felt ill & on his return vomited a quart of blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 18, [Child of] Chauffeur

Occupation or role: [Child of] Chauffeur
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1927
Date of death: 22 Apr 1927
Disease (transcribed): Septic endocarditis (mitral and aortic) superimposed on old rheumatic endocarditis – Aortic and mitral incompetence – Adherent pericardium. Multiple infarcts in kidneys and spleen – Early passive congestion of liver – Areas of collapse in lungs
Disease (standardised): Endocarditis (Heart); Sepsis (Systemic); Rheumatic fever (Systemic); Aortic valve insufficiency (Heart); Mitral valve insufficiency (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart); Infarction (Kidney, spleen); Congestion (Liver); Collapse (Lung);
Admitted under the care of: Bellingham-Smith, Eric
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Donaldson, Robert
Medical notes: 'History. Rheumatic fever 10 years previously, 2 years previously. Four days before admission doctors report 'Temp [Temperature] 101. Very ill. Râles in chest. Double aortic and mitral murmurs'. Day of admission. Cerebral embolus. Complete L. [Left] sided hemiplegia. O.A. [On Admission] As above. Very ill. Temp [Temperature] 103. P. [Pulse] 130. R. [Respiration rate?] 35'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, mediastinal glands, pulmonary artery, pericardium, heart, coronary arteries, aorta, peritoneum, liver, gall-bladder, bile-ducts, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, kidneys, renal pelvis, bladder, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, alimentary tract, mesenteric glands
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 82, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 82
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Jul 1944
Date of death: 24 Jul 1944
Disease (transcribed): Clinical diagnosis: Tabes. ? Ca stomach
Disease (standardised): Wasting (Indeterminate); Cancer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Feiling, Anthony
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: n/a
Type of incident: n/a

Robert Finlay, 50, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Apr 1861
Date of death: 11 Apr 1861
Disease (transcribed): Fever. Ulceration of the intestines.
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The accounts received from the wife of the patient were to the effect that four months before he came in he had an attack of ‘pleurisy’, which got better. 4 weeks before admission he was taken ill with symptoms resembling fever.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Harriett Wotton, 43, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1862
Date of death: 15 Apr 1862
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhus of the pylorus
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This woman had been out of health and rapidly emaciating for about three months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Ann Bright, 54, Nurse

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Apr 1874
Date of death: 9 Apr 1874
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Cirrhosis of liver. Dropsy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Cirrhosis (Liver); Oedema (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: She had been subject to sickness all her life and had had cough and spitting for the last three months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, organs of generation, bones and joints
Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Stone, 28, Coachman

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Mar 1892
Date of death: 15 Mar 1892
Disease (transcribed): Glioma of the brain. Cirrhosis
Disease (standardised): Glioma (Brain); Cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: For six months he had been jaundiced and it was said that he had vomited blood on more than one occasion. Some three or four months before admission he had some sort of fit, and fell from the box of his carriage in a state of unconsciousness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, pancreas, suprarenals, spleen, liver, kidneys, bladder, pleurae, lungs, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart and head
Type of incident: n/a

Harriet Peacock, 49, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Feb 1890
Date of death: 4 Mar 1890
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of liver
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: The first symptoms of illness were acute pain between her shoulders and down her back, and on three separate occasions she ad acute abdominal pain.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, pericardium, heart, abdomen, liver and pancreas
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 36, Salesman

Occupation or role: Salesman
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Jul 1939
Date of death: 9 Jul 1939
Disease (transcribed): General peritonitis following perforation of sigmoid diverticulum
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Diverticulitis (Intestines); Perforation (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Nicholls, Marriott Fawckner
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Taylor, John
Medical notes: Symptoms started three weeks ago, with a boil around the anus. This healed in four days, and since then several further boils appeared, of which one was still present. He had noticed that he occasionally passed small amounts of blood. Six hours before admission he had his bowels open and passed considerable quantities of bright blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 36, Taxi driver

Occupation or role: Taxi driver
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1935
Date of death: 8 May 1935
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of oesophagus
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Oesophagus)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, George Arthur
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Williams, Garthowen
Medical notes: He had increasing dysphagia and substernal pain for seven weeks. He could only swallow fluids, and solids were regurgitated unchanged. He had lost two stone in seven weeks.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, valves, liver, spleen, kidneys and alimentary canal
Type of incident: n/a

Charles Curzon, 30, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 07 Apr 1847
Date of death: 24 Apr 1847
Disease (transcribed): Vomica and tubercles in lungs. Old pleuritic adhesions. Small ulcers of small intestine.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Adhesions (Pleura); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient on admission was found to be in the last stages of Phthisis Pulmonalis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Caroline Elliot, 53, Ladies maid

Occupation or role: Ladies maid
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Mar 1874
Date of death: 11 Apr 1874
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of the right ovary and peritoneum. Cirrhosis of the liver. Pleuro-pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Ovary); Cancer (Abdomen); Cirrhosis (Liver); Pleuropneumonia (Lung, Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Clarke, John
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: She had been in good health until about seven months ago when she commenced to lose flesh and noticed a swelling in the right side of the abdomen which increased rapidly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, glands and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

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