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Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Nov 1865
Date of death: 12 Apr 1866
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease (?) of cavity of uterus
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Uterus)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1864
Date of death: 21 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus? Scarlet fever?
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic); Scarlet fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Steward, George William and Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient was brought into the hospital in a semicomatose state by a friend, who could give no more account of him than that he had been ill for 3 or 4 days’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, pharynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1865
Date of death: 13 Apr 1865
Disease (transcribed): Disease of tricuspid valve. Partial perforation of septum of ventricles
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Perforation (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This woman stated that she had always been stout and short of breath, getting at times blue in the face upon slight exertion.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Apr 1863
Date of death: 26 Apr 1863
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Apoplexy of opposite side of brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: He was at work when his foot slipped on a step and he fell some seven or eight feet down an area.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Milkman
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1866
Date of death: 15 Apr 1866
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man had suffered from cough for one winter before admission. The present illness commenced to weeks before and was attributed to the result of getting wet.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Feb 1876
Date of death: 11 Apr 1876
Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of the aorta. Rupture into the oesophagus
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta); Rupture (Oesophagus)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This man had had some dyspnoea and cough in November 1874 from which he had recovered until November 1875 when he again became attacked with dyspnoea, cough and spitting, all which gradually increased.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, stomach and aorta
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Mar 1883
Date of death: 26 Mar 1883
Disease (transcribed): Jaundice. Obstruction of hepatic duct by new growth
Disease (standardised): Jaundice (Skin); Obstruction (Bile ducts)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Post mortem examination performed by: Ross, Daniel McClure
Medical notes: For three of four years she had been subject to much abdominal discomfort, along with periods of constipation and frequent attacks of vomiting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and liver
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 62
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Apr 1861
Date of death: 21 Apr 1861
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Hypertrophy of heart. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient had begun to suffer, without any evident cause, from cough, shortness of breath, and inability to lie down.

Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Apr 1860
Date of death: 19 Apr 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 and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'This man had been ill for a year and 11 weeks. His complaint dated from a blow on the right side of the chest from a horse. About six months ago he spat a small quantity of blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864
Date of death: 21 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Congestion of brain. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Congestion (Brain); Bronchitis (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 patient was a miserable creature of feeble intellect deformed by curvature of the dorsal spine. She complained of a number of indefinite symptoms as general numbness with weakness of the upper extremities, occasional incontinence of urine, headache and a general sense of throbbing’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gas-meter inspector
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Date of admission: 13 Mar 1878
Date of death: 20 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Ulcer of stomach. Haemorrhage. Morbus renum. Old cerebral haemorrhage converted into a cyst
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Haemorrhage (Indeterminate); Disease (Kidney); Haemorrhage (Brain); Cyst (Brain);
Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father died of consumption. Smallpox 12 yrs [years] before admission. Subject to occipital headaches: experienced pain if he held his water for long. Venereal sore 14 yrs [years] ago: suppurating bubo: no constitutional manifestations. Took about 1 ½ pt [pint] of beer daily. Epistaxis. 15 mo. [months] before admn [admission]; - severe epistaxis for 12 hours: laid up with consequent weakness for five weeks. Hemiplegia. On July 3rd 1877; while carrying a piece of pipe in his L. [Left] hand, he found he kept dropping it without his knowledge: after about ½ hour his legs have way and he fell. He was taken to a medical man and sent home in a cab: paralysis of L. [Left] arm, leg and side of face found to be present: shortly after he became insensible and remained so for an hour or two. Next morning his eyesight was gone'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, spleen, peritoneum, kidneys, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1864
Date of death: 22 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George and Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Steward, George William and Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'Admitted into the surgical wards with varicose aneurism of right arm, which had existed about four years. In 1860 he retired to bed in his usual health, awoke suddenly during the night & found the whole right side of body with right extremities cold & numbed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Shoulder, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Dec 1865
Date of death: 15 Apr 1866
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man was admitted with the history of four months of diarrhoea, accompanied by pain and swelling in the right iliac region.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Iron trimmer
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Feb 1893
Date of death: 6 Apr 1893
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis. Mitral regurgitation
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Medical notes: This boy had good health till October 1892 when he had rheumatic fever and was laid up ill Christmas. He returned to work, but about February 12th he complained of exhaustion and took to bed again.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneal cavity, liver, pancreas, spleen, intestines and kidney
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Former soldier
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Apr 1860
Date of death: 19 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'A discharged soldier, for a long time in the habit of drinking to excess, but without getting intoxicated. A month before he came in he observed that he could not button his breeches as before, up to this time his health had been perfectly good’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Apr 1862
Date of death: 24 Apr 1862
Disease (transcribed): Typhous fever
Disease (standardised): Typhus, epidemic louse-borne (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Tepper, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: He had complained of pain in his head, cough and expectoration for one month.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Apr 1882
Date of death: 6 Apr 1882
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Not reported here
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Groom
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Mar 1879
Date of death: 27 Mar 1879
Disease (transcribed): Tubercles, and diffuse gangrenous catarrhal pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Gangrene (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Blake, Henry. Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient was exposed to cold early in January 1879 and had coughed ever since.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Mar 1886
Date of death: Brought in dead
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Haemorrhage into the lung
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Haemorrhage (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: Not seen by the Registrar
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, trachea, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, stomach, intestines and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Barge builder
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Feb 1865
Date of death: 14 Apr 1865
Disease (transcribed): Granular degeneration of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: Dropsy began in the legs a months ago and two weeks after the scrotum began to get red and distended.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1861
Date of death: 24 Apr 1961
Disease (transcribed): Perforation of mitral valve
Disease (standardised): Perforation (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient had an attack of acute rheumatism as a child, and for years had bad palpitations of the heart. For six weeks before she was admitted she had been suffering from slight rheumatic pains.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1864
Date of death: 22 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'A tin pail loaded with ‘comps’[?] fell a distance of 25 feet, & the edge struck him on the top of his head, sending him insensible for a few minutes. On admission there was a wound about 2 ½ inches long over the sagittal suture’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest, abdomen, spine

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1884
Date of death: 7 Apr 1884
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Post mortem examination performed by: Ross, Daniel McClure
Medical notes: There was no family history of consumption. In October 1883 he had become an out patient at Brompton Consumptive Hospital and a physician tapped his right chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1862
Date of death: 25 Apr 1862
Disease (transcribed): Typhus fever
Disease (standardised): Typhus, epidemic louse-borne (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Tepper, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: Five days before admission she was attacked with rigors, pain in the head, giddiness and thirst, with pain across the back.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Apr 1863
Date of death: 2 May 1863
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Ulceration of bowels
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: It was gathered that since Christmas he had been ailing, losing flesh, coughing and spitting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a