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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Sep 1850
Date of death: 6 Sep 1850
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of base of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in a state of insensibility. It was stated that half an hour before he had received a blow on the right side of the head.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 21 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Dec 1859
Date of death: 23 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Mesenteric disease. Incipient rickets. Diseased liver. Old burn
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Abdomen); Rickets (Bones); Disease (Liver); Burn (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child was admitted with an extensive burn of the left arm, extending from the shoulder to the back of the hand. It was cut very deep, except in one part about the middle of forearm. She was also evidently suffering from tabies mesentericus which was supposed to have existed for 6 months’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium., left arm, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Feb 1860
Date of death: 17 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Simple fracture of the skull. Effusion of blood between bone & dura mater. Scalp wound
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Effusion (Brain); Wound (Scalp)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted (having fallen through a skylight to the ground, a distance of 12 feet) with an extensive scalp wound’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Feb 1860
Date of death: 21 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Shortly before admission this man was driving a [?] through an arched passage. The height of the roof declined the further he went in & at length he was doubled up between the roof & the box. On admission he was suffering extreme pain across the loins & lower part of abdomen, & there was evidently an injury about the lower dorsal vertebrae’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1860
Date of death: 2 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Angular curvature of the spine. Caries of sacrum
Disease (standardised): Spinal curvature (Spine); Caries (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman had suffered from weakness of the back for four years before her admission. About 18 months before admission she noticed projection of the spine’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1860
Date of death: 7 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Lacerated wound of the arm. Fracture of ulna. Dislocation of radius. Abscesses. ?Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Wound (Arm); Fracture (Arm); Dislocation (Arm); Abscess; Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A few months before admission this child was knocked down by one of Pickfords vans, one of the wheels passing over the left arm’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left arm, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1860
Date of death: 12 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Laceration of the brain. Fractured spine & ribs
Disease (standardised): Laceration (Brain); Fracture (Spine, ribs)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A few month before admission this man fell from a scaffold about 30 feet, falling with his back across a plank, at the same time striking the back part of his head against another’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 70
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1860
Date of death: 21 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the acetabulum. Abscess in hip joint. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Pelvis); Abscess (Hip); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was said to have fallen between 8 & 9 feet from a scaffold, but how his leg was placed in the fall no one knew’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left hip

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 73
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 May 1860
Date of death: 11 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the leg
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Very shortly before admission this patient was getting from the top of an omnibus, when his toe caught in the open part of the step, he could not disengage his foot, the whole weight of the body hanging upon it. As soon as he was removed from this position he was brought to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right leg, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 May 1860
Date of death: 20 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of femur. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a traumatic fracture of the left femur just below the trochanter, there was considerable displacement. She was very unhealthy in appearance, her complexion being sallow […] She stated that the day before her admission, she had slipped down some steps, striking the outer side of the thigh against the floor’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thigh, cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860
Date of death: 16 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Diseased vertebrae & hip
Disease (standardised): Disease (Vertebrae, hip)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Three years before admission this man was attacked with pain in the right knee-joint, after a few weeks it became to severe that he went into St Mary’s Hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right thigh

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jun 1860
Date of death: 23 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine & ribs. Rupture of the pleura
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine, ribs); Rupture (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of extreme collapse. The wheel of a waggon having passed over his abdomen’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, spine

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Sep 1860
Date of death: 24 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of pelvis. Laceration of urethra
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Pelvis); Laceration (Urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Hastings, Cecil William
Medical notes: 'This patient was driving an empty cart into a yard when the horse shied at a wheelbarrow & drove the cart against a pile of faggots, when the shaft knocked him down & the wheel (a six-inch one) ran over his pelvis’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pelvis

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1860
Date of death: 22 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Diffuse inflammation of foot. Abscess in ankle & tarsal joints. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Foot); Abscess (Ankle); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'One the 17th of this month his boy tripped over a stone & sprained his left ankle, he walked home, went to bed & was attended by a medical man who ordered poultices. On the 18th he complained of much pain in foot & there was considerable swelling. During the evening he became delirious’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, left foot

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Nov 1860
Date of death: 13 Dec 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of leg. Bedsore. Cranial & spinal meningitis
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Pressure ulcer (Skin); Meningitis (Brain, spine)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Shortly before admission this man fell off a cart, the wheel passing over his right leg. On admission there was a lacerated wound situated in the lower & inner third of the right leg, this led down to a compound comminuted fracture of both bones’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spinal canal, cranium, thorax, abdomen, right leg

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1860
Date of death: 25 Dec 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs & olecranon process. Bronchitis & pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs, arm); Bronchitis (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'About an hour before admission this man fell about 15 feet on his right side, shoulder & elbow. On admission it was found that there was fracture of the right olecranon & also of several ribs on the right side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right elbow

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Mar 1861
Date of death: 24 Mar 1861
Disease (transcribed): Compound comminuted fracture of the skull, with depression. ? Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient was admitted having fallen off a scaffold, some bricks falling with him, and striking the right side of the head.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1861
Date of death: 21 Mar 1861
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull. Laceration of the brain. Fractured ribs and pelvis
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain); Fracture (Ribs); Fracture (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The man shortly before admission fell twenty feet of a scaffold onto the ground, with bricks and pieces of wood falling with him.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Oct 1877
Date of death: 9 Oct 1877
Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Bennet, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient died before having been seen by the Registrar.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, bronchi, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain and skull
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Date of admission: 26 Jan 1878
Date of death: 28 Jan 1878
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine);
Admitting doctor: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'Patient died before any notes of his case were taken'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Ribs, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, spine, spinal cord
Type of incident: Trauma/accident?

Occupation or role: Stone sawyer
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Date of admission: 24 Jan 1878
Date of death: 29 Jan 1878
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Intrameningeal haemorrhage. Lobular pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Haemorrhage (Brain, spine); Pneumonia (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Was run over by a Hansom Cab. Symptoms Jan [January] 24. Insensible – Face pale – Surface cold – Pulse very weak and irregular – Pupils contracted quite inert – Breathing loud and shallow. Lies still – Limbs flaccid. Vomited soon after admission. On Back of right Parietal region an irregular lacerated wound at base of which is exposed bone'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, meninges, brain
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Dec 1880
Date of death: 12 Dec 1880
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine at 2nd dorsal vertebra. Lungs deeply congested
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Congestion (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson
Post mortem examination performed by: Robinson, G L
Medical notes: Whilst standing up in a car he was seized with a feeling of giddiness and fell over the side into the stable gard, his back striking a large tin bottle standing about a foot high.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and spine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Goods guard
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Feb 1880
Date of death: 14 Feb 1880
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: Trauma/accident?

Occupation or role: Traveller
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Feb 1880
Date of death: 20 Feb 1880
Disease (transcribed): Compound comminuted fracture of leg
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Laundress
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Dec 1879
Date of death: 2 Jun 1880
Disease (transcribed): Caries of ilium. Abscess
Disease (standardised): Caries (Pelvis); Abscess (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a