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Occupation or role: Monthly nurse
Age: 61
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Dec 1891
Date of death: 7 Feb 1892
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of gall-bladder. Secondary growths
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Gall bladder); Growths (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: This woman had borne six children. Two months before admission she became jaundiced and there was violent retching. She lost much weight and began to suffer from vomiting after food.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, pleurae, lungs, pericardium and heart
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Daughter of] Waiter
Age: 3
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1915
Date of death: 7 Apr 1915
Disease (transcribed): Acute bronchitis. Broncho-pneumonia. Heart failure
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Failure (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Waller, Wathen Ernest
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: About March 1st the child had an attack of measles. She made a good recovery but on March 16th she developed a cough and became short of breath.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No necropsy
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Jan 1870
Date of death: 8 Feb 1870
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of Urethra. Operation with Holts dilator. Pyaemia.
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Urethra); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The patient had had stricture, which followed gonorrhoea for 26 years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, cranium, organs of generation and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Apr 1845
Date of death: 2 Sep 1845
Disease (transcribed): Ascites and anasarca. False membranes with puncta of blood on the free surface of the parietal arachnoid. Opacity & thickening of visceral arachnoid with effusion in the sub-arachnoid tissue. Yellow spot in left corpus striatum. Head dilated & atrophied. Liver slightly contracted etc.
Disease (standardised): Ascites (Peritoneum); Edema (Systemic); Disease (Brain); Disease (Liver)

Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was reported to have suffered greatly from anasarca during the last 7 months. It was also stated that at her delivery, which took place about six weeks before admission, there was considerable flooding and that subsequently the anasarca had entirely disappeared’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 1 year 2 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Mar 1889
Date of death: 1 Apr 1889
Disease (transcribed): Rickets. Measles. Collapse of lungs. Fractures through both femurs and the left humerus
Disease (standardised): Rickets (Bone); Measles (Immune system); Fracture (Leg); Fracture (Arm)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Medical notes: The child was brought up from the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. The individual who brought her did not know her history, but it was said that the child was sent to St George’s because she had measles.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach, brain, spinal cord, humerus and femurs
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jan 1894
Date of death: 17 Jan 1894
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted in a dying state - with a temperate of 101 degrees - not delirious - with breathing embarassed by bubbling râles, which were heard all over both sides of the chest, so as quite to obscure the heart's sounds'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Engine driver
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jun 1901
Date of death: 15 Jun 1901
Disease (transcribed): Fractured twelfth rib. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: Brought in dead
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract, alimentary canal and brain
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Porter
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Date of admission: 29 Aug 1906
Date of death: 1 Sep 1906
Disease (transcribed): Cerebral haemorrhage. Cirrhosis of liver
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhae (Brain); Liver cirrhosis (Liver);
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, Cyril
Medical examination performed by: Golla, Frederick Lucien
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: 'Admitted in comatose state with right hemiplegia. F.H. [Family History] – Not obtained. P.H. [Previous History] – No previous illness. Heavy drinker. P.I. [Present Illness] – Three hours before admission when chopping wood fell to ground unconscious. Had been in good health up to then. No history of cortical discharge at onset'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Apr 1908
Date of death: 22 Apr 1908
Disease (transcribed): Osteomyelitis of lumbar spine. Psoas abscess (acute)
Disease (standardised): Osteomyelitis (Spine); Abscess (Psoas muscle)
Admitted under the care of: Fedden, Walter Fedde
Medical examination performed by: Back, Ivor Gordon
Post mortem examination performed by: Spriggs, Edmund Ivens
Medical notes: Fourteen days before admission the patient had noticed a pain in the small of her back when walking.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart, abdomen, peritoneum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys and spine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Jul 1893
Date of death: 11 Aug 1893
Disease (transcribed): Old empyema. Purulent pleurisy, pericarditis and peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Empyema (Pleura); Suppuration (Systemic); Pleurisy (Pleura); Pericarditis (Heart); Peritonitis (Abdomen);

Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: Seven weeks before admission this patient was seized with pain in the right side of the chest which felt like a knife cutting him on breathing.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right pleura, pericardium, abdomen, brain and membranes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Hotel porter
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Nov 1858
Date of death: 29 Jan 1859
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: The complaint began about two months previous to his admission when while suffering from what he supposed to be a severe cold, he had almost continued cramp in the feet which prevented his walking.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Feb 1861
Date of death: Before admission
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the vertex and base of skull. Laceration of brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: n/a
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient was brought into the hospital quite dead having fallen about 40 feet from a scaffolding onto his head
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and left arm
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Waiter
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Apr 1910
Date of death: 13 Apr 1910
Disease (transcribed): Avulsion of both legs through middle of shafts of tibia and fibula
Disease (standardised): Fractures, avulsion (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Post mortem examination performed by: Torrens, James Aubrey
Medical notes: He threw himself in front of a train with suicidal intent. The train passed over his lower extremities.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: Suicide