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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1855
Date of death: 27 Jul 1855
Disease (transcribed): Renal disease. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman attributed her illness to a severe cold caught three months ago which brought on dyspnoea and a sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Her legs and abdomen then enlarged.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Oct 1855
Date of death: 7 Dec 1855
Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of the ascending aorta
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman had been in the Hospital the previous April, when slight pulsation was observed a little to the right of the sternum and aneurysm of the aorta was suspected.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1853
Date of death: 20 Sep 1853
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the heart (Valvular on both sides). Disease of the kidneys. General anasarca
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Oedema (General)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman who had been suffering from general anasarca and shortness of breath during the whole summer, stated that she had experiences an attack of rheumatic fever at fifteen years of age.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 33
Date of admission: 28 Jun 1854
Date of death: 1 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'No history of this patient could be obtained from herself. She was reported to have suffered from headache & giddiness for some time, and to have had a fit about a fortnight previously in the street […] She was stated to be a woman of drunken, dissipated habits, and had evidently been much neglected, for her back was in a very bad state on admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium., thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1853
Date of death: 6 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Endocarditis. Vegetations on the aortic semilunar valves. Fibrinous deposit in the spleen and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Endocarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart); Fibrin (Spleen); Fibrin (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman stated that she had been ill five weeks. She was then seized by pain in the left side passing across the epigastrium and up the sternum with shortness of breath.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1849
Date of death: 29 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary apoplexy. Pericarditis. Chronic inflammation of the kidneys, with cysts. Fibrous tumour in the uterus
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart); Inflammation (Kidneys); Cyst (Kidneys); Tumour (Uterus)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This [woman] was first admitted into the hospital as an in-patient in September. She then dated the commencement of ther illness from an attack of haematemesis in July ‘48 when she brought up about a quart of blood. She had suffered from pain across the epigastrium ever since, and when the hand was placed across it she cried out as if it caused her great pain’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Jun 1849
Date of death: 29 Jun 1849
Disease (transcribed): Meningeal apoplexy. Blood effused beneath the arachnoid & pia mater. Atheromarous deposit in the arteries of the brain & in the aorta
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Aorta, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, a single woman, who gained her livelihood by needlework, was admitted complaining of headache, dizziness & general debility. She presented a pale, sallow complexion, was somewhat emaciated & confessed that for some time back, she had not had sufficient nourishment’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 May 1855
Date of death: 4 Aug 1855
Disease (transcribed): Renal and Cardiac disease
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This patient had been subject to rheumatic attacks for years, having had severe rheumatic fever about fourteen years ago. Six months before his admission he began to feel weak. He lost flesh and then rheumatic pain came on in all his limbs and he had a cough and much expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Date of admission: 23 Nov 1853
Date of death: 23 Jan 1854
Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Ascites. Diseased lungs (tissue of lungs compressed). Dilated heart
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Ascites (Peritoneum); Disease (Lung); Disease (Heart)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'With a very blue dusky skin, and great oppression of breathin, swelled legs, severe cough & very abundant symptoms, she stated that she had been long subject to cough, but had now been very seriously ill for upwards of 3 weeks’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Dec 1848
Date of death: 3 Jan 1849
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis. Disease of aortic & mitral valves. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart); Pleurisy (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted for the third time into the hospital labouring as on former occasions under an attack of acute rheumatism. She stated that she had had a fainting fit on the 11th inst, that she had been ailing ever since, and was hysterical & out of sorts, with fits of laughing, crying, fainting &c on the 13th till the joints became red & swollen & painful on 17th. This appearance had entirely subsided on her admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1855
Date of death: 23 Mar 1855
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Heart. Emphysema of the lungs. Encephaloid disease of the Kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Emphysema (Lung); Cancer (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: When admitted, this woman was anxious and distressed, and far too ill to allow any history of her case being obtained. All that could be learnt was that she had been out of health for eight weeks.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Sep 1849
Date of death: 29 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Extravasation of blood in the right lateral ventricle. Optic thalamus broken up, & the corpus striatum displaced
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Extravasation (Brain); Injury (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was brought to the hospital having fallen down in a fit, in which he had been quite unconscious, but was not convulsed, and was found to have lost the use of his left side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Mar 1856
Date of death: 19 Mar 1856
Disease (transcribed): Cardiac disease. Pneumonia. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This boy was admitted in a dying state. He had been out of health for eighteen months. An attack of acute rheumatism seized him and left him anasarcous and a great sufferer from dyspnoea and palpitation.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1849
Date of death: 4 Feb 1849
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Congestion of membranes & substance of the brain. Pulmonary apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Congestion (Brain); Stroke (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'Presenting the quick, agitated manner of delirium a potu, although not very incoherent. Answering questions readily, but when left to himself beginning to mutter, and soon becoming very talkative. His nights were sleepless’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, cranium, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Date of admission: 11 Sep 1854
Date of death: 12 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the heart. Vegetations on the tricuspid valves. Pulmonary apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Vegetations (Heart, blood vessels); Stroke (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Wilson, James Arthur
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of extreme exhaustion with great oppression of breathing & duskiness of face. No satisfactory examination of the chest could be made. She said she had been ill with an attack of fever’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1854
Date of death: 12 Jan 1855
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the heart. Anasarca
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Oedema (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: A pale sallow complexioned man who had been in the East Indies, he was originally admitted into the Hospital with slight rheumatism which began in the feet and ankles and twice also in the head. It was ascertained that he had had Rheumatic fever on several occasions and he had suffered from palpitations.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Brush manufactory worker
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 May 1856
Date of death: 1 Jun 1856
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the Heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This patient had been in a delicate state of health for a long time, being nervous and very subject to palpitation of the heart. At three different times he had suffered from rheumatic fever. He stated that six weeks ago he was attacked with burning pain in the chest, dyspnoea and frequent sickness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Feb 1853
Date of death: 16 Feb 1853
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the heart. Vegetation on the mitral and semilunar valves. Fibrinous deposit in the spleen
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Deposits (Spleen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman was admitted suffering from great dyspnoea, cough and pain in the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, trachea, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Mar 1853
Date of death: 1 Apr 1853
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the tibia. Fatty degeneration of the muscular texture of the heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Leg); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: She was admitted on account of disease of the right tibia which had existed for three years and was attributed to a blow received on the part.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and right inferior extremity
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 39
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1854
Date of death: 24 Nov 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This woman had been suffering for about a year before her admission from cough & shortage of breath’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Aug 1855
Date of death: 3 Aug 1855
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the Heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: For some years this woman had suffered from occasional dyspnoea and palpitation. Five weeks ago this increased and she vomited after taking her meals. Three weeks later she spit blood several times.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 May 1855
Date of death: 4 Jun 1855
Disease (transcribed): Extensive Endocarditis
Disease (standardised): Endocarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman stated that five weeks ago she was attacked with cough and shortness of breath, followed by some swelling of the legs and abdomen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 31 Dec 1852
Date of death: 2 Feb 1853
Disease (transcribed): Mitral disease. Contraction of the left aur ventricles and aortic orifices. Congested lungs. Deposits in spleen
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Congestion (Lung); Deposits (Spleen)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This patient stated that she had had spitting of blood during each successive pregnancy during the last six years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Date of admission: 22 Mar 1854
Date of death: 5 Apr 1854
Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Disease of the heart
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Heart)
Admitting doctor: Wilson, James Arthur
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient presented a remarkable blueness of the lips, nose & cheeks which contrasted strangely with a yellow colour of the eyes & of those parts of the face which were not so congested’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Dec 1853
Date of death: 16 Dec 1853
Disease (transcribed): Brought in dead. Cyst in the brain. Fatty heart containing large clots
Disease (standardised): Cysts (Brain); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman had been found by the police on the previous night or rather early morning in the streets in a state of unconsciousness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a