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Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jun 1866
Date of death: 13 Jul 1866
Disease (transcribed): Effusion into pleurae. Dilated heart. Granular kidneys. Extravasation of blood into pons varolii
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Pleura); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Extravasation (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering. Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: He first observed swelling of the legs about Christmas and he then also suffered from orthopnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and head
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 67
Date of admission: 8 Aug 1854
Date of death: 8 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Extravasation of blood into subarachnoid tissues of brain & into lateral ventricles. Diseased valves of the heart
Disease (standardised): Extravasation (Brain); Disease (Heart)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This patient was brought to the hospital about 2.45pm having been found in the watercloset in a perfectly unconscious state an hour previously. His breathing was thick, & attended with puffing of the cheeks during each expiration. He was twice sick. He never recovered from his comatose state & died in about 4 hours’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: n/a
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Sep 1851
Date of death: 12 Oct 1851
Disease (transcribed): Death by coma & delirium. Jaundice. Almost universal destruction of the true texture of the liver accompanied by the deposition of much fat
Disease (standardised): Coma (Systemic); Delirium (Nervous system); Jaundice (Skin); Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William and Bence Jones, Henry
Medical notes: 'This lad stated that his illness was only of a week’s duration, during which he had suffered from sickness & pain at the pit of the stomach and his skin had been of a yellow hue, his water had been of a darker colour than usual, he believed as long as a fortnight’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1866
Date of death: 20 Jul 1866
Disease (transcribed): Large fatty heart. Sanguineous apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering. Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man had been seized with apoplexy and pitched forward.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Sep 1856
Date of death: 11 Sep 1856
Disease (transcribed): Epileptic seizure. Ventricular and sub-arachnoid effusion of fluid.
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Effusion (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A married woman, the mother of fourteen children. She had enjoyed good health until four months ago, when she took to drinking. A week before admission she complained of pain in her left side and spoke of feeling giddy, and in the days before admission she suffered from epileptic seizures.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cab driver
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Jul 1868
Date of death: 20 Jul 1868
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of brain, lung and kidney
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Brain); Cancer (Lung); Cancer (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: He had been ill for eight months with reported sciatica of the right leg and haemoptysis. Since then he had had a fit and had according to the account given, lost his speech.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Jun 1875
Date of death: 23 Aug 1875
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous disease of mesenteric glands. Cerebritis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Mesentery); Cerebritis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This boy complained of pain in his head and when he was first seen by the physician he was considerably emaciated.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 88
Date of admission: 17 Aug 1854
Date of death: 20 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Retention of urine from enlarged prostate. Calculi in kidney. Senile dementia
Disease (standardised): Urinary retention (Prostate); Calculus (Kidney); Dementia (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This old man applied (or rather was brought by his friends) for admission late in the evening of the 17th of the month. He was in a state of senile dementia, and was very violent & noisy, but could be made to understand simple questions when his attention was forcibly excited. It appeared from his wife’s account that he had been suffering from partial retention of urine for some time, & had had an instrument passed without much difficulty about a month ago, but had not paid further attention to it’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Watchmaker
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Aug 1856
Date of death: 18 Sep 1856
Disease (transcribed): Extravasation of blood into Brain
Disease (standardised): Extravasation (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was admitted with ascites, presumed to depend on cirrhosis of the liver. He stated that two months ago, after taking cold he had a troublesome cough.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 57
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Apr 1875
Date of death: 25 Aug 1875
Disease (transcribed): Softening of spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Softening (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This woman stated that in the October previous to her admission she had had some pain in the loins and down her legs. She had recovered but it recurred.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Aug 1852
Date of death: 3 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): General paralysis. Extreme dilatation of ventricles with clear fluid. Softening of white central parts of the brain. Solidification of the lung
Disease (standardised): Paralysis (Brain); Disease (Brain); Solidification (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been under treatment for some little time on account of stiffness and feeling of weakness and numbness in both legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Nov 1852
Date of death: 4 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): Coma with contracted pupils and stertorous breathing. Paralysis of left arm and leg. Extravasation of blood under the arachnoid membrane at upper part of left cerebral hemisphere and at base of brain also into pons varolii and cerebellum. Atheromatous and fatty cerebral arteries. Fatty heart and kidney
Disease (standardised): Coma (Brain); Paralysis (Brain); Extravasation (Brain); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was brought in in a fit with no degree of consciousness whatsoever.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Nov 1853
Date of death: 3 Nov 1853
Disease (transcribed): Injury from the fall of a tree. Fracture of the skull. Bruising of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Bruising (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was admitted a few hours after an accident in which a large bough of a tree had fallen and struck him in the vertex of the head.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Aug 1856
Date of death: 23 Sep 1856
Disease (transcribed): Hemiplegia. Abscess in Brain. Fibrin of old standing and puriform fluid in the cranial sinuses
Disease (standardised): Hemiplegia (Brain); Abscess (Brain); Thrombosis (Skull); Suppuration (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man came in originally as a Physician's patient with well marked pneumonia of the left side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1852
Date of death: 10 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in lungs and kidneys and under the pleural membrane and arachnoid membrane
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Pleura); Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A Welsh girl who had not long been in service in London, she was admitted in such a wandering state of mind that she was unable to give any distinct amount of herself.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1852
Date of death: 13 Nov 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in the lungs, in the membranes of the brain and cerebellum and of the spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: The history of this case was extremely obscure. He had some illness last summer for which he had been treated at the Westminster Hospital but the nature of it was not known.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spinal cord, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Check-taker
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Oct 1851
Date of death: 20 Nov 1851
Disease (transcribed): Paraplegia. Slough of the soft parts covering the sacrum with necrosis of subjacent bone. Purulent fluid & soft ‘lymph’ under the spinal arachnoid. Recent lymph also in arachnoid cavity of brain & in the meshes of the pia mater. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Paraplegia (Nervous system); Sloughing (Sacrum); Necrosis (Bone); Suppuration (Brain); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man whose occupation was that of a check-taker and attributed his illness to the sedentary nature of his employment, stated that he had been suffering from headache for a week or two in the first instance, and then since 8 or 9 weeks before his admission he gradually lost the use of his right leg; about a fortnight ago, the left had become similarly affected’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spinal column, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 62
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Jan 1873
Date of death: 3 Feb 1873
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: The friends of this woman stated that she had been in good health up to the day before admission when on coming downstairs fell down in a fit and was slightly convulsed and shortly afterwards became insensible.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Jul 1870
Date of death: 21 Aug 1870
Disease (transcribed): Paraplegia.
Disease (standardised): Paraplegia (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: The case was not reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Nov 1853
Date of death: 10 Nov 1853
Disease (transcribed): Injury from a fall from a cart. Fracture of the cranium. Separation of sutures. Bruising of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Bruising (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Four days before his admission he had fallen out of a cart which he was driving on to his head.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 76
Date of admission: 23 Aug 1854
Date of death: 30 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Extravasation of blood into brain. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Extravasation (Brain); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This woman was brought in by a policeman from Chelsea. She was found in a comatose condition, was speechless & had lost all power in the right side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, left ventrible, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Nov 1851
Date of death: 25 Nov 1851
Disease (transcribed): Inflammation, as well recent, as of older standing in various parts of both temporal bones, accompanied by intense delirium. Nothing more than great redness of the minute cerebral vessels found
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Skull); Delirium (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This woman was originally admitted on the 25th June last. She had felt pain about the left ear 9 weeks before that time, and about the same time a swelling showed itself behind the ear, which burst 4 weeks afterwards. The discharge was at first watery, afterwards purulent. The pain was relieved by the establishment of the discharge’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Hatter
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Date of admission: 8 Jun 1854
Date of death: 3 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Adherent pericardium. Purulent fluid in pleural sac
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Adherent (Pericardium); Suppuration (Pleura)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A very intemperate man, a hatter by trade. Brought in one afternoon suffering from delirium tremens. He had been constantly drunk for 3 weeks
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Maidservant
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1853
Date of death: 24 Nov 1853
Disease (transcribed): Injury from a fall out of a window. Fracture of the cranium with laceration of the brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman had fallen out of window three stories high, which she was cleaning, on to the pavement.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Baronet
Age: 72
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Oct 1872
Date of death: 8 Oct 1872
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Died shortly after admission
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a