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Elizabeth Dawson, 20, Servant

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Jan 1855
Date of death: 5 Feb 1855
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous meningitis. Phthisis. Peculiar cysts within vertebral canal formed by arachnoid
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, Meningeal (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Cysts (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This girl had a somewhat strumous appearance, but she was said to have been strong and healthy until she came to London four before admission. She had no definite complaint until six weeks ago when she began to suffer from headache and pains in the centre of the spine.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spinal column, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Henry Mills, 26, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Dec 1859
Date of death: 12 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was sent to the hospital by a general practitioner in order that he might be treated for a supposed strangulated hernia. His antecedents were as follows. For three years he had been getting thin and suffering from cough, emaciation and occasional haemoptysis. He had been for three months in the hospital for consumption’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Eliza Barringer, 18, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Jan 1860
Date of death: 28 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This young woman had been ill 8 days before admission, she had had frequent vomiting, with gradually increasing lassitude, shivering and diarrhoea. At night she had been slightly delirious. No spots were observed previous to admission. When she was seen, a good many very characteristic rose spots were scattered over the chest and abdomen’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Richardson, 53, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1860
Date of death: 31 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Caroline Trawley, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Nov 1859
Date of death: 30 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Peritonitis. Atrophy of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Atrophy (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This old woman began to experience swelling of the legs about Christmas ‘58. The symptom lasted about three weeks and then disappeared until the following August’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Henderson, 22, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jan 1860
Date of death: 9 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diseased kidneys. Old dislocation of radius
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys); Dislocation (Wrist)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Few years before his admission, this man had some complaing which he described as ‘chronic fever’ and it appeared he never was well afterwards, Five months afterwards he coughed up a large quantity of blood, and ever afterwards had a slight cough’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left arm, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Harriet Pile, 39, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860
Date of death: 14 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'When this patient was admitted, she appeared in an excited, half-crazed state, and could not give a very lucid account of her preceding symptoms. She said that she had been ill for two years, that she had spat blood, and had cough with frequent vomiting. She had not menstruated for 18 months’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Bonney, 35, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860
Date of death: 14 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pneumothorax (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had had cough for one month previous to admission, with occasional spitting of blood in small quantities, losing of flesh and sweating at night. When he came into the hospital, his health did not appear much affected’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Alfred Amos, 36, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860
Date of death: 19 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'For 12 months this man had suffered from cough, expectoration and increasing debility. For three or four months he had had habitual night sweats’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Frances Littlewood, 19, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Jan 1860
Date of death: 24 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Bronchitis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Mary Vogelsang, 46, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Feb 1860
Date of death: 23 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian tumour. Abortion. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Ovaries); Miscarriage Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman had had swelling of the abdomen for 12 months, it appeared first on the right side. The week before she applied for admission she complained of nausea, vomiting and general discomfort’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

George Compton, 43, Excavator

Occupation or role: Excavator
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1860
Date of death: 26 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diseased liver
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'An excavator, much in the habit of spirit drinking. He had good health until six months ago, when bleeding at the nose came on and continued more or less for two weeks’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Gibbs, 30, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jan 1860
Date of death: 29 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas. Diseased liver
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

George Anderson, 28, Commercial traveller

Occupation or role: Commercial traveller
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1859
Date of death: 28 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A commercial traveller. Eight weeks before admission, up to which time he had enjoyed good health, he got excessively wet and the exposure was followed by pain in the chest, and cough without much expectoration’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Elizabeth Williamson, 22, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1859
Date of death: 12 Mar 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
Medical notes: 'This patient attributed her illness to having slept in a damp bed last September. This was followed by cough with expectoration and pain in the left side of the chest. She never spat blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, veins, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

George Fullbrook, 16, Errand boy

Occupation or role: Errand boy
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Mar 1860
Date of death: 13 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Acute periosteal abscess. Pericarditis. Secondary deposits in the lung, pleura & kidneys
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Bones); Pericarditis (Heart); Deposit (Lungs, pleura, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'An errand boy. A week before admission he was seized with shivering and a feeling of cold down his spine. This was followed by severe pain in the left foot and leg, and on the following day he had to keep his bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Baker, 24, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Mar 1860
Date of death: 21 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Scarlatina
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

George South, 43, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Nov 1859
Date of death: 26 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Partial peritonitis. Diseased liver. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Ascites (Peritoneum); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Disease (Liver); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'This man had been an excessive drinker of spirits, chiefly of rum. He had had spitting of blood some time before. One month previously the belly began to swell, he never had any pain except that due to the distention’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, scrotum

Type of incident: n/a

Ann Lincoln, 32, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1860
Date of death: 25 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Caroline Penrose, 11, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Mar 1860
Date of death: 30 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child, who had apparently been suffering from want of food, was brought into the hospital complaining of sore throat. She had had a cough, without expectoration for three montha, and was in a state of great emaciation’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Maria Kendal, 25, Servant

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1860
Date of death: 31 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fever. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Abscess in the lung. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Pleurisy (Pleura); Abscess (Lung); Bronchitis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient had been a servant of all work. She had not been perfectly well for three or four months, but had nothing definite the matter with her, until she was exposed to cold 12 days before admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Sophia Wheatley, 45, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1860
Date of death: 6 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Purulent peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman was married, but had no children. Three months before Xmas she miscarried during the third month, and suffered much afterwards from menorrhagia. But she did not become seriously ill until a fortnight before her admission, when vomiting came on’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

George F. Joy, [No age stated], Railway porter

Occupation or role: Railway porter
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Apr 1860
Date of death: 11 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
Medical notes: 'A railway porter. He had pretty good health until 10 weeks before admission, when he began to suffer from cough and expectoration, never of blood. He had occasional bleeding at the nose during his illness’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Perryman, 28, Firewood cutter

Occupation or role: Firewood cutter
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1860
Date of death: 22 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A firewood cutter of exceedingly drunken habits. From the account obtained from his wife, it appeared that he was taken ill on the 9th of April, having been continuously intoxicated for the previous week. He was seized with pains in the head and aching in the thighs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

John Cutler, 50, Former soldier

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

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