Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 47 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 Oct 1848 Date of death: 4 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Tubercles & vomicae in both lungs. Ulceration of the epiglottis & chordae vocales Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Ulcer (Larynx) 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, whose occupation caused him to be very much exposed to wet & cold, stated that having been frequently subject to cough on former occasions, he had suffered from it constantly during the last 4 or 5 months, and for the last few weeks he had also had night sweats & become much emaciated. He had never spit blood. His expectoration was abundant & had become thick & yellowish for 2 or 3 weeks. He had given up work a fortnight’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, trachea, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 60 Gender: Female Date of admission: 27 Dec 1848 Date of death: 6 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia. Operation. Erysipelas Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation Erysipelas (Skin) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'She had had a reducible femoral hernia of the right side for nearly 4 years, for which she wore a truss. On the 26th of December she felt some tenseness & uneasiness in the bowels & a frequent desire to go to stool, which resulted only in one scanty evacuation. She had been in good health on the preceding day. About 10 o’clock on the evening of the 26th she was suddenly seized with violent sickness & vomiting, which continued through the night, accompanied by griping pains in the bowels’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 26 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Jan 1849 Date of death: 9 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined’
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 28 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Nov 1848 Date of death: 15 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Miliary tubercles. Old adhesions of peritoneum Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Peritoneum) Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient stated on admission that he had been subject to cough for some years, but had not until lately suffered much inconvenience. He caught cold 8 or 9 weeks previously, and has had a good deal of cough & dyspnoea ever since’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 30 Dec 1848 Date of death: 13 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Cachexia, miliary tubercles & vomicae in the lungs. Diseased liver Disease (standardised): Cellulitis (Skin); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Disease (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'He presented on admission a state of extreme cachexia. His countenance was pallid & blotched, his muscular system lax & flabby, his pulse frequent and very feeble. On his forehead, about the centre of the os frontis, was a large phagedaenic ulcer two or three inches in diameter, which had all the appearance of being of a syphalitic character. The surface was foul & secreting a copious & very offensive discharge. He stated that it had commenced four or five months back as a small pimple which he repeatedly picked until it at length became an ulcer. His habits had been drunken & dissipated, and he acknowledged having had a primary syphalitic sore about the middle of November last, which healed without the employment of mercury’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 82 Gender: Female Date of admission: 1 Dec 1848 Date of death: 20 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Fractured neck of left femur within the capsular ligament. Abscess communicating with joint, slough on sacrum. Diseased kidneys Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh); Abscess (Leg); Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'She was brought to the hospital at 7 o’clock in the evening having a short time before been knocked down by a cart while crossing the street. She was unable to stand and experienced great pain in the left hip. The limb was shortened about an inch & a half, but extension readily restored it to the same length as its fellow; the foot was everted; there was free motion in all directions, but it was painful, more especially on performing adduction’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left inferior extremity
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 56 Gender: Female Date of admission: 20 Jan 1848 Date of death: 24 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia. Intestines sloughy. Operation. Low peritonitis Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Sloughing (Intestines); Operation; Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'For 4 years she had had a femoral hernia of the right side. At first she wore a truss, but discontinued it at the end of 12 months on account of the pain & distress in the part, and the numbness in the leg which it occasioned. After she discontinued wearing the truss, the hernia became incarcerated, but there is no history of it ever having been strangulated until the 14th of January, when she was seized with pain in the abdomen and vomited several times, the bowels acting only once’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 17 Jan 1849 Date of death: 31 Jan 1849 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Vomicae. Blind fistula. Peritoneal inflammation. Ulceration of ileum Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Fistula; Inflammation (Peritoneum); Ulcer (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'Was admitted under the care of the surgeon with fistula in ano, for the purpose of operation. He was sent on the 26th to see the physician to enquire into the state of his chest, when he was found to have had cough & shortness of breath for some time [and] to be much emaciated, with night-sweats, and all the ordinary symptoms of phthisis’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 18 Gender: Female Date of admission: 1 Feb 1849 Date of death: 10 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Severe burn. Tetanus Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Tetanus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'At the particular request of the friends, this body was not examined’
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 62 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Feb 1849 Date of death: 13 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the urethra. Fistula. Abscess. Granular kidneys Disease (standardised): Constriction (Urethra); Fistula; Abscess; Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'Several months prior to his last admission, this patient was in the hospital under the care of Mr Hawkins [Caesar Hawkins] for stricture of the urethra, & subsequent to discharge he was in the habit of paying periodical visits to the hospital for the purpose of having a caheter passed. By this means he went on pretty well until the 10th of January last, when he was seized with shivering, which continued more or less for the three or four succeeding days. This was followed by feverishness with thirst & anorexia, and his bowels, which at first were constipated, afterwards became relaxed’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 13 Gender: Female Date of admission: 1 Feb 1849 Date of death: 13 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Severe burn. Tetanus Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Tetanus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined at the request of the friends’
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 19 Jul 1848 Date of death: 16 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Extensive caries of the femur & acetabulum with abscess Disease (standardised): Caries (Thigh, hip); Abscess
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: ‘The history of this case has not been preserved’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left lower extremity
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Jan 1849 Date of death: 21 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Caries of the dorsal & lumbar vertebrae. Abscess. Secondary deposits. Diseased liver and kidney Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Abscess; Deposit; Disease (Liver, kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient 17 months before the date of his admission, first began to complain of dull, gnawing pain across the loins, which was not however sufficiently severe to preclude his persecuting his usual employment. About 8 or 9 weeks after an abscess formed in the left lumbar region, which was opened & continued to discharge matter for upwards of 8 months, and then healed up’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right knee joint
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 26 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Jan 1849 Date of death: 20 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Abscess in the neck. Secondary deposits. Diseased kidneys Disease (standardised): Rheumatism (Joints); Gonorrhoea (Urogenital tract); Abscess (Neck); Deposit; Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was originally admitted with rheumatism of some standing, & probably gonorrhoeal in its origin. He had an attack of it in September for 2 or 3 days, & then it returned in November & he had been confined to bed up to the 8th January. He was better, & able to get about, but still suffering from pain across the sacrum, running down the outside of left leg & affecting both knees’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, larynx, trachea, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 5 months Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Feb 1849 Date of death: 25 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Congenital oblique inguinal hernia. Operation. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This child was admitted with symptoms of strangulated hernia of several hours’ duration (said to be 24 hours at least). Everything that was given to the child was returned by vomiting; the bowels were constipated & there was pain in the belly’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Jan 1849 Date of death: 5 Mar 1849 Disease (transcribed): Subacute rheumatism (gout?). Pneumonia. Spotted fever Disease (standardised): Rheumatism (Joints); Gout (Joints); Pneumonia (Lungs); Spotted fever (Systemic) 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 originally admitted with sub-acute rheumatism affecting chiefly the knee joints, from which he said he had then been suffering nearly a month. His first attack of a rheumatic character which he designated ‘fever’ had occurred about 18 years ago, and he had been in the hospital before with a similar attack to the present’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, knee joints
Occupation or role: Chimney sweep Age: 41 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Dec 1848 Date of death: 5 Mar 1849 Disease (transcribed): Chimney sweep’s cancer of the scrotum. Sloughing ulceration of glands in groin. Secondary deposits in the lungs Disease (standardised): Cancer (Scrotum); Ulcer (Groin); Deposit (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient, a chimney sweep by trade, was admitted with a cancerous ulcer situated on the right side & lower part of the scrotum. About 3 years before, there first appeared, in the situation now occupied by the ulcer, a small warty excrescence which enlarged very slowly & without pain. This in about two years began to ulcerate, but as it gave him no inconvenience he did not seek medical aid. In the course of another three months a gland in the right groin began to enlarge and finally wen on to ulceration’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, scrotum, penis, inguinal regions
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 45 Gender: Female Date of admission: 12 Mar 1849 Date of death: 14 Mar 1849 Disease (transcribed): Femoral hernia. Operation. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation (Thigh); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with symptoms of strangulated hernia of 4 days’ duration. A femoral hernia of the right side had existed for more than two years, but she had never worn a truss or experienced any inconvenience from it until the 8th of March. She was then seized with vomiting, & griping pains in the belly’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Sailor Age: 22 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Feb 1849 Date of death: 12 Mar 1849 Disease (transcribed): Hematuria. Scrofulous deposit in the kidneys, bladder & urethra. Tubercles in kidneys Disease (standardised): Hematuria (Urogenital tract); Deposit (Kidneys, bladder, urethra); Tuberculosis (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient stated that about 3 years previous to the date of his admission he began to experience a sense of weakness, scarcely amounting to pain, in his loins & thighs. He was a sailor & attributed his complaint in part to constant exposure to cold & inclement weather in the exercise of his vocation; but after a time he noticed that he passed water more freuqnetly than normal & in about 12 months from the first occasion of his complaint his urine became more or less coloured with blood’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 19 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Mar 1849 Date of death: 23 Mar 1849 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Tubercles & vomicae in both lungs. Dilated heart. Ulcerations of small intestines. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Ulcer (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This lad when admitted presented […] together with excessive emaciation & scrofulous enlargement of the cervical glands, an aspect somewhat unusual in phthisis of great lividity of the countenance, with blue patches on the cheeks & very blue lips. He stated that he had suffered from cough about 4 months, that he had gradually become weaker, but to his knowledge he never had spit blood. His expectoration was copious, and he had night sweats’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 21 Feb 1849 Date of death: 26 Mar 1849 Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Large abscess in the thigh. Secondary abscess on the chest. Congested lungs. Blood partly fluid Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Abscess (Thigh, chest); Congestion (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient who presented a pale aspect, with puffy oedematous-looking face & swelled legs, stated that dropsy had commenced in the ankles about 4 or 5 weeks before admission. He had caught cold & suffered from slight cough for 3 or 4 months but had experienced no pain in the loins. His urine had sometimes been scanty but was never dark-coloured. The legs and thighs were on admission very much distended’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right lower extremity
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 28 Gender: Female Date of admission: 7 Mar 1849 Date of death: 3 Apr 1849 Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas. Congested lungs. Blood partially fluid. Cirrhosed liver. Bright’s disease of kidneys. Ulceration and thickening of the tibia. Ulcer of the leg Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Congestion (Lungs); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Nephritis (Kidneys); Ulcer (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with cachectic abscesses one of which was situated about the middle of the anterior surface of the right leg, and another, which had already opened, a little above the inner condyle of the left humerus’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right lower extremity
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 42 Gender: Female Date of admission: 27 Mar 1849 Date of death: 8 Apr 1849 Disease (transcribed): Extensive ulceration of the vagina with sinus leading to dead bone involving rami of ischium & pubis. Tubercles & vomicae in the lungs Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Vagina); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of very great debility for a purulent discharge from the vagina, but she was in fact dying of phthisis pulmonalis, the apex of the right lung being much consolidated while in that of the left there existed a vomica of considerable extent. She stated that 9 months before she had been attacked by pain, deeply seated in the left side of the pelvis, which extended down the thigh of that side in the course of the great sciatic nerve & for which she was treated as sciatica by cupping, leeches, blisters &c’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis
Occupation or role: Carter Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Apr 1849 Date of death: 9 Apr 1849 Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine. Extravasation of blood in spinal canal. Laceration of anterior portion of cord. Fractured sternum. Pneumonia. Semi-purulent fluid in hilus of left kidney Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Extravasation (Spinal canal); Laceration (Spinal cord); Fracture (Sternum); Pneumonia (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient, who was a carter, while standing at the tail of his cart with the tail-board down, was thrown backwards into the street by the horse making a sudden start. In the fall he was thrown on his back against the ground, but the chief part of the blow was sustained by the lower cervical & upper dorsal vertebra & left shoulder. The accident occurred at 2pm on the 2nd of April. He was perfectly sober at the time, when picked up was not insensible. He was carried home & attended by a medical man in Westminster who found him palsied in the lower extremities’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Stableman Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Apr 1849 Date of death: 15 Apr 1849 Disease (transcribed): Haemorrhoids, sloughing of the mucous membrane of the rectum. Liver large. Tubercles & vomicae in the lungs Disease (standardised): Haemorrhoids (Rectum, anus); Sloughing (Rectum); Disease (Liver); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with three large inflamed & strangulated piles, each of them rather bigger than a large nut, & formed by dilated haemorrhoidal veins with very little mucous membrane covering them. They had come down on the preceding day, accompanied by considerable haemorrhage from the bowel, and the spincter having closed around them he was prevented from getting them back. He was a stableman, debilitated & out of health & had suffered for two years from cough & many of the symptoms of advanced phthisis’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen