Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculous Disease and of Typhoid Fever (St John Ambulance Association), 1913
Genito-Urinary Nursing by H. G. Cummine, 1972
Hints to Mothers on the Treatment of their Children, fifteenth edition, nd [c.1930s-1940s? – published to promote Steedman's Powders, which contained mercury]
Nursing Mirror and Midwives' Journal, 20 Aug 1949
The Nursing Process by Jean Crow, 1977 [ownership inscription: 'Karlene Chambers']
The "Verisan" Home Medical Guide and Year Book, 1940 [with accompanying wrapper with post-it notes affixed: 'for Julia from Jane S.' and 'Jane […] All my love, Dad']
Occupation or role: Carman Age: 43 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1861 Date of death: 20 Apr 1861 Disease (transcribed): Tetanus Disease (standardised): Tetanus (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: Two months before he was admitted he grazed his right elbow and the back of his thumb, but both places were quite healed in less than a week, and presented no symptoms afterwards. About a month afterwards he thought he caught cold, followed by shivering, sore throat and difficulty swallowing Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and spine, thorax and abdomen Illustrations: yes Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Footman Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Mar 1866 Date of death: 24 Mar 1866 Disease (transcribed): Albuminuria. Typhoid fever. Scarlatina. Acute nephritis Disease (standardised): Albuminuria (Kidney); Typhoid fever (Systemic); Scarlet fever (Systemic); Nephritis (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This man was admitted first into the hospital in December with albuminuria and dropsy. Ten days before this admission he was seized with symptoms of typhoid fever. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Painter Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 31 Mar 1866 Date of death: 2 Apr 1866 Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin) Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The present illness was of two weeks duration. It began with the usual symptoms of erysipelas. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Attendant Age: 39 Gender: Male Date of admission: 31 May 1869 Date of death: 3 Jun 1869 Disease (transcribed): Old dysentery. Amyloid degeneration. Phthisis. Ulceration Disease (standardised): Dysentery (Intestines); Amyloidosis (Spleen); Amyloidosis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: This man had been in the army from 1852 to 1860 and had served in the Crimea. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen Illustrations of photographs: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Bus driver Age: 52 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Jun 1876 Date of death: 1 Jul 1876 Disease (transcribed): General tuberculosis of the lungs Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James Medical notes: The only history that could be got for this man was that he had had cough and cold for nine months, getting gradually worse. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and brain Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Cook Age: 55 Gender: Female Date of admission: 20 Oct 1875 Date of death: 20 Feb 1876 Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of the lung and mesenteric glands Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lymph nodes) Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James Medical notes: This woman stated that for a year she had had some red spots on the legs, and for four months pains in the legs followed by pain across the abdomen. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, liver, spleen, mesenteric glands and kidneys Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Widow Age: 67 Gender: Female Date of admission: 13 Jun 1877 Date of death: 19 July 1877 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular phthisis; granular kidneys Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: This patient was not examined by the Registrar, as her extreme weakness precluded it. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach, uterus and brain Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Packer Gender: Male Age: 40 Date of admission: 12 Dec 1877 Date of death: 30 Dec 1877 Disease (transcribed): Low pneumonia. Cystic disease of kidneys. Syphilitic disease of liver Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Kidney diseases, cystic (Kidney); Syphilis (Liver); Admitting doctor: Wadham, William Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'History. No heritable disease in the family. Suffered from 'brain fever' in childhood: from 'rheumatics' in 1857, from occasional sore throats. Venereal sore in 1857 (after the rheumatism) […] A temperate man. Languor and want of appetite, with some loss of flesh for about a month. Attacked with shivering about noon 12 days before admn [admission]: had to leave work and go home. Pain in L [Left] hypochondrium, increased at night, after food, or on inspiration; cough, dyspnoea, and occasional palpitation commenced, and continued. Shivering lasted two days. Bowels costive: urine as usual' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, brain Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Housekeeper Gender: Female Age: 60 Date of admission: 17 Apr 1878 Date of death: 8 Jun 1878 Disease (transcribed): Calcifying tumour in the right iliac fossa, psoas abscess, perforation into caecum and into peritoneum Disease (standardised): Tumour (Hip); Psoas abscess (Psoas muscles); Perforation (Intestines); Perforation (Abdomen); Admitting doctor: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William
Wilson, E. Medical notes: 'History. No hereditary history. Previous history of good health: meat three times a day, disgust to fat: dislike to butter: bowels open about once in three days. Loss of appetite about 21 months. Tumour found in R. [Right] inguinal region for about 18 mo [months]. Pain about the tumour, and loss of flesh from May 1877. Much costiveness of bowels: hardly any action without purgations: vomiting seldom: (Woman unintelligent: account by no means clear)' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, tumour Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Nurse Gender: Female Age: 61 Date of admission: 8 May 1878 Date of death: 14 Jul 1878 Disease (transcribed): Perforating ulcer of the stomach. Limited superficial abscess in the peritoneal cavity and left lobe of liver Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Abscess (Abdomen); Abscess (Liver); Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'History. No heritable disease in the family. Scarlatina at 16: 'gastric fever' at 40: diphtheria at 43: smallpox at 57. Always intolerant of fat; - subject to pain after food in the epigastrium and to sick headaches as long as she remembered: bowels habitually costive and diaphoresis profuse: subject also to palpitation and to glandular swellings in the neck. For two years she had noticed a fulness in the epigastrium. From Dec [December] 1st to 31st she suffered from a dry 'spasmodic' cough, which began suddenly without rigor or nasal catarrh. On Dec [December] 31st it left her suddenly, and she was as suddenly attack with severe vomiting and epigastric pain, which lasted an hour. From that time there was a constant dull pain in the epigastrium, increased after food' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Gender: Female Age: 33 Date of admission: 11 Jul 1878 Date of death: 26 Jul 1878 Disease (transcribed): Limited peritonitis with ulceration of the bowel into a limited peritoneal cavity Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Ulcer (Intestines); Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'History. Erysipelas of L. [Left] leg at 15: frequent ulceration from that time: scarlatina in childhood: rheumatic fever at 17. Never robust: bad living till marriage: appetite always small: winter coughs for 8 or 9 years: catamenia scanty. Severe confinement on Dec. [December] 2nd 1876: very weak from that time: lactation scanty. In Novr [November] 1877 severe pain commenced gradually in the R. [Right] side of the abdomen; and increased steadily, being unaffected by period of day, by food or respiration. About the middle of Jan. [January] 1878 on severe paroxysms attacked him suddenly and lasted several hours until relieved by turpentine fomentations. The pain from the first was accompanied by constipation, and by vomiting, which was hardly ever absent for a whole day, and sometimes severe and constant for several. From Xmas she laid up' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Labourer Gender: Male Age: 21 Date of admission: 2 Jan 1878 Date of death: 2 Jan 1878 Disease (transcribed): Fibrinous pneumonia etc. Tubercle Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung); Admitting doctor: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: n/a PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'Not examined by Registrar' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, brain Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Joiner Gender: Male Age: 33 Date of admission: 20 Nov 1878 Date of death: 11 Dec 1878 Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercular disease (fibrosis) Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Fibrosis (Lung); Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'History. Two brothers died of consumption. Disgust to fat: headache and 'rising' after eggs: sick headaches. Coughs in winter from early years: otherwise healthy. Had drunk great quantities of beer, often a gallon a day: spirits seldom. Anorexia and disgust at the sight of food, about 2 yrs [years] (dates all vague). Epigastric pain after food, nearly as long: severe from the summer of 1877. Wasting for about 12 mo [months] (6 stone weight lost). Pain and swelling of knee; frequent micturition, scanty dark urine, from about Feb [February] 1878. Severe pains in the chest, about 'ten weeks'. Cough for 'eight or nine weeks' ' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [Child of] footman Gender: Male Age: 8 Date of admission: 20 Dec 1878 Date of death: 30 Dec 1878 Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess; bronchopneumonia; cerebral congestion Disease (standardised): Psoas abscess (Psoas muscles); Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Congestion (Brain); Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'Symptoms. This child was admitted complaining of frontal headache, which was the only definite symptom during the progress of the case. (No history was obtainable). The headache persisted without variation: the temperature was an shown on the chart: the bowels acted regularly. About the 27th he began to wander in mind, and gradually sank into a state of stupor with occasional intervals of consciousness: the pupils being dilated' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, psoas abscess, spine, spinal cord, brain Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Gender: Female Age: 29 Date of admission: 31 Mar 1878 Date of death: 21 Mar 1878 Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary tubercular phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Admitting doctor: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard PM performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: 'Admission. Admitted complaining of sore throat, with loss of voice and dyspnoea at times: slight cough. General weakness, small appetite. P. [Pulse] 120 very weak. R. [Respiration rate?] about 20: irregular. Ill nourished and pale: tremor of hands: delicate skin: long eyelashes. […] History. She was deaf and very weak: the following history only was obtained: - No heritable disease: no illness, ailment or constitutional peculiarity, except leucorrhoea for 4 yrs [years]: from birth of last child. Present symptoms of 6 mo [months] date: onset gradual: severe for 3 mo [months]. Much weakness for 1 mo [months]' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, kidneys, spleen, liver, uterus Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 24 Gender: Male Date of admission: 27 Nov 1878 Date of death: 17 Mar 1879 Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary phthisis (tubercular. Numerous suppurating cavities) Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Suppuration (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: In November 1878 he spat up while coughing about three tablespoonfuls of blood. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys and spleen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Plumber Age: 42 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Jul 1879 Date of death: 16 Sep 1879 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular pulmonary phthisis (tapping of a vomica) Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tapping (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: This patient was transferred from University College Hospital on its closing for repairs. The patient was admitted there on June 23rd and he was then suffering from intermittent pyrexia. There was cough and free purulent expectoration. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Butcher Age: 49 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Aug 1879 Date of death: 20 Sep 1879 Disease (transcribed): Tubercle of lungs. Emphysema (pulmonary). Hydropericardium Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung); Hydropericardium (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter Post mortem examination performed by: Tidswell, Herbert Henry Medical notes: He was an in-patient in this hospital in 1877 for haemoptysis. He had suffered from dyspnoea more or less for ten years, and the cough had steadily increased since 1877. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 12 Gender: Male Date of admission: 13 Nov 1879 Date of death: 30 Nov 1879 Disease (transcribed): Enteric fever Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: Not reported here, as no PM was made Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: No occupation Age: 55 Gender: Female Date of admission: 24 Nov 1879 Date of death: 16 Dec 1879 Disease (transcribed): Fibroid tubercle of the lung. Old aneurysm of the aorta filled with consolidated fibrin Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Aneurysm (Aorta) Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: About seven months before admission she had to give up work on account of weakness, emaciation and dyspnoea. This was referred to as bronchitis. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus and spinal column Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Nov 1878 Date of death: 19 Feb 1879 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular peritonitis and meningitis “of the convexity” Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William Medical notes: He was quite well until November 8th, when after working hard in the wet, he began towards evening to feel chilly and shiver. After going to bed he grew hot and sweated profusely. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, peritoneum, intestines and brain Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Age: 37 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 Jan 1880 Date of death: 1 Apr 1880 Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of kidneys, urinary tract and lungs Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Urinary tract); Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter Post mortem examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Medical notes: For about four months before admission she suffered from ‘cold chills’, profuse night sweats for two to three months and emaciation for four months. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and urinary apparatus Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Nurse Age: 33 Gender: Female Date of admission: 24 Apr 1880 Date of death: 27 Apr 1880 Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx) Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Age: 43 Gender: Female Date of admission: 23 Apr 1880 Date of death: 7 May 1880 Disease (transcribed): Head wound. (Tetanus). Swelling of the left parotid gland Disease (standardised): Wound (Head); Tetanus (Systemic); Inflammation (Parotid gland) Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George Medical examination performed by: Dent, Clinton Thomas Post mortem examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Medical notes: The patient had for a long time led an exceedingly intemperate life. On the day of admission she fell down stairs while drunk, and struck her head against the edge of a step. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, lungs, heart ,liver, spleen and kidneys Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: Trauma/accident