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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jul 1859
Date of death: 27 Jul 1859
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Sturgess, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: This man had had an attack of haemoptysis a year ago and brought up a quart of blood. For the last eight weeks he had been losing flesh and was troubled with a cough.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Printer
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jun 1861
Date of death: 10 Aug 1861
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Malignant disease of stomach
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Cancer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: The patient had been suffering from sickness and a slight cough with expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, liver and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Schoolgirl
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Jul 1863
Date of death: 20 Jul 1863
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The child complained at first of pain in the epigastrium increased by taking food.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Office keeper
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Sep 1863
Date of death: 13 Sep 1863
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever. Purpura. Cirrhosis of liver
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Purpura (Skin); Cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man related that he had been employed as an office keeper, and was much confined to the home, and liable to much running up and down stairs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

• Occupation or role: Schoolgirl
  Age: 13
  Gender: Female
  Date of admission: 14 Oct 1863
  Date of death: 30 Oct 1863
  Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria. Disease of hip joint
  Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx); Disease (Hip)
  Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
• Barclay, Andrew Whyte
  Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
  Post mortem examination performed by: Lattey, James
  Medical notes: This patient had been in the hospital for three weeks with symptoms of inflamed hip joint.
  Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, heart, palate, trachea, kidneys and hip joint
  Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Schoolboy
Age: 8
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Aug 1863
Date of death: 19 Nov 1863
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Brodhurst, Bernard Edward. Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This case was admitted under the care of Mr Brodhurst for disease of the shoulder joint.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen and shoulder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Sep 1863
Date of death: 21 Dec 1863
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient was transferred to Dr Pitman from the surgical side where he had been under treatment for difficult micturition.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Laundress
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Dec 1863
Date of death: 25 Dec 1863
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever. Quinine
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient had been ill six days with pains in the limbs and sense of coldness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Aug 1860
Date of death: 21 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'This young woman had suffered from diarrhoea for 15 months, with occasional dyspepsia, occasional vomiting and pain before food. For the last 14 months the catamenia [menstruation] were absent’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Dec 1863
Date of death: 8 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, a labourer, spare and of bronzed complexion came in complaining of ‘a choking pain about the chest’, dyspnoea and a slight cough with spitting of thin, white, frothy saliva together with frequent thirst. He had left his work nine weeks owing to pains in the knees and small joints from rheumatic gout’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jan 1864
Date of death: 23 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This boy was admitted in a very prostrate state, anaemic and wasted with dorsal decubilus[?], burning dry skin, quickened breathing, a very compressible pulse of 128 though tongue dry and glazed. His face was anxious, he replied with some liveliness to questions but his answers were not accurate, when left to himself he conversed in a low tone and rational, pleasant manner as though someone was near by’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Schoolgirl
Age: 5
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1864
Date of death: 13 Feb 1864
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: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This child, a cousin of Morgan [William Morgan, PM/1864/43] and exposed to the same contagion, was brought to the hospital five days after the appearance of eruption and survived for two days after admission. A brother and sister had been affected, and the latter had died. Our patient was very fretful and uneasy’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 2.5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Mar 1864
Date of death: 30 Mar 1864
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular inflammation of the brain
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This child (well nourished and not strumous in appearance) was brought to the hospital in a state of unconsciousness. During the time it lived it lay tranquil and motionless as though sleeping’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1864
Date of death: 17 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted with bronchial catarrh and cough of a month’s duration. He had wasted during the attack and at the time of admission was without appetite’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, blood

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Groom
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 May 1864
Date of death: 6 Jun 1864
Disease (transcribed): Albuminuria. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Albuminuria (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man was a groom, a drinker of porter but of sober habits. He had had cough for eighteen months, but had not given up work till seven weeks before his admission, when the legs became oedematous’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Jun 1864
Date of death: 13 Jun 1864
Disease (transcribed): Spontaneous (?) pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, who on admission was in a state of great prostration, though perfectly intelligent, stated that ten days before he had been attacked with rigors and pains about the limbs, the symptoms being sufficiently severe to send him to bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen, joints

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Schoolgirl
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Jun 1864
Date of death: 29 Jun 1864
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: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This child was brought into the hospital dying, the body about the neck, arms and lower part of belly being covered with a mottled scarlatinal rash’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, chest, ribs, abdomen, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Apr 1864
Date of death: 14 Jul 1864
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This man, who was of powerful frame and healthy appearance, was until two days before his death a surgical patient. He had been admitted for pains in the limbs, the sequel of an attack of gonorrhoea’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Air passages, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Park gate keeper
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jul 1864
Date of death: 27 Jul 1864
Disease (transcribed): Inflammation of brain. Phthisis pulmonalis
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Bagshawe, Frederic
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with far advanced phthisis. The physical signs indicating the pressure of a large cavity at the upper portion of the right lung’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head (‘no other part was examined’)

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Aug 1864
Date of death: 3 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever. Coagulated inflammation of brain
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Inflammation (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient was a robust-looking man, a labourer reported to have been six days ill, the chief symptoms spoken of being pain between the shoulders. The attack had been sudden, but unattended by rigors’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, heart

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Sep 1864
Date of death: 16 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Scarlatina
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This is the boy whose father’s case is recorded on page 239 [STG/PM/1864/239]. He was admitted on the evening of the 6th September’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: With parents
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Aug 1864
Date of death: 17 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular meningitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'The patient, a healthy-looking girl with dark hair and coloured cheeks, was admitted with symptoms resembling fever. She had been taken five days before with vomiting and severe headache, and had since kept her bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General dealer
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Oct 1864
Date of death: 16 Oct 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient, stout and having the appearance of a man lately in robust health, was admitted on the 5th day of his illness. The chief symptoms had been frequently repeated rigors, the bowels had been made loose by medicine. His manner was natural, patient, though acutely alive to his sufferings’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Needlewoman
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Oct 1864
Date of death: 19 Oct 1864
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: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This patient, an anxious and emaciated girl, was admitted with advanced phthisis and died after a fortnight’s residence in the hospital. The symptoms complained of was soreness about the larynx and the voice was low and husky’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housekeeper
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Sep 1864
Date of death: 10 Nov 1864
Disease (transcribed): Typhus. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Typhus (Systemic); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This was a spare and rather fragile woman, admitted in the first instance with sore throat and the rash of scarlatina. Recovering from this with no bad symptoms, very slight desquamation of skin taking place and the urine at no time containing albumen, she was about to be dismissed after a residence of thirty days when she caught the disease of which she died, probably from a patient in the bed next hers’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a