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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Jan 1850
Date of death: 30 Jan 1850
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas of the face and neck. Dysphagia
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Deglutition disorders (Oesophagus)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: This body was removed by the friends without examination
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 February 1844
Date of death: 10 Mar 1844
Disease (transcribed): Diseased bones of nose. Fatal Erysepelas.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Nose); Erysipelas (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: The patient was admitted in a very cachectic state with a disease of the nostrils accompanied by great pain about the head and face and a fetid purulent discharge.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pharynx and larynx, thorax, abdomen, cranium and nasal cavities
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3 years 6 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Sep 1844
Date of death: 7 Nov 1844
Disease (transcribed): Croup extending to the bifurcation of the Trachea. Mottling degeneration of the Kidneys. Incipient disease of the Hip.
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx, Trachea); Mottling degeneration (Kidney); Disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry. Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx and thorax, abdomen and right hip joint
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Saddler
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Jun 1858
Date of death: 3 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing sore throat
Disease (standardised): Sloughing (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man worked in a saddler’s shop near Leicester Square. He was well until a fortnight (ten days?) before admission, when he began to feel languid, & had rigors followed by sickness & loss of appetite. Twenty four hours later he experienced pain in the throat, especially on the right side, and this uneasiness grew worse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 4 years 6 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Sep 1861
Date of death: 3 Oct 1861
Disease (transcribed): Croup. Opening of larynx and trachea.
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx); Opening (Larynx); Opening (Trachea)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The child was admitted with all the symptoms of croup.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 3
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Mar 1862
Date of death: 25 Mar 1862
Disease (transcribed): Croup. Tracheotomy
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx); Tracheotomy (Trachea)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: On the morning of admission this child first showed symptoms of commencing croup.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Air passages, lungs and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Jul 1862
Date of death: 20 Jul 1862
Disease (transcribed): Cynanche tonsillaris
Disease (standardised): Tonsillitis (Palatine tonsil)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: A fortnight before admission this man was taken ill with headache and shivering, symptoms which were followed by sore throat and bloody sputa.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pharynx, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Errand boy
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Jul 1857
Date of death: 3 Aug 1857
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the tympanum. Suppuration in arachnoid. Pus in sinuses. Congestion of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Ear); Suppuration (Brain); Congestion (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: He was stated to have been ill three weeks. He first complained of languor and violent pain in the head coming on worse at night.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right ear, brain, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1858
Date of death: 12 Jan 1858
Disease (transcribed): Laryngitis. Inflammation of the trachea, bronchi & lungs
Disease (standardised): Laryngitis (Larynx); Inflammation (Trachea, bronchi, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Gray, Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A labouring man who had been ill 11 days. The first week it was simply a cold, then he began to have pain in the throat, swelling at the angles of the jaws & difficulty in swallowing’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Child
Age: 2
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1863
Date of death: 16 Mar 1863
Disease (transcribed): Croup
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
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
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Apr 1856
Date of death: 25 Apr 1856
Disease (transcribed): Croup. Tracheotomy
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx); Tracheotomy (Trachea)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: A healthy child who, according to the mother's account, was quite well up to the 20th. He then complained of sore throat. On the 23rd his friends were alarmed at the child being suddenly seized with dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Neck, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 10 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Jun 1866
Date of death: 9 Jun 1866
Disease (transcribed): Croup
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Not given here
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Relief stamper
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Aug 1888
Date of death: 24 Sep 1888
Disease (transcribed): Haemophilia. Death from uncontrollable epistaxis
Disease (standardised): Haemophilia; Epistaxis (Nose)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Davidson, William Marshall
Medical notes: 'The patient stated that her mother used to bleed much from the nose, & that one of her brothers suffered in a similar manner. She had gastric fever when 14 years old, & whooping cough in 1887. For the six months preceding admission her nose had bled profusely two or three times a week, often for 5 or 6 hours at a time; & she had menorrhagia’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Head, thorax, lungs, heart, abdomen, spleen, kidneys, liver, stomach, brain

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cooper
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Oct 1888
Date of death: 26 Oct 1888
Disease (transcribed): Tonsillitis. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Tonsillitis (Tonsils); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Davidson, William Marshall
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The patient said he had not suffered either from rheumatism or scarlatina and that he had never been laid up in bed before. On October 7th he was quite well, on the 8th he had slight headache and felt ‘out of sorts’. On the 10th he began to suffer from sore throat. He was able to work till the 12th when he came to St George’s as an out-patient’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Brain, tonsils, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Feb 1891
Date of death: 24 Feb 1891
Disease (transcribed): Otitis media. Abscess in temporo-sphenoidal lobe
Disease (standardised): Otitis media (Ear); Abscess (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Allingham, Herbert William
Medical notes: 'Up to 17 days previous to admission into hospital the patient had been perfectly well. About that time she began to have pain in the left ear. The pain was very severe so that she could not sleep for 14 days'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Policeman
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Sep 1889
Date of death: 22 Sep 1889
Disease (transcribed): Cerebral meningitis (recent otitis media). (Recent atheromatous endarteritis)
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Otitis media (Ear); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Endarteritis (Arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Sortain, Bertram V. Delepine, Sheridan
Medical notes: Five weeks before his admission he had a second attack of gout and he was in bed for a fortnight. At that time he had pain in his ear which persisted and was accompanied by deafness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, tonsils, brain, skull and eyes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Pot man
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 May 1890
Date of death: 5 May 1890
Disease (transcribed): Otitis media. Pyaemic abscesses in lungs
Disease (standardised): Otitis media (Ear); Sepsis (Lung); Abscess (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: On the 26th he got wet through. On the 27th he shivered, felt ill and took to his bed. His chief symptoms were thirst, dyspnoea and weakness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, neck, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, kidneys, bladder, testes, liver, stomach, duodenum, intestines and vermiform appendix
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1897
Date of death: 15 Oct 1897
Disease (transcribed): Otitis – Cerebellar abscess
Disease (standardised): Otitis (Ear); Abscess (Brain) ()
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard and Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'V. [Vide] Med. [Medical] notes'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'No examination after death'

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Feb 1903
Date of death: 22 Feb 1903
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous meningitis. Old otitis media. Old tuberculous healed nodule in lung. Trephining
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis, meningeal (Brain); Otitis media (Ear); Tuberculosis (Lung); Trephining (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: English, T. Crisp
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: She had had pains all over for one month, thought to have been influenza.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart, liver, portal vein, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, uterus and adnexa, stomach, intestines and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1903
Date of death: 21 Mar 1903
Disease (transcribed): Otitis media. Septic lateral sinus thrombosis. Pyaemia. Abscesses in lungs. Pleurisy with effusion
Disease (standardised): Otitis media (Ear); Sepsis (Transverse sinuses); Thrombosis (Transverse sinuses); Sepsis (Systemic); Abscess (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura);Effusion (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Turner, George Robertson
Medical examination performed by: English, T. Crisp
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: The patient had otorrhoea on the left side for several years. On March 1st he had severe earache.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Skull, brain, lungs, larynx, trachea, thyroid, pericardium, heart, liver, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, alimentary tract, stomach and intestines
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 8
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Oct 1895
Date of death: 31 Oct 1895
Disease (transcribed): Middle ear disease. Thrombosis of lateral sinus (operation)
Disease (standardised): Disease (Ear); Thrombosis (Transverse sinuses); Operation (Transverse sinuses)
Admitted under the care of: Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Ward, Arthur Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: The patient had had a discharge from the left ear since the age of nine months. He had rigors with mastoid tenderness and developed broncho pneumonia.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, brain, lungs, heart, larynx, intestines, liver, spleen, kidneys, adrenals and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 9
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Jan 1896
Date of death: 8 Jan 1896
Disease (transcribed): Otitis. Lateral sinus thrombosis. Pyaemia. Abscesses in lungs. Pneumo-thorax
Disease (standardised): Otitis (Ear); Thrombosis (Transverse sinuses); Sepsis (Systemic); Abscess (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung)

Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Ears, brain, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, oesophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, bladder, testes, spleen, pancreas and suprarenals
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Feb 1896
Date of death: 9 Feb 1896
Disease (transcribed): Cerebral abscess. Otitis media
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Brain); Otitis media (Ear)

Admitted under the care of: Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Ward, Arthur H.
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: The patient had been deaf on the right side for many years. There was a foul discharge with pain three years ago. For the last three months a similar condition had been seen.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidneys, suprarenals, pancreas, testes, joints, brain and ears
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 5 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Jan 1900
Date of death: 16 Jan 1900
Disease (transcribed): Otorrhoea. Marasmus
Disease (standardised): Otorrhoea (Ear); Protein-Energy Malnutrition (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington
Medical examination performed by: Pendlebury, Herbert Stringfellow
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: The child was almost comatose with a temperature of 105 degrees and discharge from both ears.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleura, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, abdomen, peritoneum, mesenteric glands, liver, spleen, kidneys, urinary tract, brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Dec 1900
Date of death: 18 Dec 1900
Disease (transcribed): Croupous pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Dickson, T.W.
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: The patient was admitted in a serious condition.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx and trachea, thyroid, pericardium, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a