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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1851
Date of death: 4 Aug 1851
Disease (transcribed): Extirpation of the right mammary gland for scirrhus thereof, & followed by collections of pus under the integument & among the muscles of the left thigh. Inflammation of the external iliac veins & purulent collections under iliac fascia. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Excision (Breast); Scirrhus (Breast); Suppuration (Thigh); Inflammation (Pelvis); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted with a scirrhous tumour of the right breast which was removed on the 8th of May. She gradually recovered from this operation, but the wound did not heal kindly, the discharge being offensive & [?], & there being a good deal of confinement of matter, requiring the opening to be constantly kept free’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lower extremities, abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1851
Date of death: 6 Oct 1851
Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound followed by sloughing. Symptoms of compression of brain [?], attributable to the formation of pus within the cranium. Trephining resorted to. Pus & ‘lymphy gradation’, fluid between the dura mater & bone, also in arachnoid cavity, & among the meshes of pia mater. Also in cavity & of orbit & frontal sinuses. Secondary lobular pneumonia & hepatitis
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Suppuration (Scalp, brain); Trephining (Skull); Pneumonia (Lungs); Hepatitis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man was first seen as an out-patient. He had had a glass thrown at him in some drunken quarrel which had inflicted a pretty severe wound on the fore part of his scalp. There was a good deal of bleeding’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident / violence

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Nov 1851
Date of death: 6 Dec 1851
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia of lower lobe of right lung. Double pleurisy of old standing. Death by purulent infection, the result of ‘phlebitis’ occasioned by venesection
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs); Infection (Systemic); Phlebitis (Blood vessels); Phlebotomy (Blood vessels)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William and Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted on the evening of the 26th complaining of pain on the right side, cough & shortness of breath. It appeared that his illness only dated from the 21st when he was seized with pain in the chest & back, accompanied by headache, pains in the limbs & general lassitude’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Veins &c of arms, blood, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Oct 1851
Date of death: 13 Dec 1851
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of the ribs. Tubercular deposit in its earliest condition throughout both lungs. Enormously thickened & heavy cranium, the inner wall being vascular. Disease of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Ribs); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Brain, kidneys)

Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient had been before under the care of Mr Hawkins [Caesar Henry Hawkins], from January to May of the present year, with caries & necrosis of one or more ribs on the left side. There were three [?]sinuses below the mamma leading down to diseased bone. He improved in health during his stay in the hospital, and a small piece of bone exfoliated, but it was not possible to make any attempts to remove the rest of the disease’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1852
Date of death: 20 Feb 1852
Disease (transcribed): Eruptions of the skin of scalp. Dental irritation accompanied by ‘convulsions’. Death. Excess of sub-arachnoidean fluid. Scrofulous deposit in left lung at apex and bronchial glands
Disease (standardised): Eruptions (Scalp); Irritation (Teeth); Seizures (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This child was admitted on account of an impetiginous eruption about the face and scalp, which had been much neglected.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Mar 1852
Date of death: 15 May 1852
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophied heart. Diseased kidneys. Atheroma of aorta. Old double pleural adhesions. Cheese like scrofulous matter in apices of both lungs
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Adhesions (Pleura); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: He was in the hospital for a short period last August with swelled leg. Despite treatment e was never entirely free from dropsy, but of late the swelling had much increased.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Dec 1852
Date of death: 28 Dec 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposit and vomicae in the lungs. Ulceration of intestine and deposit in mesenteric glands. Dilated heart
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Intestines); Deposit (Lymph nodes); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient was admitted evidently labouring under phthisis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1853
Date of death: 14 Apr 1853
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous tubercles in the brain. Caries of the atlas and axis. Post pharyngeal abscess
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Caries (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: The account which this child's friends gave of her illness was that she had received a blow on the head three months previously.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Date of admission: 8 Feb 1854
Date of death: 13 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Inflamed finger. Secondary abscess in liver. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Hand); Abscess (Liver); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman, stout & [?], but with feeble pulse & apparently suffering from general debility, was admitted on the 8th of February on account of a large angry-looking sore on the forefinger’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Date of admission: 23 Feb 1854
Date of death: 15 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Destruction of the joints of the great toe. Secondary abscess in the liver
Disease (standardised): Disease (Toes); Abscess (Liver)
Admitting doctor: Tatum, Thomas
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, whose complexion was bad, & general appearance cachectic, was admitted on the 23rd of Feb on account of an abscess in the great toe’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1854
Date of death: 5 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Syphilitic disease of humerus. Secondary pneumonia & pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Syphilis (Arm); Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, who appeared in perfect health & had very florid complexion, was admitted on account of disease of the left humerus […] he had had syphilis about 2 years before admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Date of admission: 19 Apr 1854
Date of death: 16 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diseased heart. Inflamed bursa. Fibrin in iliac veins &c
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Heart); Inflammation (Bursa); Thrombosis (Blood vessels)
Admitting doctor: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy and Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man had been out of health for some time, & had been treated as an OP [out-patient] at this hospital for the 3 weeks previous to his admission, on account of some pain at the upper part of the left thigh, supposed at first to be of a rheumatic character’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx & trachea, abdomen, hip

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 13
Date of admission: 19 Apr 1854
Date of death: 14 Jun 1854
Disease (transcribed): Amputation of thigh. Abscess in femur. Inflamed profunda & femoral veins. Secondary deposits of lung, empyema
Disease (standardised): Amputation (Thigh); Abscess (Thigh); Inflammation (Blood vessels); Deposit (Lung); Empyema (Pleura);
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This boy was originally admitted with a view to his being forwarded to Margate [the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital at Margate], on account of strumous disease of the knee, but on his admission the disease was found to be in too active a state to justify that measure. There was very considerable pain in the joint’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, ‘the stump’ (‘the right thigh had been recently amputated about the middle’)

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Gentleman’s servant
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Date of admission: 9 Jun 1854
Date of death: 15 Jun 1854
Disease (transcribed): Abscess in the prostate. Pleurisy. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Prostate); Pleurisy (Pleura); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had been a gentleman’s servant & had lived a luxurious & dissipated life. On admission into the hospital he was extremely weak, & in fact evidently in a dying state’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Date of admission: 13 Sep 1854
Date of death: 4 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Amputation of breast for scirrhous tumour. Typhoid fever. Perforation (post mortem?) of the oesophagus
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Breast); Amputation (Breast); Typhoid fever (Systemic); Perforation (Oesophagus)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted on account of a scirrhous tumour of the right breast, as to which she gave a very compressd history, attributing it to a blow received about 2 months before her admission. She was apparently in good general health’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 67
Date of admission: 13 Nov 1854
Date of death: 14 Nov 1854
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia following injury of the arm
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Injury (Arm)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, who appeared older than the age assigned him, was admitted on the 13th of November on account of diffuse inflammation & incipient gangrene of the forearm & arm’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left arm, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1854
Date of death: 20 Nov 1854
Disease (transcribed): Caries of the tarsal bones. Amputation of leg. Phthisis. Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Caries (Foot); Amputation (Leg); Tuberculosis (Lung); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Tatum, Thomas
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This girl, who was pale & weakly, & presented the usual marks of the strumous habit, was admitted on account of caries of the bones of the left foot, which had existed for about 2 years. She had been treated for it at various hospitals, but without receiving any benefit’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 33
Date of admission: 27 May 1854
Date of death: 30 Nov 1854
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous caries of bones of wrist. Phthisis. Vomicae. Scrofulous deposit underneath the peritoneum
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Wrist); Tuberculosis (Lung); Abscess (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman, whose face was pale & emaciated, with transparent skin & unnaturally brilliant eyes, was admitted on account of strumous caries of the bones of the right wrist’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right wrist & elbow, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Date of admission: 4 Oct 1854
Date of death: 4 Dec 1854
Disease (transcribed): Gonorrhoea. Bubo. Peritonitis. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Gonorrhoea (Urogenital tract); Lymphadenitis (Lymph nodes); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was a lad, to all appearance healthy, who was admitted on account of a bubo, the consequence of gonorrhoea. The complaint had been contracted (for the first time) about 2 months previous to his admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, groin, thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 49
Date of admission: 12 Oct 1854
Date of death: 26 Dec 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diffuse inflammations & gangrene of lower part of abdomental parietes in connection with ulceration of the appendix coeci of the ileum. Abscess in liver from ulcerated sub bladder
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Abdomen); Gangrene (Abdomen); Ulcer (Intestines, appendix, bladder); Abscess (Liver)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman, who was the mother of a numerous family, & who was probably much older than stated, was admitted with diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissue of the lower part of the abdomen, surrounding 2 spots of gangrene’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

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

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Feb 1860
Date of death: 7 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Acute periosteal abscess of the tibia. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Leg); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Two years before admission this boy fell down & struck his left knee on a stone. He had synovial inflammation, which in a few weeks got well by blistering [..] since that time he had been subject to pain in the joint, but had never laid up for it’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1860
Date of death: 17 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Abscess in buttock
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Buttocks)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted under Mr Tatum [Thomas Tatum] with two abscesses (which were discharging unhealthy pus), situated in the left buttock. They had existed for about 10 days’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx, left thigh

Type of incident: n/a

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

Occupation or role: Brewhouse labourer
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Feb 1860
Date of death: 23 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the brain. Gangrene. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Softening (Brain); Gangrene; Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A brewhouse labourer. In the habit of drinking freely, according to his own admission 5 pints a day. He was said to have had epileptic fits latterly, but it was not learned how long he had been so affected. He attributed his illness to a lump of coal falling upon the lower part of his back 7 weeks ago’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a