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Ann Riley, 48, Cook

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Feb 1862
Date of death: 4 Mar 1862
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the heart and general dropsy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Oedema (General)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: This was a case of disease of the heart and general dropsy.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Robert Clover, 38, Valet

Occupation or role: Valet
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Dec 1861
Date of death: 4 Jan 1862
Disease (transcribed): Inflammation of the veins of the thigh following rheumatism
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Veins); Rheumatic diseases (Tissues)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: This was a case of inflammation of the veins of the thigh following rheumatism.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

William L Payne, 42, Reporter

Occupation or role: Reporter
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Feb 1862
Date of death: 20 Feb 1862
Disease (transcribed): Disease of heart. Recent endocarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Endocarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man was brought to the hospital in an almost dying state. He was suffering from great dyspnoea, was cold and almost pulseless.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Margaret Mahoney, 60, Widow

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Jan 1862
Date of death: 1 Feb 1862
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Disease of heart
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
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

John Dickinson, 72, Shoemaker

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: 72
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Nov 1861
Date of death: 20 Dec 1861
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis etc. Gouty deposits in kidneys which were granular.
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient had long been subject to attacks of rheumatic gout. He had also been suffering with chronic pericarditis.

Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen and great toe
Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Earthy, 55, Coach Trimmer

Occupation or role: Coach Trimmer
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Nov 1861
Date of death: 8 Dec 1861
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of Heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes:
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Sophia Thurston, 60, Housekeeper

Occupation or role: Housekeeper
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Oct 1861
Date of death: 30 Oct 1861
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: One month before admission, the patient began to suffer from shortness of breath following any exertion. Her feet also began to swell.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Caroline Wilson , 33, Married woman

Occupation or role: Married woman
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Oct 1861
Date of death: 8 Nov 1861
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient was taken ill seven months before with pain in the region of the heart, palpitations on exertion, cough, expectoration and dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Mary A Standing, 40, Married woman

Occupation or role: Married woman
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 May 1861
Date of death: 21 May 1861
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the aortic valves
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: A married woman, the mother of 12 children. For three years before her admission she was said to have suffered from shortness of breath, weakness, cough, and occasional bloody expectoration.

Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis and neck
Type of incident: n/a

Ellen Evans, 25, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Apr 1861
Date of death: 21 May 1861
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The woman, who was unmarried, had for several years suffered from a rheumatism in a chronic form. A week before she came in, after much hard work and bad living, she was attacked with pain, redness and swelling of the joints.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Martha Dunningham , 26, Housemaid

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Apr 1861
Date of death: 27 Apr 1861
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart. Lobular pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient had good health until three months ago she was attacked with acute rheumatism. She has not been suffering from palpitations and gradually increasing dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Samuel Williams, 52, Bell hanger

Occupation or role: Bell hanger
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Oct 1860
Date of death: 1 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease & dilatation of the heart. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (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: 'A bell hanger. He had pretty good health until within between 4 and 5 years of his death, when he caught cold by sleeping in a damp bed and had much shortness of breath with cough and palpitations’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Nehemiah Norton, 50, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Aug 1860
Date of death: 29 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease & hypertrophy of the heart. Diseased liver & kidneys. Dropsy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Liver); Disease (Kidneys); Edema (Systemic)
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 man who had had rheumatic fever in his youth, had been out of health for 18 months before his admission, suffering from dropsy, shortness of breath, and scantiness of urine’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Susan Randall, 26, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1860
Date of death: 5 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Vegetations on valves of heart. Fibrinous block in spleen. Secondary lobular pneumonia. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Vegetations (Heart); Disease (Spleen); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (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 young woman had had pain and swelling in the left hand, which was believed to be rheumatic, for a week before admission. This could not be traced to any injury but appeared to have been the result of exposure to cold. She admitted indeed, after many leading questions and much cross-examination, that about a fortnight previously she had pricked her hand with a pin but there did not appear to be any reason for connecting this with the present swelling’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Salmon, 62, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jan 1860
Date of death: 31 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Pleuropneumonia. Pulmonary apoplexy. Hypertrophy of heart
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Lungs); Stroke (Lungs); Disease (Heart)
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 man had twice had acute rheumatism, but his chest was not known to have been affected in either attack. Until some weeks before admission, his health was pretty good, he then began to suffer from cough and shortness of breath’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Rachel King, 55, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Jul 1860
Date of death: 14 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Sarah Uridge, 40, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 May 1860
Date of death: 28 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart & kidneys. Purulent peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart, kidneys); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
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 woman had been in the hospital in September /59 and in March ‘60. At the latter of these periods, she stated that she had never had a rheumatism, but that for the last 4 years, she had occasionally suffered from palpitations, swelling of the legs, especially at night, swelling of the belly and cough’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Riddle, 65, Journeyman baker

Occupation or role: Journeyman baker
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1860
Date of death: 20 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Dilated aorta. Hypertrophy of heart. Diseased kidneys. Dropsy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Aorta, heart, kidneys); Edema (Systemic)
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 man had been a journeyman baker. He had had more or less cough for years, and was subject to gout. He never had had acute rheumatism’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

John Baggott, 48, Waterman

Occupation or role: Waterman
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Apr 1860
Date of death: 26 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Diseased heart
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A waterman. He first became a patient on the 1st of Feb /60, when it appeared that for two months he had suffered from shortness of breath with cough and expectoration, never of blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Brooks, 43, Carpenter

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Mar 1859
Date of death: 9 Apr 1859
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart. Pneumonia. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: He had been much exposed to weather in following his vocation. Three weeks before he became a patient he caught cold and his breathing became much embarrassed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Charlotte Tricky, 10, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Feb 1859
Date of death: 5 Apr 1859
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not given
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

John Shave, 54, Porter

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Nov 1858
Date of death: 7 Jan 1859
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Hypertrophy of the heart. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: For the last three days he had suffered from headache, nausea and pains in the loins.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Mary Broadbridge, 60, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1859
Date of death: 31 Mar 1859
Disease (transcribed): Disease of aortic valves
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: Her health was pretty good until the preceding May when she supposes that she took cold for she began to suffer from attacks of spasmodic dyspnoea, and had some cough with expectoration.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

George Golding, 12, Brickmaker

Occupation or role: Brickmaker
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jan 1859
Date of death: 21 Feb 1859
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophy and dilatation of the heart. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: His illness, dropsy and palpitation, commenced about the 1st of March and was attributed to having caught cold by falling into a brook two or three weeks before.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Catherine Sinnott, 47, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Nov 1859
Date of death: 18 Dec 1859
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Diseased heart and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Oedema (General); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: For the last three years she suffered from palpitation on exertion or excitement.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

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