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Occupation or role: Messenger
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1872
Date of death: 23 Apr 1872
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas faciei. Fatty heart. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Disease (Heart); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man stated that for the last six months he had had pain in the chest which always became much worse after food, and of late he was subject to cough and spitting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Picture frame maker
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Mar 1884
Date of death: 4 Apr 1884
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid fever. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Post mortem examination performed by: Ross, Daniel McClure
Medical notes: A fortnight before admission he had several rigors and felt weak and feverish at night.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Chimney sweep
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1869
Date of death: 30 Sep 1869
Disease (transcribed): Hernia. Peritonitis. Operation
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man had been ruptured ten years and had never worn a truss.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Oct 1872
Date of death: 4 Nov 1872
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart. Pericarditis. Effusion into both chests. Gout
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pericarditis (Heart); Effusion (Thorax); Gout (Joints)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man stated that a week before admission pain commenced in the knee and ankle, and the pain had gradually increased up to admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Joints, pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Soldier
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Aug 1888
Date of death: 17 Aug 1888
Disease (transcribed): Dysentery. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Dysentery (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: 'The man gave no history of having had rheumatism, nor of scarlatina. He was a soldier and in 1884 was in South Africa where he said he had dysentery. He was not however laid up in bed. His bowels acted 11 or 12 times a day’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, intestines, peritoneum, kidneys

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Aug 1869
Date of death: 12 Aug 1869
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This boy had been ill three weeks with pain across the belly in the right iliac fossa.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Labourer
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Nov 1900
Date of death: 25 Nov 1900
Disease (transcribed): Typhoid. Perforation. General Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Perforation (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: Five weeks before admission the patient had had seven or eight consecutive ‘fits’ one afternoon. She went to bed and had remained there ever since.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, alimentary canal and urinary tract
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Draper
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Feb 1877
Date of death: 30 Mar 1877
Disease (transcribed): Hydropneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Hydropneumothorax (Thorax)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: The case was not given as no post mortem was made.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 May 1870
Date of death: 5 Jun 1870
Disease (transcribed): Enteric Fever. Ulceration and perforation of the large intestine. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Typhoid Fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestine ); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This girl had been a patient of the Fever Hospital for measles and on her discharge was sent to the servants home. While there she was seized with pain and aching in the limbs and diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 May 1900
Date of death: 27 Aug 1900
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian cyst. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Cysts (Ovary); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Grunbaum, Otto Fritz Frankau
Medical notes: The patient’s illness had an indefinite beginning about the commencement of this year when she began to lose flesh and become ‘high in the stomach’.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Aug 1869
Date of death: 29 Aug 1869
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of liver. Ascites
Disease (standardised): Cirrhosis (Liver); Ascites (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman could give no history of her illness. She had the appearance of a patient suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 66
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Dec 1872
Date of death: 8 Dec 1872
Disease (transcribed): Right inguinal hernia. Operation. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This patient had had a right femoral hernia for twelve years for which she had worn a truss.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, hernia and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Date of admission: 20 Mar 1878
Date of death: 20 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Adhesions and twisting of the bowel ulceration, perforation. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines); Perforation (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen);
Admitting doctor: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Ten days before admn [admission], attacked suddenly with pain across the abdomen below the umbilicus, which had remained, and on the whole greatly increased, though varying from time to time. Vomiting commenced almost immediately, and continued. For 3 days before admn [admission] the ejected matters were yellow and smelt 'like a watercloset'. The bowels were mored only with enemata'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, peritoneum, kidneys, uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 49
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 May 1866
Date of death: 9 Jul 1866
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering. Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Dec 1870
Date of death: 23 Dec 1870
Disease (transcribed): Lardaceous disease. Pleurisy. Peritonitis from Paracentesis Abdominis.
Disease (standardised): Amyloidosis (Liver); Amyloidosis (Kidney); Pleurisy (Pleura); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Paracentesis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman said that she first noticed her belly begin to swell in May of that year and it gradually increased in size, followed by the legs. There had been previous good health and she had never drunk spirits.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, organs of generation and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Jul 1871
Date of death: 16 Jul 1871
Disease (transcribed): Parturition. Adherent placenta. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Childbirth Adherent placenta; Peritonitis (Abdomen)

Admitted under the care of: Clarke, John
Medical examination performed by: Barnes, Edgar G.
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'For the last two years, this woman has been suffering from intense anaemia, caused apparently by rapid successive pregnancies. For the last two months of pregnancy, her lower extremities and external organs of generation have been intensely swollen from oedema, & her appearance has been very sallow. On July 2nd she was confined. The labour was perfectly natural as far as the birth of the child was concerned, but the placenta was retained’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, organs of generation

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 51
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 May 1872
Date of death: 5 May 1872
Disease (transcribed): Chronic Brights disease. Broncitis. Peritonitis. Ascites
Disease (standardised): Glomerulonephritis (Kidney); Bronchitis (Lung); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Ascites (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman, the mother of a large family, had been subject to cough and some swelling of the legs for the last three years.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, organs of generation and peritoneum
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Milliner
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Feb 1866
Date of death: 20 Mar 1866
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease. Encephaloid
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: She had been ill for eight months before admission. At this date she suffered from vaginal discharge followed in a very short time by pain and swelling in the left iliac fossa.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 May 1872
Date of death: 2 Jun 1872
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of the peritoneum. Ascites. Paracentesis abdomenis. Peritonitis. Contraction of mitral valve
Disease (standardised): Carcinoma (Abdomen); Ascites (Abdomen); Paracentesis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Contraction (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman stated that for the last five years she had had continual cough and spitting which the last winter had been much worse.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Jul 1869
Date of death: 2 Aug 1869
Disease (transcribed): Amputation of left foot. Pyaemia. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Amputation (Foot); Sepsis (Systemic); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Leigh, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This patient some twenty years ago had had frostbite of the toes of the left foot.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 72
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 May 1870
Date of death: 3 Jun 1870
Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid cancer of the Uterus and Ovaries and Peritoneum.
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Uterus); Cancer (Ovaries); Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman had had for three months some difficulty of passing motions, and for the last two weeks none had passed without injections and she had frequent sickness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, abdomen, intestines, liver, spleen, kidneys and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 May 1871
Date of death: 29 May 1871
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of liver. Ascites. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Ascites (Peritoneum); Disease (Heart)

Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This woman who in her youth had been accustomed to drink large quantities of spirits, was seized six weeks before her admission with severe pain in the right hypochondrium. She became jaundiced & at the same time the abdomen began to swell. The jaundice subsided but the abdominal swelling increased & in a fortnight her legs also became dropsical’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, organs of generation

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Feb 1871
Date of death: 13 Mar 1871
Disease (transcribed): Perforation of caecum. Large abscess behind the peritoneum
Disease (standardised): Perforation (Intestines); Abscess (Peritoneum)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'On Jan 25, this girl, who for a day or two had slight pain in the limbs & chest, was seized with distinct rigors & vomiting. There was no diarrhoea, but the vomiting continued’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, organs of generation

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Butler
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Jun 1888
Date of death: 21 Jun 1888
Disease (transcribed): Extra-uterine foetation. Abdominal section. Peritonitis. Pyo-salpinx. Serous perimetritis
Disease (standardised): Ectopic pregnancy; Section (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Pyosalpinx (Fallopian tube); Perimetritis (Uterus)
Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, William C. and Comerford, Harry Beaumont and Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'No history could be got concerning this patient. She was not seen during life by the surgical registrar. She was admitted by Mr Comerford [Harry Beaumont Comerford], the house physician, who diagnosed peritonitis & placed her under Dr Whipham [Thomas Tillyer Whipham]. It was some time afterwards found that the woman was collapsed & on a proper examination of the woman being made by the obstetric assistant, a large abdominal tumor was found’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body parts examined: Abdomen, intestines, bladder, peritoneum, uterus, heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, liver, stomach, intestines

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Mar 1900
Date of death: 17 May 1900
Disease (transcribed): Retroperitoneal Sarcoma
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington. Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: Two years ago the patient had a fall and struck her left side. For the last six months she had been getting thinner. Four weeks before admission she noticed a lump in her left side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, adrenal and intestinal tract and uterus
Type of incident: n/a