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Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Jan 1863
Date of death: 18 Apr 1863
Disease (transcribed): Synovitis. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Synovitis (Joints); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: She stated on her admission that she had enjoyed good health until three weeks ago about which time she noticed that her left knee was painful and that it was larger than the other.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen and left knee joint
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 13 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1875
Date of death: 28 Mar 1875
Disease (transcribed): Rickets. Bronchitis. Convulsions
Disease (standardised): Rickets (Bones); Bronchitis (Lung); Seizures (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This child was brought in in convulsions and died in the surgery.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, cranium, bones and intestines
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Confectioner
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1864
Date of death: 18 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull and spine. Perforation of carotid
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull, spine); Perforation (Carotid arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'The broughman, in which this gentleman was riding, came into violent collision with the pole of an omnibus, which, crashing through the side of the carriage, struck the unfortunate gentleman on the head, he vomited a large quantity of blood immediately, and died in a few seconds’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, spine, trunk

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Apr 1863
Date of death: 26 Apr 1863
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Apoplexy of opposite side of brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: He was at work when his foot slipped on a step and he fell some seven or eight feet down an area.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1864
Date of death: 22 Apr 1864
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'A tin pail loaded with ‘comps’[?] fell a distance of 25 feet, & the edge struck him on the top of his head, sending him insensible for a few minutes. On admission there was a wound about 2 ½ inches long over the sagittal suture’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest, abdomen, spine

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 May 1859
Date of death: 20 May 1859
Disease (transcribed): Caries (syphilitic?) of the skull. Pleuropneumonia. ? Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Caries (Skull); Syphilis (Systemic); Pleuropneumonia (Pleura, Lung); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: Since last January this man had complained of pains in his head, especially on the right side, which were particularly severe at night.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Mar 1863
Date of death: 6 May 1863
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull, ribs and leg. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Ribs); Fracture (Leg); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: While working in a sewer, the earth suddenly gave way and he was knocked down and partly buried under it.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, chest, abdomen and leg
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Mar 1884
Date of death: 23 Apr 1885
Disease (transcribed): Caries of spine. Peri:nephritic abscess
Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Abscess (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical notes: Three weeks prior to admission he had rigor, pain in the right side and cough, with shortness of breath.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Intestines, kidneys, trachea, bronchi, spine, lungs, heart, liver and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Apr 1866
Date of death: 20 Apr 1866
Disease (transcribed): Laceration of brain. Fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Laceration (Brain); Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This patient fell about twenty feet off a scaffold ladder on to his head.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1862
Date of death: 2 May 1862
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of pelvis. Rupture of urethra
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Pelvis); Rupture (Urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: While twisting a bar of iron by means of pulleys into a cart, the rope broke and the bar, which weight a ton, fell across his hips, knocking him down.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Apr 1865
Date of death: 21 Apr 1865
Disease (transcribed): Disease of hip. ‘Amyloid’ disease
Disease (standardised): Disease (Hip); Amyloidosis (Liver); Amyloidosis (Kidney); Amyloidosis (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: Disease of the hip first appeared when she was six years old. After the birth of her youngest child three years ago, an abscess appeared.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hip, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1866
Date of death: 28 Apr 1866
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of 6th cervical vertebra. Bruising of spinal cord and brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Bruising (Spinal cord); Bruising (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This patient was admitted having fallen from a scaffold about forty feet in height.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine and head
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Apr 1864
Date of death: 8 May 1864
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Deep wound of brain
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Wound (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'On the 22nd of April while engaged in blasting some earth, the powder he was using suddenly exploded, and blew a quantity of stones and dirt up into his face
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head (‘no other part of the body was examined’)

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Watchmaker
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Dec 1885
Date of death: 14 Apr 1886
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of vertebrae. Acetabulum hip. Double psoas abscess. Pyo-nephritis. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Spine); Necrosis (Hip); Abscess (Psoas muscle); Nephritis (Kidney); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship. Rouse, James. Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Bull, William Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Medical notes: This man was admitted into St George’s on July 13th and remained until August 5th. He was then suffering from rheumatic pains in the right thigh. He was sent to Wimbledon and discharged cured in a month. He was again admitted complaining of pains in the right leg and ankle.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, stomach, intestines, pancreas, muscles, bones, vertebrae, femur, joints and hip
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 May 1862
Date of death: 16 May 1862
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man was admitted in a state of partial insensibility. He had fallen off a ladder, some fourteen feet, to the ground.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

• Occupation or role: Labourer
  Age: 36
  Gender: Male
  Date of admission: 20 Apr 1863
  Date of death: 29 May 1863
  Disease (transcribed): Excision of shoulder joint
  Disease (standardised): Excision (Shoulder)
  Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
• Holmes, Timothy
  Medical examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
  Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
• Holmes, Timothy
  Medical notes: From July 1861 his right shoulder began to pain him especially after a long day at work.
  Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, chest, abdomen and right shoulder
  Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bus driver
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1893
Date of death: 28 Apr 1893
Disease (transcribed): Caries of alveolar border of upper jaw. Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Caries (Jaw); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Medical notes: In February 1891 he was under treatment in this hospital for what appeared to be chronic pyaemia of unknown origin. For eighteen months after leaving he had fair health, but then he began to suffer from ulceration of the mouth and throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, trachea, pericardium, heart, aorta, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, testes, intestines and pancreas
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 May 1860
Date of death: 7 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fractured ribs. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A house-painter, a hard drinker. He had been ill for a month, suffering from boils or superficial abscesses about the nates. In getting out of bed, a week ago, he slipped and broke several ribs on the left side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 May 1866
Date of death: 3 May 1866
Disease (transcribed): Disease of right petrous bone. Opening into middle fossa, beneath the dura mater
Disease (standardised): Disease (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient was admitted during the night with symptoms of violent delirium and was so furious that he spent the night in the padded room.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Housemaid
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Feb 1866
Date of death: 8 May 1866
Disease (transcribed): Disease of left ilium
Disease (standardised): Disease (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This woman was admitted with a hard, tense swelling in the right side of the abdomen, which had come on without assignable cause three weeks previously.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 May 1862
Date of death: 22 May 1862
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man fell off a scaffold to the ground.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Feb 1865
Date of death: 6 May 1865
Disease (transcribed): Disease of spine. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Spine); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This boy was admitted with a large fluctuating swelling over the right trochanter extending up into the iliac fossa on the right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Jun 1863
Date of death: 8 Jun 1863
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull and pelvis
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Pelvis)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This patient fell fourteen feet from a window.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Feb 1863
Date of death: 9 Jun 1863
Disease (transcribed): Disease of spine
Disease (standardised): Disease (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man stated that he had been losing power in his legs since Christmas and that he could assign no cause whatever for the paralysis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Errand boy
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 May 1864
Date of death: 23 May 1864
Disease (transcribed): Separation of sutures of skull with fracture
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Leigh, William
Medical notes: 'This patient was working on a scaffold this afternoon, when he slipped & fell about 14 feet, striking the back of his head, he was insensible when picked up’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a