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Percy Bean, 20, Fireman

Occupation or role: Fireman
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1891
Date of death: 11 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Separation of the left sacro-iliac joint. Rupture of the diaphragm
Disease (standardised): Separation (Pelvis); Rupture (Diaphragm)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not seen by surgical registrar. Died a few hours after admission. See surgical notes'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, head

Type of incident: Trauma / accident?

William Worby, 61, Blacksmith

Occupation or role: Blacksmith
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jun 1891
Date of death: 23 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Interstitial nephritis. Subacute parenchymatous nephritis
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This man was a blacksmith, a native of Cambridge, who had lived in London for seventeen years. He had enjoyed good health and strength for the greater part of his life. There was no history of gout or plumbism. In November 1890 he began to lose health. At first some swelling appeared about the angle of the right jaw, and for a time he lost the sense of taste. He was unable to work, and suffered from two chief and progressive maladies, dyspnoea of a chronic nature without definite asthma, and flatulent dyspepsia. Oedema of the legs appeared about April'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Goodchild, 58, Messenger

Occupation or role: Messenger
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 May 1891
Date of death: 3 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Old cerebral haemorrhage. Fatty heart
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhage (Brain); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy and Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This man was a messenger, who was said to be rheumatic but not gouty. On the whole his health had been good, and he had experienced no previous paralytic attack. On May 3rd 1891 he suddenly lost consciousness for a short time, and was found afterwards to be speechless and paralysed on the right side'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, head

Type of incident: n/a

Mary Noel, 59, Guitar teacher

Occupation or role: Guitar teacher
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Jul 1891
Date of death: 11 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Aortic regurgitation. Cardiac aneurysm
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Aneurysm (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The mother of this woman was Italian, the father French, but the patient herself had lived always in England. She was unmarried and supported herself by teaching the guitar. In her youth she had ‘inflammation of the lungs' more than once, and afterwards her throat was delicate and she was subject to cough since the age of 14. She lost her voice for a twelvemonth within two years of her death. For 10 or 12 years she had suffered from dyspeptic pains, and during the last three months these pains had been much worse'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Patrick O'Donnell, 28, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Jul 1891
Date of death: 11 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Small abscess in right lung. Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Lungs); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Allingham, Herbert William
Medical notes: 'The patient had a bad history, having been in this hospital many times for pneumonia, rheumatism etc. He had complained of pain in both legs for about 4 years and the veins had become very varicose'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, head

Type of incident: n/a

Alexander Albert, 22, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Jul 1891
Date of death: 14 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Bullet wound of skull and brain
Disease (standardised): Wound (Skull, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Died a few minutes after admission. Not seen by surgical registrar'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: Trauma / accident / suicide

Walter Callow, 24, Valet

Occupation or role: Valet
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jul 1891
Date of death: 19 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis [of] lungs and meninges
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs, brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'A complete history was not obtainable. The following facts were supplied partly by the master of the patient and partly by a female to whom he was to have been married. The man was a gentleman's servant. During the last six weeks he had been rather forgetful and had occasionally complained of headache. He was a heavy drinker of whiskey. In December 1890 he had free haematemesis, but none was known to have occurred more recently. For about four days he had been tottery on the legs'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Bunn, 40, Stableman

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Jul 1891
Date of death: 20 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This was a stableman, a native of Herefordshire who had lived in London for thirty years or more. He said that he had enjoyed excellent health, and that though a free drinker he never had delirium tremens. On July 13th 1891 he was quite well in the morning, but at noon was seized by a violent attack of shivering with pain in the head and some stitch on the right side of the chest. He was quite prostrated at once and thought he ‘would have died' during the following night'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Stringall, 44, Bricklayer

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1891
Date of death: 20 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Dilated right ventricle
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This man was a bricklayer who lived in Derbyshire and who came thence to this hospital. His former health was good on the whole except that about 1879 he had an attack of pleurisy, and he had often suffered from slight pains in the legs after a wetting. For eight months he had been under medical treatment for bronchitis. Oedema of the legs first appeared one month before admission, but he was not confined to bed. He had no cardiac pain or palpitation'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Sherman, 44, Fishmonger

Occupation or role: Fishmonger
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Jul 1891
Date of death: 21 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This man was a fishmonger, latterly at any rate a free beer-drinker. In January 1884 he was admitted for the first time into this hospital with an attack of abdominal pain from which he soon recovered. At that time the diagnosis of phthisis at the apex of the right lung was made'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Stewart, 71, Carpenter

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 71
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Jun 1891
Date of death: 23 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of liver
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This was a Scotchman who had lived in London for 40 years and worked as a carpenter. He had enjoyed good health for the most part with the exception of a sharp attack of some pulmonary affection when he was 40 years old. For the last 5 years of his life he had done little or no work on account of failing health. He suffered from irregular action of the bowels, sometimes diarrhoea but more usually constipation, and flatulency'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Bentley, 20, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Jul 1891
Date of death: 7 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Allingham, Herbert William
Medical notes: 'History: That the patient had fallen a distance of about 15ft onto his head. He was picked up quite insensible'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Thomas Lee, 50, Engineer

Occupation or role: Engineer
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jun 1891
Date of death: 9 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pulmonary aneurysm
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Aneurysm (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This man was an engineer who had enjoyed excellent health, and who stated that he was not in the habit of drinking more than 3 or 4 pints of beer per diem. No history of influenza. During the winter of 1890-1 he had a slight attack of rheumatism or gout in the right wrist, but he recovered perfectly and remained quite free from cough or any other symptoms of phthisis till 3 weeks before admission when slight haemoptysis began. On the morning of June 25th he coughed up a considerable quantity of blood, but did not feel the worse'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Kelly, 10, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jul 1891
Date of death: 10 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Acute glomerulo-nephritis
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'No family history of disease except that the boy's maternal grandfather was consumptive. The boy had measles and bronchitis at the age of 5, and never had scarlatina. About March 1890 he had a slight attack of influenza, but his general health was very good till November 9th 1890 when acute dropsy set in after he had ‘caught a cold' and shivered. He was admitted into the Victoria Hospital for Children on Nov 19th in a condition of general anasarca, the urine being free from blood but nearly solid with albumen on boiling'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Bromhead, 67, Mail cart driver

Occupation or role: Mail cart driver
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Aug 1891
Date of death: 11 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Pontine haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'Not seen by the registrar. This man while driving a mail cart suddenly fell back on his seat in a fit. He was brought to this hospital very soon afterwards at 7am'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Julia Walsh, 22, Barmaid

Occupation or role: Barmaid
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Aug 1891
Date of death: 23 Aug 1891
Disease (transcribed): Double pyo-salpinx
Disease (standardised): Pyosalpinx (Fallopian tubes)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Romer, Robert Leslie and Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The father of this woman died of phthisis, the sister has also been treated in this hospital for the same disease. The patient was a barmaid of temperate habits, & enjoying good health, until 4 months ago when she had an attack of pleurisy. On August 15th 1891 she was seized with a sharp pain in lower part of abdomen, no vomiting, bowels regular. On the 16th the pain increased & steadily became worse. On the 17th she vomited & commenced to have diarrhoea. Catamenia [menstruation] regular as a rule, ceased in the regular course on the 10th inst'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

George Branch, 58, Warehouse man

Occupation or role: Warehouse man
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jul 1891
Date of death: 21 Sep 1891
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculosis of right lung
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'There was no family history of tuberculosis. The patient, a warehouseman or store-keeper, had enjoyed very fair health, except that in 1854 he coughed up a little blood without being seriously ill. It did not appear from the history that he had been addicted to the abuse of alcohol. Eleven weeks before admission he began to lose strength and appetite, and noticed enlarged glands on either side of his neck. Six weeks later he vomited a large quantity of blood on two successive nights, after which he kept his bed. About a week before admission he had several attacks of violent shivering'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Turner, 26, Bus conductor

Occupation or role: Bus conductor
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Aug 1891
Date of death: 23 Sep 1891
Disease (transcribed): Chronic parenchymatous nephritis (contracting white kidneys)
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril and Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'The patient gave a history of ‘measles' when a child, btu of no other serious illness until December 1890, when he noticed his face & legs swollen, and felt shivery & sick for a fortnight (it would seem from the account given by his friends, that he almost certainly had scarlatina when 18 years old, followed by oedema of body generally). The man, who was a bus conductor, was able to resume his work at the end of December 1890, and continued in his usual good health until Aug 23rd 1890, when he was attacked by headache, pain in the back, nausea and shivering, and on that day first noticed a rash, attended with much itching on chest & arms'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Annie Gledhill, 30, Dressmaker

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Jul 1891
Date of death: 23 Sep 1891
Disease (transcribed): Ulceration of the duodenum (sarcomatous)
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Duodenum); Sarcoma

Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This patient was born in India but came to England in infancy and lived chiefly at Winchester till the age of 20. Then she came to London and worked as a dressmaker, enjoying fair health till Christmas 1889 when she had an attack of the then prevalent influenza accompanied by diarrhoea and much coryza. She did not regain her former health but remained weak and suffered a good deal from vomiting. In August 1890 she was obliged to give up business on account of progressive weakness and frequent expulsions from the mouth of foul gas ‘smelling like rotten eggs', the latter being so noisome that she could not stay in the same room with other people. Since Christmas 1890 she had been confined to bed, a medical man having diagnosed gastric ulcer'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Ryan, 48, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Sep 1891
Date of death: 24 Sep 1891
Disease (transcribed): Morbus cordis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Newton, Reginald Frederick Henry and Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This patient had slight rheumatism in boyhood. He had been a soldier, and was in India from 1862 to 1868. There he had dysentery but no ague. In 1867 he had rheumatic fever. At one time he was employed as a professional bowler in third class cricket, and during the later years of his life he was a general labourer. He admitted that he was a great beer-drinker, but denied much indulgence in spirits. For some years he had been liable to palpitation of the heart, but not of a serious character till three weeks before his first admission into this hospital'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Sarah Leach, 48, Servant

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Oct 1891
Date of death: 1 Oct 1891
Disease (transcribed): Fatty degeneration and dilatation of heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This woman, a servant, was brought to the hospital by her mistress who stated that she had been found in an almost insensible state and unable to stand some four hours previously. Of her former history no information was obtainable'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Priscilla Edwards, 50, Housekeeper

Occupation or role: Housekeeper
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1891
Date of death: 7 Oct 1891
Disease (transcribed): Epileptic fit. Cardiac failure
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'Not seen by the medical registrar. This woman, a caretaker of a house in Belgrave Square, had been unwell for three days and was thought to have been drinking freely. She was said to have had some sort of fit on the evening of Oct 6th. A medical man who was then called in found her unconscious and having epileptoid convulsions affecting the left side only. She vomited freely, and there was no smell of alcohol in the vomit. She was brought to this hospital at midnight'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Pearce, 35, Coachman

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Sep 1891
Date of death: 17 Oct 1891
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of the liver. Ascites. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Ascites (Peritoneum); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'There was no family history of phthisis. The patient had rheumatic fever at the age of 17, but with this exception his health was very good till the summer of 1890, when being in Spain, he took to drinking heavily of the wines of the country. In the autumn he had a severe attack of diarrhoea lasting 10 days. The same drinking habits were continued in 1891, and in addition he took spirits in the morning. For 4 or 5 months he had been liable to morning sickness. For 5 or 6 weeks the abdomen had been swelling, and there had been free diarrhoea'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Hill, 34, Groom

Occupation or role: Groom
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Oct 1891
Date of death: 22 Oct 1891
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'An imperfect and unreliable history was obtained of this man. He stated that he had had no serious illness and remembered none except slight influenza in the early part of 1891. Previous attacks of delirium tremens were denied, and habitual intemperance was denied. It was admitted that for two days before admission he had been drinking much whiskey'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Agnes Alderton, 21, Kitchenmaid

Occupation or role: Kitchenmaid
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Oct 1891
Date of death: 25 Oct 1891
Disease (transcribed): Perforation of a gastric ulcer
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This girl was a housemaid who became a kitchenmaid about a year before her death because, being anaemic, she found herself unable to run up and down stairs. There was a history of some dyspeptic pains for the last year, but none of haematemesis. The anaemia continued in some degree, though the bowels acted daily, and the catamenia [menstruation], though scanty, were regular'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

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