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Horace Handcock, 14, [Child of] Labourer

Occupation or role: [Child of] Labourer
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Apr 1887
Date of death: 6 May 1887
Disease (transcribed): Pericardial effusion
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Slater, Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: '3 years ago patient had rheumatic fever and subsequently chorea'

Illustrations: No
Type of incident: n/a

George Lynn, 3, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Oct 1893
Date of death: 12 Oct 1893
Disease (transcribed): Purulent secretion in air-passages and broncho-pneumonia. Laryngeal diphtheria. Subcutaneous emphysema
Disease (standardised): Suppuration (Respiratory tract); Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Diphtheria (Larynx); Emphysema (Lung)

Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: The child had lived in Union Street, Pimlico, a badly drained locality. Much membrane was seen in the throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Tonsils, larynx, trachea, lungs, pleurae, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Frederick Coxhead, 26, Tailor

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Oct 1893
Date of death: 29 Oct 1893
Disease (transcribed): Enteric fever. (Fatal haemorrhage)
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Haemorrhage (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: On October 19th he was attacked with pain in the head, knees, ankles and knuckles with swelling. Since that date he had shivered ever day and vomited constantly. For five weeks before admission he had looseness of the bowels and a discharge from both ears since April.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and heart
Type of incident: n/a

Charles Foley, 19, Costermonger

Occupation or role: Costermonger
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Oct 1893
Date of death: 31 Oct 1893
Disease (transcribed): Emphysema of lungs. Hypertrophy of right heart
Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lung); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: The patient was admitted with much cyanosis, prolonged expiration, cough with scanty frothy sputum and well marked signs of emphysema of the lungs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Mouth, pleurae, lungs, pericardium and heart
Type of incident: n/a

Sarah Myers, 30, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Oct 1893
Date of death: 10 Nov 1893
Disease (transcribed): Exhaustion and cellulitis of legs after poisoning by prussic acid
Disease (standardised): Exhaustion (Systemic); Cellulitis (Skin); Poisoning (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: She had been found unconscious in a first class railway carriage with a bottle labelled Prussic Acid lying on the seat near her. The patient, in easy circumstances of no occupation, had always been of a excitable and passionate disposition, and appeared to have taken the poison as the immediate consequence of a dispute with her mother over a trifling circumstance in which she was told to leave her house and not return.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, air passages, lungs, pleurae, pericardium, heart, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, supra-renal bodies and kidneys
Type of incident: Suicide

Thomas Summerfield, 32, House porter

Occupation or role: House porter
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Nov 1893
Date of death: 13 Nov 1893
Disease (transcribed): Epistaxis. Calculous obstruction of ureters
Disease (standardised): Epistaxis (Nose); Calculi (Ureter)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: This man died within a few hours after admission, and was not seen by the Medical Registrar. A report was furnished saying that the man had been ill for three months, at first with eczma of the leg, which subsided. During the three months he suffered continually from twitching.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

William Nash, 35, Commissionaire

Occupation or role: Commissionaire
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1893
Date of death: 19 Nov 1893
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Abscess of lung
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Abscess (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: A man with frequent cough accompanied by much pain in the right side of the chest, with rapid respiration and sputum of yellow brown appearance.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

James Williams, 23, Fishmonger

Occupation or role: Fishmonger
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Nov 1893
Date of death: 23 Nov 1893
Disease (transcribed): Enteric fever. (Haemorrhage)
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Haemorrhage (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: Fifteen days before admission this man’s appetite began to fail and he began to suffer severe headaches with other febrile pains, giddiness and vomiting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Susan Knapman, 70, Caretaker

Occupation or role: Caretaker
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Nov 1893
Date of death: 27 Nov 1893
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Hour-glass construction of stomach
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Hourglass (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: On November 20th she had shivering with a catching pain in the left side of the chest, although for a fortnight previously she had been suffering from cough, but had spat up no red matter.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Morgan, 38, Brass finisher

Occupation or role: Brass finisher
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Sep 1893
Date of death: 4 Dec 1893
Disease (transcribed): Old empyema. Lardaceous disease
Disease (standardised): Empyema (Pleura); Amyloidosis (Liver); Amyloidosis (Spleen); Amyloidosis (Kidney);

Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: This man had good health until the age of 28. He then had two severe attacks of haemoptysis, in the course of the latter of which there was pain in the right chest and increasing dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

David Creasy, 32, Pewterer

Occupation or role: Pewterer
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Dec 1893
Date of death: 15 Dec 1893
Disease (transcribed): Suffocative haemoptysis. Aneurysm of pulmonary artery
Disease (standardised): Haemoptysis (Respiratory tract); Aneurysm (Arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: Brought in dead
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

John Stenteford, 62, Carpenter

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Oct 1893
Date of death: 23 Dec 1893
Disease (transcribed): Carrigan’s cirrhosis of lung. Colloid columnar carcinoma of peritoneum
Disease (standardised): Cirrhosis (Lung); Cancer (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: This man was admitted with moderate cyanosis, his respiration wheezing with cough and expectoration of large separate masses of green pus.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Lydia Thorne, 15 days, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 15 days
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Dec 1893
Date of death: 31 Dec 1893
Disease (transcribed): Suppression of urine by deposit of uric acid in kidneys
Disease (standardised): Deposit (Kidney); Uric acid (Kidney); Suppression of urine (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: This child was admitted on account of inability to pass urine, and difficulty of swallowing.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

William Reeder, 28, Lodging house keeper

Occupation or role: Lodging house keeper
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Jan 1894
Date of death: 31 Jan 1894
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Acute alcoholism. Collapse (with high temperatures)
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Alcoholism (Systemic); Collapse (Systemic); Fever (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted drowsy, and quite delirious, with a dry brown tongue, both pupils very sluggish to light, and a temperature of 103 degrees. […] There was abundant evidence that the man had been a heavy drinker'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Mabel Murhall, 16, General servant

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Feb 1894
Date of death: 5 Feb 1894
Disease (transcribed): Obstruction of bowels
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Bowels)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'Two years ago this patient had some abdominal attack - the nature of which could not be ascertained. She was in her usual good health until Feb 1st, when, at 2am, she was seized with abdominal pain, vomiting set in and continued until admission on Feb 4th'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, stomach, intestines, liver, gall bladder, spleen, kidneys, pelvic organs, lungs, heart
Type of incident: n/a

Harry Bedwell, 35, Butcher

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Feb 1894
Date of death: 12 Feb 1894
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull. Haemorrhage from lateral sinus
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Ward, Arthur H.
Medical notes: 'Patient was fighting and was knocked down. H. S. [House surgeon] saw him the same night and found a slight contusion of the back of the head. [..] The hospital was very full so the man was given [?] Sennae and sent home in charge of the police. His wife states that he became unconscious before he reached home, but that this was attributed to the draught he had had. Patient remained unconscious till the third day when she brought him back to the hospital'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Skull, brain, lungs, heart, liver
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Jane Briggs, 63, Cook

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Mar 1894
Date of death: 12 Mar 1894
Disease (transcribed): Chronic intestinal obstruction. Carcinoma of peritoneum
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Intestines); Carcinoma (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'No serious illness until a year ago. For the last 12 months this woman's abdomen had been getting swollen, with sharpish intermittent pains like colic, but with no habitual vomiting - wasting had been remarked during the last year also. For 4 years the bowels had never acted without purgatives, and there was frequently an interval of a week or a fortnight without action. The patient refused to have any operation, and died on March 12th'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Peritoneum, colon, spleen, liver, intestines, lungs
Type of incident: n/a

Susie Houston, 34, Lady’s maid

Occupation or role: Lady’s maid
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Mar 1894
Date of death: 12 Mar 1894
Disease (transcribed): Perforated gastric ulcer. General peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Perforation (Stomach); Ulcer (Stomach); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a pulseless condition, and died in less than 12 hours. […] She had been constipated for a week before March 10th when she was seized with pain about the umbilicus […] Since the onset of pain on March 10th until she was admitted on evening of March 11th not even flatus had been passed'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Peritoneal cavity, liver, intestines, stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys, ovaries, uterus, lungs, heart
Type of incident: n/a

Margaret Stowes, 53, [Wife of] Pensioner

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Pensioner
Gender: Female
Age: 53
Date of admission: 27 Jul 1904
Date of death: 14 Sep 1904
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the stomach involving the gall bladder. Oedema of lungs. 'Food' pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Stomach, gallbladder); Oedema (Lung); Pneumonia, aspiration (Lung);
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical examination performed by: Ascherson, William Lawrence
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: 'Patient was admitted after an eight month's illness of progressive loss of strength and weight. On admission she was languid and very anaemic. There was a systolic murmur at the apex of the heart (probably the result of relative dilatation)'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Alfred Soer, 55, Stableman

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Jun 1891
Date of death: 9 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Dilated heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (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: 'Not seen by the registrar. This man had been a very hard drinker for many years, and sometimes he would sit in a public-house for the whole day. He had had more than one attack of delirium tremens. He was not known ever to have had rheumatism or acute inflammatory illness. He was employed at Tattersalls as an attendant of horses. For eight months he had been short of breath and much troubled by oedema of the legs. At 2.20am on June 7th he was left in his room having come home drunk. Nothing more was known about him till late on June 8th when the door was forced open and he was found lying insensible. He was thereupon brought to this hospital'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Stott, 29, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Apr 1891
Date of death: 9 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Endocarditis (old and vegetative). Dilated heart
Disease (standardised): Endocarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart)
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 a builder's labourer. At the age of 15 he had a severe attack of variola. At the age of 17 he had rheumatic fever with delirium and was laid up for 6 months. Since the age of 21 he had been liable to attacks of pain across the front of the chest ‘like a ton-weight' sometimes shooting into the right arm; which attacks were chiefly provoked by physical exertion or alcoholic drink. He was a hard drinker of beer. For one month before his first admission he had been too breathless to walk more than a very short distance. For a somewhat longer time he had been troubled by much cough and copious expectoration'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, head, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Collin Bain, 19, Grocer

Occupation or role: Grocer
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 May 1891
Date of death: 11 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Adherent pericardium. Myocarditis. Endocarditis. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Myocarditis (Heart); Endocarditis (Heart); Pneumonia (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: 'One sister of this patient had had rheumatic fever. The boy enjoyed good health till November 1890 when he contracted rheumatic fever and was laid up in bed for five weeks. He appeared to recover and seemed well till three weeks before admission when he again took to bed on account of praecordial discomfort and shortness of breath'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Phoebe Copcutt, 25, Kitchenmaid

Occupation or role: Kitchenmaid
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Jun 1891
Date of death: 12 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Perforation of the vermiform appendix. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Perforation (Appendix); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This woman was a kitchen-maid. She had enjoyed good health, and the catamenial [menstrual] and other functions were reported to be normal. There had been no previous attack of the nature of that for which she was admitted. On June 8th 1891 she awoke at 4am with severe pain in the lower abdomen especially on the right side. During the day she vomited frequently and passed several motions. She was treated by a medical man with opiate pills. The bowels did not act again after the evening'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Emily Miles, 43, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Jun 1891
Date of death: 6 Jul 1891
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of cervix uteri. Secondary growths in liver. Mitral stenosis
Disease (standardised): Carcinoma (Uterus); Growth (Liver); Disease (Heart)
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 cancer. The woman's father died of consumption at the age of 36. The woman was married and had had two miscarriages but no children. Her health was fair till about midsummer 1890 when she began to suffer from dyspeptic pains and vomiting. These gastric symptoms abated; the appetite remained fair, and solid food was not always vomited. But constant pain in the upper abdomen became a prominent symptom and she lost flesh & strength rapidly. The catamenia [menstruation] were irregular, sometimes scanty, sometimes profuse; no large menorrhagia had taken place'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Richard Francis, 62, Librarian

Occupation or role: Librarian
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Jun 1891
Date of death: 29 Jun 1891
Disease (transcribed): Fibroid disease of heart. Dilatation of heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (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: 'This man was born at Gibraltar and lived there for 50 years. He had spent for the most part a sedentary life, latterly as a librarian, and had suffered from no acute illness with the exception of an attack of rock-fever many years ago. About three months before admission he had for the first time a sudden attack of dyspnoea from which he had nearly recovered by the next day, but a week later a much more severe attack occurred and subsequently many more. Within the last week oedema of the feet had appeared, and for 4 or 5 nights he had been otrhopnoeic'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

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