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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Oct 1891
Date of death: 29 Oct 1891
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of the middle part of the oesophagus. Gangrenous abscess in the right lung
Disease (standardised): Carcinoma (Oesophagus); Abscess (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: 'The parents of this man died at an advanced age. The patient had been in the army, and spent twelve years in India and one in China. He had had ague, but none for twenty years before his death. There was no history of syphilis. For about five months before admission he had found difficulty in swallowing solids, and had lived almost entirely upon fluids'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Oct 1891
Date of death: 2 Nov 1891
Disease (transcribed): Mitral stenosis
Disease (standardised): 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 had been in the navy and contracted syphilis about 1875. Shortly afterwards he had some affection of the liver on the West Coast of Africa. In 1880, having left the navy, he was attacked by rheumatic fever, this being the only occasion upon which he suffered from rheumatism. Early in November 1890 he began to suffer from shortness of breath and palpitation, by which he was almost invalided in the spring of 1891. Oedema of the legs and ascites were first noticed one month before his admission into this hospital'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Messenger
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Oct 1891
Date of death: 2 Nov 1891
Disease (transcribed): Chronic interstitial nephritis. Horseshoe kidney
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidneys); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy and Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: 'This man was not known ever to have had scarlatina or other acute illness except an attack of gout in the feet three years before his death. He had been a heavy drinker, but was more temperate during the last four years of his life. His health began to fail about nine months before admission, his chief complaints being of frontal headache and occasional vomiting. For so long as he could remember he had passed copious urine, but especially copious for the last four months'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Dec 1891
Date of death: 16 Dec 1891
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis with effusion. Left pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Pleurisy (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: 'So far as could be ascertained there had been no previous illness of severe nature except an attack of bronchitis in infancy. The boy was thought to be far from robust and often complained of headache. It was denied that he had ever had anything resembling rheumatism or chorea'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Nov 1891
Date of death: 24 Dec 1891
Disease (transcribed): Disease of aortic valves. Dilated 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 man, a native of Ewell, had worked had out of doors and enjoyed good health. There was no history of rheumatism, gout or syphilis. In the winter of 1890-1 he had a short attack of bronchitis which confined him to bed for one day. Three weeks before admission he left off work on account of shortness of breath'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Errand boy
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Dec 1891
Date of death: 25 Dec 1891
Disease (transcribed): Morbus cordis, mitral
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: 'No accurate information was obtainable with regard to this patient. The parents stated that he was strong and healthy till he reached the age of about twelve, and that since that time he had been unfit for the work of an errand-boy and used to do light jobs in an oil-shop. During the last five years of his life he had three or four separate attacks of rheumatism, the dates and characters of which could not be ascertained'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Railway fireman
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Jan 1892
Date of death: 29 Jan 1892
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Diarrhoea
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung); Diarrhoea (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: This man was taken ill three weeks before his admission with what was probably an attack of influenza. He had violent pains in the limbs, and also pain across the front of the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, testes, bladder and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Cabman
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Feb 1892
Date of death: 22 Feb 1892
Disease (transcribed): Cerebral haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: This man was observed by the police to be in an incapable condition on the box of his cab, and was quickly brought to the hospital.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, spleen, pancreas, liver, kidneys and testes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Feb 1892
Date of death: 23 Feb 1892
Disease (transcribed): Haemorrhage on surface of left cerebral hemisphere
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhage (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Rouse, James
Medical examination performed by: Allingham, Herbert William
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: No definite history was obtained but he was said to have fallen off his cart.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, throat, pleurae, lungs, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart, aorta, intestines, suprarenals, pancreas, spleen, liver, kidneys, testes, bladder, vesiculae seminales, penis and tibia
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Chair maker
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Nov 1891
Date of death: 14 Mar 1892
Disease (transcribed): Adherent pericardium. Mitral reflux. Aortic reflux and obstruction
Disease (standardised): Adherent (Pericardium); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: In the spring of 1890, soon after recovering from his last attack of rheumatic fever, he caught influenza. He began to suffer from palpitation and breathlessness, and he had occasional slight oedema of the legs at the end of a day.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, stomach, pancreas, suprarenals, liver, bile ducts, spleen, kidneys, bladder and testes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Caretaker
Age: 81
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Mar 1892
Date of death: 5 May 1892
Disease (transcribed): Uterine fibro-myomata. Obstruction. Colotomy
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Uterus); Obstruction (Uterus); Colotomy (Colon)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: Allingham, Herbert William
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: For some years the patient had had great trouble with her bowels and was admitted with the history that for about three weeks the bowels had scarcely acted at all.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart, abdomen, bladder, suprarenal capsules, pancreas, kidneys, spleen and liver
Type of incident: n/a