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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 66
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Mar 1851
Date of death: 16 Mar 1851
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was removed unexamined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1852
Date of death: 1 Apr 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhous carcinoma of the pylorus and part of the parietes of the stomach. Old double pleurisy and patch on the heart. Vomica in the right lung
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach); Pleurisy (Pleura); Disease (Heart); Vomicae (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman applied for admission on account of a lump which she said had been forming in her side since the week before Christmas.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 10 years 7 months
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Jun 1852
Date of death: 19 Jul 1852
Disease (transcribed): Scarlet fever with albuminous urine. Diseased kidneys. Old double pleurisy. Wet brain
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Albuminuria (Kidney); Disease (Kidney); Pleurisy (Pleura); Disease (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: A sister was also admitted suffering from scarlet fever. The brother died a few hours after admission (number 131 in this volume).
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Sep 1846
Date of death: 4 Oct 1846
Disease (transcribed): Contraction of small intestine. Emphysema of lungs.
Disease (standardised): Contraction (Intestines); Emphysema (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: It appeared that the patient had enjoyed good health up to seven or eight weeks before admission, when she was attacked with sickness and diarrhoea which lasted about three days.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Oct 1848
Date of death: 1 Nov 1848
Disease (transcribed): Asthma
Disease (standardised): Asthma (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles
Medical notes: This patient was admitted suffering from oedema of the legs and some degree of dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Nov 1848
Date of death: 26 Nov 1848
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia and pleurisy. Gangrenous abscess of lungs
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura); Gangrene (Lung); Abscess (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles
Medical notes: The patient stated that having had what he considered an ordinary cold, with some slight cough, he had been seized with sharp pain below the nipple on the right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Apr 1849
Date of death: 18 Apr 1849
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Increased vascularity of the lining membrane, of the trachea & bronchi. Viscid tenacious mucus in bronchial tubes. Pulmonary emphysema
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs); Disease (Lungs); Emphysema (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man presented a most remarkably dusky & livid appearance of both hands & face, and excessive blueness of lips. He stated that he had been quite well a month ago, that he had been exposed to cold during the night by sleeping in a stable, and had cough & shortness of breath ever since. He acknowledged however to being generally subject to coughs & cols in winter’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, trachea, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Dec 1849
Date of death: 27 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Empyema. Lung condensed. Old pleuritic aches on opposite side
Disease (standardised): Empyema (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient stated that his illness had commenced between 5 & 6 weeks previously, on the evening of a Sundau with pain in the right side & cough. He had enjoyed good health previously. The pain in the side had not latterly been so severe but the cough had continued with expectoration scanty at first but gradually increasing in quantity and latterly becoming very foul and offensive’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Oct 1853
Date of death: 5 Dec 1853
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Vomicae. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: He was admitted with pretty severe haemoptysis of about a week.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Apr 1847
Date of death: 23 Apr 1847
Disease (transcribed): Purpura of both legs. Extensive pleurisy with considerable purulent effusion. Lung greatly compressed. Dilatation of cavities of heart. Slight hour glass contraction of stomach
Disease (standardised): Purpura (Leg); Pleurisy (Pleura); Compressed (Lung); Disease (Heart); Contraction (Stomach); Suppuration (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: It appeared from the meagre account which could be obtained of his symptoms, that he had long been suffering from could and cough, and on one or two occasions had had slight haemoptysis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 41
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 01 Sep 1847
Date of death: 23 Oct 1847
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas of head and neck. Diseased heart, old pleuritis and contraction of effused lymph. Diseased kidneys.
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Disease (Heart); Pleurisy (Pleura); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This woman was admitted suffering from excessive dyspnoea, palpitation, and anasarca with sloughing of the toes and great inflammation of the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1847
Date of death: 27 Nov 1847
Disease (transcribed): Extensive pleuritis and pericarditis. Pneumonia with hepatisation and purulent infiltration. Cyst of kidney.
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pericarditis (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung); Suppuration (Lung); Cysts (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This man was admitted suffering excessively from dyspnoea and pain in the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Milliner
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Dec 1847
Date of death: 18 Feb 1848
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia with great heptisation. Pericarditis and extensive endocarditis. Ascites. Deposits in spleen and kidneys.
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung); Pericarditis (Heart); Endocarditis (Heart); Ascites (Abdomen); Deposits (Spleen);Deposits (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This girl reported that she had enjoyed excellent health up to twelve months ago, when she began to work at a Milliners and consequently became much confined to the house. Her health from this time gradually began to fail.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Mar 1848
Date of death: 21 Mar 1848
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis. Emphysema of one lung.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Emphysema (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in the last stage of Phthisis Pulmonalis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Apr 1848
Date of death: 19 Apr 1848
Disease (transcribed): Granular and contracted kidneys. Pneumonia with great congestion. Fluid blood.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This man was admitted complaining of pains of a rheumatic character in several of his joints, and of swelling and pain in the right hand.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Date of admission: 29 Jun 1854
Date of death: 10 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Circumscribed pleurisy. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'A Frenchman, who spoke English imperfectly, and stated that he had been taken ill on the 25th with severe pain in his legs. He described this as being very severe indeed for two days & then subsiding & leaving him with a feeling of illness all over, with vomiting of bile’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Aug 1850
Date of death: 23 Aug 1850
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not given.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined at the request of the friends
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Mar 1860
Date of death: 18 Mar 1860
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Emphysema
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs); Emphysema (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'This man had been a patient in January 1859 with delirium tremens, he was a coachman of rather intemperate habits. He left the hospital pretty well and so remained until a fortnight before his present admission, when he was attacked with cough, expectoration and shortness of breath’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 May 1860
Date of death: 13 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pleurisy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pleurisy (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A gardener, accustomed to working in a hot-house. He had good health, excepting occasional dyspepsia, until 3 weeks before admission when he began to suffer from cough with scanty expectoration, never of blood. Latterly he had night sweats with loss of appetite’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Boiler maker
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jan 1861
Date of death: 23 Feb 1861
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Pericarditis. Pleurisy. Diseased kidneys.
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Pericarditis (Heart); Pleurisy (Pleura); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient began at the end of the previous year to suffer from pains in the back and loins which prevented his sitting down. He then had a fit and with loss of consciousness. When admitted he compained of pain across the forehead and of tenderness in the lower part of the dorsal region. Both hands occasionally became numb, and appeared deficient in power. Both legs were in the same condition.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Jan 1863
Date of death: 14 Feb 1863
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax. Paracentesis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumothorax (Lung); Paracentesis (Thorax)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This woman had suffered for six or seven months from cough, and dyspnoea and giddiness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Widow
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Oct 1863
Date of death: 16 Oct 1863
Disease (transcribed): Lobular pneumonia. Suprarenal disease
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Adrenal glands)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: Her illness commenced with pain at the epigastrium and between the shoulders with diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest, abdomen and skin
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Oct 1863
Date of death: 7 Nov 1863
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient sought relief in consequence of pain, apparently rheumatic, in the knees and ankles.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, abdomen and head
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married woman
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Apr 1861
Date of death: 11 Apr 1861
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Hypertrophy of heart. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Hydrothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: The patient had for three of four months suffered from palpitations, cough with expectoration, and slight oedema.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Jun 1861
Date of death: 13 Jun 1861
Disease (transcribed): Disease of liver. Chronic Peritonitis. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Disease (Liver); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Hydrothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient, who drank beer and gin in great quantities, first became a patient at the hospital in July 1857, having suffered swelling of the belly and legs. He was readmitted in July 1859, and again in October 1860.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a