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William Tussens, 33, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jan 1855
Date of death: 22 Feb 1855
Disease (transcribed): Convulsions. Delirium. Purulent deposits in lungs, pleural sac, pectoral muscle and other parts.
Disease (standardised): Seizures (Brain); Delirium (Brain); Purulent deposits (Lung, Pleura); Purulent deposits (Pectoralis Muscles)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: He was said to have been seized with convulsions on the sixth day before admission, which subsequently passed into delirium and then total insensibility.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Metcalf, 35, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1855
Date of death: 30 Mar 1855
Disease (transcribed): Injury to the head. Arachinitis. Pus in left lateral sinuses. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Injury (Head); Arachnoiditis (Meninges); Suppuration (Nose); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was originally admitted on 1st March following a kick from a horse, which had inflicted two wounds on the scalp which exposed the bone.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and right shoulder joint.
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Dennis Dyer, [No age stated], Gardener

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Mar 1855
Date of death: 2 Jun 1855
Disease (transcribed): Paraplegia. Softening of spinal chord.
Disease (standardised): Paraplegia (Central Nervous System); Softening (Spinal Cord)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was admitted into the Hospital on account of incontinence of urine. He had been complaining for about a fortnight of pain in the loins, numbness and loss of power in the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, cranium and spinal column
Type of incident: n/a

William Beach , 33, Baker

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jun 1855
Date of death: 23 Jun 1855
Disease (transcribed): Fatty Heart. Convulsion. Fullness of cerebral veins
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Seizures (Brain); Fullness (Veins)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man said that he had been putting something into the fire of the oven early on the morning of the previous day, when he was seized with a fit and fell with his face against the fire.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, throat and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

John Parker, 60, Tallow chandler

Occupation or role: Tallow chandler
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jun 1855
Date of death: 24 Jun 1855
Disease (transcribed): Eczema. Coma. Unusual amount of fluid in cerebral ventricles.
Disease (standardised): Eczema (Skin); Disease (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man was a tallow chandler, and had in consequence been much exposed to wheat. Lately he had been subject to eczema of which he had several attacks. The attack which caused his application to the Hospital had lasted about five months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Ann Fry, 54, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Dec 1855
Date of death: 23 Jan 1856
Disease (transcribed): Paralysis of long standing. Large ulcers on both legs.
Disease (standardised): Paralysis (Central Nervous System); Ulcer (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was admitted in a very bad state of health. She had suffered for about a year and a half with paralysis of the lower extremities, but applied for admission on account of ulcers on each leg.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium
Type of incident: n/a

Richard Wolver, 65, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Feb 1856
Date of death: 17 Feb 1856
Disease (transcribed): Dementia. Sores on the legs. Viscid fluid under arachnoid.
Disease (standardised): Dementia (Brain); Ulcer (Leg); Fluid (Meninges)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been a sailor. He was admitted on account of ulcers of the legs of about five weeks standing. He was also in a state of senile dementia.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Edward Siggins, 79, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 79
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Jan 1870
Date of death: 29 Mar 1870
Disease (transcribed): Fractured leg. Senile delirium.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Delirium (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined, the case is not herein reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

William Arthur, 58, Butler

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Mar 1870
Date of death: 1 Apr 1870
Disease (transcribed): Fractured tibia. Old paraplegia. Bedsore.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Paraplegia (Brain); Pressure Ulcer (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined, the case is not herein reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

George P Smith, 57, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 May 1870
Date of death: 10 May 1870
Disease (transcribed): Wound on forehead. Meningitis. Apoplexy. Pyaemia.
Disease (standardised): Wound (Head); Meningitis (Brain); Stroke (Brain); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The patient was brought into the Hospital in a semi-comatose state in which he had been found. There was a small scalp wound over the right eye, no other mark or injury. His appearance and expression were that of a man very drunk.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and stomach
Type of incident: n/a

Emily Wilkins, 4, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Nov 1870
Date of death: 21 Nov 1870
Disease (transcribed): Scald. Trismus.
Disease (standardised): Scald (Skin ); Trismus (Jaw)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined, the case if not herein reported.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Jane Piper, 26, Domestic servant

Occupation or role: Domestic servant
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 Jan 1860
Date of death: 20 Jan 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis. Softening of fornix
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Softening (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This young woman, who had been a domestic servant, had been subject to headaches for a long time; for a fortnight she had been out of health, suffering at first from pain in the chest only. Six days before admission she became delirious, talking and laughing continually, and frequently vomiting’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: n/a

William Stevens, 30, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Feb 1860
Date of death: 23 Feb 1860
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the brain. Valvular disease of the heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain, heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was left at the hospital by his friends, unable to give any account of himself or even to tell what name he had beside William. After his death it was ascertained from his wife […] that his illness commenced two years ago after falling upon his head out of an apple tree’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Perryman, 28, Firewood cutter

Occupation or role: Firewood cutter
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1860
Date of death: 22 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis. Phthisis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A firewood cutter of exceedingly drunken habits. From the account obtained from his wife, it appeared that he was taken ill on the 9th of April, having been continuously intoxicated for the previous week. He was seized with pains in the head and aching in the thighs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Henry Arnott, 34, Dockyard labourer

Occupation or role: Dockyard labourer
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1860
Date of death: 26 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was deposited in the hospital by his wife and immediately left, no clue was obtained during his life as to the nature of the preceding symptoms. He was delirious and rapidly becoming comatose [….] He had been a labourer in Woolwich Dockyard. On the 22nd of March while at work, some sand bags weighing 30lb fell upon his head from a height of 20 feet, and knocked him down’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Brown, 40, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Mar 1860
Date of death: 29 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Chronic inflammation & hypertrophy of the skull. Chronic arachnitis. Trephining. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Skull); Arachnitis (Brain); Trephining (Skull); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was at work at the railway bridge at Pimlico, when a stone about the size of a man’s fist fell 30 feet onto his head. He was picked up insensible & conveyed here with as little delay as possible. On admission he was just recovering from his concussion’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Charlotte Zouche, 63, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1860
Date of death: 30 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Hypertrophy of cranium. Meningeal apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Brain); Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient came into the house with cough, expectoration and other symptoms of phthisis which she had had for 4 months. She took cascarilla with ipecacuan, and wine, and her case did not attract much attention until the 25th when she suddenly lost her power of distinct speech. She looked intelligent and appeared to understand all that was said to her’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, neck

Type of incident: n/a

Alfred Culverwell, 7, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1860
Date of death: 6 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Strumous meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Tuberculosis
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child, who had long eyelashes and light hair and was of obviously tubercular aspect, became a surgeon’s patient for stiffness of neck Feb 29th, and on the 10th of the following month was transferred to the physicians. He had been under-fed, complained of pain in the belly, and stiffness of the neck, and pains about the occiput’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Ann Brown, 17, Nursery maid

Occupation or role: Nursery maid
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Apr 1860
Date of death: 17 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A nursery maid. Subject from her earliest years to pain in the head, this was relieved, during her childhood, by occasional bleeding’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

William Haw, 55, Gardener

Occupation or role: Gardener
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1860
Date of death: 19 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Arachnitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Arachnitis (Brain)
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, temperate in his habits. His health was apparently good until the 6th of April since which he had cough, without expectoration’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, larynx, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

George Coleman, 6, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 6
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 May 1860
Date of death: 15 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Meningitis. Tubercle in lungs. Old disease of hip
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child was admitted under Mr Cutler [Edward Cutler] on the 16th of May with strumous disease of the hip. The mother stated that the child had walked slightly lame for 2 months & had occasionally complained of pain in the knee. About a week before admission the pain had been so severe in the knee & also in the hip that the child was obliged to remain in bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, right hip

Type of incident: n/a

Mary A. Rampton, 7, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1860
Date of death: 6 Nov 1860
Disease (transcribed): Chorea. Abscesses. Haemorrhage into abscess
Disease (standardised): Chorea (Central nervous system); Abscess; Haemorrhage
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This child who was said always to have been nervous and excitable. Three weeks before she came in she was pushed into a ditch and much frightened, 10 days after this chronic convulsions came on, in the interval she had been unusually excitable, as her mother said, ‘out of her wits’. When admitted there were evident choreic movements affecting both sides’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Charles Moore, 43, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Nov 1860
Date of death: 13 Dec 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of leg. Bedsore. Cranial & spinal meningitis
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Pressure ulcer (Skin); Meningitis (Brain, spine)
Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Shortly before admission this man fell off a cart, the wheel passing over his right leg. On admission there was a lacerated wound situated in the lower & inner third of the right leg, this led down to a compound comminuted fracture of both bones’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spinal canal, cranium, thorax, abdomen, right leg

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Robert Teagle, 36, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Jan 1852
Date of death: 18 Jan 1852
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Cut throat. Old cough. The larynx not wounded, nor the great vessels. Formation of purulent matter under sterno hyoid muscle. Wet brain. Engorgement of lungs. Soft heart
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Cut (Throat); Suppuration (Sternohyoid muscle); Disease (Brain); Engorgement (Lung); Soft (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This man had been in a state of continuous intoxication for some days. This brought on an attack of delirium tremens and whilst in this state he attempted suicide.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Neck, trachea, cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Suicide

John Nolan, 3, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1852
Date of death: 20 Feb 1852
Disease (transcribed): Eruptions of the skin of scalp. Dental irritation accompanied by ‘convulsions’. Death. Excess of sub-arachnoidean fluid. Scrofulous deposit in left lung at apex and bronchial glands
Disease (standardised): Eruptions (Scalp); Irritation (Teeth); Seizures (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This child was admitted on account of an impetiginous eruption about the face and scalp, which had been much neglected.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

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