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Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Dec 1896
Date of death: 25 Jan 1897
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of skull: old, brown, extravasation of blood under duramater: becoming a membrane
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Extravasation (Meninges) ()
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: 'Patient extremely deaf and so impossible to obtain any history from him, He was brought into hospital on Christmas morning about 4 o'clock having fallen while drunk down the cellar stairs of his home, he was quite unconscious, no bleeding either from ears or nose'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, joints
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

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

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1892
Date of death: 15 Dec 1892
Disease (transcribed): Otitis media. Purulent meningitis
Disease (standardised): Otitis media (Ear); Suppuration (Brain); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: This girl was struck on the left ear by a snow ball in which there was a stone not less than four years before her death, and ever after this injury she suffered from an intermitted discharge from that ear.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, brain, spine, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, uterus, ovaries and kidneys
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 2
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Dec 1891
Date of death: 11 Dec 1891
Disease (transcribed): Bronchopneumonia. Small sarcomatous growth in the skull
Disease (standardised): Bronchopneumonia (Lungs); Sarcoma (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'This child was reported to have suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting for three days. Upon admission at 2pm it was semi-collapsed, but rallied well after been given a little brandy. It took milk eagerly and cried loudly, but sank at 7pm with a temperature of 100'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Pot man
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 May 1890
Date of death: 5 May 1890
Disease (transcribed): Otitis media. Pyaemic abscesses in lungs
Disease (standardised): Otitis media (Ear); Sepsis (Lung); Abscess (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: On the 26th he got wet through. On the 27th he shivered, felt ill and took to his bed. His chief symptoms were thirst, dyspnoea and weakness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, neck, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, kidneys, bladder, testes, liver, stomach, duodenum, intestines and vermiform appendix
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Apr 1890
Date of death: 9 Apr 1890
Disease (transcribed): Otitis media. Cerebellar abscess. Thrombosis of lateral sinus
Disease (standardised): Otitis media (Ear); Abscess (Brain); Thrombosis (Transverse sinuses)
Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: Twelve years before her admission the patient said she had a tumour behind her right jaw. This was removed. For twelve years the woman had deafness of her right ear. Six months before her admission she began to have an offensive discharge from her right ear.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, larynx, oesophagus, thyroid, lungs, heart, peritoneum, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, uterus and ovaries
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1870
Date of death: 15 Oct 1870
Disease (transcribed): Otorrhoea. Suppuration between the D.M. and petrous bone. Abscess in the cerebellum. Softening of corpus callosum and fornix.
Disease (standardised): Otorrhoea (Ear); Suppuration (Skull); Abscess (Brain); Softening (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Cavafy, John
Medical notes: This man had had Otorrhoea from the left ear for six months, no cause assigned. For a month before his admission he had suffered with gradually increasing pain in the head, principally in the forehead.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cerebrum, cerebellum, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys. The post mortem was from Dr Cavafy's notes
Type of incident: n/a