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Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Jul 1860
Date of death: 26 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease & hypertrophy of the heart. Adherent pericardium
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'The patient, a healthy-looking woman, was admitted the day before her death complaining of pain in the wrists and knuckles. These joints were somewhat red and swollen. The woman had before suffered from rheumatic pain but there was no history of rheumatic fever’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Jul 1845
Date of death: 4 Sep 1845
Disease (transcribed): Universal jaundice. Chronic and recent peritonitis. Liver compressed by the deposition of large masses of lymph on its surface and slightly affected with cirrhosis. Ducts pervious throughout their course. Heart dilated and atrophied. Lungs loaded with frothy serum
Disease (standardised): Jaundice (Skin); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Disease (Heart, lungs)

Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted under Dr Seymour [Edward Seymour] about the middle of last year labouring under some little ascites, oedema of the lower extremities, & severe palpitation, with irregular pulse & turgid pulsating jugular veins’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jun 1847
Date of death: 15 Oct 1847
Disease (transcribed): Congestion, inflammation and softening of brain. Miliary tubercles of both lungs. Scrofulous disease of elbow joint.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Elbow)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur. Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient, a habitual drunkard, was admitted for inflammation of the right elbow joint. On 3rd October, without having complained of headache or vertigo, and whilst appearing to the other patients in his usual state of health, he suddenly fell forward while sitting at the table.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and right upper extremity
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Apr 1846
Date of death: 3 Oct 1846
Disease (transcribed): Secondary abscesses in brain. Abscess in lung. Considerable abscess in liver. One small, one communicating externally. Old and partial peritonitis. Congestion and ulceration of large intestine.
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Brain ); Abscess (Lung); Abscess (Liver); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Congestion (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted labouring under symptoms greatly resembling painter’s colic.
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: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 06 Sep 1847
Date of death: 17 Oct 1847
Disease (transcribed): Congested brain. Scrofulous tubercles in substance of 6” nerve and on medulla. Mucous membrane of kidney inflamed and bladder also. Paralysis. Extensive sloughs on sacrum.
Disease (standardised): Congestion (Brain); Tuberculosis (Brain); Inflammation (Kidney); Inflammation (Bladder); Paralysis (Central nervous system); Sloughing (Spine)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel. Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted in a state of almost total insensibility, paraplegia, and paralysed also to a certain extent in his upper extremities. He was reported to have enjoyed excellent health up to seven weeks before admission, when he had a fall from a scaffold.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and spinal chord
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Aug 1867
Date of death: 24 Aug 1867
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised): n/a
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
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: Infant
Age: 0
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Sep 1863
Date of death: 11 Sep 1863
Disease (transcribed): Strangulation. Congestion of brain
Disease (standardised): Strangulation (Throat); Congestion (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: A person crossing Hyde Park observed a parcel lying on the ground which contained a baby with a ligature tied tightly round the throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Aug 1873
Date of death: 27 Aug 1873
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Ulceration of larynx. Necrosis of arytenoid cartilage. Ulceration and perforation of intestine. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Larynx); Necrosis (Larynx); Ulcer (Intestines); Perforation (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This man had always been in good health up to about four years ago when a little cough commenced in a sharp attack and one day he brought up a considerable amount of blood.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, larynx, trachea, peritoneum, glands, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1845
Date of death: 7 Sep 1845
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised):

Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'In consequence of the removal of the body without examination, no history of the case is 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: [No occupation stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Aug 1857
Date of death: 30 Aug 1857
Disease (transcribed): Meningeal apoplexy. Or effusion of blood from injury
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: All that was ascertained respecting this woman was that twelve days before her admission she had a fit, and since the seizure she had been almost entirely unconscious.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and left leg
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Occupation or role: Infant
Age: 18 months
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Jul 1865
Date of death: 20 Jul 1865
Disease (transcribed): Considerable (strumous) enlargement of cervical glands impeding respiration
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lymph nodes); Enlarged (Lymph nodes)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Omitted
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Sep 1871
Date of death: 20 Sep 1871
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of gastro-hepatic omentum
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Abdomen)

Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer and Foster Palmer, James
Medical notes: 'Not reported, no notes having been taken as she died four hours after admission’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Sep 1863
Date of death: 10 Sep 1863
Disease (transcribed): Ulceration of tonsils. Innanition
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Palatine tonsil); Innanition
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: It was reported that she had been ill a week, and had suffered from sore throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, pharynx, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Sep 1859
Date of death: 29 Sep 1859
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised): n/a
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
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
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Sep 1846
Date of death: 6 Oct 1846
Disease (transcribed): Ascites and ansarca. Effused fluid into pleuritic cavities. Congestion and oedema of lungs. Dilatation of right cavities of heart. Atheroma on surface of aorta and mitral valve. Cirrhosis of liver. Congestion of kidneys. Soft spleen.
Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Oedema (General); Effusion (Pleural cavity); Congestion (Lung); Oedema (Lung); Disease (Heart);Plaque, Atherosclerotic (Arteries) ; Cirrhosis (Liver) ; Congestion (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted suffering from ascites and general anasarca. He stated that for the last six or seven months he had been suffering from palpitation and severe paroxysms of dyspnoea on the slightest exertion.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Chair mender
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Aug 1873
Date of death: 28 Aug 1873
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of mesenteric glands
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Lymph nodes)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This man dated his illness from being knocked over by a cart in March of this year. Ever since he had been low spirited and was gradually losing flesh. Two months ago severe colicky pain commenced in the belly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, peritoneum, liver, glands, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Aug 1845
Date of death: 7 Sep 1845
Disease (transcribed): Inflammation and necrosis of the lumbar and sacral vertebrae giving rise to psoas abscess on both sides, one of which made its way into the rectum. The matter in the sacs mixed with blood. Peritonitis. Viscera healthy
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Spine, pelvis); Abscess (Abdomen, rectum); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient stated that on the 12th of August, being at the time in good health, he was suddenly seized with rigors, most acute pain in the abdomen and vomiting; that his belly soon became lympanitic and extremely painful on the slightest pressure, and that though he had been bled and his mouth had become sore from the medicine taken, yet that he was in no way relieved. It was elicited, that about two years ago he had a severe fall, but since the subsidence of the immediate consequences, he had in no way suffered from it’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Domestic servant
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Sep 1859
Date of death: 1 Oct 1859
Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria. Ulceration of the intestines
Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: This patient had suffered from bad health for a long time. She had been seriously ill for a fortnight with sore throat and difficulty of swallowing, with incessant diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Aug 1867
Date of death: 30 Aug 1867
Disease (transcribed): Aneurysm of innominate artery, bursting into trachea
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Arteries); Rupture (Trachea)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Bright, George Charles
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: This patient had been in the hospital for some weeks from 23rd January 1867 during which time he had exhibited many of the same symptoms as on his admission on 23rd August.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Sep 1847
Date of death: 23 Oct 1847
Disease (transcribed): Emphysema of lungs with pulmonary apoplexy. Pleuritis and pneumonia with hepatisation and purulent infiltration. Diseased heart and liver. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lung); Haemorrhage (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung); Suppuration (Lung);Disease (Heart) ; Disease (Liver) ; Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This man was admitted complaining of anasarca and ascites of only six days duration. He had northing definite to complain of until six days ago, when the feet and legs began to swell, and his abdomen also began to increase in size.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Jun 1860
Date of death: 2 Aug 1860
Disease (transcribed): Jaundice. Diseased liver. Gall stones. Diseased ovaries. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Jaundice (Skin); Disease (Liver); Gallstones (Gallbladder); Disease (Ovaries); Pneumonia (Lung)
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 woman had long been losing flesh and appetite, but she did not become a complete invalid until about 7 weeks previous to her admission when she began to suffer pain about the belly and both hypochondriac regions’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Aug 1846
Date of death: 10 Oct 1846
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis with congestion and hepatisation of lungs. Blood fluid. Atheromatous deposit on aorta. Ulceration of mucous membrane of glottis and trachea. Granular kidneys. Mesenteric glands enlarged and ulceration of bowels.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Lung); Plaque, Atherosclerotic (Arteries); Ulcer (Glottis); Ulcer (Trachea); Disease (Kidney);Enlarged (Mesenteric gland) ; Ulcer (Intestines)
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 complaining of great debility, consequence as he stated on long continued diarrhoea accompanied by loss of appetite.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, trachea and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Aug 1845
Date of death: 8 Sep 1845
Disease (transcribed): Slight jaundice. Puriform effusion into joints. Viscera congested, but otherwise healthy. Puriform effusion in sheaths of tendons
Disease (standardised): Jaundice (Skin); Effusion (Joints); Congestion (Internal organs); Effusion (Tendons)

Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient, whose father is a victim of rheumatism, was admitted complaining of wandering rheumatic pains, with slight redness & swelling of the hands & wrists. He stated that eighteen months ago he had an attack of acute rheumatism with pain in the chest & palpitation, from which he entirely recovered, and had enjoyed very good health up to a month ago’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, joints

Type of incident: n/a