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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1890
Date of death: 13 Jan 1890
Disease (transcribed): Surgical kidney: Tabes dorsalis. Charcot’s disease of hip joint
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidney); Tabes dorsalis (Spinal cord); Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Lancaster, Ernest Le Cronier
Post mortem examination performed by: Bradley, James Edmund Campbell
Medical notes: His medical attendant wrote that about five years ago the man was seized with sudden crackling and enlargement of the right hip joint, and that ever since he suffered from ataxic symptoms.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, liver, kidneys, ureters, bladder, hip joint, brain and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plasterer
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Date of admission: 7 Mar 1878
Date of death: 21 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Simple (acute) meningitis
Disease (standardised): Meningitis (Brain);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father's brother d. [died] of consumption. Born at full time: suckled 15 mo [months]: lived badly afterwards: always weakly. Always passed quantities of thread worms: always sweated freely at night: subject from earliest years to attacks of frontal headache, with profuse sweating and feverishness (occurring about every 2 mo [months] lasting 24 hours. Cervical abscess at 3 or 4. Lively disposition: not remarkably clever. Loss of flesh for 6 mo [months]. ? Injury to spine. Nine[?] days before admn [admission] he came home, looking very pale and saying that a workman had seized him and shaken him by the hair. In the evening he complained of headache: next day he went to work as usual but came home with increased headache and was obliged to go to bed. On the third day his neck was found to be bent backwards'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain, spinal cord
Type of incident: Violence

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Aug 1879
Date of death: 6 Sep 1879
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular phthisis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The patient was quite well until early in April, when one evening he began to shiver. He continued doing so about a week, and at the end of the week the shivering ceased and cough gradually began. About two months ago dyspnoea and free expectoration commenced, the urine became dark and the appetite failed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Trachea, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Letter carrier
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Date of admission: 4 Dec 1878
Date of death: 13 Dec 1878
Disease (transcribed): Enteric fever, with haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Haemorrhage (Intestines);
Admitting doctor: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: n/a
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. A robust and healthy man: subject to diarrhoea: did not take more than ½ pt [pint] of beer daily. His mind was in too confused a state to give an account of his present illness, but as far as could be made out it was of a fortnight's date on admission. Dec [December] 4th 4p.m. Complained only of burning heat and loss of appetite'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestine
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Dec 1888
Date of death: 20 Jan 1889
Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of transverse portion of the arch of aorta rupturing into the trachea
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta); Rupture (Trachea)
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: Sisley, Richard
Post mortem examination performed by: Penrose, Francis George
Medical notes: He had syphilis thirteen years before his admission. He drank about three pints of beer a day and took spirits occasionally. About ten months before admission he began to suffer from pain in his chest and down his left arm.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Illustrations: Yes
Type of incident: n/a