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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 55
Date of admission: 25 Oct 1854
Date of death: 2 Dec 1854
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian disease. Paracentesis. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Ovary); Paracentesis (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This woman, who had never borne children, stated that she had enjoyed very good health until 2 years ago, when the abdomen had begun to swell’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Date of admission: 18 Mar 1854
Date of death: 24 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Ligature of a uterine polypus. Fibrin coagulaum in veins
Disease (standardised): Ligature (Uterus); Polyps (Uterus); Thrombosis (Blood vessels)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This person was originally admitted into the hospital on the 19th Oct 1853 and was taken charge of by Dr Lee, at the desire of Dr Page. She was admitted with large uterine polypus, and gave the history that she had borne 3 children, the last having been still-born about 7 years ago. The catamenia [menstruation] had at no time been very regular, but twice then she had suffered from one or two severe floodings, and during the last 4 years had been free from red or colourful discharge’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, iliac veins

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Date of admission: 29 Nov 1854
Date of death: 17 Dec 1854
Disease (transcribed): Extensive ulceration of the large intestine
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Wilson, James Arthur
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This young woman stated that she had been attacked by diarrhoea, accompanied by great pain across the abdomen, & passing of blood by stool, only 9 days before admission. In other respects her health had been perfectly good’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Aug 1856
Date of death: 14 Aug 1856
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis. Diseased Kidneys
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This girl stated that she was in good health until nine days ago; when without any very obvious cause she was taken with violent abdominal pain and retching. The next day the belly and legs began to swell and she complained of a tingling sensation in the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Jun 1851
Date of death: 8 Jul 1851
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the ovaries & fallopian tubes. Pelvic peritonitis. Ulceration of the mucous membrane of the vagina. Recent pleurisy on left side. Old pleurisy on the right side. Engorged lungs
Disease (standardised): Disease (Ovaries, fallopian tubes); Peritonitis (Pelvis); Ulcer (Vagina); Pleurisy (Lungs); Engorgement (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient had been attending for some weeks as an outpatient with flooding & was supposed to labour under some organic disease of the uterus. She was admitted into the house [hospital] owing to her debilitated condition consequent upon the loss of blood which was increased at the time of her admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 64
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Mar 1871
Date of death: 26 Mar 1871
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Hypertrophied & dilated heart. Emphysema of lungs. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Disease (Heart); Emphysema (Lungs); Bronchitis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This woman, who was extremely ill on admission, said she got severe cough & dyspnoea three weeks previously & at the same time her legs swelled. The legs were much swollen, face congested, there was orthopnoea. In front there was very noisy breathing with rhonchi quite obscuring the heart sounds. She was too weak & ill to permit of further examination’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, organs of generation

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Jul 1875
Date of death: 3 Aug 1875
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia of right lung. Renal inflammation
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Inflammation (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This girl was said to have had scarlatina five weeks before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 7 Apr 1875
Date of death: 25 Apr 1875
Disease (transcribed): Acute tubercular pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This woman was admitted having had cough the two previous winters. She said that she had had sore throat and loss of voice for two months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs and larynx
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Gentleman's servant
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jan 1853
Date of death: 26 Jan 1853
Disease (transcribed): Ptosis with peculiar fixedness of both eye balls. Sudden dyspnoea and other peculiar symptoms. Disease of the sphenoid bone
Disease (standardised): Blepharoptosis (Eye); Dyspnoea (Lung); Disease (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This patient was admitted suffering from paralysis of certain of the cranial nerves.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and lungs
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 15 Aug 1855
Date of death: 28 Sep 1855
Disease (transcribed): n/a
Disease (standardised): n/a
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not given.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was removed unexamined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Glazier
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Mar 1851
Date of death: 12 Mar 1851
Disease (transcribed): Extensive fracture of the skull. Laceration of the brain &c
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Laceration (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This patient was a glazier; while at work on the second gallery of the building for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, he overbalanced himself & fell to the ground, a distance of about 80 feet. In his descent he struck his head 3 times against some iron girders & broke a table by falling on it’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Sep 1852
Date of death: 29 Oct 1852
Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess. Destruction by ulceration of parts forming the right hip joint
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Psoas muscle); Ulcer (Hip)
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 was admitted with the history of phthisis, viz bloody sputa, cough and gradual emaciation
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hip joint, abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Date of admission: 11 Jan 1854
Date of death: 26 Jan 1854
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys & liver. Blood extravasation in lungs & under the scalp. Wet brain. Fluid in the cerebral ventricles
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Liver); Extravasation (Lung); Disease (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient alleged that he had been in perfectly good health till 3 days before, when his legs began to swell, and a red rash had come out on the following day’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1851
Date of death: 2 Feb 1851
Disease (transcribed): Severe wound of the throat, through crico-thyroid membrane
Disease (standardised): Wound (Throat)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'This man was brought to the hospital with a wound of the thorax between 2 and 3 inches in length, extending transversely from left to right & terminating over the front of the thyroid cartilage […] He had been found in a field about an hour before he was brought in, & a surgeon in the neighbourhood stated that there was profuse haemorrhage, both venous and arterial from the wound & he had been drinking. No reason was assigned for the deed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx

Type of incident: Trauma / accident / suicide?

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Date of admission: 23 Oct 1854
Date of death: 25 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of urethra. Extravasated urine
Disease (standardised): Stricture (Urethra); Extravasation
Admitting doctor: Tatum, Thomas
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: n/a
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the case is not reported’
Post mortem notes: 'The body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Jan 1856
Date of death: 18 Mar 1856
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was under the care of the Surgeons for some vaginal discharge of a suspicious nature until the 11th March when she was seized with acute pain in the abdomen accompanied by sickness.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax and joints
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 76
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Dec 1851
Date of death: 5 Jan 1852
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Old double pleurisy. Cartilaginiform thickening of the capsule of the spleen. Bronchitis. Fracture of the neck of the thigh bone
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pleurisy (Pleura); Thickening (Spleen); Bronchitis (Lung); Fracture (Leg)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: She alleged that she had suffered from cough for several years but she had been much worse for the last year and a half.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Feb 1856
Date of death: 24 Feb 1856
Disease (transcribed): Diseased Heart. Emphysema
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Emphysema (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This woman was in the Hospital a year ago with a severe attack of bronchitis. This had troubled her again in the early part of the winter and a month before her admission dropsical symptoms set in.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Aug 1851
Date of death: 24 Mar 1852
Disease (transcribed): Arachnitis. Scrofulous deposit in the brain, choroid plexus, lungs, peritoneum, fallopian tubes. Scrofulous deposit also in an enlarged bursa over trochanter major of hip
Disease (standardised): Arachnoiditis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Tuberculosis (Fallopian tubes); Tuberculosis (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: The patient was originally admitted under the physician, complaining of pain in the hip which was thought to be the result of chronic rheumatism. She also had indication of phthisis.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Jan 1868
Date of death: 11 Feb 1868
Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid liver.
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: This woman had been ill for three months with symptoms of dropsy of the belly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Charwoman
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Dec 1869
Date of death: 13 Feb 1870
Disease (transcribed): Pleuritic effusion. Dilated heart. Dropsy.
Disease (standardised): Pleural Effusion (Pleura); Dilation (Heart); Oedema (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer. Cavafy, John
Medical notes: The patient had been ill for six weeks before admission with a cough and dropsy.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and veins. The post mortem was from Dr Cavafy's notes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Date of admission: 26 Jul 1854
Date of death: 27 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of stomach
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined this case is not given’
Post mortem notes: 'The body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Aug 1856
Date of death: 20 Aug 1856
Disease (transcribed): Carcinoma of cervical and thoracic glands, Lungs.
Disease (standardised): Carcinoma (Lymph Nodes); Carcinoma (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: About five weeks before admission this man lost his voice which he supposed to be due to a cold. At the same time he began to lose flesh and the bowels were rather relaxed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium and blood
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1852
Date of death: 28 Mar 1852
Disease (transcribed): Extensive pleurisy on left side. Slight on the right. Consolidated lung from pressure and displacement of the heart. The operation of the paracentesis thoracis had been resorted to
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Consolidated (Lung); Displacement (Heart); Paracentesis (Thorax)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: This patient said she had been suffering from cough three years, which had been much worse lately and was accompanied by weakness and shortness of breath.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Jan 1857
Date of death: 6 Feb 1857
Disease (transcribed): Inflammation and abscess of brain from diseased ear. Pyaemia
Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Brain); Abscess (Brain); Disease (Ear); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: Ten days before admission she felt sharp pinching pain in the right ear and noticed that a little discharge came away on her handkerchief.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium
Type of incident: n/a