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[Name redacted], 71, No occupation

Occupation or role: No occupation
Age: 71
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Jan 1933
Date of death: 1 Jan 1932
Disease (transcribed): Ruptured aneurysm of abdominal aorta
Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta); Rupture (Aorta)
Admitted under the care of: Gainsborough, Hugh
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Riddell, Victor Horsley Hume
Medical notes: Brought in dead.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, valves, vessels, abdomen, peritoneum, ureter, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, urinary tract, alimentary tract, brain and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

[Name redacted], 45, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Jan 1937
Date of death: 1 Jan 1937
Disease (transcribed): Fracture of base of skull
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Bull, James William Douglas
Medical notes: He fell fifteen feet from a ladder. He vomited several times.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, trachea, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, brain and skull
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Examination register

Register of nurses' state and hospital examination results, including lists of marks (some of which are on typed lists inserted into the volume) and examiners' comments

St James' nurse personal album

Unlabelled album of black and white photographs (with some handwritten captions) apparently taken by a nurse who trained/worked at St James' Hospital, containing the following inserted note from Heather Bond, chair of the St George's Nurses' League (14 Apr 2000): 'Photograph album of a nurse at St James Hospital Balham in 1927 – Bought in a carboot sale in 1999 by Mr Pat Fry who thought it should be in the hospital archive so gave it to Alex Baker, business manager.'

In addition to shots of St James' nurses and buildings (often on the roof), the album also contains holiday photos of Ramsgate and Bournemouth, and portraits of family members.

[Name redacted], 60, Steel fixer

Occupation or role: Steel fixer
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jan 1939
Date of death: 4 Jan 1939
Disease (transcribed): Coronary thrombosis
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Feiling, Anthony
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Teare, Robert Donald
Medical notes: Brought in dead
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, liver, spleen and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Pathology slide box

Wooden box containing six trays of glass pathology slides, including many with labels linking them to King's College Hospital or Charing Cross Hospital Institute of Pathology, and others featuring the names C. N. Cantor and R. B. Davis; a few also include dates from the 1940s. The inside lid is inscribed with the name and address (subsequently crossed out) of M. Snow at King's College for Women, University of London.

William James, 47, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Dec 1840
Date of death: 31 Dec 1840
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

Thomas Sheate, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1853
Date of death: 31 Dec 1853
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Vomicae
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Abscess (Lung)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'Rather a stout, well-built man who said that he had suffered from cough & shortness of breathing during 5 or 6 weeks previous to his admission. He had lost flesh considerably during his illness, but had never spit blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Charles Elmes, 33, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1854
Date of death: 3 Jan 1855
Disease (transcribed): Pleuro Pneumonia. Stricture of the Urethra
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Lung, Pleura); Constriction (Urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This man stated that he had been ill only about a week with cough and cold and pain in the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Mary Clarke, 17, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Nov 1844
Date of death: 2 Jan 1845
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis. Pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pneumothorax (Lungs)

Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'She stated on admission, that for many months past she had been troubled with a short, dry, hacking cough, and with shortness of breath on making any exertion, but more particularly on going up stairs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Joseph Jones, 37, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Dec 1865
Date of death: 1 Jan 1866
Disease (transcribed): Laceration of femoral artery
Disease (standardised): Laceration (Arteries)
Admitted under the care of: Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This man was admitted with the history that the day before he was riding on the shaft of his cart when he slipped off and the wheel passed over his body.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Arteries, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Thomas Williams, 46, Tailor

Occupation or role: Tailor
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 31 Dec 1863
Date of death: 1 Jan 1864
Disease (transcribed): Necrosis of cricoid cartilage
Disease (standardised): Necrosis (Trachea)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte and Pollock, George
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Braine, Francis Woodhouse
Medical notes: 'Admitted, as a patient under the care of the physician, on the evening of December 31, with great dyspnoea; he was seen at 11pm by the house surgeon who found the difficulty of breathing rather diminished. […] He suffered from primary syphilis in 1837, but the sore does not appear to have been followed by any secondary symptoms till the end of 1862 when he had sore throat’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Slater, 33, Bricklayer

Occupation or role: Bricklayer
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Oct 1869
Date of death: 2 Jan 1870
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Small round celled sarcoma – glioma – involving the medulla oblongata and cervical region of the spinal cord – large cavity in the centre of the cord.
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Sarcoma (Spinal Cord); Cavity (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The patient applied to the Hospital as an outpatient and was treated for lead palsy which affected his hands.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Emma Veale, 31, Nurse

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Dec 1875
Date of death: 30 Dec 1875
Disease (transcribed): Extreme mitral contraction
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This woman stated that she had for some years been subject to winter cough and that the previous winter she had had some haemoptysis and that she had lost flesh and had some diarrhoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Elizabeth Page, 51, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 51
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Dec 1874
Date of death: 2 Jan 1875
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of pleura (after amputation of cancerous breast). Empyema
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Pleura); Cancer (Breast); Amputation (Breast); Empyema (Pleura)
Admitted under the care of: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical examination performed by: Thrupp, James Godfrey
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This woman was readmitted after a scirrhus tumour was removed from the left breast.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs and heart
Type of incident: n/a

George Redfern, 56, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Dec 1878
Date of death: 2 Jan 1879
Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of both bones of the leg. Septicaemia
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Sepsis (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical examination performed by: Bennett, William Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: The right leg was crushed by a large mass of masonry and the patient was much collapsed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Mary Anne Legg, 36, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 31 Dec 1880
Date of death: 1 Jan 1881
Disease (transcribed): Strangulated umbilical hernia
Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Bennett, William Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'Not reported here'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined'
Illustrations: Yes (relating to PM/1881/26)
Type of incident: n/a

William Earles, 31, Labourer

Occupation or role: Labourer
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1898
Date of death: 1 Jan 1899
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung);
Admitted under the care of: Ewart, William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: 'See medical notes'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'No autopsy'
Type of incident: n/a

John Marriott, 56, Clerk

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Dec 1900
Date of death: 2 Jan 1901
Disease (transcribed): Burns of head neck and hands. Oedema of glottis
Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Oedema (Glottis)
Admitted under the care of: Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: See PM Book 1900 No. 413
Body parts examined in the post mortem: See PM and Case Book 1900 No 413
Type of incident: Trauma/accident

Dorothy Duncan, 18, [Child of] Confectioner

Occupation or role: [Child of] Confectioner
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Dec 1916
Date of death: 2 Jan 1917
Disease (transcribed): Haemorrhogic fibrinous pericarditis. Purpura
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Purpura (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Jex-Blake, Arthur John
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Sparrow, Hugh Gordon
Medical notes: 'On Dec 6th after a series of colds in the head, she was seized with severe pain across the chest and & pains all over the body’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

William Hudson, 66, Cellarman

Occupation or role: Cellarman
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Dec 1911
Date of death: 3 Jan 1912
Disease (transcribed): Thrombosis of termination of right internal carotid artery and right middle cerebral artery. Cerebral softening. Hemiplegia. Coma. Emphysema. Chronic bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Arteries); Softening (Brain); Hemiplegia (Brain); Coma (Brain); Emphysema (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Latham, Arthur Carlyle
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: This man was admitted semi-conscious and quite inarticulate as cerebral haemorrhage.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, pericardium, heart, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, alimentary canal, cranium, brain and genital organs
Type of incident: n/a

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