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Occupation or role: Pensioner
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 Dec 1861
Date of death: 16 Apr 1862
Disease (transcribed): Stricture. Suppuration in kidneys
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Urethra); Suppuration (Kidney)
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 of a stricture of thirty eight years standing.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 9 Feb 1870
Date of death: 3 Apr 1870
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Pleuritis. Abscess under pectoral muscles on left side.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pleurisy (Pleura); Abscess (Pectoralis Muscles)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The patient was a teetotaller. Seven years before he had suffered from severe lumbar pain and at that time he first noticed that his ankles swelled a little in the evenings. He had had polyuria for many years. For three weeks before admission there had been much oedema of the legs, cough, and dyspnoea on exertion.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 May 1871
Date of death: 18 May 1871
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Gouty deposit in great toe joint. Phthisis. Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Gout (Toe); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Peritonitis (Abdomen)

Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'This man, who for the last nine years had suffered from frequent attacks of gout was seized five weeks before he came in with cough & much soreness of the throat. He had lost flesh very much. There had been no haemoptysis’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, bones, joints

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Porter
Age: 74
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Apr 1896
Date of death: 5 Apr 1896
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidney. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pericarditis (Heart)

Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Medical notes: When seen by the Medical Registrar the patient was extremely dyspnoeic, the breathing being both noisy, rapid and difficulty.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, adrenals and toe joint
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Jan 1898
Date of death: 26 Mar 1898
Disease (transcribed): Perimetritis. Suppuration. Laparotomy
Disease (standardised): Perimetritis (Uterus); Suppuration (Uterus); Laparotomy (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Dakin, William Radford
Medical examination performed by: Powell, Llewellyn
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: This patient had good health up to August 1897 when she was seized with severe pain in the hypogastrium.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, bladder, ureters, kidneys, suprarenals, pancreas, liver, spleen, lungs, bronchial glands, pericardium and heart
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 May 1849
Date of death: 19 May 1849
Disease (transcribed): Abscess in right kidney. Circumscribed abscess in peritoneal cavity. Left kidney enormously hypertrophied. Tuberculosis of the peritoneum. Extensive peritonitis. Scrotal hernia
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Kidneys, peritoneum); Disease (Kidneys); Tuberculosis (Peritoneum); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Hernia (Scrotum)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert and Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with a scrotal hernia of the left side of 17 years’ duration, never wholly reducible. He had always worn a truss which had prevented the hernia increasing in size until the 3rd of May, when he observed it rather larger than usual, but free form pain. In the evening of the 3rd he had vomiting once, & the bowels acted scantily on the following morning; & then, not again till the evening of the 7th, by injection’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 May 1857
Date of death: 7 May 1857
Disease (transcribed): Double pleuropneumonia. Dropsy. Congestion of kidneys
Disease (standardised): Pleuropneumonia (Pleura, Lung); Oedema (General); Congestion (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: This woman came to the hospital after having been under treatment for ten days as an out patient. A week after her marriage she began to experience tingling and numbness of the legs, which gradually became anasarcous.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 61
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Feb 1880
Date of death: 28 Mar 1880
Disease (transcribed): Perforating ulcer of stomach. Adhesions of peritoneum. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Stomach); Adhesions (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Dunbar, James John Macwhirter
Post mortem examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Medical notes: The patient had had no serious illness in her life, but from the age of sixteen had been subject to indigestion.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, stomach, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Mar 1881
Date of death: 30 Mar 1881
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Atheroma. Hypertrophy of heart. Cerebral haemorrhage
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Aorta); Disease (Heart); Haemorrhage (Brain);
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
Post mortem examination performed by: Myers, Arthur Thomas
Medical notes: 'No history of previous illnesses could be gathered from his relations. He had been in continuous work as a lawyer's clerk until 1pm on March 30 when he put his hand on his head, complaining of acute pain, & fell down unconscious without cry or convulsions. He spoke once or twice about half an hour after the first attack, saying that he felt better but subsequently relapsed with further convulsions into complete coma which soon became stertorous'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, lungs, heart, aorta, liver, spleen, kidneys

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1842
Date of death: 30 Dec 1842
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular deposit in lungs, kidneys, ureter and Bladder and back part of urethra.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Kidney, ureter, bladder, urethra)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butcher
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Mar 1870
Date of death: 4 Apr 1870
Disease (transcribed): Urinary calculus. Cystitis. Pyelitis with dilatation of pelvis and coxes. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Urinary Calculi (Urinary Tract); Cystitis (Bladder); Pyelitis (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Holmes, Timothy
Medical examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: When admitted, the patient had much cystitis and diarrhoea, and was very weak and ill so that no operation could be attempted.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines, peritoneum and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Mar 1884
Date of death: 28 Mar 1885
Disease (transcribed): Lardaceous disease of spleen and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Amyloidosis (Spleen); Amyloidosis (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Griffiths, Herbert Tyrrell
Post mortem examination performed by: des Voeux, Harold Antoine
Medical notes: He was one of four living out of twenty one brothers and sisters. One lived to be twenty one, other rest died young. He developed lumps on the tibias eight years ago.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, ureters and bladder
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 May 1853
Date of death: 12 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Head symptoms. Diseased kidneys. Enormously dilated ventricle of brain. Enlarged heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
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: He was admitted in a state of great confusion of mind with tremulous movements and a large oedematous tongue, having the appearance of salivation.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 31 Mar 1860
Date of death: 11 Apr 1860
Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward and Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Rouse, James and Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman was admitted into the Wellington ward March 31st with a small scalp wound situated about an inch above the nose, & erysipelas of the head & face. It appeared that the woman was of drunken habits & was a week before her admission knocked down by her husband, who was also drunk’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 May 1872
Date of death: 3 May 1872
Disease (transcribed): Prolapsus uteri. Haemorrhage. Syncope
Disease (standardised): Prolapse (Uterus); Haemorrhage (Uterus); Syncope (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: The husband of this woman stated that about a year ago she had a fall upon her body which seemed to have shaken her very much for she was never well after, always complaining of sore throat and difficulty of swallowing.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, organs of generation, bladder, cranium and spinal cord
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Mar 1876
Date of death: 6 Apr 1876
Disease (transcribed): Cardiac hypertrophy. Mitral thickening. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Robert James
Medical notes: This woman was first admitted first in 1875. Her last child had been born on November 8th previously, and since then she had been out of health with pain in the head, floating before the eyes, dimness of vision and general feeling of debility.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, spleen, kidneys and uterus
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Mantle maker
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Mar 1884
Date of death: 2 Apr 1884
Disease (transcribed): Gangrenous ovarian tumour. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Gangrene (Ovary); Tumour (Ovary); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Barnes, Robert
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Ross, Daniel McClure
Medical notes: This patient first noticed her abdominal swelling about three months before admission. Her attention was called to it by an attack of severe pain experienced in the belly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, brain and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Foreman
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Apr 1911
Date of death: 21 Apr 1911
Disease (transcribed): Tuberculous (?). Right hydro-nephrosis. Left consecutive nephritis (old excision of right tuberculous testis). Healed pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis. Hydrothorax. ‘Uraemia’.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Kidney); Hydronephrosis (Kidney); Nephritis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Testis); Excision (Testis); Tuberculosis (Lung);Tuberculosis (Lymph nodes) ; Hydrothorax (Lung) ; Uraemia (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Jaffrey, Francis
Medical examination performed by: Frankau, Claude Howard Stanley
Post mortem examination performed by: Higgs, Frederick William
Medical notes: The day before admission he had a sudden attack of pain in his loins and vomited.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, larynx, trachea, thyroid, pericardium, heart, peritoneum, liver, gall bladder, alimentary tract, stomach, spleen, pancreas, suprarenals, kidneys, ureter, bladder, vesiculae seminales, prostate and testes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 May 1844
Date of death: 6 May 1844
Disease (transcribed): Kidneys mottled and granular. Inflammation and thickening of the caecum, ascending and part of the transverse colon.
Disease (standardised): Mottled, Granular (Kidney); Inflammation (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: The patient was admitted with chronic rheumatism and considerable pain and oppression at the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Apr 1874
Date of death: 14 Apr 1874
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Broncho-pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Bronchopneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Ogle, John William
Medical examination performed by: Fenwick, John Charles James
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This man was attacked with pain across his body beginning two months before admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 20 Feb 1867
Date of death: 24 Apr 1867
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of uterus and vagina
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Uterus); Cancer (Vagina)
Admitted under the care of: Clarke, John
Medical examination performed by: Kenyon, George Arthur
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: He was in the hospital twenty four years ago with irregular catamenia and nervous fever.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Mar 1896
Date of death: 6 Apr 1896
Disease (transcribed): Chronic nephritis. Lymphadenoma of glands in portal fissure etc
Disease (standardised): Nephritis (Kidney); Adenoma (Lymph nodes)

Admitted under the care of: Cavafy, John
Medical examination performed by: Wells, Sydney Russell
Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical notes: The patient was admitted prior to the Registrar’s turn of office so no notes were taken.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, lungs, pericardium, oesophagus, heart, liver, spleen, suprarenals, kidneys, bladder, prostate and testes
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Labourer
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Nov 1909
Date of death: 21 Mar 1910
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of rectum. Secondary growths in liver obstructing hepatic ducts. Jaundice. Dry gangrene of left leg, right arm, hand. Ovarian cyst. Thrombosis of inferior vena cava. Ulcerative endocarditis. Embolism of middle cerebral arteries. Cerebral softening. Ulcerative endocarditis
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Rectum); Cancer (Liver); Jaundice (Skin); Gangrene (Leg); Gangrene (Arm); Gangrene (Hand);Cysts (Ovary) ; Thrombosis (Veins) ; Endocarditis (Heart) ; Embolism (Arteries) ; Softening (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Dakin, William Radford
Medical examination performed by: Smith, George Frederick Darwall
Post mortem examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Medical notes: The patient was admitted on November 25th 1909 for enlargement of the abdomen with history of pain and vomiting.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, larynx, thyroid, pericardium, heart,liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, inferior vena cava, lumbar glands, alimentary canal, uterus and adnexa, and brain
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Mar 1849
Date of death: 21 May 1849
Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid cancer of the breast, subpleural surface of the lung, liver, uterus & ovaries
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Breast, lungs, liver, uterus, ovaries)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This woman, the mother of 6 children, was admitted with encephaloid disease of the left breast. It appears that 4 days after her last confinement 6 months prior to her admission, the breast became inflamed & an abscess formed, which broke at the end of a month, & discharged pus copiously. At the end of 6 or 7 weeks it healed & a similar abscess formed in the right breast. The child was then reapplied to the left breast & the flow of milk again became established, but ulceration taking place around the nipple continuing to increase, the child at length refused to suckle. A few days after the child was weaned, some hard lumps were discovered at the lower part of the gland, which gradually increased in size without much pain. She was then seized with rheumatic fever, acute in the befinningm but subsequently chronic’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Plate glass cutter
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Feb 1858
Date of death: 20 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of kidneys & lungs
Disease (standardised): Malignant disease (Kidneys, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A plate glass cutter, of steady habits, who had always enjoyed good health until six months before admission. He then found himself growing gradually languid & falling off in flesh to a considerable extent. He could not account for it in any way & still continued his work for two months when he was obliged to give in & stay at home. About the same time he became subject to frequent night sweats which had persisted ever since’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a