Item 129 - Emily Hale, 38, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Gender: Female
Age: 38
Date of admission: 3 Apr 1878
Date of death: 8 May 1878
Disease (transcribed): Catarrhal pneumonia and tubercular phthisis
Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. Father gouty. Had suffered from typhus, and scarlatina: from 'fits' from 15 to 18. Never robust: appetite always small: subject to headaches, sick headaches, diarrhoea, and coughs. Dyspeptic symptoms for 30 years. Diaphoresis habitually scanty. Catam. [Catamenia] from 14 to 41 ½[?] regular but scanty. Languor, weakness, anorexia, and slight pains about the joints for 3 yrs [years]. Wasting, pubic pain, frequent, difficult and painful micturition 13 mo [months]. O.P. [Out-patient] the first three: symptoms partially relieved by instrumental interference. Constant slight cough, with coughing of black of red blood several times a week'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, uterus
Type of incident: n/a