Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 12

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✨ Hospital Death Records



RETURN OF DEATHS, &c.—continued.

No. Sex Patients' Names Age Diseases Date of Admission Date of Decease Time in Hspl. Post-mortem Appearances, &c.
36 M Thomas Christianson 23 Typhoid fever 1867, Aug. 28 1867, Sept. 2 6 Days Sent to hospital from the ship Ironsides. There was a copious eruption of rose-coloured spots, each of them culminating in a minute shrivelled vesicle. Although there was no diarrhoea, large patches of ulceration were found in the ileum.
37 M Michael Connolly 37 Phthisis pulmonalis March 2 „ 13 195 This patient suffered long and very severely. Large caverns in both lungs.
38 M James Laughlin 16 Phthisis pulmonalis Sept. 5 „ 17 12 This case presented nothing remarkable.
39 M George Nicholls 29 Phthisis pulmonalis May 15 „ 17 176 This case also presented nothing peculiar except a state of complete aphonia.
40 M Henry Thewlis 47 Retention of urine Sept. 3 „ 19 16 This man was admitted with retention of urine; nine days afterwards an abscess burst in the prostate gland, when pus and blood were discharged. Soon the urine became suppressed, uraemia was induced, and death took place by coma. A large sacculated abscess was discovered in the prostate gland, with diffused hemorrhage.
41 F Mary Campbell 30 Phthisis pulmonalis Aug. 30 „ 19 21 This was an ordinary case of pulmonary consumption.
42 M Laurence Nolan 28 Hemiplegia May 14 „ 21 191 This was a very lingering case, and after death the left middle cerebral lobe was found in a state of ramollissement, with white scrofulous tubercles on dura mater. There was also much serum effused into and upon the brain.
43 F Bridget Slattery 28 Cancer of uterus Sept. 12 „ 23 10 The pelvis was filled by the uterus in a state of scirrhus. Two large abscesses were found in the liver. Numerous ulcers were found in the large intestine.
44 M Samuel Fiddeman 43 Heart disease Sept. 19 Oct. 9 20 General dropsy, dependent on hypertrophy of heart, weight 12lbs; aortic and mitral valves shrivelled and calcified; lungs and liver secondarily diseased; death was sudden.
45 M James Houlahan 36 Phthisis pulmonalis April 8 „ 24 199 This case presented nothing peculiar; progress of disease was very slow.
46 M William Murray 47 Concussion Oct. 25 „ 27 3 Admitted in a state of partial insensibility, caused by a fall on the head; survived thirty-six hours. Right anterior lobe of brain found lacerated with wide-spreading extravasation.
47 M William Caird 35 Aneurism Sept. 25 Nov. 10 46 This was an aneurism of the abdominal aorta, which pushed the intestine before it, and caused caries of the bodies of the third, fourth, and fifth lumbar vertebrae.


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🏥 Medical Cases Report (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Death Records, Hospital Patients, Disease Reports, Post-mortem Findings
12 names identified
  • Thomas Christianson, Died of typhoid fever
  • Michael Connolly, Died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • James Laughlin, Died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • George Nicholls, Died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • Henry Thewlis, Died of retention of urine
  • Mary Campbell, Died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • Laurence Nolan, Died of hemiplegia
  • Bridget Slattery, Died of cancer of uterus
  • Samuel Fiddeman, Died of heart disease
  • James Houlahan, Died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • William Murray, Died of concussion
  • William Caird, Died of aneurism