Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 17

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✨ Hospital Death Records



RETURN OF DEATHS IN THE PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL—continued.

No. Sex. Patients’ Names. Age. Disease. Date of Admission. Date of Death. No. of Days in Hospital. Remarks and Post-mortem Appearances.
55 M Daniel Murphy (alias Foley) 47 Epilepsy 1863 Dec. 29 1868 Sept. 19 2091 Was idiotic many years before death. The brain weighed 3 lbs. 4 ozs., and was firm in texture, and its vessels were gorged with blood. The disease was said to have originated from a fright in infancy.
56 M Samuel Mutton 25 Fever (typhoid) 1868 Aug. 21 „ 25 86 Admitted for typhoid fever, from which he became convalescent, when about five days before his death he began to complain of hoarseness, cough, and dyspnoea. Suffocation becoming imminent, tracheotomy was performed, but merely with palliative effect. After death an abscess was found in the larynx, and the cartilages of which were necrosed. The lining membrane of the air passages was in a state of intense inflammation.
57 M John Chamberlin 30 Fracture of spine Sept. 26 „ 27 (hours) 13 Was brought to hospital from the Thames, paralysed from the neck downwards, respiration being carried on by the diaphragm only. He survived 13 hours from admission. There was no external wound, but much ecchymosis at the root of the neck. The spinous process of the fifth cervical vertebra was fractured, and separated an inch from the sixth. The theca vertebralis was exposed, and the spinal cord broken down into a pulp.
58 M William Patterson 26 Pleurisy (chronic) „ 29 Oct. 4 6 Admitted in a state of great debility from chronic disease of the chest. After death right lung was found totally collapsed, and carnified, the pleura was thickened with tubercular deposit. Left pleura filled with serum. Lung compressed and adherent. No vomica in either.
59 M Robert Rice 42 Phthisis pulmonalis 1867 Dec. 29 „ 18 295 This patient was ill about two years. Both pleura were found obliterated. Lungs shrunken and filled with tubercles in all stages.
60 M Benjamin Perryman 28 Phthisis pulmonalis Sept. 18 „ 20 33 Brought from the Thames in an extreme state of emaciation, aggravated by diarrhoea. The conglobate glands throughout the body were converted into tubercular masses.


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🏥 Annual Return of Deaths in Provincial Hospital, 1868 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Deaths, Hospital statistics, Medical conditions, Patient records, Post-mortem findings
7 names identified
  • Daniel Murphy, Patient, died of epilepsy
  • Daniel Foley, Alias of Daniel Murphy
  • Samuel Mutton, Patient, died of typhoid fever
  • John Chamberlin, Patient, died of fracture of spine
  • William Patterson, Patient, died of chronic pleurisy
  • Robert Rice, Patient, died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • Benjamin Perryman, Patient, died of phthisis pulmonalis