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.
61 M Alexander Matthieson 25 Hypertrophy of heart 1868 Aug. 1 1868 Oct. 25 86 A case of heart disease of old standing, inducing general dropsy. The heart weighed 1¼ lbs. Mitral valve ossified and bearing large warty vegetations, reducing the left auriculo-ventricular orifice to a mere slit. Lungs engorged, lower lobe of right had passed into a gangrenous state. Much fluid in abdomen. Dropsical on admission, urine scanty, highly coagulable, pulse feeble. He had a hoarse suffocating cough, and aphonia. The larynx was found ossified and ulcerated—rimaglottidis narrowed. Œsophagus constricted. Kidneys large, pale, and highly granular.
62 M Francis Graü 35 Albuminuria Oct. 14 ,, 29 16 Dropsical on admission, urine scanty, highly coagulable, pulse feeble. He had a hoarse suffocating cough, and aphonia. The larynx was found ossified and ulcerated—rimaglottidis narrowed. Œsophagus constricted. Kidneys large, pale, and highly granular.
63 F Maria Alderdice 57 Cancer of breast Oct. 24 Nov. 11 19 Admitted with a scirrhous tumor in right breast, which was extirpated at her own urgent request, notwithstanding strong dissuasives, on account of extreme obesity. Erysipelas supervened on the third day after the operation which extended over a great extent of the body, and on reaching the head proved fatal.
64 F Lucy Knox 45 Cancer of breast June 6 ,, 14 161 Admitted with open or ulcerated cancer of right breast. The axillary glands were swollen on the affected side. The deterioration of health was progressive. After death the left pleura was found inflamed, and some bloody serum was contained in its cavity. No tubercles were found in the lungs.
65 F Elizabeth Myers 88 Apoplexy Nov. 21 ,, 23 3 Admitted in a state of insensibility, supervening on an epileptic fit. She soon became comatose, with dilated pupils, and died on the third day. A large sheet of dark brown coagulum was found overspreading the right hemisphere of the brain and extending to the middle fossa at the base of the cranium. Fatal pressure was thus exerted on the brain.


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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
  • Alexander Matthieson, Patient who died from hypertrophy of heart
  • Francis Graü, Patient who died from albuminuria
  • Maria Alderdice, Patient who died from cancer of breast
  • Lucy Knox, Patient who died from cancer of breast
  • Elizabeth Myers, Patient who died from apoplexy