✨ Hospital Patient Deaths
NOMINAL LIST OF PATIENTS WHO HAVE DIED DURING 1873—Continued.
| No. | Sex. | Patients' Names. | Ages. | Diseases. | Date of Admission. | Date of Death. | No. of days in Hospital. | Remarks and Post Mortem Appearances. |
|-----|------|------------------------|-------|-----------------------|--------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 32 | M | Henry Snowden | 48 | Brain disease | 1873. May 31 | 1873. June 18 | 18 | Admitted in a typhoid condition, having been ill a week. His symptoms indicated cerebral disease rather than fever. Pulse 100, soft; skin warm and moist; urine and feces involuntary; left pupil somewhat dilated; partial rigidity of the arms; ultimately died comatose. Extensive sub-arachnoid effusion; two large patches of ramollissement found in upper and anterior part of right hemisphere. |
| 33 | M | William James Budd | 32 | Epilepsy | April 12 | June 22 | 71 | Admitted for epilepsy and imbecility. Refused sustenance, and became weaker every day; much serous effusion in hemispheres. Brain small weight. |
| 34 | F | Margaret Miller | 55 | Aneurism | June 28 | June 24 | 94 hours | This woman was admitted in a very low state; pulse scarcely perceptible; died suddenly, 9½ hours after admission. Pericardium found full of blood, fluid and coagulated. Large aneurism of ascending aorta, which had burst. Liver nutmeg. Lungs healthy. |
| 35 | M | Hendry Collins | 39 | Heart disease | June 23 | June 29 | 1 | Admitted in a dying state from disease of the heart and lungs. Had haemoptysis and sunk by asphyxia. Heart hypertrophied; aortic valves wrinkled and ossified; lungs congested and hepatised. |
| 36 | F | Ann Cartwright | 51 | Heart disease | July 4 | July 15 | 11 | Admitted with general dropsy. The result of heart disease. No examination. |
| 37 | M | John Houlahan | 44 | Diabetes | July 9 | July 16 | 7 | Admitted with diabetes mellitus. Had convulsive fits; much serum found in brain, which was very firm in texture and deeply congested; kidneys large and hyperemic. |
| 38 | M | Patrick Hunter | 38 | Wound of abdomen | July 9 | July 18 | 9 | Admitted with a penetrating wound of abdomen, setting up peritonitis; wide spread inflammation found in abdomen; abscess in obstructed bowels. |
| 39 | M | John Gwythen | 41 | Cancer | May 27 | July 29 | 64 | Admitted held on 19th instant—verdict, manslaughter. Inquest found with cancer of tongue and fauces. There was great swelling at angle of the lower jaw and under right ramus. Much dysphagia, and constant excretion of mucus; sank through asthenia. Lymphatic glands found converted into a cancerous mass, and base of tongue ulcerated. Left kidney absent, also left renal artery; right kidney double the natural size. |
| 40 | M | Thomas Couzens | 72 | Heart disease | Aug. 2 | Aug. 9 | 7 | Admitted in a state of prostration, affected with chronic pneumonia of right lung, with hypertrophy of heart. Died of asthenia. Heart weighed 24 ounces; mitral orifice dilated; aortic valves shrunken; right lung hepatised, grey and red; left spumous. A pint of serum in right pleura; liver enlarged and nutmegged; kidneys granular. |
| 41 | M | Thomas Henney | 65 | Kidney disease | June 19 | Aug. 20 | 63 | Admitted with profuse haematuria; he gradually declined until he died. Bladder found contracted, with a large fungoid mass filling its cavity; liver cirrhous; liver granular; omentum cirrhous, also pancreas.
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Nominal List of Deceased Patients
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🏥 Health & Social WelfarePatients, Deaths, Hospital, Diseases, Auckland
10 names identified
- Henry Snowden, Died from brain disease
- William James Budd, Died from epilepsy
- Margaret Miller, Died from aneurism
- Hendry Collins, Died from heart disease
- Ann Cartwright, Died from heart disease
- John Houlahan, Died from diabetes
- Patrick Hunter, Died from abdominal wound
- John Gwythen, Died from cancer
- Thomas Couzens, Died from heart disease
- Thomas Henney, Died from kidney disease
Auckland Provincial Gazette 1874, No 11