Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1875 – No. 14

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✨ Hospital Deaths



NOMINAL LIST OF PATIENTS WHO HAVE DIED DURING 1874—Continued.

No. Sex. Patients’ Names. Ages. Diseases. Date of Admission. Date of Death. No. of days in Hospital. Remarks and Post Mortem Appearances.
49 M Alexander Williams 30 Disease of bladder 1874. Aug. 30 1874. Sept. 9 11 49. Admitted with disease of the urinary bladder, caused by stricture of urethra of old standing. Sank by exhaustion. Bladder found enormously thickened, and the lining membrane destroyed and hanging in shreds. Urethra in a sloughy condition. Kidneys sacculated.
50 M Nee (New Hebrides) 30 Dysentery Sept. 2 Sept. 10 8 50. Admitted in a most emaciated state, having suffered from dysentery. Caecum found perforated, and faecal matter extravasated. Mesenteric glands enlarged, and filled with tubercular matter. Lungs full of tubercles and small vomicæ.
51 F Ann McIntyre 77 General debility Sept. 3 Sept. 14 11 51. A case of general debility, and gradually declined.
52 M William Sturridge 84 General debility Aug. 17 Sept. 17 31 52. A case of general debility, with heart disease.
53 M William Cartwright 55 Chronic alcoholism June 10 Sept. 22 104 53. Admitted for chronic alcoholism. Had repeated attacks of epilepsy. A great part of the lower jaw bone became necrosed. Coma supervened, and sinking took place at last. Brain firm. Extensive subarachnoid effusion. Liver nutmeg. Heart enlarged.
54 M Thomas Wm. Bailey 15 Acute Rheumatism Oct. 16 Oct. 17 1 54. This was a case of acute rheumatism, having severe pains in the knee joints, which were considerably swollen. Pulse very rapid; urine acid; complexion dusky; skin very hot, remitting an acid odour; breathing hurried, evidently sinking; and the deceased died 24 hours after admission. The orifices of heart were filled with fibrinous coagulum. Lungs in the first stage of pneumonia. External surface covered with haemorrhagic spots. Upon opening the knee joints suppuration was found to have taken place, and a quantity of pus escaped.
55 M John Thompson (Maori) 30 Erysipelas Oct. 31 Nov. 7 7 55. Admitted with an attack of phlegmonous erysipelas, running the whole length of the right lower extremity. Limb very hard and tense. A number of small incisions were made, and a large quantity of thin sanious pus escaped. Fomentations, bark and wine, but of no avail. Coma set in on the 6th, and the deceased died the following day.
56 M William Willer 45 Scrofula Oct. 10 Nov. 18 39 56. Admitted with left thigh bone and knee joint much diseased. Constitution too feeble for amputation. Intemperate habits. Heart not much larger than ordinary size. Aneurismal dilatation of the aorta, with scaly pieces of spiculæ attached within the dilatation. Kidneys diseased; also, stricture of urethra.


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🏥 Nominal List of Patients Who Died at Auckland Provincial Hospital in 1874 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Hospital, Deaths, Patients, Diseases, Auckland
8 names identified
  • Alexander Williams, Died of disease of bladder
  • Nee, Died of dysentery
  • Ann McIntyre, Died of general debility
  • William Sturridge, Died of general debility
  • William Cartwright, Died of chronic alcoholism
  • Thomas Wm. Bailey, Died of acute rheumatism
  • John Thompson (Maori), Died of erysipelas
  • William Willer, Died of scrofula