✨ Hospital Death Records
NOMINAL LIST OF PATIENTS WHO HAVE DIED DURING 1875—Continued.
| No. | Sex. | Patients' Names. | Ages. | Diseases. | Date of Admission. | Date of Death. | No. of days in Hospital. | Remarks and Post Mortem Appearances. |
|-----|------|-------------------|-------|-----------|-------------------|----------------|--------------------------------------|
| 48 | M | Arthur Lisle | 24 | Strangulated inguinal hernia | 1875. June 30 | 1875. July 5 | 6 | 48. Admitted for strangulated inguinal hernia of five days standing. Abdomen tympanitic. Vomiting and general tenderness over abdomen. Operation was successfully performed at once. Large quantity of omentum very dark in color had to be cut away, it being impossible to return it. The external wound went on well, but peritonitis had evidently set in before his arrival from the appearance of the intestines and peritoneum. |
| 49 | M | James Reid | 58 | Bright's disease of kidneys | June 29 | July 15 | 17 | 49. Admitted in an extreme state of prostration; rapidly got weaker. Had been previously under hospital treatment for Bright's disease of kidneys, but upon last admission no hopes of rallying were entertained. Left kidney large and granular. Large liver. Lungs emphysematous. |
| 50 | M | John Hamilton | 35 | Bright's disease of kidneys | May 12 | July 23 | 41 | 50. Admitted with dropsy and dyspnoea which became more urgent. Was tapped with relief. No signs of re-filling until a few days before he died, when slight fluctuation became perceptible, and the lower limbs got very dropsical. Kidneys of the Bright character. Liver large and congested. Heart hypertrophied, fluid in thorax, pericardium, and abdominal cavity. |
| 51 | M | John Johnson | 25 | Dysentery | July 15 | July 27 | 12 | 51. Admitted with dysentery. Improved apparently until a few hours before he died, when he complained of great pains in the chest. The pericardium was found full of serum. Lymph adherent to the walls of the heart. Large intestines ulcerated. Liver nutmeg. |
| 52 | M | James King | 50 | Pneumonia | July 22 | July 27 | 5 | 52. Admitted with pneumonia of right lung, which had become gangrenous. The lung was found to be one large cavity filled with putrid pus. Heart and liver enlarged. |
| 53 | M | Francis Hart | 49 | Phthisis pulmonalis | Feb. 3 | July 28 | 175| 53. A case of phthisis pulmonalis of long standing. |
| 54 | M | Henry Bolton | 45 | Pneumonia | July 12 | July 29 | 17 | 54. A case of pneumonia ending in gangrene. The whole of left lung being converted into a cistern of putrid pus. Other organs healthy. |
| 55 | M | Alfred Twelvetree | 56 | Dysentery chronic | July 29 | July 31 | 2 | 55. Admitted in dying state of chronic dysentery. There was found perforation of ilium with peritonitis. Fatty Heart. Waxy liver. Lungs healthy. |
| 56 | M | William Burton | 17 | Pneumonia | July 29 | Aug. 4 | 6 | 56. Had double pneumonia. The right lung hepatized; left, congested. Liver weighed 4lbs. 4ozs, waxy. |
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1876, No 7
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Nominal List of Patients Who Died in Auckland Provincial Hospital in 1875
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🏥 Health & Social WelfareHospital Deaths, Patient Records, Auckland Provincial Hospital, 1875
9 names identified
- Arthur Lisle, Patient died of strangulated inguinal hernia
- James Reid, Patient died of Bright's disease of kidneys
- John Hamilton, Patient died of Bright's disease of kidneys
- John Johnson, Patient died of dysentery
- James King, Patient died of pneumonia
- Francis Hart, Patient died of phthisis pulmonalis
- Henry Bolton, Patient died of pneumonia
- Alfred Twelvetree, Patient died of chronic dysentery
- William Burton, Patient died of pneumonia