Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1876 – No. 7

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✨ Hospital Patient 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.
67 M Thomas Garrett 70 Pleurisy Chronic Sept. 2 Sept. 18 16 67. Admitted with chronic pleurisy. The right side of chest full of serum. Pericardium the same. Left lung emphysematous. Liver large and nutmeg.
68 M Alfred Johnson 66 Pleurisy Sept. 18 Sept. 22 4 68. On Admission the following ribs were found broken, viz., 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9th, with intense pleurisy present. Rapidly sank. The heart was found large. Liver nutmeg. Kidneys healthy.
69 M Saul Tuttle 35 Pneumonia Sept. 24 Sept. 25 20 hours 69. Admitted with engorgement of both lungs, the lower lobe of right lung bordering on the stage of hepatization, but not sufficiently to sink in water. The heart was found very large. Aortic valves dilated, mitral puckered. Heart’s weight 28ozs. Liver nutmeg, weight 5lbs. Died 20 hours after admission.
70 M Rupert Chawny 21 Pericarditis Sept. 22 Sept. 26 4 70. Admitted with acute pericarditis, the to and fro sound being very distinct, which ceased in a couple of days, and from the feebleness and deficiency of tone and force of the heart’s sounds with the increased dulness on percussion over cardiac region it was evident that hydro-pericardium existed, and upon examination after death, the pericardium was found much thickened and full of serum, in which shreds of coagulable lymph were floating; when the serum was drawn off, a false membrane of lymph could be seen covering the external walls of the heart, and presented a honey-comb appearance. Liver large and nutmegged. Lungs healthy. The deceased had a secondary syphilitic eruption out over the body, which disease might give a predisposition to pericarditic attacks. The stomach was also much inflamed.
71 M George Toule 34 Typhoid fever Sept. 23 Sept. 27 4 71. Admitted suffering from typhoid fever with diarrhoea; gradually sank. Became comatose. Numerous ulcers were found in the ilium, but no perforation.
72 M William Mitchell 32 Pneumonia Sept. 28 Sept. 29 28 hours 72. Admitted with double pneumonia, pulse very rapid and weak. Great dyspnoea. Died 28 hours after admission. The right lung in a state of purulent infiltration. Left lung congested. Other viscera healthy.
73 M John Thomas 50 Bright’s disease of kidneys Sept. 27 Sept. 29 58 hours 73. Admitted in a state of great prostration, from having suffered many years from Bright’s disease of the kidneys with stricture of urethra. The kidneys were found much diseased, when cut into a quantity of dirty fluid escaped from the left kidney, and a quantity of blood from right kidney. Bladder thickened and extensively diseased. Stricture was an inch from orifice of urethra.

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🏥 Nominal List of Patients Who Died in Auckland Provincial Hospital in 1875 (continued from previous page)

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Hospital Deaths, Patient Records, Auckland Provincial Hospital, 1875
7 names identified
  • Thomas Garrett, Died from chronic pleurisy
  • Alfred Johnson, Died from pleurisy with broken ribs
  • Saul Tuttle, Died from pneumonia
  • Rupert Chawny, Died from pericarditis
  • George Toule, Died from typhoid fever
  • William Mitchell, Died from pneumonia
  • John Thomas, Died from Bright's disease of kidneys