Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1876 – No. 7

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✨ Hospital Patient Deaths



AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL.

NOMINAL LIST OF PATIENTS WHO HAVE DIED DURING 1875.

No. Sex. Patients' Names. Ages. Diseases. Date of Admission. Date of Death. No. of days in Hospital. Remarks and Post Mortem Appearances.
1 M John Allsop 36 Heart disease 1874. Oct. 21 1875. Jan. 6 78 1. Admitted with pronounced symptoms of heart disease leading to general dropsy, dyspnoea, cough and haemoptysis. Relief obtained by acupuncture of lower limb, and hypodermic injection of morphia. Died of asthenia. Heart weighed 21ozs. Mitral orifice dilated. Right pleura full of serum. Right lung in a state of pulmonary apoplexy, and greatly shrunken. Left lung healthy. Liver in nutmeg state, enlarged. Kidneys granular. Serum in abdomen.
2 F Karen Neilsen 22 Phthisis pulmonalis Nov. 16 Jan. 26 72 2. An ordinary case of phthisis.
3 M Thomas Coningsby 52 Liver disease Dec. 28 Jan. 27 31 3. Very weak on admission, troubled greatly with vomiting and sleeplessness. Scirrhus of liver, ulceration of bladder with fistulous opening above pubis. Kidneys healthy.
4 M William Jno. Moreland 30 Phthisis pulmonalis Oct. 14 Jan. 28 107 4. A case of phthisis, both lungs much diseased on admission. Suffered much with obstinate diarrhoea, and gradually sank.
5 M Thomas Glenn 80 Disease of bladder Jan. 18 Feb. 5 19 5. Admitted for fistula, with disease of bladder of long standing. Had stricture of urethra for many years, and was in the habit of passing his own catheters. Bladder was found to be much thickened and contracted. Heart flabby. Kidneys granular. Urethra had 3 distinct passages, two opening into bladder.
6 M James R. Highley 50 Liver disease Jan. 20 Feb. 9 21 6. Admitted for chronic alcoholism, had severe attack of diarrhoea, and gradually declined. Liver cirrhosed. Blood very thin, resembling port-wine. Lungs adherent to walls of thorax. Heart flabby. Kidneys healthy.
7 M Kepa Te Abu (aboriginal) 50 Heart disease Jan. 23 (1874) Feb. 9 16 7. Had extensive heart disease and dropsy. No examination of the body after death permitted.
8 M John McVilley 48 Jaundice Dec. 10 (1874) Feb. 16 68 8. Admitted for jaundice, which proved incurable. After death upon examining the liver, a cancerous tumor was found growing in it, and pressing upon the gall-bladder and its ducts. Heart of normal size, with pericardium adherent.


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🏥 Nominal List of Patients Who Died in Auckland Provincial Hospital in 1875

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Hospital Deaths, Patient Records, Auckland Provincial Hospital, 1875
8 names identified
  • John Allsop, Patient died of heart disease
  • Karen Neilsen, Patient died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • Thomas Coningsby, Patient died of liver disease
  • William Jno. Moreland, Patient died of phthisis pulmonalis
  • Thomas Glenn, Patient died of bladder disease
  • James R. Highley, Patient died of liver disease
  • Kepa Te Abu (Aboriginal), Patient died of heart disease
  • John McVilley, Patient died of jaundice