Notes on autopsies, etc.

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

Due to essential system maintenance, online requesting will be unavailable from 9pm until midnight on Tuesday 21 April. You can still search the catalogue as usual. We apologise for any inconvenience.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

Cases include sudden deaths from a variety of natural causes, accidents (including medical accidents, especially anaesthesia-related), suicide, and criminal abortion, also suspicious deaths of infants, as well as cases of murder and manslaughter. Among the cases of particular interest, 3/39, 3/93, 3/113, 3/117, 3/138, 3/140, 3/206, 3/282, 3/283 munitions workers dead of tri-nitro-toluene (TNT) poisoning; 3/54 leprosy; 3/80 decomposed body of infant in box in cloakroom at Fenchurch St station; 3/89, 3/210, 3/242, 3/312 anthrax; 3/108 attempted "hari-cari" by Japanese; 3/109, 3/116, 3/151 deaths from administration of Kharsivan; 3/135 female remains unidentified recovered from Thames; 3/146 neo-salvarsan poisoning; 3/203 death from arseno-benzol injection; 3/213 Rex v W J Pedder Cut-throat murder; 3/223 arbitration in case of Godfrey and others v Gas Light and Coke Co; 3/224 mummified infant; 3/229 whether mental impairment from syphilitic encephalitis would render person incapable of making a valid will; 3/234 death secondary to carious tooth; 3/259 poisoning from rhubarb leaves; 3/268 mummified body of newborn child found up a chimney; 3/295 mummified newborn infant; 3/330 Mackintosh's Toffee and lead poisoning, prosecution under Food and Drugs Act; 3/337 "Morphine habit"
The following cases are already in the public domain: 
3/7 Rex v Mathilde Pervis Curtis 
3/67 Rex v Marcus Fedderman, misdemeanour supplying noxious substances... with intent to procure miscarriage 
 3/73 Rex v Denis Van Hanwaert, insane and unfit to plead 
3/104 Rex v Henry Burdee manslaughter 
3/166 Rex v Herbert Harry Robinson 
3/181 Rex v J R Gray and W J Robinson 
3/226 Rex v Wheeldon and Mason conspiracy to poison Mr Lloyd George and Mr Henderson by use of strychnine and curari [sic] 
3/227 Rex v Hendrick Varenhorst attempted murder 
3/274 Rex v Dr J H Bell and H L Markham, charge of administering a noxious substance to render unfit for military service 
3/285 Rex v George Davis 
3/288 Rex v Wm Thos Hodgson - examination of clothing for blood 
3/297 Rex v Douglas Malcolm 
3/329 Rex v A H V Stamirovoski alias V de Stamir 
3/340, 3/341 joint suicide of Stephenie Primrose and Catharine Compton Burnett (sisters of the novelist Ivy Compton Burnett)

Notes on autopsies, etc.

Licence and re-use