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Folio 11: Edward Pearson, aged 26, private marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt,...

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1803

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Folio 11: Edward Pearson, aged 26, private marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia seized with violent cold shivering and cough, when he was first taken ill I had no ideas he was breeding the measles or rubeola as the symptoms were analoqous to peripneumonia; date taken ill on 5 June 1803, date of discharged [?].

Folio 11: Francis Williams, aged 23, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, measles; taken ill on 7 June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 11: John Jones 1st, aged 25, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on 7 June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 11: Richard Widows, aged 20, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on 7 June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 11: James Troud, aged 22, marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on 7 June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 12: John Brimm, aged 17, boy, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on [?] June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 12: John Collins, aged 20, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on [?] June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 12: Daniel Driscole, aged 22, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on [?] June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 12: lieutenant Gordon, signal lieutenant, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rubeola; taken ill on [?] June 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 12: Williams Evans, aged 26, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hernia, a portion of the omentum and intestine has protruded down into the scrotum and is in violent pain, the injection removed the costiveness and the hernia reduced soon afterwards, to have a steel truss when we arrive in port; taken ill on 28 June 1803, discharged 30 June 1803 to duty.

Folio 12: lieutenant Knight, aged 22, lieutenant, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scrophula affecting the whole system has cutaneous eruptions all over his legs and arms not [unlike] lepra glands of the neck enlarged and one of them inclined to suppuration; taken ill on 30 June 1803, discharged 30 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 12: Jacob Spicer, aged 21, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; taken ill on 1 July 1803, discharged 4 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: Robert Madget, aged 32, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cough; taken ill on 3 July 1803, discharged 5 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: John Cannon, aged 32, [?] mate, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cough with cough; taken ill on 3 July 1803, discharged 5 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: Robert Brown, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cough with cough and headache; taken ill on 3 July 1803, discharged 9 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: Henry Carr, aged 27, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; taken ill on 6 July 1803, discharged 20 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: James Moore, aged 22, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pleurisy, has a violent pain in the side and violent cough; taken ill on 6 July 1803, discharged 20 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: William Pink, aged 22, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cold and cough with headache; taken ill on 6 July 1803, discharged 8 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: William Wright, aged 35, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, blood or hurt on the os frontis; taken ill on 6 July 1803, discharged 13 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: William Campbell, aged 32, captain of the hold, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, finger jammed with cask, amputated the first joint and applied adhesive plaster; taken ill on 13 July 1803, discharged 31 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: Mr William Haswell, aged 40, carpenter, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fall on the deck; taken ill on 13 July 1803, discharged 17 July 1803 to duty.

Folio 13: many of our people are attacked with inflammatory complaints which soon give way to early blood letting.

Folios 14-16: Edward Lampley, aged 35, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, a Black man on exercising the great guns the carriage wheels got upon his foot and bruised his foot and great toe; taken ill on 13 July 1803, sent 15 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 14-16: Sansom Vine, aged 23, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcered knee, an old ulcer which first came when he was in the East Indies; taken ill on 13 July 1803, sent 15 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 14-16: James Tucker, aged 34, carpenter's crew, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the whole extent of the foot from a bruise; taken ill on 13 July 1803, sent 15 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 14-16: Henry Lord, aged 22, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, a large extensive ulcer on the leg, he received a violent hurt on that leg when in the West Indies; taken ill on 13 July 1803, sent 15 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 14-16: Thomas Walker, aged 22, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, an extensive inflammation from the patella to the toe full of matter and has symptoms of sphacelus, was bit by a moschetto [mosquitoe] and has formerly an ulcer in the same leg; taken ill on 13 July 1803, sent 15 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 14-16: James Shea, aged 38, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, large ulcer on the tibia; taken ill on 13 July 1803, sent 15 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 14: 14 July 1803; separated all the patients into different mess's labouring under ulcers to render the air sweat, these ulcers bursted forth very suddenly.

Folios 15-16: Morgan Jones, aged 23, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, inflammation of the hind arm threatening suppuration has a violent throbing pain upon his arm without any know cause, the tumor has symptoms of a fluctuation; taken ill on 18 July 1803, sent 17 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 15: John Lewis, aged 29, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, old ulcer broken out and accompanied with violent inflammation; taken ill on 18 July 1803, date of discharged [?].

Folio 15: Thomas Bonfiled, aged 29, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, old ulcer on the leg; taken ill on 18 July 1803, date of discharged [?].

Folios 15-18: Joseph Webb, aged 33, carpenter's crew, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever seized with severe rigors nausea and violent headach; taken ill on 18 July 1803, sent 17 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 15: 18 July 1803; water being scarce and weather calm the whole of the officers and ship's company are put upon an allowance.

Folio 16: John Kayton, aged 35, carpenter's crew, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcered leg of a malignant phagedenic [hatun]; taken ill on 21 July 1803, sent 17 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 16: James Curdon, aged 35, gunner's crew, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer toe received a blow on the great toe; taken ill on 21 July 1803, sent 17 August 1803 to hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 16-18: Patrick Driscole, aged 24, boatswain's mate, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever with violent pain of the head accompanied with cough; taken ill on 22 July 1803, died 10 August 1803 buried off Isle Dieu.

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