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Catalogue reference: ADM 101/101/5
Date: 1824-1825
For description purposes, ADM 101/101/5 has been split into three parts (5A, 5B and 5C), as follows: Fury, 10 February 1824 - 24 October 1825: ADM...
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Catalogue reference: ADM 101/124/2/1
This record is about the Folio 1: Joseph Chambers, aged 38, taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, Typhous... dating from 1802-1804 in the series Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Folio 1: Joseph Chambers, aged 38, taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, Typhous fever; taken ill, 4 March 1802, died 8 March 1802. Although the yellow fever at this time was prevalent at Jamaica yet the symptoms of this man were evidently that attendant on typhus otherwise I should not have given an emetic at the beginning which in the yellow fever we find highly prejudicial.
Folio 2: William Cumming, aged 38, taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, continued fever; taken ill, 5 March 1802, discharged 8 March 1802 to duty.
Folio 2: James Yousley, aged 36, mne[Marine], taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, sprain; taken ill, 5 March 1802, discharged 9 March 1802 to duty.
Folio 2: John Baker, aged 20, taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, Typhus; taken ill, 5 March 1802, died 5 March 1802. From the yellow appearance about this man's eyes and neck I am led to believe that this fever is a mixture of typhus and synochus uteroides although the inflammatory symptoms attending the latter were not present.
Folio 2: Isaac Carter, aged 24, mne[Marine], taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, intermittent fever; taken ill, 6 March 1802, discharged 18 March 1802 to duty.
Folios 2-3: Hugh McColough, aged 33, taken ill at Jamaica; disease or hurt, continued fever; taken ill, 6 March 1802, discharged 18 March 1802 to duty.
Folio 3: Alexander Morrison, aged 36, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, flux attended with gripes and tenesmus; taken ill, 8 March 1802, discharged 18 March 1802 to duty.
Folio 3: John Hills, aged 40, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, flux; taken ill, 11 March 1802, discharged 18 March 1802 to duty.
Folio 3: Robert White, aged 24, mne [marine], taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; taken ill, 19 March 1802, discharged 24 March 1802 to duty.
Folio 4: James Robinson, aged 37, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, flux; taken ill, 21 March 1802, discharged 26 March 1802 to duty. Remark: the flux attacked 142 of the ship's crew who were simply treated as this case of Robinson and all recovered in general after the 5th or 6th day from the attack.
Folio 4: Benjamin Leverton, aged 38, mne [marine] taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, yellow fever; taken ill, 10 May 1802, discharged 30 May 1802 to duty.
Folios 4-5: William Ferrit, aged 27, mne[marine] taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, febris ardens; taken ill, 10 May 1802, discharged 26 May 1802 to duty.
Folio 5: Nathaniel Humphries, aged 34, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, yellow fever; taken ill, 10 May 1802, discharged 25 May 1802 to duty.
Folio 5: Thomas Jones, aged 15, boy, taken ill at Port Royal; disease or hurt, yellow fever; taken ill, 18 April 1802, sent 22 April 1802 to hospital at Port Royal.
Folio 5: Isaac Carter, aged 24, mne[marine], taken ill at Port Royal; disease or hurt, yellow fever; taken ill, 20 April 1802, discharged 28 April 1802 to duty.
Folio 6: John Gilbert, aged 26, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, pneumonia; taken ill, 26 April 1802, discharged 2 May 1802 to duty.
Folio 6: John Branan, aged 18, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, swelled knee; taken ill, 26 May 1802, discharged 2 June 1802 to duty.
Folio 6: Daniel Sullivan, aged 25, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, rheumatism chronic; taken ill, 22 June 1802, sent 14 September 1802 to hospital at Halifax.
Folio 6: Richard Harris, aged 23, mne[marine], taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, rheumatism chronic; taken ill, 1 July 1802, sent 14 September 1802 to hospital at Halifax.
Folio 6: James Shaw, aged 17, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, rheumatism chronic; taken ill, 1 July 1802, sent 14 September 1802 to hospital at Halifax.
Folio 6: William Maden, aged 37, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, yellow fever; taken ill, 12 July 1802, died 1 September 1802.
Folios 7-8: Remarks about scurvy cases. This disease was generally preceded by rigor or more or less succeeded by a hot fit, with a considerable degree of fever, after which a great pain and tension was felt in one or both knees, afterwards a contraction in the gastroinemii muscles; a day or two after, livid spots appeared on the back of the leg, which by degrees spread and communicated with each other, until they ascended as far as the hip. Some had the first attack in the foot and ankle, which became oedematous, with large livid spots surrounding; some again in addition to those symptoms were affected with moveable, knotty excrescencies in the lower, as well as the upper extremities; there were very few instances of the gums bleeding or becoming spongy, as we generally find in this disorder; from the 12th or 14th day from the first attack, most of them complained of giddiness and sickness at stomach, and from the slightest exertion they frequently have fainted about this time also, the face became cadaverous, with great debility, loss of appetite. As the lividness in the lower extremities increased, those parts became as tense as hard almost as a board. In two cases the back of the hand only was affected. Treatment. About this time we were lucky in procuring from an American ship, a few bags of onions, which were given me for the use of the scorbuticks, and they were ordered to eat them raw with vinegar, the bowels in all being previously gently opened. They also took the bark and lime juice four times a day, of which I had plenty and I gave them lemonade adlibitum besides, they had a mess of portable soup with barley, with the othercomfort which the necessaries afford; by these means we kept the disease from gaining much upon us, nor did we lose a man, although when we arrived at Halifax I had ill of scurvy 113.
Folio 7: Samuel Dale, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, scurvy; taken ill, 12 July 1802, sent 14 September 1802 to hospital at Halifax.
Folio 7: William Dolopper, taken ill at St Domingo; disease or hurt, scurvy; taken ill, 12 July 1802, discharged 2 August 1802 to duty.
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