Folio 34: Joseph Price, aged 22, Private Marine; disease or hurt, pulse small and...

ADM 101/115/3A/6

1801-1802

Folio 34: Joseph Price, aged 22, Private Marine; disease or hurt, pulse small and weak, costive, tongue dry and foul, prostration of strength. Taken ill, 21 May 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 1 June 1801.

Folio 34: John Fearn, aged 23, Seaman; disease or hurt, ankle much swelled, inflamed and painful, with a small, contused wound below each malleollus, occasioned by slipping his foot in a small scuttle near the head and in which position he fell to the deck. Taken ill, 23 May 1801, off Brest. Discharged to Plymouth Hospital, 25 October 1801 [folio 42].

Folio 35: Summary of cases of typhus treated in May. In all there were 31 and they were mostly more mild than in the previous month, only the most urgent have been recorded and 16 were so slight as to barely merit being called typhus. Most cases were confined to the marines who slept on the middle deck, illustrating the effectiveness of separation of typhus sufferers. The seaman who died owed his disease more to depression than bodily disease. Three of the nurses contracted slight cases. There were also 5 cases of ulcers.

Folio 35: Agostino Sposita, aged 34, Seaman; disease or hurt, laceration and contusion of the hand, by it's being jammed in the main topsail sheet block by the running of the halyards. Taken ill, 2 June 1801, Cawsand Bay. Discharged to duty, 26 June 1801.

Folio 35: Thomas Rose Warren, aged 34, Seaman; disease or hurt, nausea, prostration of strength, bowels lax, weak and frequent pulse, frequent rigors, epilepsy. Taken ill, 4 June 1801, Cawsand Bay. Discharged to Plymouth Hospital, 21 July 1801.

Folio 36: Nicholas Edwards, aged 30, Seaman; disease or hurt, a shanker [chancre] about the size of a silver penny, on the upper, inner surface of the prepuce, the whole of which is swelled and inflamed and is retracted with difficulty, glands of the right inguen enlarged and painful. Taken ill, 5 June 1801, Cawsand Bay. Discharged to duty, 19 June 1801.

Folio 36: William Worne, aged 32, Seaman; disease or hurt, hands, wrists and loins swelled and painful, pulse full and strong, considerable thirst and heat of skin. Taken ill, 8 June 1801, Cawsand Bay. Discharged to duty, 3 July 1801.

Folio 36: Michael O'Shaughnessy, aged 24, Seaman; disease or hurt, difficulty of swallowing and uneasiness about the throat, pain slight, arising from three small, foul ulcers upon the amygdala and uvula, the contiguous parts and arch of the palate of a deep red colour, a small ulcer also on the inside of the left nostril, on the upper part of the left cheek bone there is a circumscribed red spot and subjacent hardness, he complains of having from time to time felt some pain in the subjacent bone and the two high teeth on that side have been painful at different periods, lues venerea. Taken ill, 18 June 1801, off Brest. Discharged to the Hospital at Plymouth, 21October 1801. Several teeth and parts of the alveolary process came away during the illness.

Folio 37: Henry Burrows, aged 25, Seaman; disease or hurt, several small, foul, hard edged ulcers at the root of the glans and one larger on the scrotum, glands of the right inguen enlarged and slightly painful. Taken ill, 22 June 1801. Discharged to duty, 12 July 1801.

Folio 37: Timothy Leneahan, aged 30, Seaman; disease or hurt, several serrated excrescences about the root of the glans penis, considerable discharge from the urethra, chordee and heat of urine. Taken ill, 22 June 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 31 July 1801.

Folio 37: James Brennan, aged 28, Seaman; disease or hurt, pulse full and strong, face flushed, cough, thirst, tongue foul, belly hard and costive, ushered in by a severe rigor. Taken ill, 24 June 1801, off Brest. Died 28 June 1801.

Folio 38: Benjamin Field, aged 27, Seaman; disease or hurt, right ankle swollen and painful, small feeble pulse, skin cool, appetite impaired. Taken ill, 24 June 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 8 August 1801.

Folio 38: Comments on the past month. The visit to port did not produce the feared rise in typhus infections, in spite of the excesses indulged in by the crew. As an example of how easily the disease can be contracted, the wife of the Serjeant of Marines came on board on the 3rd and was taken off the ship with typhus on the 4th, she died on the 9th. Two other women who came on board at the same time also suffered but recovered. Two more cases of ulcers, one treated with sticking plaster, one with compresses and rollers.

Folio 38: Henry Ward, aged 31, Seaman; disease or hurt, pain under the left breast, rendering his breathing acutely painful, pulse obscure and feeble, skin hot and dry, tongue foul, slight cough, no nausea, irregular chills and succeeding heats. Taken ill, 3 July 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 1 September 1801.

Folio 39: Dennis Carthy, aged 24, Seaman; Abraham Brain, aged 23, Seaman; disease or hurt, pulse frequent and feeble, headache, dejected countenance, depression of spirits and prostration of strength. Taken ill, 4 July 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 20 July 1801.

Folio 40: John Williams, aged 22, Seaman; disease or hurt, several chancres on the verge of the prepuce, with considerable surrounding hardness, prepuce adheres to the glans in three distinct places, glands of the left inguen enlarged, very painful and red. Taken ill, 16 July 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty 17 August 1801.

Folio 40: Richard Taylor, aged 22, Seaman; disease or hurt, scrotum enlarged and painful, from a blow with a clue of a sail, pyrexia. Taken ill, 17 July 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 4 August 1801.

Folio 40: Nicholas Martin, aged 28, Seaman; disease or hurt, acute, darting pain in the left testicle, morbidly tender to the touch, febrile, no other evidence of disease. Taken ill, 29 July 1801, off Brest. Discharged to duty, 18 August 1801.

Folio 40: Summary of the month's cases for July. There were 8 cases of fever with evidence of typhus, only two have been detailed. All were successfully treated but the surgeon wonders whether this is due to 'cold ablution', mild weather, weaker infections, less susceptible patients, or fresh diet and sound wine. There were many slight venereal cases and trifling accidents which were not worth detailing. F

olio 41: John Cynis, aged 18, Seaman; disease or hurt, cough with considerable expectoration, emaciation, hectic heats and debility. Taken ill, 9 August 1801, off Brest. Discharged to Plymouth Hospital, 9 August 1801.Had been under care before but was not put on the list since he was a servant and did not have duties.

Folio 41: James Kirkland, Captain of Marines; disease or hurt, arthritis. Taken ill, 23 August 1801, off Brest. Discharged to Plymouth Hospital, 23 August 1801.

Folio 41: William Scather, aged 34, Seaman; disease or hurt, short, quick, violent effort of respiration, attended with a peculiar noise, as if a quantity of mucus was lodged in the bronchia, violent perspiration of the breast and face, countenance very livid. Taken ill, 4 September 1801, off Brest. Died 5 September 1801. He had many previous attacks, all treated with aether. The initial attack was almost instantly relieved by a aether, the following morning he felt well apart from a pain in the chest but wished to return to duty. He had an attack at 10am, the aether had no effect and he died about 18 minutes later.

Folio 41: Hutchinson Hare, aged 37, Private Marine; disease or hurt, cough with copious viscid expectoration, breathing difficult and quick, skin hot, thirst, hectic, exacerbation of an evening. Taken ill, 29 September 1801, off Brest. Discharged to Plymouth Hospital, 21 October 1801.

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