Folios 45-46: Mr Robert Lowray, [age not recorded], Master's Mate; disease or hurt,...

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1812-1814

Folios 45-46: Mr Robert Lowray, [age not recorded], Master's Mate; disease or hurt, pain in his knee with rigors and unusual fullness, he became flushed and the disease ran into synocha fever. Taken ill, 9 October 1813. Discharged to duty, 13 December 1813.

Folios 46-48: Isaac Gooch, aged 25, Marine; disease or hurt, pneumonia and typhus [metior]. Taken ill, 18 November 1813, on board ship in Simon's Bay. Discharged to duty, 14 December 1813.

Folio 48: Robert Dickinson, aged 22, Carpenter's Crew; disease or hurt, partially divided the achilles tendon with an adze while working on shore. Taken ill, 8 December 1813, Simon's Bay. Discharged to duty, 28 December 1813.

Folio 49: Observations on typhus metior. Suggests that the crew employed in the dockyard have been able to 'indulge in many excesses to which they are unused', have been exposed to the sun and able to plunge into the water while sweating. The latter being the main among a combination of causes of mild typhus fever. With a list of those affected. John Roberts, 6 December 1813; Thomas Bellamy, 16 December 1813; George Mathlin, 22 December 1813, discharged to duty, 9 January 1814. James Clarke, 5 January 1814.Richard Bell, 8 January 1814, discharged to duty, 12 January 1814.

Folios 49-50: John Roberts, [age not recorded], Boy; disease or hurt, typhus metior. Taken ill, 6 December, on board ship in Simon's Bay. Convalescent at end of journal, 24 January 1814. His case is described in detail because it was the most typical of the five listed above.

Folio 51: Abstract of the preceding journal being a summary of all the cases contained therein.Continued fevers, 6; Fluxes, 3; Wounds and accidents, 5, of which 1 was sent to hospital; Rheumatism, 2; Pulmonic inflammation, 2; Abscess of knee, 1; Convulsions, 1; Ptyriasis, 1; Hepatitis, 3, of which 1 was sent to hospital; Mania, 1, sent to the hospital; Colic, 2; Diseased kidney, 1 supernumary, sent to the hospital; Opthalmia, 1; Strictures, 1.

Folios 51 -52: Surgeon's general remarks. Comments on the good health of the ship making it difficult to make any general remarks. The ship was in Table Bay in February 1813, at sea in rough weather in March, and at Simon's Bay the rest of the year. She was commanded by Captain Eveleigh to April and from then on by Captain Bain. Some comments on the relative health of different months and the cases of typhus metior, attributed to cold and intemperance. Comments on some remarkable cases, including John Dyer, Jonathan Shaughnessy, Jonathan Avery, George Raymond and Robert Dickinson. Daniel Shrouder and David Cronin are also mentioned as having been left behind in the Lion because of no hospital being at hand. More observations on the case of Daniel Shrouder and his kidney disease. Signed, John T Todd, Surgeon. 29th January 1814.

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