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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 101/47/7/3
This record is about the Folios 5-6: James Meads, aged 26, Convict; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick... dating from 1835 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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Folios 5-6: James Meads, aged 26, Convict; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 23 April 1835, Spithead. Discharged, 7 May 1835. Said that he had suffered a cough for some weeks past.
Folios 6-8: William Brewer, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, orchitis. Put on sick list, 28 April 1835, at sea. Discharged, 3 July 1835. Admitted in to the hospital with his left testicle swollen to four times normal size and the spermatic vessels ‘preternaturally tumid and extremely painful’, said it had been inflamed and swollen for eighteen months.
Folios 8-9: William Rance, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 3 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 17 May 1835. Labouring under a dull pain in the right breast, difficulty breathing, frequent dry cough, headache, white tongue.
Folios 9-10: Patrick Ward, aged 24, Soldier of the 28th Regiment; disease or hurt, paronychia. Put on sick list, 3 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 2 June 1835. The first joint of the middle finger of his left hand had become so extremely painful that it was preventing him from sleeping.
Folio 10: Elijah Toogood, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 3 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 15 May 1835. Wound to the great toe of his right foot from treading on a knife that had been carelessly dropped.
Folios 10-11: Samuel Solmey, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, ulcus. Put on sick list, 3 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 2 June 1835. He had a small, loose, flabby scrofulous looking sore, with a thin discharge on the side of his neck, which he said had been there for several years past.
Folio 11: Stephen Lund, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, abscesses. Put on sick list, 3 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 15 May 1835. A small abscess on the […..] immediately under the os mole.
Folio 12: Thomas [Horrilin], aged 34, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 3 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 15 May 1835. While employed in the after hold his left calf was struck by a bucket falling from the gratings overhead and turned down about a square inch of the integument. Folio 12: James Walker, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 7 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 15 May 1835. Divided the integument of the right knee over the patella by falling against an iron cable stopper.
Folios 12-13: [Abram or Abraham] Clarke, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, colica. Put on sick list, 7 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 11 May 1835. Had griping in his abdomen for two days and then was attacked with a fixed sharp pain in his belly to the left of the umbilicus.
Folio 13: John Woods, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 8 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 29 May 1835. Whilst wringing out a swab in the head, a rusty fish hook, which had been secreted in it, became embedded in his hand. He tried to extract it with a knife rather than push the rusty part of the hook through his skin.
Folios 13-14: David Jones, aged 16, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 8 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835. Fell and hit his left leg against the edge of the stop of the small prison door.
Folio 14: George Barnes, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, haemorrhois. Put on sick list, 10 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835. He stated his bowels were naturally constipated and had been repeatedly acted upon that morning and were painful.
Folio 14: John Franklin, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 16 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835. Bruised his left leg in a fall down the main hatchway.
Folios 14-15: James Burke, aged 29, Convict; disease or hurt, abscesses. Put on sick list, 16 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835. A small abscess with a callous edged opening, the sequel of a boil.
Folio 15: William West, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 16 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835. Had been labouring all night under pain in his bowels, nausea and frequent purging, a developing tenesmus, urgent thirst and headache.
Folio 15: William Goodwin, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 16 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835.
Folios 15-16: Robert [Fosrid], aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, colica. Put on sick list, 16 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 21 May 1835. Complained of severe twisting about the region of the umbilicus with tenderness on pressure.
Folio 16: Thomas Swindle, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, haemorrhois. Put on sick list, 29 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835. He had suffered slight haemorrhoidal affections for some years.
Folio 16: Luke Cullen, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 27 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835. He was thrown forward and injured his left leg when bringing his hammock on deck.
Folio 16: James Smith, aged 15, Convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 27 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835. When at breakfast he was struck on the head by an iron bound [mess kid] dropped from the boom.
Folios 16-17: Edward Smith, aged 40, Convict; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 27 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835. 'A large boil in a semi-suppurative condition is situated on the inner side of the left knee'.
Folio 17-19: Patrick Rourke, aged 24, Private of the 28th Regiment; disease or hurt, synochus. Put on sick list, 27 May 1835, at sea. Died, 27 June 1835. 'Of a spare and apparently cachetic temperament', he was attacked with pain across the [...], nausea and lassitude, also cold shiverings. Folio 19: William Wright, aged 44, Convict; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 27 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835.
Folios 19-20: Edward [Terter], aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, dysuria. Put on sick list, 28 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835. Had experienced pain about the end of the urethra after making water for the last few days. Folio 20: James Harvey, aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 28 May 1835, at sea. Discharged, 6 June 1835. 'A blushing [ameliorated] circle on the inside of the calf of the left leg about 4 inches in circumference'.
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