Folio 1: Title page, 'Copy of sick list HMS Albion from 1 January to 31 December...

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1854-1856

Folio 1: Title page, 'Copy of sick list HMS Albion from 1 January to 31 December 1854, from 1 January to 31 December 1855'.

Folios 2-18: Daily sick list 1 January 1854 to 31 December 1854.

Folios 18-25: Daily sick list 1 January 1855 to 5 January 1856.

Folio 25: Benjamin Matthews, aged 31, Marine; disease or hurt, orchitis. Put on sick list, 2 January 1854. Discharged, 10 March 1854.

Folios 25-26: John P Stevens, aged 38, Captain of Royal Marines; disease or hurt, ulcus. Put on sick list, 27 January 1854. Sent to hospital, 2 February 1854. He had been to Malta Hospital with a malignant ulcer of the lower lip the previous year.

Folio 26: James Nolan, aged 21, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, bronchitis. Put on sick list, 1 February 1854. Sent to hospital, 10 February 1854. Folio 26: William Cooper, aged 56, Quartermaster; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 10 February 1854. Sent to hospital, 22 May 1854. Slipped on ice on the deck and struck his elbow against the hatchway combing.

Folios 26-27: Thomas Johns, aged 23, Abel Seaman; disease or hurt, orchitis. Put on sick list, 13 February 1854. Sent to hospital, 22 May 1854. His left testicle got squeezed in ‘sliding down the gaff’.

Folio 27: John Inkster, aged 39, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 27 February 1854. Sent to hospital, 12 March 1854.

Folios 27-28: Richard [Duckens], aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, constipatio. Put on sick list, 4 March 1854. Discharged, 4 April 1854.

Folio 28: John Caunter, aged 30, Marine; disease or hurt, bursal tumour. Put on sick list, 13 March 1854. Discharged, 14 April 1854.

Folios 28-30: Andrew Johnstone, aged 28, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, paralysis. Put on sick list, 16 March 1854. Sent to hospital, 22 May 1854.After eating a lot of food he lay down sleep on a grating and about an hour afterwards was seen to be ‘in a state of general and rather strong tremor’, unable to speak and passing urine involuntarily. His right arm and leg remained partly paralysed.

Folios 30-31: George Bowen, aged 19, Marine; disease or hurt, synochus. Put on sick list, 18 March 1854. Discharged, 19 May 1854.

Folios 31-32: Edward Boyle, aged 19, Boy; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 19 March 1854. Sent to hospital, 14 April 1854.

Folio 32: Arthur McIvor, aged 30, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, paralysis. Put on sick list, 23 April 1854. Sent to hospital, 22 May 1854. Stated that he could not use his legs properly and had no command over them, a sensation of numbness around the middle of his body and impaired vision in the right eye. The condition had been gradually worsening over three months.

Folio 33: George Congram, aged 43, Serjeant Royal Marines; disease or hurt, amaurosis. Put on sick list, 11 May 1854. Invalided, 22 May 1854. His sight had been growing worse for some months. Folio 33: Thomas Halley, aged 34, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, amaurosis. Put on sick list, 15 May 1854. Invalided, 22 May 1854. His vision had been defective for two years. Folio 33: Thomas Bickford, aged 36, Coxswain of Barge; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 16 May 1854. Sent to hospital, 4 June 1854. Had repeated attacks of intermittent fever the previous year when in Besica Bay [Besik Bay].

Folios 33-34: Samuel Allan, aged 32, Marine; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 21 May 1854. Discharged, 28 July 1854.

Folio 34: William Cruys, aged 54, Master at Arms; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 22 May 1854. Invalided, 22 May 1854. Had been suffering rheumatism for the last four years.

Folio 35: Timothy Oxxe, aged 34, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, amentia. Put on sick list, 22 May 1854. Invalided, 22 May 1854. Observed by his messmates to be acting strangely, he would sit and read his bible for hours on end, rarely turning a page, and never conversed with his messmates. He walked on the gangway, muttering to himself and had jumped overboard twice while the ship was at anchor. Folio 35: Joseph Saunders, aged 25, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 30 May 1854. Sent to hospital, 18 June 1854.

Folios 35-36: Isaac Wallis, aged 37, Marine; disease or hurt, synochus. Put on sick list, 9 June 1854. Died, 18 June 1854. With a description of his internal organs examined post mortem.

Folio 36: James Marsh, aged [not recorded], Gunner’s Mate; disease or hurt, gastro enteritis. Put on sick list, 9 June 1854. Died, 10 June 1854. With a description of his internal organs examined post mortem.

Folios 36-37: William Acland, aged [not recorded], Marine; disease or hurt, gastro enteritis. Put on sick list, 11 July 1854. Discharged, 20 August 1854.

Folio 37: James Huggins, aged 63, Paymaster; disease or hurt, bronchitis. Had been on the list form 10 March to 25 May for chronic bronchitis and asthma, from which he had suffered all winter. He had lost twenty pounds in weight since the beginning of March. Folio 37: Richard Alison, aged 18, Boy; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 17 July 1854. Discharged to the hospital at Therapia, 6 August 1854.

Folios 37-38: Thomas Rundle, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 9 August 1854. Discharged, 2 September 1854.

Folio 38: Samuel Allan, aged 33, Marine; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 16 August 1854. Died, 10 August 1854. Folio 38: James Anson, aged 25, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 10 August 1854. Discharged, 25 August 1854. Folio 38: William Johns, aged 41, Marine; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 10 August 1854. Discharged, 27 August 1854. Folio 38: John Horney, aged 27, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 10 August 1854. Died, 13 August 1854.

Folio 39: William Tucker, aged 29, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 10 August 1854. Died, 10 August 1854. Had suffered diarrhoea for the previous two days. Folio 39: Robert Ham, aged 31, Marine; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 11 August 1854. Died, 12 August 1854.

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