Folios 1-5: Copy of daily sick list. Folio 5: case no 1, John Harold, aged 21, Ordinary...

Folios 1-5: Copy of daily sick list.

Folio 5: case no 1, John Harold, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Jamaica; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 1 February 1840, discharged 2 February 1840 to duty.

Folios 5-6: case no 2, William Edwards, aged 37, Able Seaman; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 4 February 1840, discharged 26 February 1840 to duty, in April the patient again applied for relief from ulceration of the rectum.

Folio 6: case no 3, John Barry, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman taken ill at Jamaica; sick or hurt, palsy, slight distortion of the mouth – the consequence of an attack of paralysis previous to his entry into the Navy in August 1838, he was one of the newly raised men in this ship – whose complaint of infirmities rendered him unserviceable at the time of entry, he was brought forwards for invaliding at Jamaica and rejected as the Surgeon of the Hospital was one of the invaliding officers, he was sent to Port Royal Hospital and discharged (cured !), he rejoined the ship in the same state or rather worse, than when he went to hospital, he was invalided on 25 September 1840 at Quebec.

Folios 6-7: case no 4, Thomas Goldsmith, aged 21, Landsman; taken ill at Port Royal; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 8 February 1840, sent 8 February 1840 to Port Royal Hospital, where he died of fever attacked while convalescent.

Folio 7: The Surgeon’s noted that the following 25 cases were not deserving of more lengthened notice. Folio 7: case no 5, Robert Alison, aged 21, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, phlegmon of the leg; put on sick list 8 February 1840, discharged 12 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 6, H M Rolfe, aged 22, Mate; sick or hurt, Verruca on sloes of feet; put on sick list 8 February 1840, discharged 11 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 7, Henry Woodhams, aged not stated, Carpenter’s Crew; sick or hurt, erysipelas merely local of forearm; put on sick list 12 February 1840, discharged 16 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 8, William Thorpe, aged 32, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, contusio of the side by a fall; put on sick list 12 February 1840, discharged 18 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 9, James Clements, aged 42, Sergeant Marine; sick or hurt, contusio of the side; put on sick list 14 February 1840, discharged 18 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 10, John Jordan, aged 49, Captain’s Steward; sick or hurt, colica with spasmodic stricture; put on sick list 14 February 1840, discharged 18 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 11, Peter Whitelaw, aged 23, Carpenter’s Crew; sick or hurt, subluxatio of the wrist – rather severe; put on sick list 16 February 1840, discharged 25 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 12, James Vermell, aged 19, Boy; sick or hurt, erysipelas of left arm – very slight; put on sick list 18 February 1840, discharged 20 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 13, John Harold, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, ulcus – simple and small of the leg; put on sick list 18 February 1840, discharged 23 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 14, Jethro Pettit, aged 24, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, subluxatio of left wrist by a fall; put on sick list 20 February 1840, discharged 27 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 15, John Junifer, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, vulnus; put on sick list 20 February 1840, discharged 23 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 16, John Smith, aged 26, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, febris intermittent – lately joined from a Morshy district; put on sick list 22 February 1840, discharged 26 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 17, Richard Honeywell, aged 23, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, vulnus of hand; put on sick list 22 February 1840, discharged 27 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 18, George Elgar, aged 27, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, vulnus of foot; put on sick list 22 February 1840, discharged 24 February 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 19, John Logan, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, vulnus of hand; put on sick list 29 February 1840, discharged 2 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 20, Thomas Wright, aged 23, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, ulcus – simple of leg; put on sick list 1 March 1840, discharged 11 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 21, Thomas Parkes, aged 24, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, vulnus of hand; put on sick list 1 March 1840, discharged 4 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 22, Joseph Grimly, aged 40, Marine; sick or hurt, vulnus of scalp with contusion of arm; put on sick list 4 March 1840, discharged 5 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 23, Joseph Glass, aged 24, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, ulcus – several small & simple of leg; put on sick list 6 March 1840, discharged 18 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 24, John Seywell, aged 27, Marine; sick or hurt, phlegmon of foot; put on sick list 7 March 1840, discharged 12 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 25, John Logan, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, subluxatio of great toe; put on sick list 10 March 1840, discharged 12 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 26, John Perrington, aged 28, Captain Fore Top; sick or hurt, diarrhoea from loaded bowels; put on sick list 14 March 1840, discharged 16 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 27, Richard Wood, aged 26, Marine; sick or hurt, diarrhoea aperients and put on sick list 14 March 1840, discharged 16 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 28, James Fowler, aged 44, Master; sick or hurt, colica – indigestable food & complaints bowles; put on sick list 15 March 1840, discharged 17 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 29, William Doe, aged 23, Marine; sick or hurt, phlegmon – several - of notes & thighs; put on sick list 15 March 1840, discharged 17 March 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 30, James Page, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, vulnus – incised wound, by treading on a sharpened scraper – 4 inches in extent & under and outside of left heel and partly dividing plantar fascia; put on sick list 18 March 1840, discharged 3 April 1840 to duty. Folio 7: February 1840, passage between Port Royal in Jamaica to Montego Bay. Folio 7: case no 31, James Taylor, aged 17, Boy; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, accidentally wounded by a pointed knife on the inner side of cornea of right eye; put on sick list 26 March 1840, discharged 5 April 1840 to duty. Folio 7: case no 32, Arthur Wiseman, aged 29, Marine; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phlegmon of the leg; put on sick list 20 March 1840, discharged 29 March 1840 to duty.