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Folio 15: case no.23, John Telfer, aged 26, seaman; taken ill at Spithead; disease...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/105/4/2

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ADM 101/105/4/2

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1806

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Folio 15: case no.23, John Telfer, aged 26, seaman; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt; gonorrhea; taken ill, 5 June 1806; discharged 26 June 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 16: case no.24, William Charles, aged 24, marine; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt; circumcribed tumor on the left patella with pain and heat; taken ill, 5 June 1806; discharged 28 June 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 16: case no.25, Mr William Pullen, midshipman; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt; transferred from Yarmouth hospital with lues venerea; taken ill, 10 June 1806; sent 10 June 1806 to Royal hospital at Haslar.

Folio 17: case no.26, Edward Allen, aged 35, seaman; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt; extremities rigid, painful loins and bowlesfree and pulse regular; taken ill, 16 June 1806; discharged 16 July 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 17: case no.27, Thomas Turner, aged 14, boy; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt; wound of more than an inch in extention on the outer part of the right great toe by a piece of flint glass while bathing; taken ill, 18 June 1806; discharged 18 July 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 18: case no.28, Alexander McDonald, aged 35, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; contusion of the left great toe with ecchymosis at the base of the nail; taken ill, 21 June 1806; discharged 2 July 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 18: case no.29, Mr Caijer, aged 24, midshipman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; gonorrhea [ardonwind] and glands of the right [region] enlarged and painful; taken ill, 21 June 1806; discharged 25 July 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 19: case no.30, Lewis Moore, aged [40], seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; ulcer of the leg; taken ill, 23 June 1806; discharged 24 July 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 19: case no.31, Mr Tackle, aged 22, midshipman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; scrotum thinckened and inflamed right testicle and epedidimis[epididymis] enlarged chord full; taken ill, 25 June 1806; discharged 10 July 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 20: case no.32, Thomas Courage, aged 25, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; phymosis and hernia humoralis of the right testicle; taken ill, 27 June 1806; discharged 16 July 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 20: case no.30, Lewis Moore, aged [40], seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; case continue from folio 19; taken ill, 23 June 1806; discharged 15 November 1806 to the Royal hospital at Haslar.

Folio 20: case no.33, Richard Morgan, aged 30, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; ulceration of posteriorly to the glans penis and several of similar appearance on the [viala?] and fauces; taken ill, 28 June 1806; discharged 16 July 1806 to duty at sea.

Folio 21: case no.34, Richard Black, aged 35, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; strong spasmodic[and hection?] of the muscles of the thorax and abdomen; taken ill, 4 July 1806; died 7 July 1806 at sea.

Folio 21: case no.35, I Wyatt, aged 25, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; cough with copious expectoration pain at the intervals on the left side of the thorax slight dyspnea nausea and loss of appetite; taken ill, 8 July 1806; discharged 24 July 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 22: case no.36, George Humphries, aged 26, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; left testicle enlarged, lax and painful with gonorrhea; taken ill, 9 July 1806; discharged 28 July 1806 to duty at St John’s harbour Newfoundland.

Folio 22: case no.37, William Thomson, aged 38, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; pain in the course of sternum dyspnea frequent dry cough, skin hot, bowels free; taken ill, 16 July 1806; discharged 24 July 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 23: case no.38, John Hill, aged 30, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; considerable nausea, rigors and incceeding [exceeding] heat; taken ill, 16 July 1806; discharged 28 July 1806 to duty at St John’s harbour Newfoundland.

Folio 23: case no.34, Richard Black, aged 35, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; case continue from folio 21; taken ill, 4 July 1806; died 7 July 1806 at sea.

Folio 24: case no.35, I Wyatt, aged 25, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; case continue from folio 21; taken ill, 8 July 1806; discharged 24 July 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 24: case no.39, Patrick Duffy, aged 52, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; fell down form the fore castle ladder and wounded the anterior and inferior part of the left leg; taken ill, 18 July 1806; discharged 29 July 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 25: case no.40, Mr George Cooper, aged 17, captain clerk; taken ill at St John’s Harbour Newfoundland; disease or hurt; several ulcers on the feet and leg, the toes of both feet agglutinated with an oosing of matter from the inferior and superior surface; taken ill, 24 July 1806; discharged 24 July 1806 to naval hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 25: case no.41, Stephen Stroud, aged 26, seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt; frequent irregular pulse, dry foul tongue, headache and pungent heat of skin; taken ill, 21 July 1806; discharged 24 July 1806 to naval hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 26: case no.42, Thomas Williams, aged 28, seaman; taken ill at Bay of Bulls Newfoundland; disease or hurt; right inguinal glands enlarged; taken ill, 7 August 1806; discharged 25 August 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folios 26-27: case no.43, James Bryan, aged 30, seaman; taken ill off harber of St John’s Newfoundland; disease or hurt; superior of the penis near the pubes is a cluster of shankers in the right inguen is and ulcer, deep and about the size of the palm of a child’s hand with hard loose jagged edges in the left inguen is a more extended ulcer of similar appearance with a deep narrow foul opening below it; taken ill, 9 August 1806; discharged 11 August 1806 to hospital at St John’s Newfoundland.

Folio 27: case no.43, James Bryan, aged 30, seaman; taken ill off harber of St John’s Newfoundland; disease or hurt; case continue from folio 26; taken ill, 9 August 1806; discharged 15 November 1806 to royal hospital at Haslar.

Folio 27: John Grogan’s case continue from folio 33

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