Folios 1-22: Copy of daily sick list. Folio 22: case no 1, William Green, aged 26,...

ADM 101/113/6/1

1849-1851

Folios 1-22: Copy of daily sick list.

Folio 22: case no 1, William Green, aged 26, Carpenter's Crew; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synochus with headache and nausea; put on sick list, 14 September 1849, discharged 9 October 1849 on board HMS Thetis for passage to Malta Hospital, the Surgeon 'noted, this man returned to this ship on 30 January 1850...he stated that he was two months in hospital, during which he suffered severely from dysentery and after discharged from hospital to HMS Ceylon to await a passage to rejoined his own ship. he suffered from swelling of abdomen and lower extremities'.

Folio 23: case no 2, James Benson, aged 27, Private Marine; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis, was put on the list with cough, shortness of breath, great weakness and loss of flesh; put on sick list, 15 September 1849, died 18 October 1849 [with post mortem report]. Folio 23: case no 3, George Carter, aged 23, Sailmaker’s Crew; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, mania, complained of general pains especially affecting the shoulders and knees...stated he was unable to do anything for himself for several months...he laboured under the delusion that he was covered with vermin and was not allowed to associate with his messmates:- that every body shuns him on 7 October he made two attempts to jump over board under the impression that someone was trying to injure him, he was put in a strait waistcoat; put on sick list, 6 October 1849, discharged 9 October 1849 on board HMS Thetis for passage to Malta Hospital, the Surgeon’s noted, previous to leaving this ship he begged to see the Chaplain, and told him that he want his assistance as 'they were going to drown him'.

Folios 23-24: case nos. 4 and 5, Michael Long, aged 25, Private Marine; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, exostosis of right tibial and catarrh andc; put on sick list, 16 October 1849, sent 12 December 1849 to Malta Hospital, this patient returned from the hospital on 30 January 1850 whilst the ship was at Salamis Bay, much improved in general health with good colour in his face and felling strong and able to work…several weeks afterwards on 20 March 1850, he was again admitted on the list with symptoms of great weakness, sickness and headache, and some cough…he was invalided on 24 April 1850.

Folio 25: case no 6, James Osborne, aged 29, 2nd Captain Main Top; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, chronic ulcers of lower extremities; put on sick list, 22 October 1849, sent 7 January 1850 to Malta Hospital, the patient returned to the ship on 10 May 1850 quite well and fit for duty.

Folios 25-27: case no 7, Frederic Easthope, aged 26, Bandsman; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, compound comminuted fracture of left leg, while came down on one of the ladders from the ship's head to the main deck was struck by the [maintack]...on examination found to have sustained a very dangerous compound and comminuted fracture of bones of left leg about four inches above the ankles the foot hanging loosely from the leg, with considerable hemorrhage from arterial; put on sick list, 27 October 1849, died 6 November 1849, Surgeon's noted, in this case there was great prostration of strength produced by the loss of blood (much of it arterial) which followed the accident and this added to the effects of the operation increased his natural irritability...the patient was most carefully attended to both by a watch of his messmates who took it in turn to sit by his bedside, and by the Assistant Surgeon and the Senior Assistant Dr Fisher (new Surgeon)... .

Folios 28-29: case no 8, Mr John Arthur Gregory, aged 16, Midshipman; taken ill at Dardanelles; sick or hurt, cephalitis following fever; put on sick list, 5 November 1849, invalided 7 December 1849, sent on board HMS Oberon for passage to Malta Hospital, died 22 December 1849.

Folios 29-30: case no 9, Henry Shilson, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman - Afterguard; taken ill at Dardanelles; sick or hurt, catarrh and bronchitis; put on sick list, 11 November 1849, invalided 7 December 1849, sent on board HMS Oberon for passage to Malta Hospital.

Folio 30: case no 10, John Poor, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman - Mizzentop; taken ill at Bashika Bay; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list, 27 November 1849, sent 7 January 1850 on board HMS Sharpshooter for passage to Malta Hospital, invalided 18 January 1850.

Folios 30-31: case no 11, James McCarthy, aged 25, 2nd Able Seaman - Forecastle; taken ill off [Moskonisi?]; sick or hurt, concussion & fracture of skull, was struck on the head by a capstan; put on sick list, 22 December 1849, died 22 December 1849.

Folios 31-32: case no 12, William Stanbury, aged 30, Able Seaman - Maintop; taken ill off [Moskonisi?]; sick or hurt, phlegmonous erysipelas: phlebitis, small foul looking sore on the dorsal surface of left forefinger - there was considerable odema of back of hand and redness and swelling of lower part of wrist joint; put on sick list, 7 January 1850, died 17 January 1850 at 5.30 am.

Folio 32: case no 13, Alexander Cassidey, aged 24, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Salamis Bay; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list, 1 February 1850, discharged 7 March 1850 to duty.

Folios 33-34: case no 14, William Parker, aged 24, Ordinary Seaman - Maintop; taken ill at Salamis Bay; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list, 5 February 1850, discharged 10 March 1850 to duty.

Folio 34: case no 15, John Voller, aged 30, Captain Maintop; taken ill at Salamis Bay; sick or hurt, ventral hernia, pain in the left side under the cartilages of the ribs and over the cardiac region of stomach; put on sick list, 1 March 1850, discharged 10 March 1850 to duty. [see also folio 60, case no 80].

Folios 34-35: case no 16, James Harvey, aged 46, Captain of the Mast; taken ill at Salamis Bay; sick or hurt, orchitis chronica or hernia humeralis; put on sick list, 5 March 1850, invalided 24 April 1850.

Folio 35: case no 17, James Delany, aged 24, Ordinary Seaman - Maintop; taken ill at Salamis Bay; sick or hurt, chronic ulcers of leg from varicose veins; put on sick list, 1 March 1850, discharged 13 March 1850 to duty, re-admitted on 14 March 1850 with swelling round the seat of a small ulcer on lower part of leg and extended to instep, invalided 24 April 1850, sent on board HMS Odin for passage to England. Folio 35: case no 18, John Evens (2nd), aged 37 ½, Private Marine; taken ill at Salamis Bay; sick or hurt, oblique inguinal hernia in left side; put on sick list, 16 March 1850, invalided 24 April 1850, sent on board HMS Odin for passage to England.

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description