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For description purposes, ADM 101/101/5...
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 101/121/3B/2
This record is about the Folio 8: Note alongside treatment for John White that several of the catarrh cases... dating from 1798-1799 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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Folio 8: Note alongside treatment for John White that several of the catarrh cases have terminated in intermittent fevers.
Folio 8: Note alongside treatment for John McMillan that many of the febrile cases have ended in fluxes but none dangerous. There are 76 on the sick list. Folio 8: William Ferrage, aged 21, Private Marine; disease or hurt, violent headache, great pain in his side and difficulty in breathing. Taken ill, 26 August 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 8 September 1798. Note alongside that his symptoms run high and he became delirious. Folio 8: Note alongside treatment for Hugh Williams that his cough is almost his only remaining symptom. Folio 8: James Price, aged 23, Privet Marine; disease or hurt, great pain in his breast, difficulty in breathing, headache and costiveness. Taken ill, 3 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 10 September 1798. Folio 8: Note alongside James Price that the sick list is now decreasing at nearly the same speed it was increasing before. Folio 8: James McCocknel, aged 26, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, dislocated his left shoulder by a fall down the main hatchway. Taken ill, 4 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 20 September 1798. Folio 8: William Moore, aged 32, Quarter Master; disease or hurt, intermittent fever, daily paroxysms at about 12, cough. Taken ill, 5 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 7 September 1798. Folio 8a: John Penrose, aged 38, Landsman; disease or hurt, headache, pain in his side which affects his breathing, pulse strong and quick. Taken ill, 7 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 26 September 1798. Folio 8a: Walter Howard, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, ulcer on his left foot from an abscess, much inflammation. Taken ill, 11 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 16 October 1798. Folio 8a: William Hamlin, aged 24, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, jaundice, yellowness over his whole body, pain in his right side. Taken ill, 17 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 14 October 1798. Folio 8a: Martin Kemble, aged 26, Private Marine; disease or hurt, headache, great pain in his back and limbs, tongue foul, seized with cold shivering for about half an hour the previous evening at 4. Taken ill, 18 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 24 September 1798. Folio 8a: Note alongside treatment of Martin Kemble on 21 September that a considerable number of intermittent fevers have occurred lately. Folio 8a: Charles Williams, aged 29, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, headache, pain in his back and limbs, tongue foul, no stool for three days. Taken ill, 22 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 20 October 1798.
Folio 9: John Diggs, aged 24, Purser’s Steward; disease or hurt, headache, great pain in his breast and side, difficulty breathing. Taken ill, 24 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 4 October 1798. Folio 9: William Needs, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fractured right clavicle from a fall down the main hatchway. Taken ill, 30 September 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 6 November 1798. Folio 9: Thomas Lillicrop, aged 27, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, acute pains in his breast and left side, great difficulty breathing, pulse strong and quick. Taken ill, 10 October 1798, Bay of Rhodes. Discharged to duty, 8 November 1798. Folio 9: John Driscal, aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, oblique fracture of the radius of the right arm, about two inches from the wrist. Taken ill, 10 October 1798, Bay of Rhodes. Discharged to duty, 12 November 1798.
Folio 10: Joseph Stephenson, aged 32, Private Marine; disease or hurt, great pain in the lower part of his belly, difficulty in making water, it sometimes stops suddenly and is attended with excruciating pain, also great pain across his loins. Taken ill, 13 October 1798, Bay of Rhodes. Discharged to the hospital ship, 26 March 1798. Folio 10: John Tomkins, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, violent contusion on the outside of the left leg just below the knee, much swelling and inflammation. Taken ill, 14 October 1798, Bay of Rhodes. Discharged to duty, 6 November 1798. Folio 10: Robert Hurdy, aged 38, Private Marine; disease or hurt, headache, nausea, great pain in his bowels, violent purging. Taken ill, 14 October 1798, Bay of Rhodes. Discharged to duty, 25 October 1798. Note alongside that seven similar cases have been put on the list in the past two days. Folio 10: James Taylor, aged 32, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, headache, nausea, great pain in his back and loins, preceded by slight chilliness about 4am. Taken ill, 20 October 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 27 October 1798.
Folio 11: Nathaniel English, aged 24, Carpenter’s Crew; disease or hurt, great pain in his bowels, frequent inclination to go to stool, with pain from straining but no stool. Taken ill, 22 October 1798, at sea. Discharged to duty, 28 October 1798. Folio 11: Note alongside Nathanial English that the flux is very prevalent, two or three cases a day. Symptoms are moderate, none appear dangerous. Folio 11: James Reilay, aged 35, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, wound across his left shoulder from a sabre cut, in an attack on the enemy’s camp the day before. Taken ill, 28 October 1798, Becquier Bay [Aboukir Bay]. Discharged to duty, 12 February 1799. Folio 11: Daniel Sunderland, aged 33, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, both legs carried away by the bursting of a gun in a boat. Taken ill, 29 October 1798, Becquier Bay [Aboukir Bay]. Died, 31 October 1798. Injury sustained during an attack on the castle of Apokera [Aboukir] in boats. The boats were two miles from the ship and he lost a great deal of blood before he was got on board. Right leg carried away above the knee, the left femur fractured to the knee.
Folio 12: William Jones, Aged 25, Abel Seaman; disease or hurt, wound on the left arm from a shot which fractured the ulna in two places near the elbow. Taken ill, 29 October 1798, Becquier [Aboukir] Bay. Discharged to the Zealous, 14 February 1799. Initially refused to have his arm amputated but consented on 18th December after the wound continually became swollen and discharged. The shot was fired from the castle. Folio 12: Note alongside William Jones that ten more men were added to the sick list and one man died from a violent contusion across the lower part of his belly [all presumably in the attack on the castle]. Folio 12: Charles Marr, aged 29, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, great pain in his stomach and bowels, frequent purging, seized with violent spasms and vomiting at about 4am. Taken ill, 1 November 1798, Becquier [Aboukir] Bay. Discharged to duty, 6 November 1798.
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