Folio 7: Surgeon's remarks that during his absence in hospital the following cases...

ADM 101/153/1A/2

1877

Folio 7: Surgeon's remarks that during his absence in hospital the following cases were sent to it for treatment by the Surgeon of the ship and none of the cases were of a grave nature, in which he stated that case of fistula in ano was of the blind external variety. Folio 7: J Brown, Boy; disease, fistula in ano; put on the list 12 October 1877. Folio 7: H Wade, Ordinary Seaman; disease, wound (knee); put on the list 16 October 1877. Folio 7: R Dobin, Boy; disease, contusion (knee); put on the list 16 October 1877. Folio 7: S Ashton, Ordinary Seaman; disease, primary syphilis; put on the list 18 October 1877. Folio 7: G Martell, Stoker; disease, primary orchitis; put on the list 18 October 1877. Folio 7: A. Jarratt, Ward Room Cook; disease, nephritis; put on the list 18 October 1877. Folio 7: W Holloway, Leading Stoker; disease, tonsillitis; put on the lit 27 October 1877. Folio 7: A Eascry, Armourer; disease, sympathetic bubo; put on the list 27 October 1877. Folio 7: F McCann, Bandsman; disease, pneumonia; put on the list 27 October 1877. Folio 7: C Rogers, Boy; disease, scabies; put on the list 27 October 1877. Folio 7: W Sullens, Boy; disease, gonorrhoea; put on the list 27 October 1877. Folio 7: A Shire, Stoker; disease, acute rheumatism; put on the list 30 October 1877. Folio 7: A Pearce, Coxswain Cutter; disease, epididymitis; put on the list 30 October 1877.

Folios 7-8: case no 17, J Jope, aged 28, Carpenter's Mate; sick or hurt, recurrent myxomatous tumour; put on sick list, 27 September 1877, discharged 23 November 1877 from the list.

Folio 8: case no 18, A Jarratt, aged 41, Ward Room Cook (coloured man); sick or hurt, stricture of urethra; put on sick list, 11 November 1877, sent 15 November 1877 to Hospital.

Folio 8: case no 19, H Wade, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, dislocation of humerus; put on sick list, 24 November 1877, sent 26 November 1877 to Hospital.

Folios 9-12: Blank.

Folio 13: Tables of ship's movements from 30 July to 21 December 1877, between St. Vincent, Cape de Verds, Cape Coast Castle, Accra, Lagos, Nun Mouth of River Niger, Fernando Po, Simon's Bay, East London, Table Bay, Mouth of Bashea River.

Folio 13: List of men who received wounds or hurts during the period of this journal. No on the ship's book 246, C Barrett, aged 23, Sick Berth Steward; pension granted on 17 August 1877; nature of hurts, severe lacerated wound of the left foot, caused by crushed between a boat and the ship's side during a gale, on 27 July 1877.

Folios 14-16: Tables of medical statistics.

Folios 17-19: Surgeon's general remarks. The Active a corvette,10 guns, was built at the Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London and launched on 13 March 1869. The Surgeon described the dimension and arrangements of the ship, he also stated that the Active was a roomy well ventilated ship. He then describes the ship's movements. Some officers and a small proportion of the ship's crew from the Tourmaline were turned over to this ship at St Vincent, then the Active touched at one or two places in the Bight of Benin on the mouth of the Niger River and proceeded to the entrance of the Nun River and remained there for three days preparing for an expedition 120 miles up that River to chastise the Natives, who a short time previously had plundered one or two merchant steamers and murdered some of their crews. The ship then steamed to Fernando Po where many officers suffered severely from remittent fever. The ship left Fernando Po on 18 August and reached Simon's Bay on 5 September, according to the Surgeon, during the ship's stay there affairs in the Eastern part of the Colony assumed a serious aspect owing to resumed hostitities by the Kafirs. Subsequently a Naval Brigade was landed at East London 550 miles to the Eastward on 16 December, it consisted of 10 officers, 121 Bluejackets, 42 Marines and 23 Kroomen, with six twelve-pounder Armstrong guns, one Gatling gun and two twenty four pounder rocket tubes. The Surgeon stated that after a difficult landing owing to the heavy sea on the bar at the Mouth of the Buffalo River the Brigade proceeded en route to the Great Kei River which forms the boundary between the Colony and Kreli’s Country commonly known as Transkei. The Surgeon mentioned that after a journey of 50 miles the Brigade divided into two bodies, 3 officers, 82 men and 2 guns were dispatched as a Garrison for Fort Cunyngham at the foot of the Amatola mountains in Sandille's Country where a rising was expected to take place, the other remainder constituting the Head Quarters, in which the Surgeon accompanied, having cross the Kei and marched through the Fingo Territory and through that of the Galekos and Ibeka which was reached on Christmas day and encamped under the Command of Colonel Glyn of the 24th Regiment and established as the Head Quarter of the Transkei Field Force. The Surgeon remarks on the prevailing diseases of cases that were put on the list during the ship's cruise on the West Coast of Africa.

Folios 20-24: Blank.

Folios 25-29: Alphabetical sick list.

Folio 30: Blank.

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