Folio 1: Printed instructions on completing nosological tables, recording where a...

ADM 101/191/1A/1

1874

Folio 1: Printed instructions on completing nosological tables, recording where a patient was taken ill, dividing the General Remarks into three sections relating to the ship and crew, her movements and places visited and a consideration of the diseases.

Folio 2: case no. 1, Richard Bennett, aged 24, Able Seaman; taken ill at Sea; sick or hurt, symp. Bebo? or venereal, with two inflamed inguinal glands on the left side; put on sick list 22 December 1873, sent 16 January 1874 to Hospital at Malta, discharged from the hospital on 8 February 1874 to joined this ship on 1 July 1874 for China Station.

Folios 2-4: case no. 2, No. on ship’s book 34, Mr. Thomas Murray, aged 42, Engineer; sick or hurt, aneurism of the abdominal aorta, had been on the list first time on 24 January, complained of pain in the loins; put on sick list 3 February 1874, died 6 February 1874 at 1 pm.

Folios 2-4: case no. 3, No. on ship’s book 5-123, William Barnes, aged 24, Stoker; taken ill at Red Sea; sick or hurt, morbus cordis; put on sick list 6 February 1874, invalided 20 March 1874 sent to the Mail Steamer for passage, according to the Surgeon, the medical history of this case showed two entries in the last 12 months, once for wound of the foot, the second for gonorrhoea.

Folios 4-5: case no. 4, Thomas Whitehead, aged 33, Marine Light Infantry Hampshire Division; taken ill at Straits of Mallacan; sick or hurt, phthisis, tickling sensation in the larynx and expectorated of blood with frothy mucous; put on sick list 4 April 1874, invalided 13 May 1874 sent to the Mail Steamer for passage on 15 May and arrived in England by the end of June.

Folios 5-6: case no. 5, No. on ship’s book 5/11, Richard Benson, aged 22, Marine Artillery; taken ill at [Lingey?] River; sick or hurt, coxalgia, rheumatism of left hip; put on sick list 6 May 1874, discharged 2 October 1874 well.

Folios 5-6: case no. 6, No. on ship’s book 13, William Charles Freeman, aged 39, Marine Light Infantry; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, right inguinal hernia; put on sick list 18 May 1874, discharged 29 May 1874 to duty, hurt certificate was given.

Folio 6: case no. 7, No. on ship’s book 5-174, George Collins, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Malacca; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list 30 May 1874, returned 1 November 1874 to duty.

Folios 6-7: case no. 8, No. on ship’s book 5-39, George Walsh, aged 34, Able Seaman; taken ill at Malacca; sick or hurt, primary syphilis; put on sick list 5 June 1874, returned 26 August 1874 to duty. Folio 7: case no. 9, No. on ship’s book 5-162, George Stevens, aged 36, Captain’s Cook; taken ill at Penang; sick or hurt, primary syphilis, gonorrhoea & venereal ulcers taken at Penang coition on 19 July [June?] with China woman; put on sick list 27 June 1874, returned 18 August 1874 to duty.

Folio 7: case no. 10, No. on ship’s book 60, John Fitzgerald, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, left inguinal hernia; put on sick list 14 July 1874, returned 20 July 1874 to duty.

Folios 7-9: case no. 11, No. on ship’s book 5-26, [William] Edmund Geast, aged 19, Writer; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, fractured base of skull, right femur and of left calvicle by falling in dock, according to the Surgeon, this patient was granted leave to go out of the Tanjong Paggar dock to a reading room outside the gate, on his return was passing the head of the dock to get to the port gangway about 8.20 pm and walked over the edge of the board across the top of the slope, he fell head long into the dock; put on sick list 17 July 1874, returned 16 October 1874 to the ship, the Surgeon stated that his memory was defective, leg 1 ½ inch short…the patient was invalided out of service in England for loss of memory, he was re-entered 30 June 1875 with a duplicate certificate given.

Folios 9-10: case no. 12, No. on ship’s book 5-96, George Pilters, aged 38, Blacksmith; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list 19 July 1874, invalided 28 July 1874 to Hospital at Cape of Good Hope in HMS Cadmus.

Folio 10: case no. 13, No. on ship’s book 5-156, Thomas Harte, aged 25, Gun Room Cook; taken ill at Penang; sick or hurt, primary syphilis with hard base under the reflection of prepuce; put on sick list 28 June 1874, invalided 20 October 1874 and sent to Mail Steamer for England on 22 [October].

Folio 10: case no. 14, No. on ship’s book 37, Edward Atkins, aged 23, Marine Light Infantry; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, open bubo from venereal wart; put on sick list 10 August 1874, returned 29 September 1874 to duty.

Folio 10: case no. 15, No. on ship’s book 5-15, James Dalton, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, dysentery contracted at Singapore’s Prison; put on sick list 12 August 1874, invalided 31 August 1874 and sent to Mail Steamer on for [England] on 5 September.

Folio 11: case no. 16, No. on ship’s book 5-177, James Hills, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, sympathetic bubo, contracted from a China woman; put on sick list 31 August 1874, invalided 31 December 1874.

Folio 11: case no. 17, No. on ship’s book 5-106, Richard Brian, aged 28, Sailmaker’s Crew; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, cholera, attacked with diarrhoea on the 14 August, which he allowed to continue without advice until 11.30 am of 16 August, although over a dozen time at the closet daily without colic or tenesmus vomiting at times. He was in a state of collapse with cold extremities, eyes sunken, nails blue, cramp in limbs and abdomen; put on sick list 16 August 1874, died 16 August 1874 at 8 pm.

Folios 11-12: case no. 18, No. on ship’s book 5-44, Robert Waugh, aged 23, Able Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list 19 August 1874, invalided 20 January 1875 at Hong Kong.

Folio 12: case no. 19, No. on ship’s book 5-179, George Springhall, aged 25, Leading Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, primary syphilis, venereal bubo, contracted from China woman; put on sick list 22 August 1874, sent 6 October 1874 to Colonial Hospital, he remained there till 20 [October] when he was sent to Hong Kong on HMS Victor Emanuel, he was discharged for passage to his ship by the end of December.

Folios 12-13: case no. 20, No. on ship’s book 5-107, Michael Murphy, aged 23, Sailmaker’s Crew; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, venereal bubo; put on sick list 6 October 1874, discharged 3 December 1874 cured, returned to this ship on 31 December 1874, he was made a Sailmaker’s Mate & sent to HMS Hart on 17 March [1875].

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