Folio 13: Table 1 showing ship movements during 31 December 1873 to 30 December 1874,...

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1874

Folio 13: Table 1 showing ship movements during 31 December 1873 to 30 December 1874, between Gibraltar and Singapore.

Folios 13-14: case no. 21, No. on ship’s book 5-37, John Day, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, primary syphilis; put on sick list 10 September 1874, invalided 15 December 1874, owing to information received that the Iron Duke would passed through Singapore for England, he was kept on the Station until the 31 January 1875, when a passage by one of the Ships offered.

Folios 14-16: case no. 22, No. on ship’s book 5-97, George Lawrence, aged 29, Caulker’s Mate; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, typhoid fever?, was sent to Colonial Hospital on 16 November 1874 – “a patient suffering from severe febrile symptoms…”, he was on leaved at Singapore and slept at a house called the Prince of Wales…returned to duty and felt unwell on 30 October, he complained of headache, of pain in the loins…; put on sick list 31 October 1874, invalided 18 November 1874, and sent to Peninsular & Oriental Mail Staemer. [including a graph showing state of temperature and the pulses of the patient].

Folio 16: case no. 23, No. on ship’s book 5-92, Robert Chambers, aged 27, Captain Main Top; taken ill at Sungai Ujong; sick or hurt, gunshot wound, he was one of expedition party of 67 officers and men sent for the Mouth of Lukut River with 92 men of the 10th Regiment, and 26 of Royal Artillery, 100 Malay Policemen to assist the Data Klanah [Dato’ Kelana] and his force to reduce a stockade erected in his territory…this man was struck on the back by a bullet; put on sick list 28 November 1874, died 11 December 1874 at 12.15 am.

Folios 16-17: case no. 24, No. on ship’s book 5-138, James Kneen, aged 35, Boatswain’s Mate; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, morbus cardis; put on sick list 4 December 1874, invalided 15 December 1874.

Folio 17: case no. 25, No. on ship’s book 5-130, George Young, aged 41, Leading Stoker; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, acute rheumatism; put on sick list 9 December 1874, returned 15 January 1875 in an extremely debilitated after attacks of diarrhoea and phlegmon.

Folio 17: case no. 26, No. on ship’s book 5-168, Thomas Brennan, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, remittent fever, contracted while away with the expedition to Lukut; put on sick list 10 December 1874, returned 5 January 1875 to duty.

Folios 17-18: case no. 27, No. on ship’s book 46, Henry Edward Charles Askey, aged 32, Marine Light Infantry; taken ill off Singapore; sick or hurt, carbuncle on the neck; put on sick list 9 May 1874, returned 17 July 1874 to duty.

Folio 18: case no. 28, Seng a Chiness, aged 25, Gun Room Servant; taken ill off Singapore; sick or hurt, wound of tendon of flexor sublimis, in consequence of opened a bottle of soda water: the bottle burst & a piece of glass divided an angular flap of skin & divided three tendons; put on sick list 6 November 1874, returned 21 November 1874 to duty.

Folio 18: case no. 29, No. on ship’s book 5-175, William Rogers, aged 21, Able Seaman; taken ill off Singapore; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 14 December 1874, returned 24 January 1875 to duty.

Folio 19: Table 2: A list of men who during the period of this journal, have received wounds or hurts which may disqualify them for the public service, or subsequently in any way interfere with their earning a livelihood. (Names and details follow). No. on ship’s book list 13, William Charles Freeman, aged 39, Marine Light Infantry; hurts on 18 May 1874, right inguinal hernia; pension certificate granted on 26 May 1874. No. on ship’s book list 60, John Fitzgerald, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman; hurts on 14 July 1874, left inguinal hernia; pension certificate granted on 29 September 1874. No. on ship’s book list 26, Edmund Geast, aged 19, Writer; hurts on 16 July 1874, left fractured of base of skull, femur and left calvicle; pension certificate granted on 20 October 1874.

Folio 20: Table 3 numerical count (nosologically arranged) of all the cases that occurred between 1st January to 31 December 1874. Average numerical strength of the ship’s company-263.

Folio 21: Blank.

Folio 22: Table 4 showing number of cases of diseases, between 1 January 1874 and 31 December 1874.

Folios 22-29: Surgeon’s general remarks, including observation on the dietary during the voyage [folio 22]; water supplied in relative to hygine of ship’s company [folios 22-23]; action against Malays [folios 23-28] with a list of officers and men on expedition [folios 27-28], meteorological table [folio 28], account on cholera [Folios 24-25]; table showing number of men treated each month for diseases [folio 28] and also included account on the subject of Varicella in Penang [folio 29].

Folios 30-38: Alphabetical sick list.

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