Folios 16-17: G Carter, aged 27, carpenter's crew; case number 20; disease or hurt,...

ADM 101/195/2

1875-1876

Folios 16-17: G Carter, aged 27, carpenter's crew; case number 20; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 6 April 1876. Discharged 17 April 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

Folio 17: William Giles, aged 21, butcher; case number 21; disease or hurt, primary syphilis. Put on sick list, 10 April 1876. Discharged 17 April 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

Folio 17: A Robertson, aged 31, engineer's cook; case number 22; disease or hurt, chronic rheumatism. Put on sick list, 14 January 1876. Discharged 17 April 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

Folio 17: T Shelley, aged 41, captain quarterdeck; case number 23; disease or hurt, tertiary syphilis. Put on sick list, 28 April 1876. Discharged 3 May 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

Folios 17-18: William Burne, aged 29, armourer; case number 24; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 3 May 1876. Discharged 3 May 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

Folio 18: E Westwood, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 25; disease or hurt, sloughing ulcer of throat. Put on sick list, 25 June 1876 at Singapore. Discharged 29 June 1876 to hospital.

Folios 18-20: Weather thermometer readings for November 1875 to June 1876.

Folio 21: Table 1: Showing the movements of the ship during the period of this journal.

Folio 21: 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. [No names recorded].

Folio 22: Table 3: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases which have occurred during the period covered by the journal. The average numerical strength of the company 416.5.

Folio 23: Table 4. All cases which occurred between the 1st January to 31st December, or should the Medical Officer give up charge, from the 1st January to the date of his leaving the ship (nosologically arranged).

Folio 18: Table 5 showing the number of cases of diseases arranged between the following periods of age (15 to 25, 25 to 35, 35 to 45, above 45) for 4 November to 31 December 1875. Average number victualled daily during the period, 416; aged 15 to 25 (237), aged 25 to 35 (119), aged 35 to 45 (49), above 45 (11).

Folio 18: Table 6 showing the number of cases of diseases arranged between the following periods of age (15 to 25, 25 to 35, 35 to 45, above 45) for 1 January to 7 July 1876. Average number victualled daily during the period, 324; aged 15 to 25 (190), aged 25 to 35 (99), aged 35 to 45 (28), above 45 (7).

Folios 25-37: Surgeon's general remarks. Description of the construction of HMS Juno, including remarks about the storage of portable water, the head, water closets, ventilation, gunner's store room, coal bunkers and magazine. A colour plan of the air, apertures on the upper deck of HMS Juno (folio 27). Findings of the surgeon's examination of air on board conducted using Tadder's method, including colour drawings of the microscopic objects from the air of the ship (folio 27); physomycetous fungus of the family mucorini forming on bread, outside of bar barrels, old leather and c mucor amesthystens (folio 28); minute moving particles found in the air of a ship as described above (folio 28); microscopic appearance of the dry dust from the men's messes (folio 28). Surgeon's remarks concerning the bilges and tropical bilge water, including a colour drawing of the microscopic moving bodies found in bilge water, (folios 28-29). Folios 29-32: notes on the medical topography of the Suez Canal with colour drawings of a group of microscopic objects from a drainage pit in front of an Arab hovel, (folio 29); microscopic objects from Nile water at Suez (folio 31); oscillatoriaceous alga Red Sea and Indian Ocean (folio 32). Folios 32-33: brief remarks on the modifications of the human functions in the tropics. Folios 33-37: Consideration of the prevalent diseases on board ship.

Folios 38-43: Copy of the alphabetical sick list.

Folios 44-46: Blank.

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