Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal. Folio 2-12: Case...

ADM 101/196/1

1876

Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal.

Folio 2-12: Case studies.

Folio 2: George Loveridge, aged 28, sergeant royal marines; case number 1; disease or hurt, dysentery. Died of dysentery while employed up the River Penal before he could be put on board HMS Ringdove at Denin Sabatang. Was treated for a short time by the surgeon of HMS Ringdove but there is no medical report with case.

Folio 2-3: Luke Jowett, aged 22, gunner marine artillery; case number 2; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1876. Discharged 16 January 1876 dead with no post mortem carried out.

Folio 3: Edwin Roberts, aged 23, able seaman; case number 3; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 2 January 1876 after being sent from Perak River where he contacted illness a week before. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and was subsequently invalided on 19 February 1876.

Folio 3: H Spencer, aged 18, ordinary seaman; case number 4; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 5 January 1876 after being sent from Perak River. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and was subsequently invalided on 19 February 1876.

Folio 3: Robert William, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 5; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 6 January 1876 after being sent from Perak River. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and was subsequently invalided on 19 February 1876.

Folio 3: George King, aged 26, royal marine; case number 6; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876.

Folio 3: John Morris, aged 24, able seaman; case number 7; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and subsequently invalided on 19 February 1876.

Folio 4: Elliot Charles, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 8; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 17 January 1876 and subsequently invalided on 19 February 1876 but still very ill.

Folio 4: John Switzer, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 9; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 2 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and returned to duty on board on 7 March 1876.

Folio 4: William Hancock, aged 27, able seaman; case number 10; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 5 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 23 January 1876 and returned to light duty on board on 7 March 1876.

Folio 4: Thomas Egan, aged 21, ordinary seaman; case number 11; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and returned to light duty on board on 17 March 1876.

Folio 4: Alfred Dumble, aged 31, captain's coxswain; case number 12; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 8 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Civil Hospital in Singapore on 28 January 1876 and returned to light duty on board on 17 March 1876.

Folio 4: Thomas Alderman, aged 35, private marine; case number 13; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1876. Contracted sickness in Perak. Discharged to Hospital, Hong Kong on 21 January 1876 and returned 21 February 1876.

Folio 4: Samuel Bynne, aged 36, carpenter's mate; case number 14; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 10 May 1876 for diarrhoea but symptoms had been present since leaving Perak on the 7 January 1876. Discharged to the Civil Hospital in Singapore on 15 May 1876 in bad state. Died 8 June 1876. Surgeon also states that he was a native of Barbados and a 'quadroon'.

Folio 4: Note on dysentery cases. Surgeon states that cases 16-24 are not listed as these diarrhoea cases from Perak were treated successfully on board and were not discharged to hospital.

Folio 4: David Davidson, aged 23, able seaman; case number 25; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 17 May 1876 after contracting the disease in Singapore from an unknown cause. He was discharged to the Civil Hospital, Singapore on 20 May 1876.

Folio 5: George Willis, aged 50, stoker; case number 26; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 1 January 1876 for diarrhoea and discharged to light duty on 14 January 1876. Soon afterwards complained of rheumatism and being extremely deaf was deemed unfit for stoking in a hot climate and put forward for survey at Singapore on 2 May 1876 and invalided for general 'debility'.

Folio 5: James White, aged 24, gunner marine artillery; case number 27; disease or hurt, hernia. Put on the sick list 4 February 1876. Suffered left inguinal hernia whilst using a handspike at general quarters at Singapore. Patient fitted with a truss and granted a pension certificate and discharged invalided at Singapore on 19 February 1876.

Folios 5-6: John Devenish, aged 32, leading seaman; case number 28; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on the sick list, 13 January 1876 and taken to the Pinang Hospital same day. Returned to the ship 27 March 1876 and subsequently sent to the Royal Navy Hospital in Hong Kong where he was declared invalided and sent home. Injury happened whilst he and other sailors were swimming near a waterfall near Pinang. The waterfall empties itself into a natural reservoir which is used as the water supply for the town of Penang using iron pipes. The sailor due to the natural suction of the pipe got his back fixed upon the opening. His companions could not free him but the quick thinking of the Chief Engineer (Mr Wakefield) freed the sailor by relieving the pressure of the pipe by using a nearby sledgehammer to smash a portion of the nearby pipe and remove the vacuum.

Folio 6: John Coleman, aged 50, captain of Hold; case number 29; disease or hurt, debility. Put on the sick list, 22 May 1876 at sea. Symptoms indicated chronic desquamative nephilitis. Discharged to Royal Navy Hospital in Hong Kong and invalided on 15 June 1876 and taken to hospital to await passage home.

Folio 6: Joseph Atkins, aged 26, able seaman; case number 30; disease or hurt, paralysis. Initially, put on the sick list in January to treat pustular and ulcerated feet from the mosquito bites of Perak. On February 21 1876 again put on the sick list to treat a severe nocturnal headache and the surgeon changed treatment due to the patient's long history of syphilis. The patient recovered but was put on the sick list again on 15 March 1876 complaining of losing the power of his right arm and leg. There being no improvement was discharged to the Civil Hospital in Singapore and was invalided in 2 May 1876.

Folios 6-7: Richard Bartlett, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 31; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list 2 February 1876 and discharged 12 April 1876 to Civil Hospital Singapore and invalided on 2 May 1876.

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