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Folio 1: Blank. Folios 2-3: Michael Sullivan, aged 25, Marine; disease or hurt, palpitatio....

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/259/1

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ADM 101/259/1
Date
1866-1867
Description

Folio 1: Blank.

Folios 2-3: Michael Sullivan, aged 25, Marine; disease or hurt, palpitatio. Put on sick list, 11 August 1866, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 30 August 1866.

Folios 3-4: Patrick Devine, aged 30, Marine; disease or hurt, dyspepsia and palpitation. Put on sick list, 21 August 1866, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, [12] September 1866.

Folio 4: Mr G A Billowes, aged 29, Engineer; disease or hurt, hernia. Invalided at Haslar Hospital, 7 September 1866. Ruptured while on duty on 17 January 1866 and given a pension certificate. On arrival in England he was invalided.

Folio 4: Richard Cronk, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, stiff hand in consequence of compound fracture of the middle finger. Invalided at Haslar Hospital, 7 September 1866. His finger was permanently shortened and he said he could not bend his other fingers. The accident occurred the previous year.

Folio 4: Richard Hawkins, aged 34, Ship's Corporal; disease or hurt, consolidated lung with occasional attacks of haemoptysis. Invalided at Haslar Hospital, 7 September 1866. Illness dated from a severe attack of pleurisy in December 1865.

Folio 4: John Simmonds, aged 22, Marine; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea and orchitis. Put on sick list, 14 September 1866, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 15 September 1866.

Folios 4-5: Jesse Pipe, aged 24, Stoker; disease or hurt, palpitation. Put on sick list, 5 October 1866, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 10 October 1866. Had suffered pains in the cardiac region for some time.

Folio 5: John Simmonds, aged 24, Marine; disease or hurt, cynanche [parot]. Put on sick list, 29 October 1866, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 9 November 1866.

Folio 5: Henry Smith, aged 20, Stoker; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea and orchitis. Put on sick list, 9 November 1866, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 9 November 1866.

Folio 5: Charles Sadler, aged 31, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, varicose veins. Invalided at Haslar Hospital, 9 November 1866.

Folio 6: Henry McDaniels, aged 26, Captain of the Fore Top; disease or hurt, sciatica. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 15 November 1866. He had been on leave to recruit his health but returned still suffering.

Folio 6: Joseph Baugh, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea and orchitis. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 15 November 1866.

Folio 6: Martin Schulz, aged 33, Captain of the Forecastle; disease or hurt, primary and secondary syphilis. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 23 November 1866. Said he had contracted the disease a month earlier while crossing from Ireland to England in a steam boat.

Folio 6: Robert Orr, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, hydrocele. Invalided at Haslar Hospital, 27 November 1866. While serving in the Boscawen three years earlier he had felt an injury while running aloft, he was treated by the surgeon and spent three months in Haslar. He had felt no inconvenience since, until 21 November 1866 when he felt a swelling.

Folio 6: Thomas Farmer, aged 25, Marine; disease or hurt, primary syphilis and bubo. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 6 December 1866. Said he contracted the disease three weeks earlier at Landport.

Folio 7: Patrick Hannifen, aged 27, Marine; disease or hurt, palpitation. Put on sick list, 7 December 1866. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 14 December 1866. He had suffered rheumatism three years earlier and had been subject to pain in the cardiac region since.

Folio 7: John Oberlander, aged 48, Cooper; disease or hurt, compound fracture of the first phalanx of the right little finger. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 24 December 1866. Got his hand caught between the tumbler of the sheet anchor and the forechains while helping move the ship to the other side of the basin. The surgeon put his hand on a splint, sent him to hospital and gave him a pension certificate. He returned on 15 January 1867 with shortening and stiffening of the finger and unable to close the other fingers.

Folio 8: Henry Smith, aged 20, Stoker; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 4 January 1867. Returned from hospital on 12 December 1866 with a small ulcer just within the urethra and the right testicle swollen. On 4 January there was gonorrhoeal discharge.

Folio 8: William Cox, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, bronchitis. Put on sick list, 7 January 1867, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 22 January 1867.

Folios 8-9: Samuel Havingham, aged 36, Stoker; disease or hurt, dyspepsia and haemorrhoids. Put on sick list, 18 January 1867, at Portsmouth. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 22 January 1867.

Folio 9: Charles Beach, aged 27, Stoker; disease or hurt, primary syphilis. Sent to Plymouth Hospital, 26 January 1867.

Folios 9-10: James Dawe, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, haemoptysis and phthisis. Put on sick list, 31 March 1867, on passage to China. Sent to Singapore Hospital, 15 May 1867. He returned to the ship on 17 June 1867 having benefited from his stay in hospital but with confirmed disease of the upper part of the right lung.

Folio 11: Mr Harry Wilkins, aged 23, Assistant Engineer 1st Class; disease or hurt, primary syphilis. Put on sick list, 11 April 1867, on passage to China. Sent to Singapore Hospital, 15 May 1867. He returned on board on 17 June 1867, healed and recovered.

Folio 12: Mr William Pratt, aged 29, 1st Class Assistant Engineer; disease or hurt, death from heat apoplexy or fatal syncope induced by the heat of the stoke hole. Died, 22 May 1867. The post mortem examination found nothing unusual but the surgeon heard at Hong Kong of people dying the previous year in Shanghai from Heat Apoplexyand the symptoms matched Mr Pratt's.

Folio 13: Cases of supernumeraries who were embarked for passage to Hong Kong but sent to hospital during the passage.

Folio 13: Edward Cout, aged 25, Private Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 25 January 1867, off Portsmouth. Sent to Plymouth Hospital, 26 January 1867.

Folio 13: Joseph Beecham, aged 26, Stoker; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 11 February 1867. Sent to hospital, 21 March 1867, at Simon's Bay.

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