Folio 1: Printed instruction for completing the journal and alphabetical sick list....

ADM 101/266/1

1871

Folio 1: Printed instruction for completing the journal and alphabetical sick list.

Folio 2: case no 1, James Baker, aged 42, Ship's Cook; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, epilepsy; put on sick list, 7 February 1871, sent 8 February 1871 to Melville Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 3: case no 2, George Hart, aged 24, Able Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, oblique inguinal hernia; put on sick list, 7 February 1871, discharged 14 February 1871 to HMS Pembroke awaiting survey, the Surgeon stated that there were no trusses on board, hence he was sent to Melville Hospital.

Folio 3: case no 3, William Shulner, aged 21, Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, vertigo, epileptic; put on sick list, 10 February 1871, sent 15 February 1871 to Melville Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 3: case no 4, James White, aged 26, Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, contusion of the back, struck it against the edge of a cask; put on sick list, 12 February 1871, sent 15 February 1871 to Melville Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 4: case no 5, Charles White, aged 32, Captain of Main Top; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, secondary syphilitic and rheumatism; put on sick list, 12 February 1871, sent 15 February 1871 to Melville Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 4: case no 6, Henry Hawkins, aged 32, Captain of Main Top; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, epididymitis; put on sick list, 8 February 1871, sent 15 February 1871 to Melville Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 4: case no 7, Frederick Ford, aged 33, Bombardier Marine Artillery; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, stricture of urethra, previous to entering the service he was a patient in Guy's Hospital; put on sick list, 13 February 1871, sent 14 February 1871 to Melville Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 4: case no 8, Edward Heaven, aged 36, Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, drowned, was found floating under the pier at Chatham, the inquest was held & the verdict returned, accidental death; died 19 February 1871.

Folio 4: case no 9, Henry Allen, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, gonorrhoea syphilis; put on sick list, 15 February 1871, sent 24 February 1871 to Plymouth Hospital.

Folio 4: case no 10, George Horn, aged 22, Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, gonorrhoea; put on sick list, 10 February 1871, sent 24 February 1871 to Plymouth Hospital.

Folio 4: case no 11, John Field, aged 18, Marine; taken ill at Chatham; sick or hurt, gonorrhoea; put on sick list, 13 February 1871, sent 24 February 1871 to Plymouth Hospital.

Folio 4: case no 12, John Lightfoot, aged 31, Marine (Officer's Servant); taken ill at Plymouth; sick or hurt, eczema of the scalp; put on sick list, 24 February 1871, sent 24 February 1871 to Plymouth Hospital.

Folio 5: case no 13, George Neil, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, vertigo from wound and injury to the head; put on sick list, 13 February 1871, sent 24 February 1871 to Plymouth Hospital.

Folio 5: case no 14, Matthew Young, aged 17, Boy; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list, 13 February 1871, sent 24 February 1871 to Plymouth Hospital.

Folio 5: case no 15, John Clarke, aged 22, Officer’s Servant; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, jaundice; put on sick list, 1 March 1871, sent 3 March 1871 to Haubowline Hospital.

Folio 5: case no 16, John Lee, aged 18, Boy; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis and vertigo, was fall from aloft in a cruizer on the SE Coast of America two years previously; put on sick list, 14 February 1871, sent 3 March 1871 to Haubowline Hospital.

Folio 5: case no 17, George Butcher, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list, 14 February 1871, sent 3 March 1871 to Haubowline Hospital.

Folio 6: case no 18, Mr John Hall, aged 31, Engineer; taken ill at Queenstown; sick or hurt, phthisis, stated that he was first taken unwell in the Endymion in the flying squadron about 18 months previously; put on sick list, 6 March 1871, invalided 7 March 1871 and sent to Hawbowline Hospital.

Folio 6: case no 19, Phillip Coffey, aged 32, Stoker; taken ill at Queenstown; sick or hurt, stricture; put on sick list, 10 March 1871, sent 10 March 1871 to Hawbowline Hospital.

Folio 6: case no 20, Reuben Rowledge, aged 20, Marine; taken ill at Queenstown; sick or hurt, syphilis hard chancre; put on sick list, 10 March 1871, sent 10 March 1871 to Hawbowline Hospital.

Folio 6: case no 21, John Brooks, aged 21, Stoker; taken ill at Queenstown; sick or hurt, syphilis hard chancre and indurated bubo; put on sick list, 10 March 1871, sent 10 March 1871 to Hawbowline Hospital.

Folio 6: case no 22, Alfred Barnes, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Queenstown; sick or hurt, indolent ulcer over the middle third of the left tibia; put on sick list, 9 March 1871, sent 10 March 1871 to Hospital at Queenstown.

Folios 6-8: case no 23, Martin Murray, aged 21, Musician; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pleuropneumonia; put on sick list, 17 March 1871, invalided 3 April 1871 at St Vincent.

Folio 8: case no 24, William Laugharne, aged 23, Sailmaker's Mate; taken ill at Queenstown; sick or hurt, chronic bronchitis with emphysema; put on sick list, 8 March 1871, invalided 3 April 1871 at St Vincent.

Folio 9: case no 25, James Edward, aged 40, Stoker; sick or hurt, ague quotidian, he served in the Merchant Service as Stoker and contracted dysentery in the East and ague in the West Indies; put on sick list, 18 March 1871, invalided 3 April 1871 at St Vincent.

Folio 9: case no 26, John Catherine, aged 20, Able Seaman; sick or hurt, cardiac hypertrophy; put on sick list, 20 March 1871, invalided 20 April 1871 at The Royal Naval Hospital at Ascension Island.

Folios 9-10: case no 27, Mr Frederick William Bayly Jones, aged 28, Senior Lieutenant; sick or hurt, phthisis, he joined the vessel on 31 January at Sheerness, during the fitting out of the ship he was exposed greatly to the wet and cold and contracted a severe cough; put on sick list, 10 April 1871, invalided 20 April 1871 at The Royal Naval Hospital at Ascension Island.

Folio 10: case no 28, Charles Turner, aged 27, Captain Fore Top; sick or hurt, stricture organic; put on sick list, 1 April 1871, sent 21 May 1871 to The Naval Hospital at Simon's Bay.

Folio 10: case no 28A, William Carry, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, phthisis & debility; put on sick list, 29 April 1871, sent 21 May 1871 to The Naval Hospital at Simon's Bay.

Folio 10: case no 29, Henry Alexander, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; sick or hurt, primary and secondary syphilis; put on sick list, 18 February 1871, sent 21 May 1871 to The Naval Hospital at Simon's Bay.

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