Folios 13-14: George Crockford, aged 28, Leading Stoker; disease or hurt, scald....

ADM 101/271/3

1875-1876

Folios 13-14: George Crockford, aged 28, Leading Stoker; disease or hurt, scald. Put on sick list, 11 February 1876. Discharged, 20 [February] 1876. Scalded by steam while undoing iron bolts.

Folio 14: William Dunn, aged 27, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, contusion ankle. Put on sick list, 11 February 1876. Discharged, 20 February 1876. While in the Hoogly received a blow from the lever of the 'shank painter'. Folio 14: David Dicker, aged 39, Artificer; disease or hurt, sprain of back. Put on sick list, 12 February 1876. Discharged, 18 February 1876. From a fall. Folio 14: William Butter, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, bubo. Put on sick list, 15 February 1876. Discharged, 12 April 1876. Folio 14: William Algeo, Surgeon Royal Navy; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 13 February 1876. Discharged, 19 March 1876. Had been in the river Hoogly and at Diamond Harbour. Folio 14: Commander F J D Bedford; disease or hurt, cynanche. Put on sick list, 20 February 1876. Discharged, 29 February 1876. Folio 14: Jasper Symonds, aged 22, Cooper's Crew; disease or hurt, epididymitis. Put on sick list, 21 February 1876. Discharged, 12 March 1876. Folio 14: Joseph Shaw, aged 19, Private Marine; disease or hurt, wound of right ankle. Put on sick list, 22 February 1876. Discharged, 10 March 1876. Folio 14: James Anderson, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, wound of toe. Put on sick list, 23 February 1876. Discharged, 19 March 1876. Folio 14: Elijah Wilkinson, Butcher; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 29 February 1876. Discharged, 3 March 1876.

Folios 14-15: William Bendall, aged 24, [Captain of the Mast]; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, at Bombay for haemoptysis and symptoms of incipient phthisis. Sent to hospital at Malta, 6 April 1876.

Folio 15: William Henry McClean, aged 21, Stoker; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 16 March 1876. Discharged, 25 March 1876. Folio 15: Charles Emett, aged 22, Stoker; disease or hurt, scald. Put on sick list, 22 March 1876. Discharged, 29 March 1876. Folio 15: William Fox, aged 21, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, wound. Put on sick list, 26 March 1876. Discharged, 25 April 1876. An ulcer caused by the blow of a broom on an old cicatrix on the right shin. Folio 15: Richard Crabb, aged 22, Stoker 2nd Class; disease or hurt, burn. Put on sick list, 28 March 1876. Discharged, 15 April 1876. Folio 15: James Attrill, aged 29, Stoker 1st Class; disease or hurt, burn. Put on sick list, 2 April 1876. Discharged, 22 April 1876. Folio 15: Jonathan Kery, aged 21, Stoker 2nd Class; disease or hurt, wound. Put on sick list, 9 April 1876. Discharged, 25 April 1876. Scalp wound while on shore leave at Malta. Folio 15: George Spry, aged 29, Captain of the Forecastle; disease or hurt, burn. Put on sick list, 18 April 1876, at Gibraltar. Discharged, 25 April 1876. Burned by the backfire of rockets when illuminating the ship at Gibraltar. Folio 15: Edward James Case, aged 27, Captain of the Main Top; disease or hurt, burn. Put on sick list, 19 April 1876. Discharged, 2 May 1876. A neglected burn from the backfire of rockets when illuminating the ship at Malta. Folio 15: David Griffiths, aged 18, Boy 1st Class; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 25 April 1876. Discharged, 4 May 1876. Folio 15: William Howell, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, aphonia, [admitted for] diarrhoea. No dates are recorded, he suffered aphonia for most of the commission and was employed as 'Captain of the Head' in consequence. Folio 15: William Layton, aged 17, Boy; disease or hurt, ulcer. Sent to hospital, 20 May 1876, the ship being about to be paid off. Folio 15: Thomas Perkins, aged 31, Private Marine; disease or hurt, wound of right foot from the fall of a lever. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 16 May 1876, the ship being about to be paid off. Folio 15: Francis Bourke, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 16 May 1876.

Folio 16: James Anderson, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, wound of the right shin and ankle from the ship's 'brow' falling on it. Sent to Haslar Hospital, 16 May 1876, the ship being about to be paid off.

Folios 17-19: General remarks on the nosological return for the year ending 31 December 1875.

Folios 20-21: Remarks on the nosological return 1January 1876 to 24 May 1876.

Folio 22: Copy of memorandum drawn up for Sir Joseph Fayrer at his request upon the medical arrangements. Sets out the arrangements made for a second surgeon should it be necessary for one to be employed on shore and to be responsible for the Prince of Wales' attendants and servants, the alterations made to the ship to accommodate the Prince and his 58 attendants and lists the number of diseases treated.

Folio 23: 'Leave granted to the men. Police return'. Lists number of days leave at various places visited and number of men on leave[?].

Folios 24-34: Blank.

Folio 35: Table I, Places visited by the ship.

Folio 35: Table II, A list of men who received wounds or hurts. Charles Jones, aged 32, Gunner's Mate, certificate 30 September 1875, scalp wound. Henry Markham, aged 29, Stoker, certificate 31 December 1875, compound fracture of finger. Richard Hammond, aged 31, Leading Seaman, certificate 30 April 1876, fractured patella. Abraham Whittle, aged 17, Boy, certificate17 May 1876, concussio cerebri. Nathaniel Harding, aged 39, Joiner, no certificate, sprain ankle.

Folio 36: Table III, All cases between 22 July 1875 and 31 December 1875. Average numerical strength of ship's company 499.

Folio 37: Table IV, All cases between 1 January 1876 and 24 May 1876. Average numerical strength of ship's company 499.

Folio 38: Table V, Number of cases of disease arranged by age group, between 22 July 1875 and 31 December 1875 and between 1 January 1876 and 24 May 1876.

Folios 39-47: Tables of monthly thermometer readings.

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