Folios 7-9: Francis Wilson, aged 31, Captain of the Forecastle; disease or hurt,...

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1827

Folios 7-9: Francis Wilson, aged 31, Captain of the Forecastle; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 5 January 1827, on the passage from Bombay to [Burbura] on the coast of Adel, Africa. Discharged to duty, 1 April 1827. Had not previously been sick since leaving England, he had 24 hours leave in Bombay before the ship sailed on 21 December. The surgeon does not believe the illness arose from contagion but rather from 'some peculiarity of constitution or disposition of the atmosphere together with his late carousing and drinking an immoderate quantity of arrack and walking in the sun in that state on shore at Bombay'.

Folios 9-10: Randall Parks, aged 35, Seaman; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 29 November, at Bombay. Died 10 March, at Mocha in the Red Sea. Had volunteered into the ship at the Cape of Good Hope having been turned out of a Dutch ship recently arrived from Batavia for being ineffectual. He had been in hospital at Batavia and had been unwell on the voyage homeward and was also in the surgeon of the Atholl's previous journal with intermittent fever. He was a British subject. With a description of his body examined post mortem.

Folios 10-11: Thomas More, aged 50, Seaman; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 30 January, at Burbura, coast of Adel, Africa. Died 17 February. One of the oldest men on the ship and had been frequently on the sick list for pains and ulcers in the feet and legs. About three years previously he had been shipwrecked and affected with scurvy on an uninhabited island in the South Seas with nothing but brackish water and seals and 'amphibious animals' to eat. He and his companions were rescued by an American ship and left at St Helena. He had been employed in writing up the log for the captain and the surgeon wonders whether sitting on deck in a stooping posture all day could have affected his circulation. On examination of his body after death, the left cavity of the thorax was found to be full of fluid.

Folios 12-13: Joseph Jones, aged 38, Seaman; disease or hurt, scorbutic dysentery. Put on sick list, 10 February, in the Arabian Gulf. Died 11 April, on the passage from the Red Sea to Bombay. On examination of his body after death the large intestine was found to be 'an entire mass of corruption and ulceration beyond the power of medicine'.

Folios 13-14: Richard Johns, aged 25, Seaman; disease or hurt, inflammatory sore throat. Put on sick list, 26 January, Burbura Bay, Coast of Adel. Discharged to duty, 10 February.

Folio14: William Wiltshire, aged 35, Seaman; disease or hurt, swelling of one of the inguinal glands. Put on sick list, 26 January, Burbura Bay, Coast of Africa. Discharged to duty, 1 April, on the passage from the Red [Sea] to Bombay.

Folio 14: William Alford, aged 32, Seaman; disease or hurt, griping and purging. Put on sick list, 2 February, in the Arabian Gulf. Discharged to duty, 4 February.

Folios 14-15: Paul Fisher, aged 22, Seaman; disease or hurt, scorbutic fever. Put on sick list, 3 April, on the passage from the Red Sea to Bombay. Discharged to duty, 4 May. Had been frequently on the sick list with ulcers, particularly on the ankles. Wore bandages and cushions to prevent his ankles knocking against each other.

Folio 15: Thomas Lorkan, aged 35, Seaman; disease or hurt, complained of fullness and uneasiness in the region of the stomach, without any feverish symptoms, then pains about the thorax and in the epigastric region, with a yellowish tinge to the conjunctiva and fullness of the vessels of the eye. Put on sick list, 5 April, on the passage from the Red Sea to Bombay. Discharged to duty, 18 April. Had been suffering from an inguinal hernia when he joined the ship in Sierra Leone.

Folio 15: John Kennedy, aged 39, Seaman; disease or hurt, scorbutic inflammation on the instep of one of his feet, soreness of the gums and numerous [...] on the legs and blackening and discolouration of the hams. Put on sick list, 5 April, on the passage from the Red Sea to Bombay. Discharged to duty, 26 April, at Bombay.

Folios 15-16: Thomas Matthews, aged 40, Sergeant; disease or hurt, headache, nausea, faintness, tongue clean, pulse rather weak. Put on sick list, 15 April, on the passage to Bombay from the Red Sea. Discharged to duty, 21 April, at Bombay. He continued on the sick list until, on arrival at Bombay, he got two or three days good food. The ship's company were on reduced allowance on the passage from the Red Sea to Bombay and the water was unwholesome. His wife and child were also on board and in 'a half starved state for months'.

Folio 16: Evan Evans, aged 21, Seaman; disease or hurt, scorbutic inflammation and sores. Put on sick list, 17 April, near Bombay, after the passage from the Red Sea. Discharged to duty, 28 April, at Bombay.

Folio 16: Martin Sexton, aged 36, Seaman; disease or hurt, soreness of the gums, morbid inflammation of the legs, general pains, particularly in the extremities. Put on sick list, 18 April, on the passage from the Red Sea to Bombay. Discharged to duty, 23 April, at Bombay.

Folio 16: James Higgins, aged 39, Seaman; disease or hurt, venereal disease, buboes and chancres, which appeared on the fifth day after infection. Put on sick list, 30 April, at Bombay. Discharged to duty, 29 May.

Folio 16: David Testino, aged 35, Seaman; disease or hurt, phymosis and sores on the edge of the prepuce. Put on sick list, 3 May, on the coast of Malabar, a few days after sailing from Bombay. Discharged to duty, 26 June.

Folios 16-17: John Magennis, aged 40, Marine; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 6 May, after leaving Bombay, on the passage to Trincomalee. Discharged to duty, 21 May.

Folio 17: A list of men affected with febrile symptoms between the 24th and the 30th of August, near the equator between the limits of the south east and north east trade winds. All were discharged to their duties within a fortnight. Francis Field, Marine; Henry Griffin, Seaman; William King, Boy; John Barton, Seaman; John Clarke, Seaman; Ennis Bridges, Seaman; Henry Sheppard, Seaman; James Hubsdale, Seaman; Alexander Payne, Seaman; John Charles, Seaman; James Russel, Boy; Mr Daly, Assistant Surgeon; John Willison, Seaman; The fever is attributed to the sudden rise in temperature after leaving the latitude of Ascension Island.

Folio 17: Abstract of the preceding journal, being a summary of all the cases contained therein. Nosologically arranged. Lists disease in date order with numbers referring to the cases. Diseases listed are: Synochus, 2; Cynanche, 1; Dysenteria, 1; Diarrhoea, 2; Atrophia, 1; Syphilis, 1; Scorbutus, 7; Phymosis, gonorrhoea etc, 1; and, Bubo, sympathetic, 1.

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