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Medical and surgical journal of HMS Orestes for 1 January to 29 April 1852 by R....
Catalogue reference: ADM 101/111/1B
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ADM 101/111/1B
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1852
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Medical and surgical journal of HMS Orestes for 1 January to 29 April 1852 by R. Bernard, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed on a return from the Cape of Good Hope Station and in paying off.
[Note: ADM 101/111/1, 1A and 1B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/111/1].
Folios 1-2: Copy of sick list.
Folios 3-4: Thomas Jago, aged 33, sailmaker; case number 1; disease or hurt, neuralgia. Put on sick list, 9 September 1851 at sea. Discharged 25 April 1852 to hospital.
Folios 4-5: William Webb, aged 34, Cooper; case number 2; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 25 January 1852 at sea. Discharged 5 February 1852 to hospital.
Folio 5: William Huntingford, aged 36, Captain of the Maintop; case number 3; disease or hurt, oblique inguinal hernia. Put on sick list, 11 March 1852 at sea. Discharged 29 April 1852 the ship being paid off.
Folios 5-6: M. Hale, aged 23, marine; case number 4; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 16 March 1852. Discharged 26 April 1852 to Haslar hospital.
Folio 6: James Santot, aged 27, cook; case number 5; disease or hurt, ulcer. Put on sick list, 23 April 1852. Discharged 25 April 1852 to hospital.
Folio 7: A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of the journal.
Folio 8: A list of men who have received wounds or hurts, during the period of the journal. William Huntingford, aged 30, Captain of the Maintop, ship pay book number-2; date pension certificate granted, 12 March 1852; hurt or wound-oblique inguinal hernia reducible, received on 11 March 1852 while on duty, in shifting the main topsail yard at sea.
Folios 8-10: Table 1, showing the total number of cases between the 1January and 29 April 1852, nosologically arranged. Mean strength of the ship’s company for the period, 226.61.
Folios 10-11: Surgeon’s general remarks.
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