Medical and surgical journal of Esquimalt Hospital for 1 January to 31 December 1874...

ADM 101/281/1B

1874

Medical and surgical journal of Esquimalt Hospital for 1 January to 31 December 1874 by Edward Lawton Moss, Surgeon. [Note: ADM 101/281, 1A-1B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/281].

Folio 1: Noted comments that the journal contains 'valuable scientific remarks in spectroscopic analysis in Pathology and on uterine irritability among the female colonists of Vancouvers Island'.

Folio 2: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal.

Folio 3: Charles Philips, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 1; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 25 October 1873. Discharged 6 February 1874 to duty.

Folios 3-4: John Lloyd, aged 27, caulker's mate; case number 2; disease or hurt, bubo. Put on sick list, 28 November 1873. Discharged 13 March 1874 to duty.

Folio 4: George Jameson, aged 30, private marine; case number 3; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 23 December 1873. Discharged 26 January 1874 to duty.

Folios 4-5: Alfred Pope, aged 27, shipwright; case number 4; disease or hurt, syphilis constitutional. Put on sick list, 7 January 1874. Discharged 16 April 1874 to duty.

Folios 5-6: William Tozer, aged 23, able seaman; case number 5; disease or hurt, opthalmia gonorrhoeal rheumatic. Put on sick list, 14 January 1874. Discharged 17 June 1874 to light duty.

Folios 6-7: Archibald Berrie, aged 43, blacksmith; case number 6; disease or hurt, bubo non venereal. Put on sick list, 11 February 1874. Discharged 20 August 1874 to duty.

Folios 7-8: Thomas Pengelly, aged 24, armourer; case number 7; disease or hurt, haematocele cured by radical operation. Put on sick list, 6 April 1874. Discharged 20 August 1874 to duty.

Folio 8: Peter Rid, aged 31, armourer; case number 8; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 9 April 1874. Discharged 25 November 1874 to duty.

Folio 9: George Rook, aged 22, armourer; case number 9; disease or hurt, bubo. Put on sick list, 13 April 1874. Discharged 28 June 1874 to duty.

Folio 9: Samuel R Warn, aged 21, Assistant Paymaster; case number 10; disease or hurt, perineal fistula. Put on sick list, 16 April 1874. Discharged 28 June 1874 to duty.

Folio 10: John Wilkinson, aged 30, able seaman; case number 11; disease or hurt, bubo non venereal and perineal abscess. Put on sick list, 21 April 1874. Discharged 30 June 1874 to duty.

Folios 10-12: Edward Murphy, aged [?], boy; case number 12; disease or hurt, fracture of tibia and fibula (comminuted) close to the ankle joint. Put on sick list, 21 April 1874. Discharged 17 June 1874 to duty. Includes a temperature chart on folio 10, and a watercolour depicting the fracture (folio 11).

Folio 13: John Bishop, aged 40, Boatswain; case number 13; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 12 July 1874. Discharged 20 August 1874 to duty.

Folio 13: Henry Stewart, aged 18, ordinary seaman; case number 14; disease or hurt, colic. Put on sick list, 21 July 1874. Discharged 5 November 1874 to duty.

Folio 14: Table 1: Movements of the ship. [Blank].

Folio 14: Table 2: A list of men who during the period of this journal, have received wounds or hurts which may disqualify them for the public service, or subsequently in any way interfere with their earning a livelihood. [No names recorded].

Folio 15: Table 3: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases which have occurred during the period 1 January to 31 December 1874.

Folio 16: A blank Table 4 form.

Folio 17: Table 5 showing the number of cases of diseases arranged between the following periods of age (15 to 25, 25 to 35, 35 to 45, for 1 January to 31 December 1874. Average number victualled daily during the period; aged 15 to 25 (2.9), aged 25 to 35 (3.7), aged 35 to 45 (1.).

Folio 18: Table showing the average daily number of patients per month, the daily average of each month and also the variations in the source of supply, i.e ships, yard and magazine at Esquimalt Hospital 1874.

Folios 19-24: Surgeon's general remarks.

Folios 25-27: Blank.

Folios 28-29: Daily sick list.

Folios 30-32: Blank.

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