Medical and surgical journal of HMS Daphne for 1 January to 31 December 1878 by G...

Medical and surgical journal of HMS Daphne for 1 January to 31 December 1878 by G A Campbell, Staff Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in the East Indian Station.

Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal.

Folios 2-3: Richard Collier, aged 22, stoker; case number 1; disease or hurt, hepatitis. Put on sick list, Various times from August 1876. Discharged February 1878 to HMS Euphrates for passage to England.

Folio 3: Henry Jessup, aged 25, private, Royal Marine; case number 2; disease or hurt, disease of heart. Put on sick list, 3 February 1878. Discharged 11 February 1878 to the European hospital at Bombay.

Folio 3: William Fairbrother, aged 30, private, Royal Marine; case number 3; disease or hurt, variola modified. Put on sick list, 6 April 1878. Discharged 6 April 1878 to the European hospital at Bombay.

Folio 4: John Armstrong, aged 42, gunner; case number 4; disease or hurt, stricture of urethra. Put on sick list, 7 April 1878 at Bombay. Discharged 20 April 1878 to the European hospital at Bombay.

Folio 4: George A Campbell, aged 41, Staff Surgeon; case number 5; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 30 March 1878 at Bombay. Discharged 1 April 1878.

Folio 4: Charles Burt, aged 21, able seaman; case number 6; disease or hurt, killed by a fall from aloft. Put on sick list, 27 May 1878. Died 27 May 1878.

Folios 4-5: William Joseph Honeysett, aged 27, acting Engineer; case number 7; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 2 May 1878. Discharged 14 June 1878 invalided.

Folio 5: John Gregory, aged 25, able seaman; case number 8; disease or hurt, fracture of left humerus simple. Put on sick list, 31 July 1878. Discharged 15 September 1878 to duty.

Folios 5-6: Philip De Souza, aged 26, wardroom cook; case number 9; disease or hurt, bronchitis. Put on sick list, 22 June 1878, Port Blair, Andaman Islands. Discharged 11 August 1878 to duty.

Folios 6-7: Henry Harrison, aged 24, able seaman; case number 10; disease or hurt, epilepsy. Put on sick list, 26 September 1878, Port Blair, Andaman Islands. Discharged 2 October 1878 to duty.

Folio 7: James Wenn, aged 32, captain of the foretop; case number 11; disease or hurt, ague. Put on sick list, 3 October 1878, Port Blair, Andaman Islands. Discharged 13 October 1878 to duty.

Folio 7: Henry Hammett, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 12; disease or hurt, sprained wrist. Put on sick list, 25 May 1878 at Trincomalee. Discharged 25 August 1878 to duty.

Folio 7: John White, aged 36, painter; case number 13; disease or hurt, foot fracture. Put on sick list, 16 November 1878 at sea. Discharged 21 December 1878 to HMS London.

Folio 8: Henry Rickwood, aged 17, boy; case number 14; disease or hurt, disease of bones of foot. Put on sick list, 10 August 1878 at Andaman Islands. Discharged 21 December 1878 to HMS London at Zanzibar.

Folios 9-12: Blank.

Folio 13: Table 1: showing the movements of the ship during the period of this journal.

Folio 13: 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. (Names and details follow). Henry Hammett, aged 19, ordinary seaman, hurts- partial dislocation of small bones of left wrist 25 May 1878 by falling from awning hook attached to funnel casing at Trincomalee. John Gregory, aged 25, able seaman, hurts- simple fracture of left humerus on 30 July 1878 by falling from funnel casing while engaged in easing in the awning, Port Blair, Andaman Islands.

Folio 14: Table 3: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases which have occurred during the period covered by the journal. The average numerical strength of the company 160.45.

Folio 15: A blank Table 4 form.

Folio 16: Tables 5-6 showing the number of cases of diseases arranged between the following periods of age (15 to 25, 25 to 35, 35 to 45, above 45) for 1 January to 31 December 1878.

Folios 17-24: Surgeon's general remarks. Monthly diary entries for January 1878 to December 1878 (folios 17-18); description of the Andaman Islands, wildlife, reptiles and climate (rainfall), (folios 18-19); description of Ross Island and its inhabitants (the principal officers connected with the Indian convict establishment, two companies of a British Regiment, the headquarters of a native regiment, the general hospital, the female convicts, a few Chinese bird nest collectors and the bazaar keepers), (folio 19); description of the female convicts and their crimes (folio 19), marriage customs of the convicts (folios 19-20); description and a photograph of 'aborigines' (folio 20); religious beliefs of 'aborigines' (folio 20); description of female 'aborigines' and marriage customs (folio 21); mortality rates of the convicts on the Andaman Islands (folios 21-22).

Folios 25-29: Copy of the alphabetical sick list.

Folio 30: Blank.

Topics

Army

Asia

Marriage and divorce

Disease

Navy

Diaries

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa