Medical and surgical journal of HMS Pearl for 1 January to 31 December 1874 by A...

ADM 101/243

1874 Jan.-Dec.

Medical and surgical journal of HMS Pearl for 1 January to 31 December 1874 by A B Messer, MD, Staff Surgeon second class, during which time the said ship was employed in the Australian Station.

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

Folios 2-3: Edmund Rayner, aged 28, shipwright; case number 1; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 21 January 1874. Died 19 February 1874 in the Levuka hospital. Includes details of post mortem.

Folios 4-5: Frederick Payne, aged 29, leading seaman; case number 2; disease or hurt, ostitis. Put on sick list, 30 November 1873. Died 4 May 1874. Includes details of post mortem.

Folio 5: George Palmer, aged 27, sick berth attendant; case number 3; disease or hurt, pyelites. Put on sick list, 29 January 1874. Discharged 14 February 1874 to duty.

Folios 5-6: George Palmer, aged 27, sick berth attendant; case number 4; disease or hurt, pyelites. Put on sick list, 26 March 1874. Discharged 25 May 1874 to shore.

Folio 6: Joseph J Gower, aged 24, captain of the maintop; case number 5; disease or hurt, hernia. Put on sick list, 26 February 1874. Invalided 11 May 1874 and discharged to the ship Winifred on 23 May 1874 for passage to England.

Folio 6: Joseph Shepard, aged 34, quartermaster; case number 6; disease or hurt, hernia. Put on sick list, 12 February 1874. Invalided 11 May 1874 and discharged to the ship Winifred on 23 May 1874 for passage to England.

Folio 7: Thomas North, aged 32, able seaman; case number 7; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, [?]. Invalided 8 September 1874.

Folios 7-8: Charles Joseph Triggs, aged 29, captain of the maintop; case number 8; disease or hurt, fracture right femur left radius. Put on sick list, 9 September 1874. Invalided 7 November 1874. Discharged 1 December 1874 to SS Northumberland for passage to England.

Folios 8-9: Francis W Spanner, aged 26, able seaman; case number 9; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 11 August 1874. Discharged 4 September 1874 to duty.

Folios 9-10: Francis W Spanner, aged 26, able seaman; case number 10; disease or hurt, morbus cordis organic. Put on sick list, 15 September 1874. Invalided 7 November 1874. Discharged 1 December 1874 to SS Northumberland for passage to England.

Folios 10-12: Charles Selley, aged 17, boy 1st class; case number 11; disease or hurt, compound fracture of the right femur at junction of upper with middle third. Put on sick list, 17 September 1874. Invalided 10 March 1875.

Folio 12: Nathaniel Nerry, aged 30, ship's cook; case number 12; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 30 June 1874. Discharged [?].

Folio 12: George Brekenside, aged 28, gunner marine artillery of HMS Clio died in Sydney infirmary on 15 June 1874.

Folio 12: A B Pavell, aged 22, ward room servant, HMS Blanche. Invalided from HMS Blanche at Auckland, New Zealand. Received on board the ship to wait passage to England.

Folio 12: William Pilcher, aged 48, chief engineer, HMS Dido. Invalided from HMS Dido at Fiji, treated in sick quarters at Sydney while waiting passage to England.

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. Joseph J.Gower, Joseph Shephard, C J Triggs and Charles Selley.

Folio 14: Table 3: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases which have occurred during the period covered by the journal. (Blank).

Folio 15: Table 4 showing the cases which occurred between 1 January to 31 December 1874 (nosologically arranged). Average numerical strength of ship's company is 275.

Folio 16: 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, 45 to 55) for 1 January to 31 December 1874. Average number victualled daily during the period, 281; aged 15 to 25 (151), aged 25 to 35 (94), aged 35 to 45 (35), aged 45 to 55 (1).

Folios 16-24: Surgeon's general remarks. Description of the ship, accommodation and ventilation and physical condition of the crew, (folio 16); movements of the ship, topography, climatology, (folio 17); a consideration of the diseases which have occurred along with lists of men sent to hospital, invalided and deaths, (folios 18-24).

Folio 25: Blank.

Folios 26-31, 50: Copy of the alphabetical sick list.

Folios 31-48: 'Report on the health of the White Population of the Fiji Islands, and the manner in which it is affected by the climate and modes of living; together with some remarks on the different diseases; the rearing of children, white and half-caste; and the general hygienic state of the Islands. Compiled from information collected during the visit of Her Majesty's Ship Pearl to Fiji in 1873 and 1874 by A B Messer, MD, Staff Surgeon, Second Class of Her Majesty's Ship Pearl'.

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