Medical and surgical journal of HMS Sparrowhawk for 1 January to 31 December 1869...

Medical and surgical journal of HMS Sparrowhawk for 1 January to 31 December 1869 by Peter Comrie, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in British Columbia, Pacific Station.

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

Folios 2-3: [?] Doel, aged 18, drummer, marine; case number 1; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 3 January 1869. Discharged 17 January 1869 to hospital.

Folio 3: William Blake, aged 28, caulker; case number 2; disease or hurt, favus. Put on sick list, 20 January 1869. Discharged 21 January 1869 to hospital.

Folio 3: Peter Raymond, aged 25, sick berth attendant; case number 3; disease or hurt, hepatitis and abscess. Put on sick list, 6 February 1869. Discharged 10 February 1869.

Folio 4: William Dean, aged 17, boy; case number 4; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 9 February 1869. Discharged 10 February 1869 to hospital.

Folio 4: Edwin Jackson, aged 30, Engineer; case number 5; disease or hurt, epilepsy. Put on sick list, 8 March 1869. Discharged 11 March 1869 invalided.

Folio 5: William Stanmore, aged 31, private marine; case number 6; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 12 February 1869. Discharged 15 March 1869 to duty.

Folio 5: S V Williams, aged 26, Lieutenant; case number 7; disease or hurt, hydrocele. Put on sick list, 19 June 1869. Discharged 25 June 1869 to duty.

Folio 6: William Elliot, aged 34, stoker; case number 8; disease or hurt, [saenia?]. Put on sick list, 24 September 1869. Discharged 3 October 1869 to duty.

Folio 6: Peter McLean, aged 23, leading seaman; case number 9; disease or hurt, [sinea cilcinatiu?]. Put on sick list, 30 July 1869. Discharged 15 August 1869 to duty.

Folios 7-12: 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). Number on the ship's books, 4; William Stanmore, aged 31, private marine, hurt, contusion right side of chest by falling from a ladder the height of 10 feet while engaged on duty at Esquimalt white washing the naval hospital.

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 90.

Folio 15: A blank Table 4 form.

Folios 16-23: Surgeon's general remarks. Movements of ship (folio 16); medico legal inquiry (folio 16); embarkation of Governor Seymour (folio 16); illness of Governor Seymour (folio 17); death and post mortem of General Seymour (folio 17); Indians of British Columbia and Vancouver Island physical characterisitcs, number, languages, tribes, mongolian olign, flattened heads, mode of cranial compression, food, marriage, disposal of dead, houses, clothing, conical head, measurement of cranium; process of compression; [wolmian?] bones and similarity to Peruvian crania, manner of customs, carvings, polygamy of polyandy, mongoloid type, cooking, Indian diseases, pathological influence of race, venereal disease, effects of syphilis on primitive races, non existence of syphilis and scrofula previous to advent of whites, phthisis, leprosy, diarrhoea and dysentery, worms, paralysis, rheumatism, haematuria, measles, small pox, ague, medicine man, ceremonies in making a medicine man, practice of a medicine man, treatment of fracture wounds, vapour baths, remedy for granulations, abortion, expectorant, astringent, culochon oil, antisyphiltic, antogonorrhoeal, sacrifuge, medicinal doses uses of stimulant, physiological characterisitcs of half breeds, prevailing diseases, statistics (folios 17-23).

Folio 24: Blank.

Folios 25-28: Copy of the alphabetical sick list.

Folios 29-30: Blank.

Topics

Clothing

Marriage and divorce

Race relations

Disease

Food and drink

Navy

Hospitals

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)