Catalogue description Folios 25-26: William Wicker, aged 41, Seaman; disease or hurt, Continued Fever. Taken...

Folios 25-26: William Wicker, aged 41, Seaman; disease or hurt, Continued Fever. Taken ill, 18 May 1800. Discharged to duty 12 June 1800. Treated by bleeding, cathartic enema, antimonial anodyne draught, blister to the pit of the stomach and saline draughts with camphor.

Folios 27-28: William Stimson, aged 40, Seaman [Quarter Gunner]; disease or hurt, Catarrhal Fever. Taken ill, 8 May 1800 off Ushant. Discharged to duty 20 June 1800.

Folios 28-30: Edward Rolls, aged 24, Private Marine; disease or hurt, Fever. Taken ill, 28 May 1800 off Ushant. Died 13 July 1800. Fever attributed to having fallen overboard in cold weather while drunk some weeks previously. Initially improves under treatment until July when his cough becomes more troublesome.

Folio 30-32: John Schull, aged 30, Seaman, a native of Hanover.

Folios 30-31; disease or hurt, Catarrhal Fever. Taken ill, 19 June. Discharged to duty, 3 July. Folio 31; disease or hurt, Diarrhoea. Taken ill, 13 October. Discharged to duty 17 October.

Folios 31-32: disease or hurt, Fever. Taken ill, 27 October. Discharged to Paignton Hospital 14 November. Remarks; 'It is a common request among the foreigners on board especially Germans, Prussians and Mallize [Maltize?] to be bled for every disorder'.

Folios 32-33: Thomas Carey, aged 25, Seaman; disease or hurt, Lues Venerea. Taken ill, 4 July 1800 off Ushant. Discharged to Plymouth Hospital 12 October 1800.

Folios 33-34: Peter Hanaway, aged 26, Seaman; disease or hurt, Recent Catarrhal Fever. Taken ill, 27 July 1800 off Brest. Discharged to duty 19 August 1800. Remarks column has method of preparing S[p...] Minder.

Folio 35: Bernard McCall, [age not recorded], Seaman; disease or hurt, Recent Pulmonic Case. Taken ill, 27 July 1800 off Brest. Discharged to duty 3 August 1800.

Folios 35-36: Richard Parker, aged 44, Private Marine; disease or hurt, Considerable Fever, headache and nausea. Taken ill 28 July 1800 off Brest. Discharged to duty 9 August 1800.

Folios 36-37: John Mackie, aged 32, Seaman; disease or hurt, complained of Headaches and Nausea with considerable Fever. Taken ill, 27 July 1800 off Brest. Discharged to duty 19 August 1800.

Folio 37: Abstract of the preceding journal being a summary of all the cases contained therein; Continued Fevers, 9, of which 4 died on board; Scurvy, 1; Wounds and Accidents, 2; Rheumatism, 3; Pulmonic Infection, 8; Scrofula, 1; Syphilis, 3; Phth Pulmon, 5.

Folios 37-39: Surgeon's general remarks; Refers to a subsequent journal which is not present [see ADM 101/107/2]. Trivial cases have not been listed since to do so would have been of little value. A number of men were sent to hospital with the intention of being invalided, the ship not usually being in port long enough to do this. During a 3 month refit in Portsmouth a 'scene of riot and disorder' existed and between 400 and 500 women were allowed access to the ship, giving rise to many accidents and fevers. The danger of contagion with Typhus was averted by the officers ensuring the ship was kept clean, well aired and dried using stoves. Comments on the numbers of acute and chronic cases which can be expected on ships of the class of the London. Many of these are due to the weather. Comments on the effectiveness of assisting nature in evacuating 'morbific matter' which can cause fevers, pneumonia, catarrh or diarrhoea. The sympathy of skin and other organs is useful in diagnosis and treatment. Remarks on the importance of cleanliness. Partial or total immersion in tepid water using the bathing apparatus installed in the sick berth is said to be very salutary [the evidence of the journal seems to contradict this]. The remarks end in mid sentence with the note beneath 'Vide Journal No 2'.