Catalogue description Medical journal of the Horatio , steam guard ship from 23 January to 31 December 1852 by...

Medical journal of the Horatio, steam guard ship from 23 January to 31 December 1852 by Robert Grahame, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed at Sheerness.

[Note: ADM 101/254, 1A-1H are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/254].

Folios 1-5: Copy of sick list.

Folios 5-7: case no. 1, William Barrow, aged 15, Boy 2nd Class; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, febris remittent; put on sick list 17 March 1852, discharged 27 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham, and afterwards invalided.

Folio 7: case no. 2, James Daly, aged 26, Supernumerary Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, accidentally drowned; put on sick list 10 February 1852, died 10 February 1852. Folio 7: case no. 3, William Tylby, aged 36, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list 27 February 1852, discharged 28 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 7: case no. 4, John [Sommer?], aged 24, Able Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list 4 March 1852, discharged 6 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 7: case no. 5, Henry Kemp, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list 4 March 1852, discharged 6 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham.

Folios 8-9: case no. 6, Joseph F. Race, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, phthisis; put on sick list 17 March 1852, discharged 27 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 9: case no. 7, Robert Mathews, aged 19, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, bubo; put on sick list 17 March 1852, discharged 20 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 9: case no. 8, James Hilton, aged 24, Carpenter's Crew; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list 18 March 1852, discharged 20 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 9: case no 9, Edward Clark, aged 24, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, chronic dysentery; put on sick list 20 March 1852, discharged 20 March 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 10: case no 10, James Cooke, aged 31, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, febris remittent and cachexia; put on sick list 2 April 1852, discharged 10 April 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 10: case no 11, George Crouch, aged 26, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, hernia; put on sick list 8 April 1852, discharged 10 April 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 10: case no 12, Robert Townsend, aged 42, Able Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 20 April 1852, discharged 24 April 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 11: case no 13, Joseph Mason, aged 16, Boy 2nd Class; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, phlegmon; put on sick list 25 April 1852, discharged 1 May 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 11: case no 14, William Gibbs, aged 21, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 27 April 1852, discharged 28 April 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 11: case no 15, George Scrogy, aged 28, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list 5 May 1852, discharged 22 May 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 11: case no 16, Mr Thomas Hall, aged 24, Assistant Engineer; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, fractura, while engaged in the engine room to raise the [cover?] of the air pumps accidentally lost command of it and it fell on his great toe; put on sick list 3 June 1852, discharged 3 June 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 11: case no 17, Mr John Baisden, aged 36, [Supernumerary?] Boatswain; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, phthisis; put on sick list 23 June 1852, discharged 23 June 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 11: case no 18, Mr Charles Wright, aged 30, Assistant Engineer; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, cynanche; put on sick list 12 July 1852, discharged 13 July 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 12: case no 19, Robert White, aged 17, Boy 2nd Class; taken ill at Portsmouth; sick or hurt, febris ephemeral; put on sick list 19 August 1852, discharged 29 August 1852 to duty. Folio 12: case no 20, George Lewis, aged 17, Boy 2nd Class; taken ill at Spithead; sick or hurt, accident, while employed as a side boy on duty on board HMS Barracouta, was last seen at about 6 am, on investigation it was found that he had fallen over board and drowned; put on sick list 20 September 1852, died 20 September 1852. Folio 12: case no 21, William Streeter, aged 25, Corporal of Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, accident, while on leave was lodging in a small public house called 'Duke of Clarence' in Sheerness, on the night of 29 September 1852, a fire accidentally occurred including the house that the corporal was lodging, owning to some unexplained cause he was unable to make his escape and was almost totally consummed; put on sick list 29 September 1852, died 29 September 1852. Folio 12: case no 22, James Mallion, aged 33, Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 24 September 1852, discharged 25 September 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham.

Folio 13: case no 23, James King, aged 22, Private Royal Marine; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list 27 September 1852, discharged 29 September 1852 to Military Hospital at Chatham. Folio 13: case no 24, James Wilson, aged 22, Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 28 September 1852, discharged 14 October 1852 to duty. Folio 13: case no 25, John Paine, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 3 October 1852, discharged 11 October 1852 to duty.

Folio 14: case no 26, James Mussell, aged 21, Stoker; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, accident, while engaged on duty in the engine room of HMS Amphion in chipping some iron work, received a small sharp [splinter?] of the metal in the right cornea immediately over the pupil...; put on sick list 6 November 1852, discharged 9 November 1852 to duty. Folio 14: case no 27, Mr R Sharpe, aged 32, Supernumerary Gunner; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, conjunctivitis; put on sick list 10 November 1852, discharged 22 November 1852 to duty.

Folio 15: case no 28, George Wright, aged 30, Able Seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, bronchitis; put on sick list 13 November 1852, discharged 22 November 1852 to duty.

Folios 15-18: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal, and tables of medical statistics.

Folios 18-21: Surgeon's general remarks. The Captain with 130 ship's company was ordered to Spithead to join the Steam Squadron to accompany Her Majesty the Queen on her summer cruise in HMS Barracouta [folio 18], diseases that prevailed on board [folio 18], also regarding the ship's compliment and arrangement of accommodation on board [folios 20-21].