Objekt ADM 101/249/2 - Folios 11- 12: Thomas Fowel, aged 25, Stoker; disease or hurt, vertigo. Put on sick...

Folios 11- 12: Thomas Fowel, aged 25, Stoker; disease or hurt, vertigo. Put on sick list, 4 February 1880. Discharged, 6 February 1880. Folio 12: Charles Chalklin, aged 21, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, ulcer. Put on sick list, 5 March 1880, at Samoa. Discharged, 9 May 1880. An inflamed sore on from scratching his left ankle on a piece of coral while beaching a boat. Folio 13: Table I, listing places the ship visited and dates. Folio 13: Table II, A list of men who, during the period of this journal, have received wounds of hurts which may disqualify them from Public Service, or subsequently in any way interfere with their earning a livelihood. Frank Sparks, aged 32, Ward Room Cook, certificate granted 13 July 1880. Ruptured on 12 July 1880 in lifting a heavy pot at the galley. Folio 14: Table III, In this table are to be inserted all cases which occurred between the date of the Medical Officers taking charge and the 31st December of the same year, or between the 1st of January and the 31st of December, if the Medical Officer has been in charge for the whole year. Table lists cases nosologically arranged, broken down into age groups and with the number of days on the sick list for the period 1 January to 31 December 1880. Folio 15: Table IV, duplicates Table III but not completed. Folio 16: Table V, showing the number of cases broken down by age for the period 1 January to 31 December 1880. Folio 16: Table VI, duplicates Table V but not completed. Folios 17-21: Surgeons general remarks. Folio 17 has a note pasted in signed J H, Good description of the Samoan group etc, Special Diseases etc. Describes leaving Sydney on 8 January for Hobart, arriving on 12 January, and sailing for Samoa on 20 January calling at Suva in the Fiji Islands for coal on the way. They stayed at Samoa until 18 May, calling monthly at Fiji for mail, provisions and coal. There was no regular mail route and only one firm regularly trading with Samoa, Godefroy and Co, based in Hamburg. The capital, Apia, is described, its houses, churches and trading stores. Exports include copra, coconut fibre and a small amount of cotton. The methods of planting are described. Pigs, fouls, cows and horses are kept but sheep do not thrive. The people, their dress and the local cloth, called tapa, and their diet are all described. Local diseases are a form of fever with enlargement of the liver and spleen, called puia, dysentery, elephantiasis and ulcers of the extremities. The people are described as intelligent, many able to read and write, and clean. The rest of the ships travels are briefly stated until their return to Sydney on 7 December 1880 for refitting preparatory to returning to England. The diseases experienced on board are then described, starting with simple continued fever. Charles Triggs is mentioned as not having been sick since his return from hospital. There were eight cases of rheumatismus, two of them being Mr Berry, the carpenter, and of the nature of gout. The others were sub acute articular and two probably syphilitic in origin. There were five cases of primary syphilis, the case of Michael Twomy being typical of syphilis as prevalent in Sydney, where all the forms of venereal disease are of a virulent type there being no police regulation and very limited hospital accommodation (only twelve beds in a town with a population of 180,000) for cases of this description. There were two cases of secondary syphilis, both afflicting John Newall who had also been on the list the previous year with gonorrhoea and suppurating bubo. The case of vertigo, Tom Fowel, had the character of heat apoplexy. There was one case of epilepsy in a man who had recently joined the ship, thought to be attributable to excess on shore. One case of neuralgia due to dental derangement; and recovered on the removal of some decayed stumps. The case of disease of the ear is briefly discussed as is functional disease of the heart and organic disease of the heart, bubo, catarrh, bronchitis and asthma. There were two cases of pneumonia, Arthur Hawkins was treated on board and Walter Armistead sent to hospital at Auckland, rejoining the ship at the end of November. There were six cases each of cynanche and dyspepsia. Within a week of arriving at Samoa there were several cases of acute dysentery, the cause was obscure, only condensed water being used on board and the men not having been on shore after sunset. Private Beck of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, was among the first and never seemed to rally, dying on the eighth day. He was a spare, sickly looking man with a prematurely aged appearance and had suffered fever off the coast of Africa. Diarrhoea, hernia, gonorrhoea and epididymitis are mentioned, the gonorrhoea being of a virulent character rarely seen now at home in the naval ports. There were 58 cases under the heading phlegmon and abscess, two of which were sent to hospital. There were 33 cases of ulcer, one sent to hospital, one invalided and the rest cured. All originated at Samoa and are attributed to something in the atmosphere or water, or a combination of both. Any abrasion of the feet or legs sustained about then had the tendency to become a sloughing ulcer. One case of scabies occurred in a Marine who had recently joined from the Raleigh and who had not been on shore but had suffered before, the relapse probably due to insufficient disinfection of some of his underclothes. There was one case of urticaria, probably due to some error in diet. There were 61 cases entered under wounds and accidents, none of which require comment except the drowning of Robert Chambers. He had been employed, with one other diver, in cleaning the ships bottom, and an air valve on the back of his helmet broke off and his suit filled with water. He was not felt to communicate with those attending above but his companion noticed he had stopped scrubbing, had himself taken to the surface and then had him hauled up. He breathed for nearly two hours before succumbing to what appeared to be acute congestion of the lungs. Signed George Mair Staff Surgeon. Folios 22-24: Blank.

The National Archives >> Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies >> Records of Medical and Prisoner of War Departments >> Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals >> AUSTRALIAN STATION >> Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's Ship Danae for 1 January to 31 December 1880 by Mr George Mair, Staff Surgeon. (Described at item level).

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