Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital Admissions and Discharges

[Mart 'n' Al]

I'm looking at recent additions to Ancestry.  This is a database of sick sailors.  I attach an extract dated 1855.  In the 'How Disposed Of' column there are several entries which MIGHT be 'H.S.C'.

Does anyone have an explanation?  (His Symptoms Cleared?) My ancestor was admitted with fever and stayed for a month.

Later that year he was readmitted with Febricula "a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.  Possibly Typhoid."  (Victorian man-flu?)

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/febricula

The later discharge was either 'relieved' or 'reduced'.

Martin

[Bookbox]

Earlier entries in the same series of registers have ... To His Ship, Cured.
I suspect H. S. C. may be an abbreviation of that.
Re in this context probably = Returned.

[Mart 'n' Al]

Bookbox, thank you.  I wonder about the difference between 'HSC', 'Re HSC' and 'To HSC'.  Do you think they might be the same thing, but entered by different staff?  Could you give me a name to search for to see the entry 'To HSC' please?

Martin

[Bookbox]

You can page through the register for 1853-1856, from the Browse panel on the right.

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61093

Looking again, maybe Re = Request, rather than Returned.

I would think the entries mean essentially the same thing – probably just different clerks, different dates etc.

[Mart 'n' Al]

Ah, thank you.  I'm on the free weekend deal, and I didn't realise it would let me do that.  (I just found one, "Expelled for smoking below"!!  An also "Run from boat"!

Martin

[Bookbox]

There's quite a range.
Sadly, some were recorded as Incurable.
And D.D. = discharged dead.

[Mart 'n' Al]

I was wondering about DD.  I had ruled out Drunk & Disorderly. 

M

[Mart 'n' Al]

BookBox, I have also found "Request to His Ship, Cured".

Finding this has filled in such a gap in my research.  I knew my GGGF was a sailor, but it has given me one of his ships, and a link by sea, to his later life in S Shields.  Searching for his ship in the News Archive has also given me many of his routes.  Six weeks after coming off the Sick Ship, his ship foundered in the River Tyne.  All survived, but I bet his skipper, Captain Balls had his leg pulled!!

Many thanks.  Reading about smallpox has started me scratching ...

Martin

[Bookbox]

Glad you've had some success!