Observations on the Diseases of Seamen

Name: Observations on the Diseases of Seamen
Author: Blane, Gilbert, Sir

Blane, Gilbert, Sir

Medicine, Naval -- Early Works To 1800; Sailors -- Diseases

Account of the HEALTH of the FLEET while it lay at Jamaica during
 May, June, and Part of July, 1782.----French Prizes Causes of
 Sickness--Their Difference from the English in point of Cleanliness
 and Discipline--Bad Effects of Land Wind and Watering Duty--Situation
 of Port Royal--Season uncommonly dry and windy--Fluxes more prevalent
 at Sea than in Harbour--Comparison of the Sickness at this Time with
 that of the Army and with that of the Squadron under Admiral Vernon
 forty-one Years before--Effects of Contagion and foul Air--Officers
 more affected than the common Men.


All the squadron that was left to windward of Jamaica, consisting of
twenty-four ships of the line, kept the sea during great part of May,
the last division of it not having come to Port Royal till the 25th of
that month.

The whole fleet remained in harbour during the remainder of the month,
and the whole of the next, except the Warrior, Prothée, and Russell;
the two former were sent on a cruise, in which the Warrior continued
quite healthy, as she had been ever since her arrival from England; and
in the Prothée a great check was given to the fevers and fluxes which
had begun to prevail at Port Royal. The Russell was sent to England
with a convoy.


TABLE, shewing the proportional Prevalence of Sickness and Mortality in
May.

  +-----------------------------------------+
  | Transcriber’s Keys                      |
  |                                         |
  | A Proportion of those taken ill or      |
  |   wounded in the Course of the Month.   |
  |                                         |
  | B Proportion of those that died in      |
  |   relation to the Numbers of Sick or    |
  |   wounded.                              |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+
  |                       |    A   |    B   |
  |       DISEASES.       |        |        |
  |                       | ONE IN | ONE IN |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+
  | Fevers                |     26 |     29 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Fluxes                |     18 |     63 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Scurvy                |     57 |     34 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Wounds                |    627 |     60 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Other Complaints      |     44 |    127 |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+
  | General Proportion,   |        |        |
  |   including wounded   |      7½|     46 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | General Proportion,   |        |        |
  |   exclusive of Wounds |      8 |     48 |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+

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Observations on the Diseases of SeamenBlane, Gilbert, Sir

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Observations on the Diseases of Seamen

Blane, Gilbert, Sir

Medicine, Naval -- Early Works To 1800; Sailors -- Diseases

Account of the HEALTH of the FLEET while it lay at Jamaica during
 May, June, and Part of July, 1782.----French Prizes Causes of
 Sickness--Their Difference from the English in point of Cleanliness
 and Discipline--Bad Effects of Land Wind and Watering Duty--Situation
 of Port Royal--Season uncommonly dry and windy--Fluxes more prevalent
 at Sea than in Harbour--Comparison of the Sickness at this Time with
 that of the Army and with that of the Squadron under Admiral Vernon
 forty-one Years before--Effects of Contagion and foul Air--Officers
 more affected than the common Men.


All the squadron that was left to windward of Jamaica, consisting of
twenty-four ships of the line, kept the sea during great part of May,
the last division of it not having come to Port Royal till the 25th of
that month.

The whole fleet remained in harbour during the remainder of the month,
and the whole of the next, except the Warrior, Prothée, and Russell;
the two former were sent on a cruise, in which the Warrior continued
quite healthy, as she had been ever since her arrival from England; and
in the Prothée a great check was given to the fevers and fluxes which
had begun to prevail at Port Royal. The Russell was sent to England
with a convoy.


TABLE, shewing the proportional Prevalence of Sickness and Mortality in
May.

  +-----------------------------------------+
  | Transcriber’s Keys                      |
  |                                         |
  | A Proportion of those taken ill or      |
  |   wounded in the Course of the Month.   |
  |                                         |
  | B Proportion of those that died in      |
  |   relation to the Numbers of Sick or    |
  |   wounded.                              |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+
  |                       |    A   |    B   |
  |       DISEASES.       |        |        |
  |                       | ONE IN | ONE IN |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+
  | Fevers                |     26 |     29 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Fluxes                |     18 |     63 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Scurvy                |     57 |     34 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Wounds                |    627 |     60 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | Other Complaints      |     44 |    127 |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+
  | General Proportion,   |        |        |
  |   including wounded   |      7½|     46 |
  |                       |        |        |
  | General Proportion,   |        |        |
  |   exclusive of Wounds |      8 |     48 |
  +-----------------------+--------+--------+

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Observations on the Diseases of Seamen

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