Official report on the fever which appeared on board His Majesty's ship Bann, on the coast of Africa, and amongst the detachment of Royal Marines forming the garrison of the Island of Ascension, in the year 1823 / by William Burnett, one of the commisssioners of the medical department of His Majesty's Navy.

  • Burnett, William, Sir, 1779-1861.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Official report on the fever which appeared on board His Majesty's ship Bann, on the coast of Africa, and amongst the detachment of Royal Marines forming the garrison of the Island of Ascension, in the year 1823 / by William Burnett, one of the commisssioners of the medical department of His Majesty's Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    sick of the Bann than passing daily at no great distance from the tents to feed his father's poultry, and he was never on board that ship. Up to this time the restrictions on the intercourse between the ship herself and the garrison had not been much attended to, and certainly not at all as re- gards the communication of the garrison with each other; several things, such as sideboards, &c. had been landed from the Bann, which had been brought by her from Sierra Leone, and some of the officers and men had gone on board that ship (after the sick were landed), to the sale of the effects of some deceased person. From this time, however, every proper precaution was taken for preventing the extension of the disease to the out- posts; notwithstanding which, six men, two women, and seven children, were taken ill at Springs, but fortunately none at the Green Mountain, though one of the men belonging to that post had been on board the Bann, at the sale before mentioned. Some days after the arrival of the Bann, Captain ^ Phillips took up his residence at Springs; but, though he was much indisposed with a low fever, both the surgeon of the Bann and the assistant of the garrison are of opinion, that he did not suffer from the prevailing fever. About this time, the fever in the Bann had nearly ceased; but it went on, daily attacking some of the garrison; and it appears, by the official report, that twenty-eight were taken ill, of which number fifteen died, and thirteen recovered. In-