| Description | Admission book of His Majesty's 88th Regiment of Foot, Volume 3.
Arranged in table format, each entry records the date of admission, the name of the patient, their age, the company to which they belong, the disease they were suffering from, the medicines they were prescribed and the date they were cured or died with any additional remarks. The admissions to the Regimental Hospital were recorded in the following locations:
Pages 1-12 (March-October 1800): Colabah
Pages 13-16 (Oct-December 1800): Bombay
Page 17 (December 1800): at sea
Pages 18-20 (January-February 1801): Point de Galle, Ceylon
Pages 21-25 (February-May 1801): at sea on board the Minerva (sometimes noting on route to Mocha and Sidda).
Later entries do not record the medicines prescribed to each patient and the page numbers are not always noted. Various locations of the 88th Regimental Headquarters are given including a camp near Ilhamed (November 1801), Alexandria (January 1802, p.36), Bombay (august, 1802) [more detailed notes are kept again from this point], Old Women's Island (October 1802), Silver Hill Barracks (c. May 1803), camp near Winchelsea (c. Aug 1803), [Slaydon?] Barracks (c. Nov 1803), and Pevensey Barracks (c. Jan 1804, p.56). The remainder of the volume is blank.
At the end of the volume there is a monthly return of the sick of a detachment of the 88th Regiment in hospital at Old Women's Island, October 1802. |