Folios 23-25: John Hornback, convict; disease or hurt, complains of severe cough...

ADM 101/42/3/4

1817

Folios 23-25: John Hornback, convict; disease or hurt, complains of severe cough attended with dyspnea, accompanied with some degree of pyrexia. Taken ill, 29 September 1817. Discharged cured 11 October 1817.

Folio 23: 1 October 1817; John Smith, convict, let blood to the extent of 24 ounces, having a severe fixt [fixed] pain in the side accompanied with difficult breathing and some degree of fever. Extracted a tooth from John Presswell, one of the guard.

Folio 23: 4 October 1817; 6 patients in hospital.

Folio 24: 6 October 1817; pipes to privies blocked by the carelessness and mischievement of many of the prisoners who had stuffed wood and clothing in the pipes. A waistcoat was dragged out of one of the privies.

Folios 24-27: Edmund Riley; disease or hurt, an elderly man, with chronic dysentery. Taken ill, 6 October 1817. Discharged cured 21 October 1817.

Folios 24-25: William Evans; disease or hurt, afflicted with catarrhal affection. Taken ill, 9 October 1817. Discharged cured 14 October 1817.

Folio 25: William Howlett; disease or hurt, cattarh. Taken ill, 11 October 1817. Discharged cured 15 October 1817.

Folio 25: 11 October 1817; seven patients in the hospital.

Folio 25: William Bourke; disease or hurt, feverish cold. Taken ill, 13 October 1817. Discharged 16 October 1817.

Folio 25: William Wintin, convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Taken ill, 14 October 1817. Discharged 16 October 1817. Prescribed Wintin with rhubarb and 20 grains of magnesia as an experiment to clear the bowels.

Folio 25: John Phillips; disease or hurt, feverish cold. Taken ill, 15 October 1817. Discharged 16 October 1817.

Folio 25: 15 October 1817; opiates are sometimes necessary [for treatment].

Folio 26: 20 October 1817; William Harvey, convict, whose hammock had fallen with him, by which means he fractured the left clavicle near to the acromium process. The weather is now rather cold and bleak for the convicts being but badly clothed.

Folio 27: 21 October 1817; William Morun, convict, admitted with a feverish cold.

Folio 27: 22 October 1817; Thomas Tunstall, convict, fell and dislocated his left humerus from the glenoid cavity of the scapula into the axilla.

Folio 27: 23 October 1817; William Ramsay, convict, punished at the gangway with three dozen lashes for refusing to assist in cleaning the prison and being very impudent and saucy to the officer whose immediate superintendence it is to see the prison cleaned.

Folios 27-28A: William Hennisett, convict; disease or hurt, catarral complaint. Taken ill, 24 October 1817. Discharged cured 17 November 1817.

Folio 27A: 27 October 1817; seven patients in hospital.

Folio 27A: 28 October 1817; several of the prisoners are troubled with diarrhoea and many with constipated bowels. Others have headaches with loss of appetite.

Folios 28-28A: Joseph Cash, guard; disease or hurt, let blood 20 ounces of blood afflicted with urgent dry cough and flying pains in his sides and accompanied with some degree of pyrexia. Taken ill, 2 November 1817. Discharged to duty 7 November 1817.

Folios 28-28A: Alexander Frazer, guard; disease or hurt, is harassed with pain in his face and head attended with cold chills and alternate flushes of heat. Taken ill, 2 November 1817. Discharged to duty 6 November 1817.

Folio 28: 3 November 1817; The weather is raw and cold and accompanied with frequent squalls with rain. The prisoners beds being sent on deck every day when the weather will allow. In bad weather they are kept below, and the prisoners themselves are never kept on deck when it rains as they have not the conveniency nor the means many of them of shifting their clothes when they get wet in the consequence of their losing them.

Folios 28A-33: John Phillips, convict; disease or hurt, blotches of a scorbutic nature on his legs and thighs. Considerable degree of oderma is present. Taken ill, 4 November 1817. Died 27 November 1817.

Folio 28A: 5 November 1817; seven patients in hospital.

Folios 28A-29: William Wintin; disease or hurt, catarrah affection. Taken ill, 6 November 1817. Discharged cured 9 November 1817.

Folio 28A: 7 November 1817; John Savier is cured and discharged.

Folios 28A-30: John Holland, aged 48; disease or hurt, irritative fever and violent headache. Taken ill, 7 November 1817. Died 16 November 1817 at 8pm.

Folio 28A: 8 November 1817; admitted Joseph Chapman with fever.

Folio 28A: 9 November 1817; admitted John Ridler, catarrhal affection, complains of [coriza?], headache, watery eyes, heaviness over frontal sinuses, cough and pyrexia.

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