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Folio 10: 30 April 1820: four of the convicts labouring under slight scorbutic complaints...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/47/1/2

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ADM 101/47/1/2
Date
1820
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Folio 10: 30 April 1820: four of the convicts labouring under slight scorbutic complaints such as spongy gums which readily bled on being touched, some swelling and stiffness about the knee joints, purple coloured spots about the roots of the hairs (on the limbs), breath fotid with langor and listlissness. Lemon juice and sugar has for some day past been issued to the convicts and guara but the prisoners with scorbutic symptoms have an additional quantity night and morning. It does not appear in general to disagree with the stomach.

Folio 10: 10 May 1820: the prisoners mentioned on 30 April are better except the boy Foster and J McPherson who has a great dislike to the lemon juice, nor will they take it with sugar. They have soup-sago and half a pint of wine each daily.

Folios 10-11: 18 June 1820: within these last eight days about thirty of the prisoners have been affected with diarrhoea, the symptoms were mild, and in scarcely any of the cases was there fever present.

Folio 14: 24 July 1820: several of the oldest and most infirm of the convicts who are much debilitated from the great length of the voyage are supplied from the hospital daily with a pint of good soup and half a pint of wine and a [?] of tea in the evening.

Folios 15-17: blank.

Folio 18: numerical abstract of the medical cases contained in the journal and diary.

Folios 18-19: General remarks. The number of persons embarked on board this ship are as follows: male convicts, 190; soldiers as guard with their wives and children, 40; passenger, 1; ship's crew, 48; total, 279. The whole of whom (with the exception of one boy who fell overboard at sea and was drowned) were landed in good health on 15th August 1820 at Sydney, New South Wales. Signed by Matthew Anderson, surgeon and superintendant.

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