Folios 13-14: 6 September 1818; One of the women Mary Kelly complained of a slight...

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1818

Folios 13-14: 6 September 1818; One of the women Mary Kelly complained of a slight rheumatic affection, which was apprehended and attended on the first instant their was no fever.

Folio 14: 7-10 September 1818; Convicts all in good health, Mary Kelly having got rid of her rheumatic affection.

Folio 14: 13 September 1818; Inspected convicts examining them as to the existence of any scorbula symptoms, did not observe any, all enjoying better health and being improved in their looks than when they came on board, they all express themselves satisfied with their treatment.

Folio 14: 19 September 1818; Ann Brown complained of sever colic pains pain which were relieved by a grain and half of opium.

Folio 15: 21-23 September 1818; Weather during the last two days more moderate enabled carpenter to stop the leakes in the topside.

Folio 15: 24 September 1818; convicts beginning to feel the effects of changing temperature, we are fast approaching the Cape of Good Hope and they complain already of the cold particularly the children.

Folio 16: 28-30 September 1818; Two of the convicts slightly indisposed but not requiring particular treatment.

Folio 16: 1 October 1818; One of the women complaining of indisposition yesterday a pain in her side with some excitement of the pulse and constipation of the belly, took twenty ounces of blood from her arm and gave her a cathartic.

Folio 16: 2 October 1818; The woman who was bled yesterday much better the cathartic operated well.

Folio 16: 6 October 1818; No complaints of bad health among the convicts.

Folio 17: 12-15 October 1818; Innoculated with vaccine virus in both arms Mary [McLue?] and infant in arms and Ann Masterson a child of three years old, the virus not having effect in the two former children.

Folio 17: 17-19 October 1818; The vaccine virus has not taken effect in either of the children inoculated on the 15th. I cannot account for its inactivity. It has not been exposed to the air since it came into my possession. I have this day inserted some of what remains in the arms of the two aforesaid children and two others.

Folios 17-18: 21-24 October 1818; Ann Donnelly complained of general pain in the tibia of the right leg on examination found nodes on both tibias. She Acknowledges to have had venereal disease about ten years ago, when she though she was cured of it, and has had two children since without it appearing again in any way until now.

Folios 18-19: 26 October 1818; Mustered convicts by list, found some of them slightly affected with scurvy. Ordered an additional allowance of lime juice and sugar in the proportion of half ounce of lime juice and the same quantity of sugar, and a full [?] of each to five or six in whom the disease had made more progress, Ann Donnelly the woman labouring under syphilis was excluded from this arrangement.

Folio 19: 1 November 1818; Ann Donnelly was better but saying that she feels a copperish taste in her mouth.

Folio 19: 2-5 November 1818: Ann Donnelly is a little better, one or two other have complained but not requiring to be on the sick list.

Folio 19: 6-7 November 1818: The two women who complained on the 4th of slight indisposition are well.

Folio 19: 8 November 1818: Ann Donnelly better but much debilitated from confinement to bed, no other on the sick list.

Folio 20: 9-11 November 1818: Mary Horrigan aged 22 complained of having frequent loose stools during the night accompanied by tenemus and gripping pains.

Folio 20: 12 November 1818: Mary Horrigan feels considerable remission of griping pains, but the stools are still frequent, and in one or two a slight bloody appearance confining her diet to sago and [?].

Folio 20: 13-14 November 1818; Mary Horrigan much better and assuming a healthy appearance complains of slight soreness of the mouth.

Folio 20: 15-17 November 1818; Only Mary Horrigan on the sick list, ship running along the coast with rather a scant wind.

Folio 20: 18 November 1818; much engaged this day in witnessing the different sensations expressed by the convicts at the sight of the Land which we are closer to.

Folio 21: 19 November; 1818; At 8pm being close in with the land near Port Jackson, at eight o'clock next morning (20th November) the ship was anchored in Sydney Port New South Wales without the loss of an individual on board during the voyage and having only one on the sick list which is in an advanced stage of convalescence.

Folio 21: 21 November 1818; Mr Campbell, secretary to government, came on board. Examined the convicts questioning them as to their treatments all of whom expressed themselves satisfied saying they had been treated well.

Folio 21: 23-24 November 1818; Convicts under orders for disembarkation.

Folio 21: 25 November 1818; Convicts and children disembarked all in good health, repeatedly cheering as the left the ship.

Folios 22-23: Surgeon's general remarks containing a list of his expenditure.

Folio 24: Blank.

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