Folios 1-2: Mary Leary, aged 18; disease or hurt, violent pain in the abdomen, easier...

ADM 101/77/8/1

1825

Folios 1-2: Mary Leary, aged 18; disease or hurt, violent pain in the abdomen, easier on pressure, spasm of abdominal muscles, vomiting of [glaisy] mucus. Put on sick list, 17 May 1825, at Cove of Cork. Discharged cured, 24 May 1825.

Folio 2: Andrew Malony, aged 9; disease or hurt, pain under the sternum, severe cough, particularly at night and in the morning, difficult respiration with a wheezing noise on inspiration, expectoration of dense yellow matter. Put on sick list, 17 May 1825, at Cove of Cork. Discharged cured, 28 May 1825.

Folio 2: 20 May 1825, vaccinated 18 children with the matter received from The Navy Board, including three children vaccinated by Surgeon Bowers on the Elizabeth, it failed in every case. The vaccine must either have been too kept too long or originally bad. It was also inadequately kept, being between two pieces of glass wrapped in a single sheet of paper. All the vaccinations on the John Barry failed.

Folios 3-4: Catherine Sullivan, aged 12; disease or hurt, headache and general uneasiness, constant nausea and vomiting, obstinate costiveness and pain of bowels. Put on sick list, 28 May 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 28 June 1825.

Folios 4-8: Timothy Regan, aged 35; disease or hurt, headache over eyes, giddiness, dimness of sight, pains of limbs and joints, lassitude, languor and debility, frequent yawning, appears confused and dejected, countenance pale and vacant, eyes glazed with a stupid stare, answers questions with hesitation, tongue white, bowels costive. Put on sick list, 2 June 1825 at sea. Sent to the emigrant hospital at Quebec, with his family, 7 July 1825. Had been ailing for two or three days before his wife became alarmed by his muttering in his sleep. He knows of no reason for his complaint and has not suffered any sea sickness. His family had been in moderate circumstances but for some time before coming on board had been almost in a state of starvation and had the appearance of people broken down by distress. He died a day or two after being admitted to hospital.

Folios 8-9: Mary Slattery, aged 24, married, 3 children; disease or hurt, headache, pain in back and limbs, nausea and sickness at stomach, pain of bowels, tongue white, much thirst. Put on sick list, 2 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 12 June 1825. Was given oatmeal to prepare breakfast for herself and her family but her husband was, in the Surgeon's words, 'so useless and indolent' he did not prepare it until the Surgeon made him, 5 June 1825.

Folio 9: Several of the women and children and some of the men have slight feverish symptoms from change of diet and situation, constipation and sea sickness. In two or three days they are cured by purgatives.

Folios 9-10: Margaret Condon, aged 38, married; disease or hurt, severe headache, nausea and retching, face flushed, short dry cough, pains of back and loins, spasmodic pains of hypo gastric region and down the thighs, thirst, skin hot, pulse frequent and small, no appetite, faintness. Put on sick list, 3 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 16 June 1825.

Folio 10: Undated Note. Two of the women, Margaret Groves, aged 46, Widow, and Margaret [Baragy], aged 29, married, were sea sick whenever the ship had the least motion the whole voyage, from embarking until arrival in the St Lawrence river. In calm weather they were quite well.

Folio 10: Ellen Sullivan, aged 38, married; disease or hurt, miscarriage in the third month of pregnancy. Put on sick list, 8 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 13 June 1825. Attributes it to the fatigue of attending her daughter Catherine Sullivan.

Folios 10-11: James Mahony, aged 13; disease or hurt, headache, nausea, debility, anorexia, languor and general uneasiness, thirst, tongue yellowish fur and moist, bowels slow and pained at umbilicus, countenance sallow, eyes yellow. Put on sick list, 8 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 30 June 1825.

Folios 11-12: John Duhill, aged 14; disease or hurt, headache, pains of back and limbs, nausea and vomiting, anorexia, thirst, griping of bowels and purging, tongue dry and brownish, skin hot. Put on sick list, 9 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 24 June 1825.

Folio 12: Elizabeth Mulcahy, aged 8; disease or hurt, pain and sensation of stricture across her heart, hard, dry, frequent and painful cough, pulse quick, hard and small. Put on sick list, 12 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 26 June 1825.

Folio 13: Margaret Malony, aged 5 months; disease or hurt, covered head to foot with a scarlet rash, thickly set with scabby eruptions form which, particularly on the breast and back, there oozed a yellowish matter, first observed three days earlier, bad cough, very restless at night and cries apparently from pain of its bowels. Put on sick list, 14 June 1825, at sea. Died, 20 July 1825, after leaving La Chine in batteaux. Slow recovery until arrival at Montreal, 29 June 1825, when the mother stopped bathing her and she again became unwell. Suffered from the removal from the ship, the journey up the St Lawrence and the heat. The day before she died everyone was drenched in a thunderstorm and the weather is blamed for her death.

Folio 14: Mary Regan, aged 10; disease or hurt, diarrhoea, headache, thirst, nausea and vomiting, griping and purging, tongue white, [breath] foetid, skin hot and dry. Put on sick list, 14 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 24 June 1825.

Folios 14-17: Catherine Regan, aged 32, married; disease or hurt, heartburn, nausea and retching, chiefly in the morning, pains of limbs and joints, severe headache, face flushed, eyes dull and watery, in her 8th month of pregnancy. Put on sick list, 17 June 1825, at sea. Died, 19 July 1825. The wife of Timothy Regan, was getting out of her bed to tend to him while she was ill until 21 June 1825, when she consented to be removed to an after cabin with her child [Norah Regan?]. Gave birth to a daughter, 22 June 1825. Sent with her family to the emigrant hospital at Quebec, on 7 July. Rejoined the emigrants at La Chine, on 16 July 1825, her husband having died in the meantime. Having no proper provisions and being unable to cook, she had made her way from Quebec to La Chine with nothing to eat but [bread]. She was fed when she rejoined the emigrant but suffered violent purging and vomiting from the 18 July 1825 until her death.

Folio 17: Cornelius McAuliffe, aged 32; disease or hurt, pains of his loins limbs and joints, giddiness and headache, tongue dry and brown in the middle, pulse 80, skin dry and harsh, thirst, no appetite, languor, lassitude and yawning. Put on sick list, 17 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 23 June 1825.

Folio 17: Timothy Leary, aged 50; disease or hurt, pain of his loins and bones, slight headache and nausea, tongue dry and brown, pulse accelerated and hard, bowels open, much languor and anxiety with deep sighing and yawning. Put on sick list, 17 June 1825, at sea. Discharged cured, 24 June 1825.

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