Folio 15: Jonathan Reeves, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, urgent pain across...

ADM 101/59/7/2

1824

Folio 15: Jonathan Reeves, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, urgent pain across his brow, with dimness of vision, thirst, tongue foul, bowels constipated, a good deal of preternatural heat, pulse small and frequent, some pain across his loins, coldness of the lower extremities. Put on sick list, 6 May 1824. Discharged 8 May 1824.

Folio 15: Jonathan Baylis, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, symptoms similar to Reeves. Put on sick list, 6 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 8 May 1824 [folio 15].

Folio 15: Felix O'Neil, aged 27, Private, His Majesty's 40th Regiment; disease or hurt, symptoms similar to Baylis. Put on sick list, 6 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 8 May 1824 [folio 15].

Folio 15: Peter Sinclair, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, great heat of body, pain in his head and sickness at stomach, bowels loose, feet cold, tongue clean but tremulous. Put on sick list, 7 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 9 May 1824 [folio 15].

Folio 15: Jonathan Lam, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, symptoms similar to Sinclairs. Put on sick list, 7 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 8 May 1824 [folio 15].

Folio 16: B Shaw, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, dimness of vision, loss of appetite, thirst, great pain in his head and want of rest at nights. Put on sick list, 7 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 9 May 1824 [folio 16].

Folio 16: Thomas Solley, aged 49, Convict; disease or hurt, sickness of stomach and slight pain of his head, bowels rather confined, tongue foul, a little thirst, pulse small and frequent. Put on sick list, 7 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 9 May 1824 [folio 16].

Folio 16: James Clarke, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, symptoms similar to Shaw's. Put on sick list, 7 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 9 May 1824 [folio 16].

Folio 16: James Elliot, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, symptoms similar to Clarke's. Put on sick list, 8 May 1824 at sea. Discharged 10 May 1824 [folio 16].

Folio 16: [Richard] Hughes, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, urgent pain in his head, thirst, foul tongue, heat of skin much increased, bowels confined and great lassitude. Put on sick list, 8 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 11 May 1824 [folio 17].

Folio 17: William Elliot, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, symptoms similar to Hughes. Put on sick list, 10 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 11 May 1824 [folio 17].

Folio 17: Thomas Solley, aged 49, Convict; disease or hurt, urgent pain in his head, thirst and sleepless nights, bowels rather confined, tongue is clear. Put on sick list, 11 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 13 May 1824 [folio 17].

Folio 17: Charles [Wait], aged 37, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 14 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 18 May 1824.

Folio 17: Jonathan Brookes, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, shivering, loss of appetite, some thirst and constant purging, has been unwell for two days. Put on sick list, 28 May 1824, at sea. Discharged 30 May 1824.

Folio 18: James Madden, aged 20, Soldier; disease or hurt, cold, pain in his head, nausea and cold shivering. Put on sick list, 1 June 1824, at sea. Discharged 3 June 1824.

Folio 18: Jonathan Richmond, aged 20, Soldier; disease or hurt, cold. Put on sick list, 2 June 1824, at sea. Discharged 4 June 1824.

Folio 18: Thomas Conor, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, cold. Put on sick list, 7 June 1824, at sea. Discharged 11 June 1824.

Folio 19: William Thatcher, aged 23, Soldier; disease or hurt, cold. Put on sick list, 10 June 1824, at sea. Discharged to duty, 13 June 1824.

Folio 19: William Spratt, aged 22, Soldier; disease or hurt, cold. Put on sick list, 11 June 1824, at sea. Discharged 16 June 1824.

Folio 19: Andrew Peebles, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, headache, loss of appetite, great prostration of strength, quick pulse, tongue covered with a cream coloured fur, some thirst and a pustular eruption about his mouth. Put on sick list, 11 June 1824, at sea. Discharged 20 June 1824 [folio 20].

Folio 20: Jonathan Ridge, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 27 June 1824, at sea. Discharged 30 June 1824 [folio 20].

Folio 21: Pat Fogerty, aged 25, Soldier; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 27 June 1824. Discharged 1 July 1824 [folio 21].

Folio 21: Note regarding the three cases following in the journal. They have been put at the end of the journal because they were much longer than any of the other cases and they are still on the sick list at the end of the voyage.

Folios 22-24: Richard Hughes, aged 26, Convict; disease or hurt, acute rheumatism. Put on sick list, 8 May 1824, at sea.

Folios 24-27: William Clapstone, aged 19, Soldier; disease or hurt, urgent pain in the head and sickness at stomach, with heat of the skin, tongue foul, prostration of strength and bowels constipated. Put on sick list, 1 May 1824, at sea. Sent to the hospital at Hobart Town, 24 July 1824, returned to the ship 6 days later and was disembarked at Sydney ‘labouring under general debility but with no organic disease’.

Folios 27-29: William Walsh, aged 33, Private, 40th Regiment; disease or hurt, came on board on 16 March 1824 with a pussy tumour on the scalp which appears to have communicated increased sensibly to the nerves in the vicinity of it. Put on sick list, 1 May 1824. Nearly restored to health on disembarkation at Sydney, 6 August.

Folios 30-32: A detailed account of poisoning by bonetta [bonito] fish on 1 May 1824 which affected the surgeon, the master of the ship officers of the guard and other officers of the ship. The surgeon being too seriously affected to treat any other cases, each sufferer was left to find his own remedy and the effectiveness of each is described, down to the 1st and 2nd mates, who used the sailor's remedy of a glass of grog. The fish was left hanging overnight without being cleaned before being cooked for breakfast. The sailor's believe the poisoning to be due to the effects of the moon's rays on the flesh of the fish, the surgeon is inclined to blame rapid putrefaction of the meat in a tropical climate. The surgeon believes the poison to be an acid poison because the saline draughts were instantly effective.

Folio 33: Abstract of the preceding journal, being a summary of all the cases contained therein; Congestion, 37; Diarrhoea, 7, of which 1 died on board; Hepatitis, 1, who died on board; Opthalmia, 1; Rheumatism, 1; Pulmonic inflammation, 1.

Folio 33: Surgeon's general remarks. 'The cases of congestion were attended with great topical termination what might be expected in a tropical climate among convict whose situation was so confined'. Signed, Charles Queade, Surgeon, Royal Navy, 6th August 1824, Sydney, New South Wales.

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