Folios 2-4: copy of the sick book (continued): Folio 3: Stephen Dando, aged 23, convict;...

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1837

Folios 2-4: copy of the sick book (continued):

• Folio 3: Stephen Dando, aged 23, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsia; put on sick list 4 September 1837, discharged 11 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Michael Fog, aged 45, convict; sick or hurt, headache; put on sick list 5 September 1837, discharged 12 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Joseph Francis, aged 21, convict; sick or hurt, headache; put on sick list 6 September 1837, discharged 9 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Richard Hardy, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, headache; put on sick list 6 September 1837, discharged 7 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: James Bennet, aged 30, convict; sick or hurt, headache; put on sick list 7 September 1837, discharged 9 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: James Betts, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, headache; put on sick list 7 September 1837, discharged 9 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: George Burrows, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list 8 September 1837, discharged 11 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Benjamin Woodward, aged 27, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsia; put on sick list 9 September 1837, discharged 13 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Robert Hardy, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, headache; put on sick list 10 September 1837, discharged 15 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: James Newton, aged 24, convict; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list 11 September 1837, discharged 12 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Benjamin Walker, aged 23, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 12 September 1837, discharged 18 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Jonathan Rist, aged 35, convict; sick or hurt, dyspeptic; put on sick list 15 September 1837, discharged 9 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Louis Alexander, aged 30, convict; sick or hurt, [ptyalism?]; put on sick list 15 September 1837, discharged 22 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Daniel Webb, aged 59, convict; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 17 September 1837, discharged 30 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: William Goldsmith, aged 36, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 18 September 1837, discharged 4 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: William Bennet, aged 35, convict; sick or hurt, scald; put on sick list 18 September 1837, discharged 2 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: John Barnes, aged 19, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsy; put on sick list 19 September 1837, discharged 21 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 3: Michael Fog, aged 45, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsy; put on sick list 20 September 1837, discharged 23 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: James Williams, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 20 September 1837, discharged 22 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: William Daggs, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, obstipation; put on sick list 22 September 1837, discharged 24 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: Daniel Ganod, aged 24, convict; sick or hurt, cholic; put on sick list 25 September 1837, discharged 26 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: Will [William] Selwood, aged 30, convict; sick or hurt, cholic; put on sick list 25 September 1837, discharged 27 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: Thomas Denny, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, cholic; put on sick list 27 September 1837, discharged 8 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: Francis Gray, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, cholic; put on sick list 28 September 1837, discharged 30 September 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: John Walpole, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list 30 September 1837, discharged 4 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: John Wood, aged 24, convict; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list 30 September 1837, discharged 3 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: John Nichols, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 30 September 1837, discharged 3 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: Francis Gray, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list 2 October 1837, discharged 5 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: John Warren, aged 49, convict; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 4 October 1837, discharged 7 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: James Part, aged 35, convict; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 6 October 1837, discharged 9 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: John [O'Harra?], aged 18, guard; sick or hurt, pleurodynia; put on sick list 6 October 1837, discharged 10 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: William Felder, aged 21, guard; sick or hurt, obstipation; put on sick list 7 October 1837, discharged 10 October 1837 cured.
• Folio 4: Jonathan Curtis, aged 21, guard; sick or hurt, obstipation; put on sick list 7 October 1837, discharged 10 October 1837 cured.
• Total 81. Signed: John Edwards, surgeon and superintendent.

Folios 4-6: case no 1, Thomas Boyles, aged 68, convict, country labourer; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 9 June 1837, died 26 June 1837 at 1 pm.

Folios 7-9: case no 2, William Felder, aged 22, private 80th regt.; taken ill at Falmouth; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 12 June 1837, discharged 24 August 1837 cured.

Folios 9-12: case no 3, Adam Bailly, aged 24, private 80th regt.; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, concussion and fever; put on sick list 14 June 1837, died 17 June 1837 at 11 pm.

Folios 12-15: case no 4, Richard Edwards, aged 20, convict sailer; taken ill at [sea?]; sick or hurt, synochus, this young man who was master of a Falmouth Schooner trading to the [?gores] was tried together with his mate for [insulting?] towards a sailer boy who died in consequence, they were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to the transported for life, he is apparently of a mild and harmless and well educated, has suffered great moral depression; put on sick list 28 June 1837, died 6 July 1837.

Folios 16-18: case no 5, James Dent, aged 26, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 4 August 1837, died 18 August 1837 at noon.

Folios 19-22: case no 6, Leonard Turner, aged 21, convict; taken ill off Cape of Good Hope; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 9 August 1837, died 25 August 1837 about 5.20 pm.

Folio 23: case no 7, William Edwards, aged 20, guard; taken ill off Cape of Good Hope; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 21 July 1837, discharged 3 August 1837 cured.

Folios 23-24: case no 8, Charles Hill, aged 25, convict; taken ill at [sea?]; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 15 August 1837, discharged 24 September 1837 cured.

Folios 24-25: case no 9, Daniel Webb, aged 59, convict cook; taken ill off Cape of Good Hope; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 15 September 1837, discharged 30 September 1837 cured.

Folio 25: nosological synopsis of the sick book during the passage.

Folio 26: Blank.

Folios 27-28: Surgeon's general remarks. On 1 June 1837, 250 convicts were embarked at Portsmouth on board all apparently in good health. The major part of the convicts were from London prisons. At the time of embarkation there prevailed on board the convict hulks a strong scorbutic diathesis and was under the necessity of rejecting a number, in whom such symptoms were present. Makes mention of case no 1 [Thomas Boyles], case no 3 [Adam Bailly] and case no 4 [Richard Edwards].

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