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For description purposes, ADM 101/101/5...
Catalogue reference: ADM 101/101/5
Date: 1824-1825
For description purposes, ADM 101/101/5 has been split into three parts (5A, 5B and 5C), as follows: Fury, 10 February 1824 - 24 October 1825: ADM...
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Catalogue reference: ADM 101/29/7/6
This record is about the Folio 25: case no 28, Amelia Reeder, aged 19, single; sick or hurt, papular and pistular... dating from 1839-1840 in the series Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Folio 25: case no 28, Amelia Reeder, aged 19, single; sick or hurt, papular and pistular eruption; put on sick list 17 January 1840, discharged 24 January 1840 cured.
Folios 25-26: case no 29, Agnes Spright, aged 21, single; sick or hurt, congestion of the liver with constipation; put on sick list 20 January 1840, discharged 28 January 1840 cured.
Folio 26: case no 30, Jane Phillips, aged 32, married; sick or hurt, inflammatory fever; put on sick list 26 January 1840, discharged 2 February 1840 cured.
Folios 26-27: case no 31, Mary Cooney, aged 21, single; sick or hurt, accident, contusion of the right knee received by a fall from an upper berth; put on sick list 1 February 1840, discharged 14 February 1840 cured.
Folio 27: case no 32, Sarah Horsefield, aged 35, married; sick or hurt, contusion of the left carpal joints received by a fall occasioned by a sudden roll of the ship; put on sick list 2 February 1840, discharged 12 February 1840, on 23rd February complain of pain in the wrist again with stiffness, discharged 16 March 1840 cured.
Folio 27: case no 33, Ann Jackson, aged 23, married; sick or hurt, complicated febrile action; put on sick list 19 February 1840, discharged 14 March 1840 cured.
Folios 27-28: case no 34, Mary Lister, aged 45, married; sick or hurt, complicated diarrhoea; put on sick list 20 February 1840, discharged 3 March 1840 cured.
Folio 28: case no 35, Margaret Price, aged 22, married; sick or hurt, constipation [and] hysteria; put on sick list 28 February 1840, discharged 13 March 1840 cured.
Folios 28-29: case no 36, Amelia Reeder, aged 20, single; sick or hurt, chronic syphilitic taint of the system; put on sick list 2 April 1840, sent 25 April 1840 to Colonial hospital at Hobart Town.
Folio 29: case no 37, M A C Jemison, aged 20, single; sick or hurt, affection of the bowels bordering on enteritis; put on sick list 17 April 1840, sent 25 April 1840 to Colonial hospital at Hobart Town.
Folio 29: Mary Connor, aged 22; date of death 25th January 1840 at 9 am; nature of disease phthisis pulmonalis with ulceration of the mucous membrane of the ileum; died at sea.
Folio 30: nosological returne of cases mentioned in the journal.
Folio 31: Thomas Tyndel, aged 17, apprentice to the Gilbert Henderson; hurt while closing the after ventilator on the starboard side, injured the extreme bone of the right index so as to required amputation of the first joint, occurred on 26 December 1839 at 4 am.
Folios 31-33: Surgeon's general remarks. Of 185 female convicts embarked in November 1839 on board the Gilbert Henderson at Woolwich, 93 were received from the penitentiary in London, 41 from Liverpool, 1 from Oxforf, 1 from Durham, 10 from Exeter, 6 From Ilchester, 5 from Knutsford, 4 From Aberdeen, 4 from Aberdeen, 4 from Dundee and 20 from Leith. Of these 1 was sent on 6 December 1839 to the House of Correction per order of Secretary of State, 1 died on 25 January 1840 near the equator of Consumption, and 3 were sent to the Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town on 25 April 1840. The ship was put in at Table Bay in order to procure fresh meat and vegetables for the convicts, in the journal he [the surgeon] stated that there were 9 deliveries of women on board, 7 of whom bore each a healthy infant, and the other 2 had each a still born foetus. Also 7 infants and 5 children were vaccinated on the 25th April 1840 the day after arriving at Hobart Town, but however without effect. Reference is made to Mary Connor who died of consumption, case no 23, Eliza Hall affected with a scrophulous tumour in the left axilla and Amelia Reeder affected with a chronic syphilitic taint (both were sent to the Colonial hospital).
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Medical journal of the Gilbert Henderson female convict ship from 25 November 1839...
Folio 25: case no 28, Amelia Reeder, aged 19, single; sick or hurt, papular and pistular...
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