Folio 1: List of persons vaccinated and result on board Westmoreland Convict Ship....

ADM 101/74/4/1

1841

Folio 1: List of persons vaccinated and result on board Westmoreland Convict Ship. Joseph Parkes, John White, Benjamin Surry, John Raycroft, George Southam, Thomas Hainsworth, Convicts; all vaccinated 7 June 1841; all unsuccessful on both arms. Thomas Hainsworth, Thomas Edwards, George Dann, John Bart, Barclay Paton, Thomas Connor, Robert Ayres, Henry Passenger, all Convicts; all vaccinated 16 June 1841; all unsuccessful on both arms.

Folio 2: Copy of the daily sick book kept on board Westmoreland convict ship. (Names and details follow). Henry Anderson, aged 32, Soldier; disease or hurt, vulnus, concussion. Put on sick list, 6 May 1841. Discharged to hospital, 13 May 1841. Thomas Collins, aged 34, Soldier; disease or hurt, febris intermittens. Put on sick list, 6 May 1841. Discharged, 17 May 1841. Joseph Asby, aged 30, Soldier; disease or hurt, febris intermittens. Put on sick list, 8 May 1841. Discharged, 15 May 1841. Samuel Chadwick, aged 36, Convict; disease or hurt, scrofula et diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 17 May 1841. Died, 12 August 1841. Thomas Potter, aged 21, Soldier; disease or hurt, atrophia. Put on sick list, 27 June 1841. Discharged, 8 July 1841. Thomas Stopford, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 25 June 1841. Died, 8 July 1841. William Richards, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 27 June 1841. Discharged, 31 July 1841. Joseph Wilson, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, fractura. Put on sick list, 23 jUly 1841. Discharged to hospital, 14 September 1841. Charles Dunn, aged 12, Sailor Boy; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 31 July 1841. Discharged, 12 August 1841. James Locket, aged 42, Convict; disease or hurt, ascites. Put on sick list, 8 August 1841. Discharged, 14 September 1841. Thomas Connor, aged 12, Convict; disease or hurt, phlogosis. Put on sick list, 20 September 1841. Discharged to hospital, 20 September 1841.

Folio 3: Blank.

Folios 4-5: Henry Anderson, aged 36, Private of the 96th Regiment; disease or hurt, vulnus (concussion). Put on sick list, 6 May 1841, at Deptford. Discharged to the Military Hospital at Chatham, 13 May 1841. On the embarkation of the guard he fell from the upper deck into the main hold, landing on his head and becoming insensible. On 13 May he was sent to the hospital, the ship being about to sail.

Folio 5: Thomas Collins, aged 34, Private of the 96th Regiment; disease or hurt, febris intermittens (quotidian). Put on sick list, 6 May 1841, at Deptford. Discharged, 17 May 1841. While marching from Chatham to Gravesend the guard were exposed to continued torrents of rain and were all drenched on embarkation at Deptford.

Folio 5: Joseph Asby, aged 30, Private of the 96th Regiment; disease or hurt, febris intermittens (quotidian). Put on sick list, 8 May 1841, at Deptford. Discharged to duty, 15 May 1841.

Folios 5-6: Samuel Chadwick, aged 36, Convict; disease or hurt, scrofulous abscesses of scrotum and perineum cum diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 17 May 1841, at Sheerness. Died, 12 August 1841. 'Six days after embarking at Sheerness this man presented himself labouring under a mass of disease of scrotum and testes and to my astonishment declared that he had for months suffered in this condition on board the Fortitude hulk at Chatham without (although he had often applied to the hospital officers there) a single remedy to alleviate his sufferings. This requires no comment.' Towards the end of June he was improved to the point of convalescence but was attacked with diarrhoea on 10 July and from that time declined. The surgeon comments that 'a more minute inspection' should be allowed before the prisoners are embarked than the mere examination of arms and legs.

Folio 7: Thomas Potter, aged 21, Private of the 96th Regiment; disease or hurt, atrophia. Put on sick list, 27 June 1841, at sea. Discharged, 8 July 1841.Had been in a more or less inert and listless condition since the ship put to sea, with wasting of body.

Folio 7: Thomas Stopford, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, phthisis (pulmonalis). Put on sick list, 25 June 1841, at sea. Died, 8 August 1841. According to the patient he had lived a hard and intemperate life. His constitution was completely broken.

Folio 8: William Richards, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia (tarsi). Put on sick list, 27 June 1841, at sea. Discharged, 31 July 1841. He had been treated for pain in the left eye some days previously and returned with pain in both eyes. The right eye healed more quickly than the left and he was discharged perfectly well but continued on preserved meats and extra lime juice for a month.

Folios 8-9: Joseph Wilson, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, fractura (femoris). Put on sick list, 23 July 1841, at sea. Discharged to hospital at Hobart Town, 14 September 1841. Fell heavily while running in the prison from a sudden sharp motion of the ship. An oblique fracture about an inch and a half below the trochanter major. The fracture was reduced after 24 hours and dressed with splints and bandages. He improved steadily and was sent to hospital on arrival to complete his cure.

Folio 9: Charles Dunn, aged 16, Sailor Boy; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 31 July 1841, at sea. Discharged, 12 August 1841. 'Of a scrofulous and dwarfish appearance'.

Folios 9-10: James Locket, aged 42, Convict; disease or hurt, ascites. Put on sick list, 8 August 1841, at sea. Discharged to the Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 14 September 1841. Complained of impeded respiration and violent palpitation at times, cough, urine suppressed with considerable swelling of abdomen and lower extremities.

Folio 10: Thomas Connor, aged 16, Convict; disease or hurt, phlogosis (phleg). Put on sick list, 20 September 1841, at Hobart Town. Discharged to hospital [20 September 1841]. 'There being a scorbutic taint in his system, had him immediately conveyed to hospital'.

Folios 11-25: Blank folios.

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