Folios 1-10: Elizabeth Bentham, aged 29, Convict; disease or hurt, haematemesis,...

ADM 101/12/8/1

1828

Folios 1-10: Elizabeth Bentham, aged 29, Convict; disease or hurt, haematemesis, heat and pain in the stomach, with nausea and a saltish taste in the mouth, vomited three or four ounces of blood. Put on sick list, 30 April, at Woolwich. Died 17 July [folio 10].

Folios 2-3: Mrs Brown, aged 28, [F W]; disease or hurt, debility and obstipatis. Put on sick list, 25 May 1828, at sea. Discharged 13 June 1828 [folio 3].

Folios 2-3: Frederick Robinson, aged 10; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 25 May 1828. Discharged 5 July 1828 [folio 3].

Folios 4-14: Agnes Murray, aged 45, Convict; disease or hurt, obstipatis. Put on sick list, 21 June 1828. Discharged 24 September 1828 [folio 14].

Folios 5-11: Mrs Jackson, aged 33, [F W]; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 26 June 1828. Discharged 18 August 1828 [folio 11].

Folios 6-9: No new cases.

Folios 10-12: Mrs Yates, aged 44, [F W]; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 18 July 1828. Discharged 18 August 1828 [folio 12].

Folios 11-12: No new cases.

Folios 13-14: Mary Crawley, aged 50, Convict; disease or hurt, apoplexia venenata. Put on sick list, 9 August 1828. Discharged 13 August 1828 [folio 14]. Had been in the habit of using large quantities of opium before embarking. Broke into the dispensary while intoxicated and swallowed some opium 'which soon produced alarming effects'. She was made to vomit and brought up small pieces of the opium all night, she was kept awake and felt an intolerable itching in the forehead, nose and sometimes all over the body.

Folios 13-15: Mary Chiston, aged 24; disease or hurt, enteritis. Put on sick list, 9 August 1828. Died 15 August 1828 [folio 15].At first the surgeon thought this was an inflammatory fever because there was no vomiting, costiveness or pain in the bowels until the fourth evening. The complaint is attributed to wet and cold, the ship being leaky since a gale a few days previously.

Folio 14: No new cases.

Folios 15 and 22: Mrs Bankin, [age not recorded], [F W]; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 19 August 1828, Table Bay. Discharged 17 October 1828 [folio 22]. Described as an old and infirm woman, she was added to the sick list just so that she could 'receive the benefits of medical comforts' and have her bowels kept regular. No details of any treatment or symptoms are recorded and she is discharged from the sick list on arrival at Hobart Town.

Folios 15 and 22: Jane Lewis, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 23 August 1828, Table Bay. Discharged 17 October 1828 [folio 22]. Put on sick list because of debility.

Folios 16-21: Edward Post, aged 17, [F B]; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 27 August 1828. Died 4 October 1828 [folio 21]. Had been treated for inflammatory fever for three days but was not put on the sick list because his mother was unwilling for him to go to the hospital, he had been bled of 36 ounces of blood on 3 separate occasions. Was free of fever from the 6th to the 16th of September but remained on the sick list. Became worse after being fed by his mother against the surgeon's wishes.

Folios 16-18: Ann Morgan, aged 28, Convict; disease or hurt, synocha, headache, precordial oppression, thirst and soreness all over with prostration of strength and cough. Put on sick list, 28 August 1828. Died 1 September 1828 [folio 20].Received a blow across the shoulders and head from a heavy spar a couple of days before reporting sick. The surgeon is sure she must have received some severe internal injuries. She was convalescing until fed some soup by her messmates, after which she became worse.

Folio 17: No new cases.

Folios 18-22: Maria Haspbury, aged 26, Convict; disease or hurt, dysuria. Put on sick list, 31 August 1828. Discharged 17 October 1828 [folio 22].

Folio 19: Mary A Roberts, [age not recorded], Convict; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Put on sick list, 5 September 1828. Discharged 11 September 1828 [folio 19], with 'scarcely any complaint'. She was one of a group of prisoners who broke out of the prison on the night of 13th August and was infected by the man she went with. He had been infected at Madeira in June.

Folios 19-20: Elizabeth Harris, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, lumbago. Put on sick list, 12 September 1828. Discharged 23 September 1828 [folio 20]. Had been exposed to wet and cold while washing her clothes on deck and the same day was pitched over the wash tub by a roll of the ship, which severely hurt her loins.

Folio 20: No new cases.

Folios 21-22: Mrs Brown, [age not recorded], [F W]; disease or hurt, complained on the 28th of pain and uneasiness in her bowels, accompanied with violent purging and vomiting of bilious matter, spasms in the legs and thighs, treated with astringents and anti-spasmodics, on the 29th she gave birth to a seven month child which lived a few hours. Put on sick list, 30 September 1828. Discharged 17 October 1828 [folio 22]. The surgeon believes the child might have survived 'had the wretched mother let her situation be known'.

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