Folios 1-4: case no 1, Rose Dogherty, aged 18, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or...

ADM 101/48/4/1

1836-1837

Folios 1-4: case no 1, Rose Dogherty, aged 18, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris; put on sick list 10 March 1837, died 19 March 1837 at 4.30 am.

Folios 5-7: case no 2, Catherine Hurley, aged 21, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 18 March 1837, discharged 1 June 1837, she was sent on shore to general hospital, the surgeon mentioned that he saw her again on the 8th June and 'could scarcaly have conceived it possible that so short a period on shore should have produced such beneficial effects'.

Folios 7-9: case no 3, Margaret Murphy, aged 35, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, naturally a weak and delicate womenwas removed from her berth to the hospital for dysenteric complaints, which had been suffering for about a month, sometime having the character of diarrhoea and at other acconpanied by tenesmus with dejection of blood had been relieved for a few days at a time by astringents; vizt. Mistura creta combined with tinctura catecha and confectio opii or confectio oromatica, her diet at the same time consisting of fresh meat or preserved soup and rice with little wine, but she continued to fall away and became much emaciated; put on sick list 21 April 1837, died 12 May 1837 at 8:30 pm.

Folio 9: case no 4, Esther McKee, aged 17, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 19 March 1837, discharged 25 March 1837 cured.

Folios 10-11: case no 5, Mary Maher, aged 24, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 22 March 1837, discharged 28 March 1837, a little porter and water has been given to her daily since 25th and she was convalescent but exceedingly emaciated and reduced in strength, on the 5th April slowly inproving in strength the treatment continued to near the middle of May when she landed at Sydney quite stout and robust.

Folios 11-12: case no 6, Mary Tobin, aged 24, free girl servant to Mrs. Benson passenger, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 19 March 1837, discharged 24 March 1837 convalescent.

Folios 13-23: blank.

Folio 24: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 25-27: Surgeon's general remarks. The Margaret sailed on 24 January 1837 from the Cove of Cork, for Sydney, New South Wales with 153 female prisoners and 28 children, beside 35 free women and children, the families of convicts in the Colony of New South Wales. They were all sent on board in a very filthy state from the Cork Penitentiary - with a small supply of spare clothing (linen) and a great number were infected with psora. The surgeon mentioned that at the time the influenza being epidemic in England and Ireland, many of the prisoners and some of the ship's crew were also affected. The nauseating dose of tartarized antimony was the only remedy that the surgeon used against disease with good effect. When the ship reached the lattitude of 7 degree south the fever of a bilious remittent character made it appearance and was prevalent among the convicts and sailors of the ship. The surgeon also mentioned that most of the convicts if permitted passed the whole of the day being in bed and collected all kinds of rubblish about them, another filthy habit of the convicts to which they are addicted and more difficult to stop is washing their linen in putrid urine which they would hang up to dry in the prison.

Folios 28-29: contains a copy of daily sick list, [names and details follow]:

• Folio 28: Eliza Keefe, aged 58; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 12 February 1837, discharged 17 February 1837.
• Folio 28: Ellen Lynch, aged 60; sick or hurt, asthma; put on sick list 12 February 1837, discharged 14 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Mary Gerety, aged 22; sick or hurt, erysipelas (taric); put on sick list 19 February 1837, discharged 2 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Isabella Thomson, aged 24; sick or hurt, apoplexia; put on sick list 4 March 1837, discharged 16 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Jane Russell, aged 26; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 4 March 1837, discharged 1 May 1837.
• Folio 28: Catherine Beirne, aged 38; sick or hurt, cephalalgia; put on sick list 11 March 1837, discharged 22 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Margaret Murphy, aged 19; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 14 March 1837, discharged 26 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Rose Dogherty, aged 18; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 14 March 1837, died 19 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Margaret Briscoe, aged 21; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 14 March 1837, discharged 21 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Mary Keefe, aged 35; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 16 March 1837, discharged 31 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Jane Teeney, aged 45; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 16 March 1837, discharged 26 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Johanna Cleary, aged 40; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 16 March 1837, discharged 31 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Eliza McLoughlin, aged 18; sick or hurt, colica; put on sick list 18 March 1837, discharged 24 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Elizabeth Brown, aged 45; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 19 March 1837, discharged 30 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Mary Green, aged 40; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 19 March 1837, discharged 30 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Mary Gerety, aged 22; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 19 March 1837, discharged 10 April 1837.
• Folio 28: Esther McKee, aged 18; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 19 March 1837, discharged 1 April 1837.
• Folio 28: Mary Tobin, aged 21; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 20 March 1837, discharged 27 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Anne Finlay, aged 18; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 20 March 1837, discharged 31 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Anne Boyle, aged 16; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 20 March 1837, discharged 28 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Anne Farrell, aged 24; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 20 March 1837, discharged 30 March 1837.
• Folio 28: Anne Irwin, aged 19; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 20 March 1837, discharged 6 April 1837.
• Folio 28: Anne Murtaghe, aged 21; sick or hurt, febris remittens; put on sick list 20 March 1837, sent 1 June 1837 to general hospital.

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