Folios 1-2: copy of the sick list, [names and details follow] - continued: Folio...

ADM 101/76/1/2

1839-1840

Folios 1-2: copy of the sick list, [names and details follow] - continued:

• Folio 1: William Cussen, aged 22; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 14 January 1840, discharged 22 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 1: Mrs Spellary, aged 38; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 15 January 1840, discharged 21 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Mrs Bartley, aged 40; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 15 January 1840, discharged 26 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Mary Kennedy, aged 25; sick or hurt, colic; put on sick list 19 January 1840, discharged 23 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Thomas Conellan, aged 24; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 19 January 1840, discharged 30 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Michael O'Neil, aged 25; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 23 January 1840, discharged 29 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Margaret Conelon, aged 20; sick or hurt, menorrhagia; put on sick list 28 January 1840, discharged 31 January 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: William O'Brien, aged 21; sick or hurt, [auritis?]; put on sick list 28 January 1840, discharged 6 February 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Mrs P Keane, aged 31; sick or hurt, parturition; put on sick list 4 February 1840, discharged 15 February 1840 to hospital.
• Folio 2: Mrs O'Brien, aged 45; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 4 February 1840, discharged 18 February 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Mary Bevan, aged 14; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 5 February 1840, discharged 15 February 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Mrs Walker, aged 22; sick or hurt, sprained wrist; put on sick list 9 February 1840, discharged 18 February 1840 to barracks.
• Folio 2: Thomas Murnane, aged 21; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 9 February 1840, discharged 15 February 1840 cured.
• Folio 2: Thomas Ryan, aged 1; sick or hurt, inanition; put on sick list 4 February 1840, died 8 February 1840.

Folios 3-4: case no 1, Nicholas Hannon, aged 18; taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 8 November 1839, discharged 2 December 1839 cured.

Folio 4: case no 2, John Hickey, aged 1; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 29 November 1839, died 14 December 1839.

Folios 4-6: case no 3, Mrs Cox, aged about 40; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contusion, while sitting close to the after hatchway on the main deck, one of hatches was taken off, which startled her and she fell backwards into the hold and struck her spine against a water cask at the depth of nine feet she received some slight contusions on the right leg and arm; put on sick list 4 December 1839, sent 15 February 1839 to hospital at Sydney.

Folios 6-7: case no 4, Mrs Thomas Ryan, aged 23; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, colic; put on sick list 12 December 1839.

Folio 7: case no 5, Mrs Thomas Ryan, aged 23; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 31 December 1839, discharged 24 January 1840.

Folio 8: case no 6, Mrs Hickey, aged 31; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, icterus; put on sick list 31 December 1839, discharged 30 January 1840 cured.

Folios 8-9: case no 7, Mary Kennedy, unmarried; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, colic; put on sick list 19 January 1840, discharged 24 January 1840 cured.

Folio 9: case no 8, Richard Williams, aged 16, apprentice; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 27 December 1839, died 11 January 1840.

Folio 10: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folio 11: Surgeon's general remarks regarding that he [Alexander Stewart, surgeon] joined the ship at Liverpool on 10 October 1839, and the ship sailed for Cove of Cork on the 15 October, and between the 30 October and 2 November 273 persons were embarked on board, comprising of 45 married couples, 62 single male adults, 53 single female adults, 44 children between the age of 7 and 14 years and 24 children under 7 years. All of them apparently in good health, but a few of the children were affected with a pustular eruption, which appeared after their being vaccinated. The principle diseases were bowel complaints mostly diarrhoea. The cases of synochus were of a mild nature and treated in the same manner as case no 1 [Nicholas Hannon].

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