Folio 10: case no 5, Thomas Wilson, aged 17, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or...

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1832-1833

Folio 10: case no 5, Thomas Wilson, aged 17, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 1 December 1832, discharged 4 December 1832 cured, it must be stated that he several times returned with a commencing inflammation, which invariably yielded to the same application [nitrate of silver], I therefore can bear testimony to the decided influence of this remedy particularly when used early.

Folio 10: case no 6, Thomas Caines, aged 22, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris ephemera; put on sick list 2 November 1832, discharged 5 November 1832 cured.

Folios 11-12: case no 7, Thomas Washington, aged 53, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, obstipatio; put on sick list 4 November 1832, discharged 17 November 1832 cured.

Folios 12-14: case no 8, Samuel Jones, aged 25, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrh, pneumonia and hepatitis; put on sick list 17 November 1832, discharged 7 February 1833 cured.

Folios 14-15: case no 9, John Thompson, aged 25, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 23 November 1832, discharged 18 December 1832 cured.

Folios 15-16: case no 10, Samuel Chester, aged 17, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 25 November 1832, discharged 25 December 1832 cured.

Folios 16-17: case no 11, Joseph Smith, aged 18, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 27 November 1832, discharged 18 December 1832 cured.

Folio 17: case no 12, John Daymint, aged 19, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris ephemera; put on sick list 26 November 1832, discharged 4 December 1832 cured.

Folio 18: case no 13, Thomas Gates, aged 19, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris ephemera; put on sick list 27 November 1832, discharged 4 December 1832 cured.

Folio 18: case no 14, Joseph Chapman, aged 18, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris ephemera; put on sick list 27 November 1832, discharged 6 December 1832 cured.

Folio 19: case no 15, Charles Herdsfield, aged 16, boy prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 1 December 1832, discharged 19 December 1832 cured, this boy's pulse continued to beat 120 in the minute on the 20th January 1833 after a months continuance out of the list, I cannot say whether it was the same before embarkation nor can he give me any information.

Folio 20: case no 16, James Shenton, aged 16, boy prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, splenitis; put on sick list 10 December 1832, discharged 19 December 1832 cured.

Folios 20-21: case no 17, Joseph Diacre, aged 16, boy prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 12 December 1832, discharged 7 January 1833 cured.

Folio 21: case no 18, James Law, aged 19, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 15 December 1832, discharged 4 January 1833 cured.

Folio 22: case no 19, William Smeaton, aged 17, boy prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list 15 December 1832, discharged 26 December 1832 cured, this case is noted because it stands in the copy of the sick book as a disease which often gives much trouble.

Folios 22-24: case no 20, John Dowling, aged 16, boy prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fractura fernous, he slipped down on the deck another boy falling across his right thigh, by which the bone was fractured about the middle,[...] Sunday 23rd Dec. Captain Clayton gave me a cot in which he slept himself for this boy; put on sick list 19 December 1832, sent 23 February 1833 to hospital on account of scorbutic symptoms.

Folios 24-30: case no 21, Thomas Walmsley, aged 19, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, colica, enteritis and phthisis, was sent to visit this patient at 4 o’clock, he complained of severe pain of the abdomen centrally situated and relieved on pressure, had been in good health previously, but was two days since in detention and reported for having attempted to commit a theft; put on sick list 21 December 1832, died 27 January 1833 at 8 am, [autopsy report on folios 28a-30].

Folios 30-33: case no 22, John Terry, aged 52, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, had lately been falling away in his flesh without positive disease. He has had a succession of ill suppurating boils on his legs, his appetite has decreased and his eyes are dull ; put on sick list 5 January 1833, died 20 January 1833 at 6.15 am, the weather was such that I could not examine the body.

Folio 34: numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 35-37: Surgeon's general remarks. The surgeon joined the Camden on 11 September [1832] at Deptford. On the 15 [September] the ship moved down to Woolwich, where he examined 100 convicts at their respective hulks, on the 14 [September], 60 at the Justitia, 20 at the Discovery, and 20 at the Ganymede. They were all received on board the same day. Saturday 15th the ship weighed down for Sheerness, and there on 17th received on board another 100 convicts on board from the following ships, Retribution at Sheerness; 30 Cumberland; 40 Euryalus and 30 boy prisoners. The latter hulks were at Chatham.

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