Folio 1: Copy of an instruction dated 1 November 1836 from W Burnett, Physician General...

ADM 101/77/9/1

1838-1839

Folio 1: Copy of an instruction dated 1 November 1836 from W Burnett, Physician General of the Admiralty, requiring Surgeon Superintendents of convict ships to render a regular sick book and nosological synopsis with their journals, with a certificate from the Medical Storekeeper at Deptford as to the condition and number of their surgical instruments, to entitle them to receive their pay.

Folios 1-3: Herbert Perigo, aged 23; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 6 November 1838, at sea. Died, 16 November 1838. Complained of pains in the head and back, tongue white, bowels constipated, pulse 88. He had caught cold in the rain at Gravesend, the bad weather since joining the ship made him sea sick.

Folios 4-8: Sarah Stringer, aged 23; disease or hurt, febris remittens, terminating in phthisis. Put on sick list, 5 November 1839, at sea. Died, 7 December 1839, of phthisis. 'A delicate scrofulous young woman' who had apparently caught a severe cold through the extremely bad weather and the deck over her berth letting water through.

Folios 8-11: Charlotte Perigo, aged 24; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 27 November 1838, at sea. Died, 20 December 1838. The widow of Herbert Perigo, she was attacked suddenly in the evening with violent pains in the stomach, retching, vomiting and purging, painful contractions of the fingers and toes and coldness of the extremities.

Folios 11-12: Samuel Osborne, aged 23; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 18 November 1838, at sea. Discharged convalescent, 26 November 1838. Complained of headache and loss of appetite, the weather having been very stormy and his bedding wet.

Folios 12-14: Caroline Catt, aged 21; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 4 December 1838, at sea. Discharged convalescent, 25 December 1838. Attacked with violent spasmodic pains in the abdomen and loins with considerable febrile excitement, which she attributed to taking a purgative without effect and washing her feet in cold water which produced shivering. On 9 December she had a slight mercurial affection of the mouth and some debility.

Folios 15-18: Jane Harmer, aged 35; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 17 December 1838, at sea. Discharged convalescent, 4 January 1839. Complained of pain in the back and loins, tongue furred and yellowish. Also complained of headache and nervous twitches extending from the fingers and toes to the trunk. On 21 December she said she regretted having been bled, believing it would cause her death. Her limbs became very cold and she lost all sensation in her body and requested a blister be applied so that the pain should restore her feeling.

Folios 19-21: Frances Reece, aged 30; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 23 December 1838. Died, 18 January 1839. 'A sickly miserable looking woman; in appearance more like a person of sixty years of age than of thirty'. She had suffered diarrhoea several times. On 12 January 1839 'she very unexpectedly gave birth to a miserable dark coloured child of about 7 or 8 months gestation'. She had not told anyone she was pregnant nor did she look it, she gave 'foolish reasons' for concealing her pregnancy. On 14 January the child died, 'it's skin being of a deep brownish yellow colour on the body and the top of the head tumid, as if there were extravasated blood underneath'.

Folios 21-23: Daily Sick list of the emigrant ship Juliana (names and details follow):

Folio 21: Sarah Stringer, aged 8 months; disease or hurt, hydrocephalous. Put on sick list, 22 October 1838. Died, 22 October 1838. Folio 21: Sarah Stringer, aged 23; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 6 November 1838. Died, 7 December 1838. Folio 21: Herbert Perigo, aged 23; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 7 November 1838. Died, 16 November 1838. Folio 21: Henry Stringer, aged 29; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 8 November 1838. Discharged, 20 November 1838. Folio 21: David Parsons, aged 41; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 10 November 1838. Discharged, 14 November 1838. Folio 21: Jane [Honess], aged 47; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 10 November 1838. Discharged, 15 November 1838. Folio 21: William Gill, aged 43; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 10 November 1838. Discharged, 15 November 1838. Folio 21: William Boots, aged 18; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 15 November 1838. Discharged, 28 November 1838. Folio 21: Eleanor Hyland, aged 34; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 15 November 1838. Discharged, 16 November 1838. Folio 21: Stephen Oxley, aged 2; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 15 November 1838. Died, 22 November 1838. Folio 21: John Richards, aged 25 days; disease or hurt, marasmus. Put on sick list, 16 November 1838. Discharged, 11 January 1839. Folio 21: Richard Bryant, aged 20; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 18 November 1838. Discharged, 20 November 1838. Folio 21: Elizabeth Turner, aged 29; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 18 November 1838. Discharged, 24 November 1838. Folio 21: John Selman, aged 43; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 18 November 1838. Discharged, 21 November 1838. Folio 21: Samuel Osborne, aged 22; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 18 November 1838. Discharged, 24 November 1838. Folio 21: Samuel Sweetman, aged 23; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 19 November 1838. Remained at Cape of Good Hope. Martha Bateup, aged 22; disease or hurt, lumbar abscess. Put on sick list, 20 November 1838. Discharged, 15 January 1839. Folio 21: Stephen Turner, aged 11; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 4 December 1838. Folio 21: Lydia Millgate, aged 8; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 30 November 1838. Folio 21: Henry Playford, aged 47; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 24 November 1838. Folio 21: William Oliver, aged 27; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 30 November 1838. Folio 21: Priscilla Walsh, aged 18; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 24 November 1838. Folio 21: Charles Noakes, aged 11; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 20 December 1838. Folio 21: Harriet Croft, aged 8; disease or hurt, marasmus. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Died, 29 March 1839. Folio 21: Richard Edwards, aged 2; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 21 November 1838. Discharged, 28 November 1838. Folio 21: Stephen Carey, aged 21; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 22 November 1838. Discharged, 3 December 1838. Folio 21: Henry Reece, aged 2 ½ ; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 22 November 1838. Discharged, 29 November 1838. Folio 21: Richard Bryant, aged 20; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 22 November 1838. Discharged, 3 January 1839. Folio 21: Samuel Hyland, aged 2; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 22 November 1838. Discharged, 30 November 1838. Folio 21: John Selman, aged 43; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 22 November 1838. Discharged, 3 January 1839. Folio 21: Mary Turner, aged 36; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 23 November 1838. Discharged, 30 November 1838. Folio 22: Naomi Oliver, aged 27; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 23 November 1838. Discharged, 4 December 1838. Folio 22: Augusta Hyland, aged 6; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 23 November 1838. Discharged, 29 November 1838.

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description