Folio 5: William Keetch, aged 20, private; sick or hurt, dysenteria et scorbutus;...

ADM 101/6/7/4

1835

Folio 5: William Keetch, aged 20, private; sick or hurt, dysenteria et scorbutus; put on sick list 28 September 1835, discharged 15 October 1835. Folio 5: William Dukes, aged 23, private; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 29 September 1835, discharged 2 October 1835. Folio 5: James Marrion, aged 36, private; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 1 October 1835, discharged 15 October 1835. Signed: Andrew Henderson, surgeon and superintendent.

Folio 5: case no 1, John Everitt, aged 23, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, caries-pollicis manus; put on sick list 14 June 1835, discharged 10 July 1835 cured.

Folio 6: case no 2, Joseph Warrener, aged 22, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris catarrhus; put on sick list 1 July 1835, discharged 16 July 1835 cured.

Folio 7: case no 3, William Hughes, aged 27, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, erysipelas [cruris?]; put on sick list 23 June 1835, discharged 16 July 1835 cured see also case no 15, folios 23-24].

Folios 7-8: case no 4, William Johnson, aged 25, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, abscessus; put on sick list 14 June 1835, discharged 7 August 1835 cured.

Folios 8-12: case no 5, John Griffiths, aged 24, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, apoplexia taumatica; put on sick list 27 July 1835, died 4 August 1835 at 2 pm, post mortem report on folio 12.

Folios 12-13: case no 6, James Chambers, aged 39, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, purpura hemorrhagica (land scurvy); put on sick list 7 August 1835, discharged 7 August 1835 cured. [see also case no 14, folio 22-23].

Folios 13-14: case no 7, Joseph Perry, aged 33, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, purpura hemorrhagica (land scurvy); put on sick list 16 July 1835, discharged 7 August 1835 cured.

Folios 14-15: case no 8, Thomas Bollard, aged 24, private 28th Regiment.; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phymosis; put on sick list 26 August 1835, discharged 16 September 1835 to duty.

Folio 15: case no 9, David Thomas, aged 26, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, purpura hemorrhagica; put on sick list 1 August 1835, discharged 18 August 1835 well.

Folios 15-17: case no 10, Joseph Taylor, aged 40, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, abscessus; put on sick list 7 August 1835, discharged 21 September 1835 cured.

Folios 17-18: case no 11, George Evans, aged 25, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, purpura; put on sick list 28 August 1835, discharged 21 September 1835 cured.

Folios 18-20: case no 12, James Bartlett, aged 25, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cephalalgia ending in amaurosis; put on sick list 5 August 1835, landed 15 October 1835.

Folios 20-22: case no 13, William Henry Perkinson, aged 30, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrhal fever and hepatitis from drinking !!!; put on sick list 14 August 1835, discharged 4 October 1835.

Folios 22-23: case no 14, James Chambers, aged 39, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, purpura hemorrhagica; put on sick list 16 September 1835, discharged 7 October 1835. [see also case no 6, folio 12-13].

Folios 23-24: case no 15, William Hughes, aged 27, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, purpura; put on sick list 16 September 1835, discharged 7 October 1835 [see also case no 3, folio 7].

Folios 24-25: case no 16, Patrick Usher, aged 28, private 28th Regiment.; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 8 September 1835, discharged 7 October 1835 to duty.

Folios 25-26: case no 17, Patrick Breen, aged 34, private 28th Regiment.; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus and dysenteria; put on sick list 22 September 1835, sent 9 October 1835 to military hospital with his wife for the same disease, he had returned for [bad?] conduct on the 14 October 1835 to the ship.

Folios 26-27: case no 18, George Murry, aged 27, private 28th Regiment.; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus and catarrhal fever; put on sick list 13 September 1835, discharged 15 October 1835 to duty.

Folio 27: numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal, nosologically arranged.

Folios 28-31: Surgeon's general remarks. The Surgeon of Aurora took up his appointment to that ship, at the Admiralty on 18 April 1835, but the ship did not commence fitting at Deptford (owing to her being in dock) until the 18th May following; and he was not permitted to enter upon full pay or join until the 25th May, having been all that time holding on the slack in London. On 4th June, the Guards over convicts embarked consisting of one Captain (Moore), one ensign (Kyle), two sergeants, one corpora;, 25 privates, eight women and 13 children of the 28th Regiment, and one private of the 21st Regiment, also the lady of Captain Moore, three children; and Miss Moore, sister of the Captain commanding the Guard. The ship dropped down to Woolwich by steam on the 6th [June 1835]. On 8th June were embarked 100 convicts from Justitia, and 50 from Ganymede, part of them in Duck overalls, part in Duck Trousers, all tolerably clean and in apparent health. On 13th embarked 120 men convicts from Fortitude and 30 boys from the Euryalus hulks lying at Chatham. These men and boys were dressed in cloth knee breeches, the others in Duck. After so many years in transporting convicts, I cannot understand, has there not been sufficient time to make up our minds in what uniform convicts ought to be sent out in. In the year 1832 (vide my letter of 30 August of that year) I recommended cloth trousers and have not seen a single good reason since, which would lead me, for a moment to wish to retract from my views therein. The surgeon considered scurvy two separate groups, the land scurvy and sea scurvy, and he was of the opinion that diet alone under proper management can prevent both types of scurvy and that lemon juice or any acid never can be either a preventive or cure for scurvy.

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