Folios 1-3: copy of the daily sick list, [names and details follow] - continued:...

ADM 101/12/5/2

1848-1849

Folios 1-3: copy of the daily sick list, [names and details follow] - continued:

Folio 2: Patrick Tierney, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, dypepsia; put on sick list 23 December 1848, discharged 12 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Edmond Tobin, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 23 December 1848, discharged 26 December 1848 cured. Folio 2: Peter Ryan, aged 21, convict; sick or hurt, conjunctivitis; put on sick list 26 December 1848, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 2: John Scott, aged 30, convict; sick or hurt, conjunctivitis; put on sick list 28 December 1848, discharged 17 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Michael Hynes, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 30 December 1848, discharged 10 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: John [Carity?], aged 36, convict; sick or hurt, conjunctivitis; put on sick list 1 January 1849, discharged 17 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Patrick McDonough, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 3 January 1849, discharged 10 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Patrick Caneely, aged 17, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 3 January 1849, discharged 13 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Laurence Maley, aged 21, convict; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 7 January 1849, discharged 23 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Patrick Cunningham, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 14 January 1849, discharged 22 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Owen Sulivan, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, bronchitis chronicus; put on sick list 17 January 1849, discharged 1 February 1849 cured. Folio 2: Thomas Burton, aged 27, convict; sick or hurt, febris intermittens; put on sick list 17 January 1849, discharged 22 January 1849 cured. Folio 2: Patrick Caulfield, aged 30, convict; sick or hurt, fractura radius; put on sick list 14 January 1849, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 3: Michael Haynes, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, contusio; put on sick list 10 January 1849, discharged 17 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Dennis Cuddihy, aged 16, convict; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 12 January 1849, discharged 22 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Bernard Reilly, aged 24, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 14 January 1849, discharged 1 February 1849 cured. Folio 3: James Daly, aged 37, convict; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 17 January 1849, discharged 23 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: James Weir, aged 29, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 17 January 1849, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 3: Thomas Quealy, aged 34, convict; sick or hurt, bronchitis; put on sick list 19 January 1849, discharged 27 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: John Canty, aged 30, convict; sick or hurt, conjunctivitis; put on sick list 19 January 1849, discharged 27 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Peter Byron, aged 31, convict; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 19 January 1849, discharged 23 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: John Higgins, aged 24, convict; sick or hurt, cephalalgia; put on sick list 19 January 1849, discharged 27 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: John Canavon, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 19 January 1849, discharged 19 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Denis Rahilly, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, bronchitis; put on sick list 20 January 1849, discharged 26 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: James Dodd, aged 29, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 20 January 1849, discharged 23 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Patrick D'Arcy, aged 33, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 22 January 1849, discharged 26 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Michael Caneely, aged 19, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsia; put on sick list 23 January 1849, discharged 27 January 1849 cured. Folio 3: Patrick Clarke, aged 37, convict; sick or hurt, contusio; put on sick list 26 January 1849, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 3: John Creamer, aged 26, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsia; put on sick list 26 January 1849, discharged 1 February 1849 cured. Signed: Thos R H Thomson, MD, surgeon.

Folio 3: case no 1, Michael McHale, aged 23, private of guard; sick or hurt, syphilis, suffered from slight inflammatory excoriations which in a few days took on unequivocal appearance of syphilis in small excavated ulcers with ragged margins. The parts affected were freely touched with Nitrate of Silver; put on sick list 5 November 1848, discharged 5 December 1848 cured.

Folios 4-7: case no 2, Owen McCabe, aged 19, private of guard; sick or hurt, bronchitis, the majority of the guard were Irish - therefore not surprising that in most of them was soon discovered traces of disease resulting from the effects of the late famine and fever which prevailed in this Country, the weather about the beginning of November brought him under especial notice as suffering from inflammation of the lining membrane of the bronchical tubes, evidenced in difficult respiration, troublesome cough, copious frothy expectoration; put on sick list 5 November 1848, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 8-9: case no 3, Patrick McSweeny, aged 20, private of guard; sick or hurt, hepatitis, acute inflammation of the liver, acute pain in the right hypochondrium increased by pressure or on a full inspiration, dull pain on the right shoulder; put on sick list 12 December 1848, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 10: case no 4, James Talbot, aged 22, private of guard; sick or hurt, icterus, of a delicate weakly constitution was under treatment at first from simple catarrh - which under the use of purgative and diaphoretic medicines was speedily recovered, when about to return to his duty symptoms of jaundice began to show - in discoloration of the skin with dryness yellow suffusion of the conjunctiva high coloured; put on sick list 30 December 1848, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 11-12: case no 5, John Fitzpatrick, aged 23, private of guard; sick or hurt, hemoptysis, plethoric habit and phlegmotic temperament, suffered from short troublesome cough attended with a copious discharge of high coloured blood and [Froth?], states that his father died from consumption, there was no pain of chest which was dull on percussion especially at the subclavicular and mammary regions, bowels confined; put on sick list 30 December 1848, sent 2 February 1849 to hospital at Hobart Town.

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