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Folios 4-7: Daily sick book (names and details follow). Note on inside cover that...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/62/5/3

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ADM 101/62/5/3
Date
1836
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Folios 4-7: Daily sick book (names and details follow). Note on inside cover that about 25 of the seamen required medical advice - continued:

Folio 6: J Brophy, aged 27, prisoner; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 15 November 1836. Discharged 17 November 1836 to duty. Folio 6: E Maddun, aged 16, prisoner; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 15 November 1836. Discharged 20 November 1836 to duty. Folio 6: M Cleary, aged 18, prisoner; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 16 November 1836. Discharged 19 November 1836 to duty. Folio 6: A Dunne, aged 16, prisoner; disease or hurt, [sore leg?]. Put on sick list, 17 November 1836. Discharged 30 November 1836 to duty.

Folio 7: M Malony, aged 37, prisoner; disease or hurt, ?. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836. Discharged 29 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: J Sheehan, aged 40, prisoner; disease or hurt, hepatitis. Put on sick list, 25 November 1836. Discharged 23 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: M Ryan, aged 28, prisoner; disease or hurt, [sore leg?]. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836. Discharged 29 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: E Lawless, aged 34, prisoner; disease or hurt, hepatitis, Put on sick list, 10 December 1836. Discharged 23 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: M A McCanna, aged 23, prisoner; disease or hurt, eruptions. Put on sick list, 11 December 1836. Discharged 23 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: E McKinney, aged 37, prisoner; disease or hurt, tabes. Put on sick list, 10 October 1836. Discharged 23 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: M Davison, aged 27, prisoner; disease or hurt, hepatitis. Put on sick list, 15 November 1836. Discharged 23 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: C [Eagan?], aged 24, prisoner; disease or hurt, [syncopes?]. Put on sick list, 25 November 1836. Discharged 23 December 1836 to hospital NS Wales. Folio 7: Honora Moon, aged 45, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 10 September 1836. Discharged 30 September 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B Ryan, aged 4538 free; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 20 September 1836. Discharged 28 September 1836 to duty. Folio 7: J Tierney, aged 16, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 25 September 1836. Discharged 30 September 1836 to duty. Folio 7: C McCabe, aged 38, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 28 September 1836. Discharged 30 September 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B Kennedy, aged 42, free; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 2 October 1836. Discharged 10 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: J Regan, aged 40, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 3 October 1836. Discharged 10 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: E Kealy, aged 38, free; disease or hurt, nausea. Put on sick list, 5 October 1836. Discharged 10 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B [Hawker?], aged 52, free; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 5 October 1836. Discharged 20 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: Mary Moon, aged 20, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 10 October 1836. Discharged 15 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: A Moon, aged 13, free; disease or hurt, abscess. Put on sick list, 12 October 1836. Discharged 21 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B Ryan, aged 5, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 15 October 1836. Discharged 20 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: P Ryan, aged 8, free; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 20 October 1836. Discharged 26 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: F Tierney, aged 42, free; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 25 October 1836. Discharged 28 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B Tierney, aged 6, free; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 26 October 1836. Discharged 31 October 1836 to duty. Folio 7: A McCabe, aged 12, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 5 November 1836. Discharged 10 November 1836 to duty. Folio 7: Mary McCabe, aged 9, free; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 5 November 1836. Discharged 9 November 1836 to duty. Folio 7: J Kennedy, aged 6, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 5 November 1836. Discharged 8 November 1836 to duty. Folio 7: M Regan, aged 16, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 6 November 1836. Discharged 9 November 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B Kealy, aged 17, free; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 6 November 1836. Discharged 10 November 1836 to duty. Folio 7: B Fox, aged 16, free; disease or hurt, with bowel complaint. Put on sick list, 8 November 1836. Discharged 15 November 1836 to duty. Folio 7: The children of the prisoners amounting to more than 30, and often requiring medical assistance have not been named.

Folio 8: Blank.

Folio 9: John Leary, aged 39, carpenter; case number 1; disease or hurt, amentia. Put on sick list, 10 August 1836, going down the British Channel. Discharged, 14 August 1836.He woke form a short nap between decks with 'sudden delirious raving', crying out loud and imagining 'a thousand evils, that he had left his wife and children unprovided for and that he had come to sea with an indifferent stock of clothes'. For the previous 2 or 3 days he had appeared as if recovering from a state of intoxication or the effects of laudanum'.

Folio 10: Thomas Stewart, aged 24, [Seaman]; case number 2; disease or hurt, quotidiana. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836, but of longstanding. Discharged, 22 August 1836. Folio 10: James Kitchen, aged 24, Seaman; case number 3; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 18 August 1836, at sea. Discharged, 24 August 1836. He had recently joined the Pyramus having lived ashore for a fortnight 'during which time he had most probably been living rather freely'.

Folios 10-11: Mary Malony, aged 36, Prisoner; case number 4; disease or hurt, hydross ovarii. Put on sick list, 19 August 1836. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 23 December 1836. Her illness had been of some three years standing by her own account and she came on board from the hospital. In the opinion of some highly respected medical in Cork and Dublin, the case was feigned but the surgeon disagrees with them. She had been a native of Dublin, married to a man, 'her inferior in rank', and had borne seven children. Her husband had kept a woman near her, whom he had since married 'and set up over her grown up daughters'. He was receiving her father's pension and her daughters enjoying no benefit of it.

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