Folios 1-4: copy of daily sick list, [names and details follow] - continued: Folio...

ADM 101/55/9/4

1849

Folios 1-4: copy of daily sick list, [names and details follow] - continued:

Folio 4: Emmanuel Simmonds, aged 23; convict; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 22 October 1849, discharged 3 November 1849 to hospital at Brisbane. Folio 4: [Enos?] Brickett, aged 26; convict; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 25 October 1849, discharged 29 October 1849 to duty. Folio 4: John Shuley, aged 26; convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 27 October 1849, discharged 31 October 1849 to duty. Folio 4: Samuel Vincent, aged 24; convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 27 October 1849, discharged 30 October 1849 to duty. Folio 4: Thomas Church, aged 22; convict; sick or hurt, abscess; put on sick list 28 October 1849, discharged 31 October 1849 to duty. Folio 4: John Richards, aged 21; convict; sick or hurt, wound; put on sick list 28 October 1849, discharged 3 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: James Pilling, aged 22; convict; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 30 October 1849, discharged 3 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: John Brown, aged 30; convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsia; put on sick list 30 October 1849, discharged 3 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: John Barge, aged 30; convict; sick or hurt, hemoptysis; put on sick list 30 October 1849, discharged 9 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: Will Tamlin, aged 22; convict; sick or hurt, abscess; put on sick list 1 November 1849, discharged 4 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: William Witherspoon, aged 30; convict; sick or hurt, abscess; put on sick list 1 November 1849, discharged 4 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: Dun McIntyre, aged 30; convict; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 4 November 1849, discharged 7 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: John Hasen, aged 23; convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 5 November 1849, discharged 8 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: Thomas Church, aged 21; convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 5 November 1849, discharged 8 November 1849 to duty. Folio 4: C A Niel, aged 28; convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 6 November 1849, discharged 9 November 1849 to duty.

Folios 5-7: case no 1, Henry Williamson, aged 33, convict, taken ill at Portland; sick or hurt, hemoptysis and phthisis pulmonalis, slight tickling cough, with tightness across chest; put on sick list 3 June 1849, died 18 July 1849 at 7 pm

Folio 8: case no 2, Edward Price, aged 26, convict, taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, cholera asiatica, frequent watery purging, attacked with severe cramp of abdomen, vertigo and inclination to vomit; put on sick list 21 June 1849, sent 21 June 1849 to Hospital at Spike Island

Folio 8: case no 3, John Prudence, aged 46, convict, taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, cholera ssiatica; put on sick list 21 June 1849, sent 21 June 1849 to Hospital at Hawboline

Folio 9: case no 4, William Coffey, aged 22, private 99th Regt, taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, cholera asiatica; put on sick list 21 June 1849, sent 21 June 1849 to Hospital at Hawboline

Folios 9-11: case no 5, William Simkinson, aged 21, convict, taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, phthisis pulmonalis, complained of frontal headache, frequent cold chills and prostration of strength with cough and pain of chest; put on sick list 22 June 1849, died 13 September 1849 at 2 pm at sea.

Folios 12-13: case no 6, Richard Maskett, aged 28, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, Phlegmon, abscess on knee, right knee much swollen with pain extending up thigh; put on sick list 9 July 1849, discharged 27 July 1849 to duty.

Folios 12-13: case no 7, Richard Maskett, aged 28, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus, was only discharged 5 days back [see case no 6], now an adematous swelling around the knee joint, and he complained of great weakness, anorexia and an [oppression?] feeling at the epigastric region, gums dark and very spongy; put on sick list 1 August 1849, discharged 8 August 1849 to duty.

Folios 14-15: case no 8, John Robertson, aged 47, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 31 July 1849, discharged 18 August 1849 to duty.

Folios 15-16: case no 9, William Nelson, aged 28, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, Phthisis Pulmonalis, received him from York hulk on the 30th May, made no complaint till the 10th July when he was in a state of great prostration from sea sickness, since that period he was more or less attacked with pain and uneasiness across epigastric region, nausea, occasional vomiting; put on sick list 10 July 1849, died 25 September 1849 at 7 pm.

Folio 17: case no 10, Joseph Stevens, aged 34, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dyspepsia, pain of left hypochondriac region extending across epigastrium, dyspneoa on slightly exerting himself, weak and listless and loss of appetite; put on sick list 21 August 1849, discharged 11 September 1849 to duty.

Folios 17-18: case no 11, Jeremiah Hanson, aged [21?], solider 65th Regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scobutus; put on sick list 21 August 1849, discharged 6 September 1849 to duty.

Folios 18-19: case no 12, Henry F White, aged 36, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fractured clavicle, while on his duty as one of the petty officers in maintaining order in the prison, he was assaulted by one of his fellow prisoners, and thrown with violence on the deck, pitching on back part of right shoulder, clavicle was fractured near scapular extremity; put on sick list 24 August 1849, discharged 30 September 1849 to duty.

Folios 19-20: case no 13, Richard Austery, aged 40, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 12 September 1849, discharged 20 September 1849 to duty.

Folio 20: case no 14, James Lambert, aged 37, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dyspepsia anemia, was seized with vertigo, faintishness, and prostration of strength; put on sick list 22 September 1849, discharged 1 October 1849 to duty.

Folios 21-22: case no 15, John Robertson, aged 47, convict, taken ill at Port Jackson; sick or hurt, dysenteria, complained of looseness in his bowels for the last four days accompanied with tormina; put on sick list 14 October 1849, sent 3 November 1849 to Hospital at Brisbane.

Folios 22-23: case no 16, Henry Hepton, aged 41, convict, taken ill at Sydney; sick or hurt, hemeralopia, complained of defective vision and loss of sight soon after sunset with occasional darting pains across his forehead and temples; put on sick list 12 October 1849, discharged 16 October 1849 to duty.

Folios 23-24: case no 17, John Cottrell, aged 22, convict, taken ill at Sydney Harbour; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 14 October 1849, discharged 27 October 1849 to duty.

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