Folio 27: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal. Folios 28-29: Surgeon's...

ADM 101/12/3/4

1837

Folio 27: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 28-29: Surgeon's general remarks. 110 male convicts were embarked on board the convict ship from the Justitia hulk and 100 from the Ganymede hulk at Woolwich on 7 March 1837. Their general condition and state of health appears to be good. Two cases, both convicts from the Justitia hulk, James Ibbott and James Butterfield, should not have been sent or received; both of them had organic affections of the heart of long standing and have been known to the surgeon and master of that vessel. The surgeon admitted that he should have found out at the mustering but he submitted that it is the duty of the surgeon and master of the hulk to point out such cases to the surgeon superintendent. Five of the number of prisoners embarked died during the voyage and one fell overboard and drowned. The surgeon also stated that the provisions were good and sufficient excepting the beef, in which an eight pounds piece of beef when boiled and divided among sixteen men is a very scanty allowance. Most of the prisoners like the cocoa and took it from the first, and some of them taken as a medicine first thing in the morning.

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description