Folio 33: case no 32; James Coe, aged 29, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt,...

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1827-1828

Folio 33: case no 32; James Coe, aged 29, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 1 January 1828, discharged 13 January 1828 from list.

Folios 33-37: case no 33; John Gooch, aged 36, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever [there is no dissection report in consequence of the surgeon's sick, see case no 34]; put on sick list 12 January 1828, died 26 January 1828.

Folio 37: case no 34, observation, I have a great desire to open the body [case no 33] but was prevented from doing so by being afflicted with an attack of fever, which commenced on the night of the 18th inst. [January], I attributed my attack to the exposure in the sun at the Cape of Good Hope where we put in to obtain a supply of medicines and fresh provisions.

Folio 37: case no 35; James Glove, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 18 January 1828, discharged 2 February 1828 from list.

Folio 38: case no 36; Henry Pitcher, aged 21, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 21 January 1828, discharged 5 February 1828 from list.

Folio 38: case no 37; Robert Smith, aged 23, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 21 January 1828, discharged 29 January 1828 from list.

Folio 38: case no 38; Joseph Hanley, aged 18, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 21 January 1828, discharged 29 January 1828 from list.

Folio 38: case no 39; George Witham, aged 23, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 21 January 1828, discharged 5 February 1828 from list.

Folio 39: case no 40; Mayhew Meek, aged 36, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dyspepsia and diarrhoea; put on sick list 25 January 1828, discharged 5 February 1828 from list.

Folio 40: case no 41; William Latus, aged 34, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, continued fever; put on sick list 4 January 1828, discharged 24 January 1828 from list.

Folio 41: case no 42; Samuel Wilson, aged 43, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer; put on sick list 10 February 1828, discharged 8 March 1828 from list.

Folios 41-43: case no 43; James Wiles, aged 20, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, enteritis; put on sick list 1 March 1828, discharged 7 March 1828 to colonial hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 44: Blank.

Folio 45: numerical abstract of cases listed in the journal, nosologically arrange.

Folio 46: Surgeon's general remarks. The cause of fever which prevailed on board was due principally from the sudden transition of temperature and heavy rain which fell between the lattitude 6.24 north and 2.5 south.

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