Folio 1: copy of Admiralty Regulation of 1 November 1836, for the surgeon superintendents...

ADM 101/47/8/1

1837

Folio 1: copy of Admiralty Regulation of 1 November 1836, for the surgeon superintendents of convict ships to render a regular sick book with a journal and nosologically report.

Folios 1-5: case no 1, Robert Shuffelbottam, aged 23, private, taken ill at Deptford; sick or hurt, typhisis, has symptoms of catarrh with good deal of fever, says he was very cold in the boat coming from Chatham; put on sick list 7 March 1837, died 20 April 1837 at 2 pm.

Folios 6-8: case no 2, John Martin, aged 18, convict, taken ill at Spithead; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 23 March 1837, died 9 April 1837 at 7 pm.

Folios 8-11: case no 3, Mark Osburne, aged 21, convict, taken ill at Spithead; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 23 March 1837, died 18 April 1837 at 7 am.

Folio 12: case no 4, John Stevens, aged 23, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 2 April 1837, discharged 7 April 1837 cured.

Folios 12-13: case no 5, George Mould, aged 40, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, apoplexia; put on sick list 22 April 1837, convalescent 25 April 1837.

Folios 13-14: case no 6, Mrs. Adgeston, aged 34, wife of Major of the band, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris remittent; put on sick list 1 May 1837, discharged 10 May 1837 cured.

Folios 14-15: case no 7, William Westwood, aged 17, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 5 May 1837, discharged 13 May 1837 cured.

Folios 15-18: case no 8, James McJamieson, aged 21, private, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, paralisis [paralysis]; put on sick list 19 May 1837, landed 10 July 1837 at Sydney.

Folios 19-21: case no 9, William Faithful, aged 23, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 4 June 1837, landed 15 July 1837 cured.

Folios 21-22: case no 10, James Stubbings, aged 46, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 6 July 1837, discharged 8 July 1837 cured.

Folio 23: nosological return, of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 24-25: Surgeon's general remarks. The soldier [Robert] Shufflebottam, [case no 1], having been only a few days out of jail greatly debilitated and too thinly clothed for the season of the year, and to be out in about a whole night what followed might be expected. According to the surgeon the cases of dysentery were occasioned by the wetness and filth from the water closets as he pointed out that all the cases which occurred were in the beds that the drainage came down on. When the surgeon wrote to the Admiralty he was not aware that the water closets were fitted up by the ship. He thought that surgeons should be informed of any thing of the kind that might immediately apply to the proper quarter for amendment or alteration.

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