Folios 1-4: copy of daily sick book, (names and details follow) - continued: Folio...

Folios 1-4: copy of daily sick book, (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 4: John Clerkin, aged 9, convict's child; sick or hurt, debility & inanition; put on sick list 18 December 1849, died 24 December 1849. Folio 4: Cornelius Regan, aged 7, convict's child; sick or hurt, feb. remitt.; put on sick list 19 December 1849, discharged 28 December 1849. Folio 4: Mary Houlihan, aged 8, convict's child; sick or hurt, psora; put on sick list 30 December 1849, discharged 6 January 1850. Folio 4: Anne Houlihan, aged 5, convict's child; sick or hurt, tinea; put on sick list 30 December 1849, discharged 6 January 1850. Folio 4: Elizabeth McBrian, aged 11, convict's child; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 31 December 1849, discharged 4 January 1850. Folio 4: Samuel Lindsay, aged 3 [months?], convict's child; sick or hurt, convulsio; put on sick list 31 December 1849, died 10 January 1850. Folio 4: Mary Boney, aged 9, convict's child; sick or hurt, otitis; put on sick list 2 January 1850, discharged 7 January 1850. Folio 4: Elizabeth McBrian, aged 11, convict's child; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 25 January 1850, discharged 3 February 1850. Folio 4: Anne Conlan, aged 15, convict's child; sick or hurt, synochus; put on sick list 24 February 1850, discharged 24 March 1850. Folio 4: Mary Houlihan, aged 8, convict's child; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 1 March 1850, discharged 4 March 1850. Folio 4: Elizabeth McBrian, aged 11, convict's child; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 28 March 1850, died 30 March 1850. Folio 4: John Conlan, aged 9 months, convict's child; sick or hurt, convulsio; put on sick list 6 April 1850, died 7 April 1850. Folio 4: Thomas Brown, aged 8 months, convict's child; sick or hurt, convulsio; put on sick list 6 April 1850, died 8 April 1850. Folio 4: Anne Conlan, aged 15, convict's child; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 11 April 1850, discharged 20 April 1850. Folio 4: Ellen Danahy, aged 9, convict's child; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 5 May 1850, discharged 9 May 1850. Folio 4: John Maher, aged 10, convict's child; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 8 May 1850, discharged 16 May 1850.

Folios 5-6: case no 1, John Clerkin, aged 9, convict's child; taken ill in the Irish Channel; sick or hurt, debility and inanition, was in a weakly state of health when received on board from the Monaghan Union House, suffered much from sea sickness soon after the ship left port. Vomiting and straining continually, pulse frequent with some heat of body but cold extremities, bowels confined, retained nothing in stomach; put on sick list 19 December 1849, died 24 December 1849.

Folio 6: case no 2, Samuel Lindsay, aged 3 months, convict's infant; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, convulsio, affected with a catarrhal state of bronchial mucous membrane attended with feverish irritability and dyspneoa, as well as occasional convulsion fits; put on sick list 31 December 1849, died 10 January 1850.

Folio 7: case no 3, Sarah McBrian, aged 11, convict's child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, her parents stated that the child was for several days past affected with purging, and pain in her bowels, she was passing blood and slime attended with smart fever, much pain and straining; put on sick list 28 March 1850, died 30 March 1850.

Folios 7-8: case no 4, John Conlan, aged 9 months, convict's infant; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, convulsio, the parents observed that for some days the child became irritable and restless with hands and legs at time rigidly contracted, had cut three teeth at present, also much fever, rolled the head much and dilated pupil and occasionally convulsion motion of extremities, bowels for sometime very active; put on sick list 6 April 1850, died 7 April 1850 at 9 am.

Folio 8: case no 5, Thomas Brown, aged 9 months, convict's infant; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, convulsio, suffered similarly to the above case, according to the surgeon he attributed both cases to deprivation of maternal nourishment, both parents labouring under acute dysentery. This infant appeared idiotic and exhibited a remarkable amount of depression of anterior fontanelle, no teeth as yet cut but gums swollen and inflamed; put on sick list 6 April 1850, died 8 April 1850 at 8.30am.

Folios 8-9: case no 6, Brid. McMahon (A), aged 27, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea & debility, for some time past subjected to relaxed state of bowels which resisted both medicine and a variously modified diet; put on sick list 14 February 1849, died 20 April 1850 at 8 am.

Folios 10-12: case no 7, Honor Helier, aged 30, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, bowels irregular for sometime and suffered from frequent call to stools accompanied with some fever, much pain and straining, dejections dark offensive and sometimes bloody, no tenesmus on pressure over bowels; put on sick list 11 March 1850, died 6 April 1850 at 3 am.

Folios 12-14: case no 8, Sarah Reynolds, aged 20, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, was affected with diarrhoea for several days past and suffered much from cutting pain across lower bowels, frequent called to stool with straining and some fever; put on sick list 9 April 1850, died 19 April 1850.

Folios 14-16: case no 9, Eliza Johnston, aged 27, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, was only discharged from the list a few days back under an inveterate lingering attack of sub acute inflamed intestinal mucous membrane, she is now attacked with dysentery of an acute type consequent most probably on cold and wet clothing; put on sick list 18 April 1850, died 7 May 1850 at 4am.

Folios 16-17: case no 10, Anne Lamb, aged 21, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, slight fever constant purging, stools bloody, severe griping and straining; put on sick list 17 April 1850, sent 10 May 1850 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 17: case no 11, Brid. Helier, aged 20, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, cutting pain in lower bowels and continued ineffectual calls to stool; put on sick list 30 April 1850, sent 10 May 1850 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 17-18: case no 12, Mary Harte (A), aged 21, convict; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, debility, she was in the sick list twice, first with an extensive suppuration and ulceration of right foot attended with partial exfoliation of Meta Tar. bones and during which time become the subjected of pleurisy, which yielded after some perseverance to antimonials, diaphoretics and blistering. The second time was under a state of fainting ushered in by an attack of low nervous or typhoid fever, and now she was in a severe state of debility; put on sick list 10 May 1850, sent 10 May 1850 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 18: case no 13, Johanna Frazer, aged 23, convict; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 5 May 1850, sent 10 May 1850 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 18-19: case no 14, Bridget Kennedy, aged 30, convict; taken ill off Hobart Town; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 5 May 1850, sent 10 May 1850 to Hospital at Hobart Town.