Folios 10-12: William Shaughnessy, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia....

Folios 10-12: William Shaughnessy, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 22 November 1839, at sea. Discharged, 22 December 1839. Stated that while he was an inmate of Kilmainham Jail, opthalmia was epidemic and no precautions were taken to separate healthy from sick prisoners.

Folio 13: Simon Holahan, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 28 November 1839, at sea. Discharged, 30 November 1839. His treatment is described not because his case is interesting in itself but rather because it is typical of a number of cases which occurred.

Folios 14-15: Henry Moore, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 7 December 1839, at sea. Discharged, 15 December 1839. Had been ill for some days but attributed it to the increased heat of the weather and his duties as cook for the prisoners.

Folios 15-16: John McWilliams, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 4 January 1840, at sea. Discharged, 15 January 1840. On an inspection of the prison his hair was observed to be falling out and his scalp infected. On enquiry he admitted that he had received treatment in the jail for a sore on his genitals, which cleared up, he ascribed his loss of hair and the eruption on his skin t the change of climate.

Folios 16-18: James Nohilly, aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea, terminating in dysentery. Put on sick list, 22 January 1840, at sea. Died, 1 February 1840. This prisoner was objected to by the surgeon on grounds of 'apparent mental imbecility' on his inspection of the prisoners in Kilmainham Jail, 26 October 1839. He was persuaded that Nohilly was merely unable to speak English and, when a translator was found, his translated responses seemed sensible and he was reluctantly accepted for transportation. The jailers at Kilmainham contrived to keep him at the jail until the day of the ship's sailing. After a few days it became apparent that Nohilly was in fact 'a man of infirm health and deranged intellect' and he had to be placed under the care of a trustworthy prisoner and the other prisoners appealed to for their sympathy and forbearance. He refused his rations for 4 days and came down with fever on 11 December 1839, he was in the hospital with catarrh in January 1840 and was recovering when he became ill with diarrhoea. He died at 5pm on 1 February 1840 and the surgeon decided not to make a post mortem examination.

Folios 19-20: Patrick McLoughlin, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 9 February 1840, at sea. Discharged, 16 February 1840. On 8 February McLoughlin reported sick with a an ulcer on his left leg, he appeared pale, emaciated and in indifferent health. The following day he was found by his messmates in the water closet, affected with violent vomiting and purging, and refused to leave until he passed out from exhaustion. On the 10th February, the surgeon records that the patient 'knows his disease to be 'the cholera' from having suffered from that complaint whilst prevailing epidemically in Dublin' and that he had suffered it twice since after spells of cold weather. The treatment involved strict control of the amount he was allowed to drink but when the attendant was absent, his thirst prompted him to drink two pints of water that bandages had been washed in, causing immediate vomiting. He was afterwards allowed small regular amounts of water to which sulphuric acid had been added.

Folios 20-21: John O'Neill, aged 39, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 16 January 1840, at sea. Sent to the General Hospital at Sydney, 29 February 1840. Stated that he had been a soldier for 15 years and was discharged about two years previously from the 53rd Regiment with a pension in consequence of defective vision induced by severe opthalmia. He was discharged to the hospital at Sydney on the surgeon learning that the Governor intended to send all the convicts on board the Augusta Jessie to Norfolk Island.

Folio 22: Michael Brophy, aged 27, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 8 February 1840, at sea. Sent to the General Hospital at Sydney, 29 February 1840. Had been suffering from frequent attacks of pulmonic disease but concealed the fact at the inspection because he did not want to jeopardise his chance of transportation. He believed that transportation could greatly improve his health and better his condition in life, which previously had been 'one continued scene of privation and suffering'. On arrival at Sydney his condition improved and he wanted to proceed to Norfolk Island but the surgeon considered it his duty to send him to the hospital.

Folios 23-24: Robert Donelly, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 19 February 1840, at sea. Discharged to the hospital at Sydney, 29 February 1840. Had been a Sergeant in the 74th Regiment and was convicted of a 'military offence' in Ireland. He was employed as an overseer of the convicts on board, as a result of which he was exposed to wet weather. The rheumatism affected the large joints, principally the knees and ankles, and he also complained of a thoracic pain and dyspnoea. On learning from the Superintendent of Convicts at Sydney that Donelly was to be landed and, on the surgeon's recommendation, employed in the police force, he was sent to the hospital for a short period of treatment.

Folio 24: Francis McHugh, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 22 February 1840, at sea. Sent to the hospital at Sydney, 29 February 1840. Since his case was deemed likely to prove tedious and the ship was to continue to Norfolk Island to land all the adult prisoners, he was left at the General Hospital in Sydney.

Folio 25: Thomas Murray, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 29 February 1840. Sent to the hospital at Sydney, 29 February 1840. Had suffered a good deal from sea sickness and frequently applied to the surgeon 'with most anomalous affections' during the voyage. The surgeon 'yielded to circumstances' and allowed him some of the privileges of the sick. On learning that 4 convicts were to be left behind at Sydney, Murray requested to be left with them and the surgeon was happy to comply. Signed, Thomas R Dunn, MD Surgeon.

Folio 25: 'A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal, in conformity with the 30th article of the Surgeon's Instructions'.

Folios 26-27: 'Abstract of the daily journal of the Augusta Jessie Convict Ship, during a voyage between Kingstown in Ireland and Sydney in New South Wales, with 155 male prisoners'. Lists day, date, thermometer at 12 meridian, sympiesometer [barometer] at 12 meridian, latitude, longitude, winds, weather, daily miles and daily number of convicts sick and their illnesses.

Folio 28: 'Abstract of the daily journal of the Augusta Jessie Convict Ship, during a voyage between Port Jackson in Sydney and Norfolk Island - 200 convicts on board'. Lists day, date, thermometer at 12 meridian, sympiesometer [barometer] at 12 meridian, latitude, longitude, winds, weather, daily miles and daily number of convicts sick and their illnesses. 14 March 1840 to 27 March 1840.