Folios 1-4: Daily sick book, Convict ship Asia, 1831, (names and details follow)...

Folios 1-4: Daily sick book, Convict ship Asia, 1831, (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 4: Daniel Shea, aged 26; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 8 December 1831. Folio 4: Jeremiah Mahony, aged 23; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 5 December 1831to hospital, Sydney. Folio 4: William Hayes, aged 30; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 9 December 1831. Folio 4: Martin Philips, aged 30; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 5 December 1831 to hospital, Sydney. Folio 4: John Roche, aged 30; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 8 December 1831. Folio 4: Patrick Meyrick, aged 19; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 5 December 1831 to hospital, Sydney. Folio 4: Michael Creedon, aged 60; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 5 December 1831 to hospital, Sydney. Folio 4: Edmond Allen, aged 21; convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 4 December 1831. Discharged, 9 December 1831 to hospital, Sydney.

Folios 5-6: Blank.

Folios 7-8: Daniel Higgins, aged 20, Private; disease or hurt, ulcer on the right side of the penis. Put on sick list, 27 June 1831, at Deptford. Discharged to duty, 24 July 1831. An ulcer on the same spot had been cured a month earlier in the regimental hospital at Chatham, the recurrence is attributed to friction from the seam of a new pair of duck trousers.

Folio 8: Mary Ann Farmer, aged 7 months, Child of one of the Guard; disease or hurt, marasmus infantilis. Put on sick list, 3 July 1831, in the River Thames. Died, 26 August 1831, at sea. Had measles about two months previously and had not properly recovered. Vomiting and purging and was considerably emaciated, her health improved until late August when purging and vomiting began again and she could keep down neither food or medicine.

Folio 9: Mrs Kelly, aged 21, Soldier's Wife; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 12 July 1831, at sea. Discharged, 20 July 1831. She experienced several more attacks of the same kind but less severe before reaching Sydney.

Folio 9: Henry Harneman, aged 22, Corporal; disease or hurt, gonorrhea and hernia humoralis. Put on sick list, 6 July 1831, off Sheerness. Discharged to duty, 17 July 1831.

Folio 10: Mrs Handibo, aged 25, Wife of one of the Guard; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 14 July 1831, at sea. Discharged, 24 July 1831. She continued to enjoy uninterrupted health on the voyage to Sydney. Catamenia which before had been irregular and scanty became quite natural as to period and regularity.

Folio 10: John Swingler, aged 22, Private; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 20 July 1831. Discharged to duty, 27 July 1831. Had been complaining two or three days of pain in the abdomen with much tenesmus and purging, pulse 100, skin cool, tongue covered with a brown crust. Shivering and a sensation of cold with great debility.

Folio 11: Laurence Farrell, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 6 August 1831, Cove of Cork. Discharged, 27 August 1831. Had been ill in the hulk with a bowel complaint. Landed at Sydney in perfect health, much improved in flesh and appearance.

Folio 11: Jeremiah Mara, aged 13, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 6 August 1831, Cove of Cork. Discharged, 22 August 1831. Had been feeling ill for 5 or 6 days, first with pain in the right side and afterwards with headache and pains all over. Given a flannel waistcoat and treated with rhubarb and magnesia. Sent to assist the cook in the galley on discharge.

Folio 12: Patrick Mooney, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 8 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, 16 August 1831. Complained of sickness, headache, shivering and debility, pulse 36, skin cold, tongue covered with a brown yellowish crust, teeth and gums with black sordes. A day or two after discharge from the sick list he seized with dysenteric symptoms which did not yield until his mouth was made sore about 1September 1831. He was landed at Sydney in excellent health.

Folios 12-13: John Fitzgerald, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, debilitas. Put on sick list, 8 August 1831, at sea. Died, 7 September 1831. Had been ill for some time in the hulk with diarrhoea, cough, perspirations, expectoration and debility and was allowed a milk diet. 'It is expected that the surgeon taking out convicts should see that they are all fit for the voyage; but from the hurried method of conducting the examination, from the excitement of the prisoners during it, and indeed, under any circumstances, he must trust greatly to the Surgeon of the Hulk. This man should not have been sent and the Surgeon of the Hulk must have known it.' When asked why he said he was well when examined, the prisoner replied that he would prefer the chance of dying at sea to remaining in the Hulk.

Folio 14: John Handibo, aged 24, Private; disease or hurt, inflammatio testis. Put on sick list, 9 August 1831, at sea. Discharged to duty, 25 August 1831. Inflamed right testicle caused, from his own account, by a fall 3 days previously. He suffered some fever and delirium during treatment.

Folio 15: Peter Barrow, aged 22, Private; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 11 August 1831, at sea. Discharged to duty, 18 August. In October an obstinate eruption broke out upon his arms, body and thighs which yielded to nothing until his mouth was made sore.

Folio 15: Thomas Corry, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 14 August 1831, at sea. Discharged from the sick list but kept on the sick mess, 20 September 1831. Had been suffering purging, tenesmus and pain in the abdomen for six weeks past, for which he was in the hospital at the hulk until a day or two before being sent on board. When discharged he was not expected to be off the sick list for long.

Folio 16: David Sheehan, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, debilitas. Put on sick list, 13 August 1831, at sea. Died, 29 August 1831. He did not speak any English. Had been in the Hulk's Hospital for debility, cough and swelling of the legs and ankles. Feet and ankles were greatly swollen and he had difficulty breathing, headache and irritability of stomach. He improved until 25 August 1831 when he was seized with vomiting and purging, after which he gradually became worse and could retain neither food nor medicine, even tincture of opium had no effect.

Folio 17: Michael Burns, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 15 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, 14 September 1831. Put off the list at his own request though he was not strong.

Folios 17-18: Michael Moriarty, aged 55 Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 15 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, 29 August 1831. Complained of severe headache and general soreness, skin hot, pulse 88, tongue foul, bowels regular. Could not speak English. Said he had not been well since receiving a beating from some of the prisoners in the Hulk.

Folio 18: William Moore, aged 35, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 16 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, 23 August 1831. Had been treated for obstinate constipation and the evening after gaining relief complained of a pain or stitch in his right side.

Folio 19: James Neylan [Naylan], aged 40, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 21 August 1831, at sea. Died, 27 August 1831. 'A man with an apparently worn out frame' who had been suffering purging and tenesmus for some days.