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Folios 19-20: Patrick Couney, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/5/4/4

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1831
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Folios 19-20: Patrick Couney, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 22 August 1831, at sea. Died, 13 September 1831. 'A man of spare and debilitated habit who had been ill on board the Hulk with flux and latterly with vomiting of blood', he had been discharged from the sick list on the Hulk a few days before being embarked. Treatment includes calomel, opium, rhubarb and laudanum, enemas of castor oil and oil of turpentine. He asked for wine only a minute before he died.

Folios 20-21: Edmund Allen, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 24 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, at his own request, 18 September 1831.

Folios 21-22: Anthony Hoare, aged 34, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 24 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, 26 September 1831. Had complained of difficulty breathing and oppression about the breast for some days, and also suffered an epileptic seizure, to which he was subject. The last two cases are considered anomalous and the Surgeon thinks that there was a 'scorbutic tendency' in both. They were both landed in perfect health.

Folio 22: James Staunton, aged 19 Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 25 August 1831, at sea. Discharged, 6 September 1831.

Folio 23: Patrick Grady, aged 46, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 27 August 1831, at sea. Died, 3 September 1831. Much emaciated with a sallow sickly look, had complained for some days of debility and looseness of the bowels for which calomel and opium, castor oil, rhubarb mixture and infusion of senna with salts were administered.

Folio 23: Patrick Meyrick, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 1 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 26 September 1831.

Folio 24: James Mahony, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 3 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 18 October 1831. Got gradually better until 2 October 1831 when he was attacked with dysentery.

Folios 24-25: Patrick Fitzgerald, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 2 September 1831, at sea. Died, 9 September 1831. 'A muscular, fine looking young man but greatly depressed in spirits', he had suffered seas sickness for three weeks and had not recovered from the effects. The large amount of calomel he took had no effect on his mouth, nor did the opium produce any of its effects.

Folio 25: William Bowmanizer, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 5 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 26 September 1831.

Folio 26: Patrick Donelly, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 5 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 26 September 1831. Had suffered severely from sea sickness and had not recovered when he complained of dysentery.

Folio 26: Marcus Dillon, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 6 September 1831, at sea. Discharged to the hospital at Sydney, 9 December 1831. Complained of pain in the head, back and loins, tongue furred and covered with a dark brown crust, bowels natural, skin hot, pulse 112. On 11 September 1831 suffered deafness and delirium, talking of being repressed and asking the Surgeon when he was to be given the boat to go home to his mother and his sisters.

Folio 27: Anthony Gillespie, aged 18, Fire Setter; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 6 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 26 September 1831.

Folio 27: James O'Brien, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 10 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 20 September 1831.

Folio 28: Samuel Sneyd, aged 22, Private; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 8 September 1831, at sea. Discharged to duty, 17 September 1831. Servant to Captain Chetwode.

Folio 28: William Colman, aged 25, Private; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 10 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 30 September 1831.

Folio 29: Michael Warren, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 11 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 26 September 1831. Complained of general pains, but more particularly in the chest on breathing deeply or coughing, tongue covered with a brown crust, skin hot, pulse 120, constipated. On 12 September 1831 had an eruption of vesicles, resembling chicken pox but larger, on his face, breast and neck.

Folio 29: Felix Farmer, aged 26, Private; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 12 September 1831, at sea. Discharged to duty, 28 September 1831. Suffered a fainting fit on 15 September 1831, to which he said he had been subject for 8 months or so in consequence of a fall.

Folio 30: James Broughton, aged 33, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 13 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 12 October 1831. 'A man of spare and apparently worn out habit', was landed at Sydney on 14 December 1831 'much healthier, stronger, stouter than when he embarked'.

Folio 30: Martin Phillips, aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 13 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 6 October 1831.

Folio 31: Darby Connor, aged 40, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 14 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 1 November 1831. Could not speak English. Had been on and off the list between 3 October and 1 November 1831 with various eruptions indicating debility.

Folio 31: Patrick Flaherty, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 15 September 1831, at sea. Died, 23 September 1831. 'A healthy looking man with a ruddy complexion'. He appeared better on the evening of the 21st but on the 22nd 'having dirtied himself this morning, he got into the bathing tub clothes and all, since when he has been very ill', he never regained any heat in his body and died the following morning at 1am.

Folio 32: Patrick Shaughnessy, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 17 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 30 September 1831.

Folios 32-33: Denis Collins, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 17 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 18 November 1831. Complained of great pain in the belly with frequent purging of frothy mucus mixed with blood, skin hot, pulse 120 and strong, tongue covered with brown crust in the centre and red at the edges. 19 September 1831, given several enemas of oil of turpentine and castor oil. 20 September 1831, debility alarming, faeces passed involuntarily, almost impossible to keep him clean. Repeat the enemas and calomel and opium.

Folio 33: Denis Connell, aged 34, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 1 September 1831. Discharged, 29 September 1831. Pain in the head, back and loins, pulse 98 and full, skin hot, tongue furred and dry, breathing quick and oppressed.

Folio 34: Michael Magee, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 18 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 6 October 1831.

Folio 34: John Looney, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 21 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 30 September 1831.

Folio 35: John Kelly, aged 29, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 17 September 1831, at sea. Discharged, 19 October 1831.

Folio 35: Joseph Chambers, aged 21, Private; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 24 September 1831, at sea. Discharged to duty, 24 October 1831. Treatment includes cupping and a blister over the liver, 5 October 1831.

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