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Folios 2-6: Sick list on board the Convict Ship Moffat during her passage from England...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/55/2/2

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ADM 101/55/2/2
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1836
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Folios 2-6: Sick list on board the Convict Ship Moffat during her passage from England to New South Wales from 19 April to 2 September 1836. Ages are not recorded but there are remarks against some of the entries and each entry is numbered - continued:

41: Thomas Lehay, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 23 May 1836. Discharged, 28 May 1836. 42: Thomas Goodard, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 23 May 1836. Discharged, 20 June 1836. 43: Jonathan Hollington, Convict; disease or hurt, ague, detailed in journal. Put on sick list, 26 May 1836. Discharged, 3 June 1836. 44: William Chuter, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 30 May 1836. Discharged, 3 June 1836. 45: F Burk, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 30 May 1836. Discharged, 7 June 1836. 46: Ben Middleton, Convict; disease or hurt, fever, detailed in journal. Put on sick list, 30 May 1836. Discharged, 26 June 1836. 47: Mrs Fitzgerald, Soldier's wife; disease or hurt, sprained wrist. Put on sick list, 30 May 1836. Discharged, 16 June 1836. 48: James Moore, Convict; disease or hurt, headache, 'purgatives and blister to neck'. Put on sick list, 30 May 1836. Discharged, 8 June 1836. 49: [Gus] Hollingberg, Convict; disease or hurt, fever, 'emetic and purge'. Put on sick list, 31 May 1836. Discharged, 4 June 1836. 50: William Sly, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 1 June 1836. Discharged, 3 June 1836. 51: William Larner, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (foot), 'severe, by cocoa'. Put on sick list, 1 June 1836. Discharged, 3 June 1836. 52: Samuel Dunn, Convict; disease or hurt, fever etc, 'case related'. Put on sick list, 4 May 1836. Died, 23 July 1836. 53: James Higans, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (foot), 'by cocoa'. Put on sick list, 5 June 1836. Discharged, 29 June 1836. 54: P Saunders, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (leg), 'by cocoa'. Put on sick list, 5 June 1836. Discharged, 19 June 1836. 55: J T Tadman, Convict; disease or hurt, contusion (side). Put on sick list, 6 June 1836. Discharged, 14 June 1836. 56: William McDonald, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 8 June 1836. Discharged, 20 June 1836. 57: Charles Smithson, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia, 'both sclerot. and cornea were inflamed - recovery perfect, purg. calomel and opium - [ca..] solut. and repeated bleeding'. Put on sick list, 9 June 1836. Discharged, 17 July 1836. 58: Edward Erling, Convict; disease or hurt, sprained (ankle). Put on sick list, 14 June 1836. Discharged, 19 June 1836. 59: James Freeman, Convict; disease or hurt, lumbago. Put on sick list, 14 June 1836. Discharged, 22 June 1836. 60: Jonathan Daves, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, 'ending in bronchitis but cured'. Put on sick list, 15 June 1836. Discharged, 13 August 1836. 61: Henry Brown, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 15 June 1836. Discharged, 20 June 1836. 62: George Parsons, Convict; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 16 June 1836. Discharged, 21 June 1836. 63: George Matthews, Convict; disease or hurt, jaundice, 'a mild case cured by emetics & purges'. Put on sick list, 17 June 1836. Discharged, 2 July 1836. 64: George Hayward, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 20 June 1836. Discharged, 30 June 1836. 65: James Miller, 'black', Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 20 June 1836. Discharged, 12 July 1836. 66: William Parsons, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (foot), 'by cocoa'. Put on sick list, 21 June 1836. Discharged, 30 June 1836. 67: William Day, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 22 June 1836. Discharged, 2 July 1836. 68: Jonathan Bailie, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 22 June 1836. Discharged, 3 July 1836. 69: Henry Waterfall, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 24 June 1836. Discharged, 28 June 1836. 70: Jonathan Hill, Convict; disease or hurt, irregularity of bowels. Put on sick list, 24 June 1836. Discharged, 28 June 1836. 71: Jonathan [Wildgarth], Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil., 'weather about this time cloudy & squally & rainy, therm. 68'. Put on sick list, 24 June 1836. Discharged, 27 June 1836. 72: James Morely, Convict; disease or hurt, ague, '2nd time, lig. arsenic in [ness] gentian C'. Put on sick list, 26 June 1836. Discharged, 3 July 1836. 73: James Griffiths, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 28 June 1836. Discharged, 30 June 1836. 74: Mr Baillie, Boatswain; disease or hurt, ague. Put on sick list, 29 June 1836. Discharged, 4 July 1836. 75: J Kempton, Sailor; disease or hurt, acute rheumatism. Put on sick list, 29 June 1836. Discharged, 19 July 1836. 76: G Paterson, Sailor; disease or hurt, contused side. Put on sick list, 29 June 1836. Discharged, 8 July 1836. 77: R Brown, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (foot), 'by cocoa. Treatment, cold salt water for some hours then warm poulticing & dressing with the ung. Risin & a little ol. [Terebruth] - this plan generally followed'. Put on sick list, 29 June 1836. Discharged, 28 July 1836. 78: Henry Gardner, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 29 June 1836. Discharged, 3 July 1836. 79: Jonathan [Hills], Convict; disease or hurt, contused leg. Put on sick list, 29 June 1836. Discharged, 3 July 1836. 80: Charles Bull, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 30 June 1836. Discharged, 3 July 1836. 81: G Connor, Convict; disease or hurt, boil. Put on sick list, 30 June 1836. Discharged, 5 July 1836. 82: James North, Convict; disease or hurt, boil. Put on sick list, 30 June 1836. Discharged, 3 July 1836. 83: William Owen, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (leg), 'by cocoa, very severe'. Put on sick list, 2 July 1836. Discharged, 29 July 1836. 84: Thomas Wright, Convict; disease or hurt, boil, 'several cases of boil about this time & generally on the knee'. Put on sick list, 3 July 1836. Discharged, 11 July 1836. 85: William Bate, Convict; disease or hurt, wound on head. Put on sick list, 3 July 1836. Discharged, 7 July 1836. 86: Jonathan Jones, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 7 July 1836. Discharged, 12 July 1836. 87: William [Pusick], Convict; disease or hurt, scald (legs), 'by cocoa'. Put on sick list, 7 July 1836. Discharged, 17 July 1836. 88: Jonathan Nicolson, Convict; disease or hurt, pleurisy. Put on sick list, 8 July 1836. Discharged, 12 July 1836. Note alongside cases 88 - 91 apparently referring to treatment of the cases of pleurisy by V S [venesection?] and the contusion of the head, case 89, caused by a heavy body falling on the head.

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