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

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/55/2/3

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ADM 101/55/2/3
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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:

89: B Mahony, Soldier; disease or hurt, contusion (head). Put on sick list, 8 July 1836. Discharged, 12 July 1836. 90: Jonathan Pain, Soldier; disease or hurt, pleurisy. Put on sick list, 10 July 1836. Discharged, 14 July 1836. 91: [Cheszihill], Sailor; disease or hurt, pleurisy. Put on sick list, 10 July 1836. Discharged, 29 July 1836. 92: William Hodges, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 10 July 1836. Discharged, 14 July 1836. 93: William Todd, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 10 July 1836. Discharged, 15 July 1836. 94: Edward Winslade, Convict; disease or hurt, pleurisy, ‘slightly yielded to a VS [venesection?]. Put on sick list, 10 July 1836. Discharged, 16 July 1836. 95: James Gathridge, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 10 July 1836. Discharged, 14 July 1836. 96: Arthur Robertson, Convict; disease or hurt, fractured clavicle, ‘ the extreme outer end from being driven against a post’. Put on sick list, 11 July 1836. Discharged, 21 August 1836. 97: Jonathan Mountain, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 12 July 1836. Discharged, 16 July 1836. 98: Joseph Daniel, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 12 July 1836. Discharged, 15 July 1836. 99: William Gardner, Soldier; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 12 July 1836. Discharged, 17 July 1836. 100: James Morely, Convict; disease or hurt, ague, ‘3rd time of return’. Put on sick list, 12 July 1836. Discharged, 16 July 1836. 101: George Lawless, Convict; disease or hurt, opthalmia, ‘sight of eye lost by previous disease, purg. Blister & [lotion] Gums are some swollen and bleed easily’. Put on sick list, 14 July 1836. Discharged, 18 July 1836. 102: Clarke, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 14 July 1836. Discharged, 18 July 1836. 103: Bay Robertson, Sailor; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 14 July 1836. Discharged, 18 July 1836. 104: Fitzgerald, Child; disease or hurt, contused (forehead), ‘by a fall into afterhold’. Put on sick list, 12 July 1836. Discharged, 23 July 1836. 105: G Hollingberg, Convict; disease or hurt, general anasarca, ‘detailed in journal’. Put on sick list, 14 July 1836. Discharged, 17 August 1836. 106: G Ironmonger, ‘black’, Convict; disease or hurt, abscess in testes, ‘indolent, cause not obvious’. Put on sick list, 14 July 1836. Discharged, 15 August 1836. 107: Henry Healy, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 15 July 1836. Discharged, 18 July 1836. 108: Jonathan Smith, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy, ‘detailed in journal’. Put on sick list, 15 July 1836. Discharged to hospital, 2 September 1836. 109: Thomas Baker, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 17 July 1836. Discharged, 22 July 1836. 110: Thomas Hasker, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 18 July 1836. Discharged, 22 July 1836. 111: Henry Waterfall, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (leg), ‘severe, by cocoa’. Put on sick list, 19 July 1836. Discharged, 2 August 1836. 112: William Buchanan, ‘black’, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (leg). Put on sick list, 19 July 1836. Discharged, 31 July 1836. 113: Jonathan Phillips, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (leg). Put on sick list, 19 July 1836. Discharged to hospital, 2 September 1836, ‘scald healed some time, limb livid, swollen and painful from scurvy’. 114: William Henson, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (foot). Put on sick list, 19 July 1836. Discharged, 6 August 1836. 115: Jonathan Jones, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 21 July 1836. Discharged, 23 July 1836. 116: J Lambert, ‘black’, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 22 July 1836. Discharged, 25 July 1836. 117: William Wrench, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 22 July 1836. Discharged, 26 July 1836. 118: Thomas Brown, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 23 July 1836. Discharged, 28 July 1836. 119: Ben Middleton, Convict; disease or hurt, ague. Put on sick list, 23 July 1836. Discharged, 8 August 1836. 120: William Edwards, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 July 1836. Discharged, 27 July 1836. 121: William Pummel, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 25 July 1836. Discharged, 29 July 1836. 122: William Lewis, Sailor; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 25 July 1836. Discharged, 29 July 1836. 123: W Corby, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (foot). Put on sick list, 26 July 1836. Discharged, 1 August 1836. 124: E Jones, Convict; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 26 July 1836. Discharged, 15 August 1836. 125: William Higgins, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 26 July 1836. Discharged, 29 July 1836. 126: [W] Facy, ‘black’, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 27 July 1836. Discharged, 29 July 1836. 127: Jonathan Dean, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 27 July 1836. Discharged, 31 July 1836. 128: F Garret, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 28 July 1836. Discharged, 31 July 1836. 129: James Robinson, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 28 July 1836. Discharged, 1 August 1836. 130: Jonathan Fiddeman, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 29 July 1836. Discharged, 1 August 1836. 131: Jonathan Jupp, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 29 July 1836. Discharged, 4 August 1836. 132: William Ford, Convict; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 1 August 1836. Discharged, 4 August 1836. 133: [Molt], Sailor; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 1 August 1836. Discharged, 5 September 1836. Note alongside case 133: ‘at this date I left the ship...’, Molt was a very bad case but was recovering under a better diet. 134: C Jones, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 2 August 1836. Discharged, 8 August 1836. 135: Thomas Hicks, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 2 August 1836. Discharged, 8 August 1836. 136: Jonathan Jones, Convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 2 August 1836. Discharged, 12 August 1836.

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