Folios 1-4: Copy of the daily sick book, (names and details follow) - continued:...

ADM 101/54/1/4

1839-1840

Folios 1-4: Copy of the daily sick book, (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 4: John Geraghty, age 22, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 14 January 1840, discharged 29 January 1840. Folio 4: George Beedell, age 22, private guard; sick or hurt, icterus; put on sick list 15 January 1840, discharged 29 January 1840 to duty. Folio 4: John Kelly, age 17, convict; sick or hurt, arthritis; put on sick list 15 January 1840, discharged 23 January 1840. Folio 4: John Murphy, age 40, convict; sick or hurt, ulcus; put on sick list 17 January 1840, discharged 21 January 1840. Folio 4: Michael Dowling, age 20, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 17 January 1840, discharged 27 January 1840. Folio 4: Jeremiah Crowley, age 20, convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 18 January 1840, discharged 24 January 1840. Folio 4: William Johnstone, age 15, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 20 January 1840, discharged 26 January 1840. Folio 4: Patrick Tully, age 19, convict; sick or hurt, ulcus; put on sick list 22 January 1840, discharged 26 January 1840. Folio 4: James Smith, age 20, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 24 January 1840, discharged 28 January 1840. Folio 4: Patrick Crelly, age 18, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 26 January 1840, sent 1 February 1840 to hospital. Folio 4: Charles Kearnes, age 39, convict; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 28 January 1840, sent 1 February 1840 to hospital. Folio 4: Total: 163, discharged cured 151, died 8, sent to hospital 4. Signed; J. Baird, surgeon and superintendent.

Folio 5: Blank.

Folios 6-7: case no 1, Joseph K O'Brien, age 23, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pleuritis; put on sick list 13 July 1839, discharged 23 July 1839 cured.

Folios 7-9: case no 2, Michael Delaney, age 17, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris; put on sick list 2 August 1839, died 9 August 1839 at 8 am.

Folios 9-11: case no 3, Laurence Flanagan, age 28, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 18 September 1839, died 28 October 1839 at 8.30 pm.

Folios 11-12: case no 4, Thomas McCabe, age 21, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris; put on sick list 20 October 1839, died 30 October 1839 at 0.30 am, four hours after his decease the body presented the appearances of a very putid fever, the face dark and livid the chest and abdomen of a blacker shade and the extremities varying from deep yellow to a greenish black. The body could not be opened from want of space and immediate internment being necessary in a ship so crowded.

Folios 13-14: case no 5, John Kearney, age 32, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria scorbutica; put on sick list 21 November 1839, died 16 December 1839 at 5 pm.

Folios 15-18: case no 6, Patrick Loughran, age 28, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scrofula; put on sick list 4 September 1839, died 20 December 1839 at 9 pm.

Folios 18-23: case no 7, Timothy Costillo, age 37, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 7 October 1839, died 16 January 1840 at 8.30 pm.

Folios 23-25: case no 8, Henry Mullen, age 26, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris; put on sick list 21 November 1839, died 4 January 1840 at 8 pm.

Folios 25-27: case no 9, Patrick Buckley, age 21, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 24 December 1839, died 3 January 1840 at 5 am.

Folios 27-28: case no 10, William Cornwall, age 21, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, vulnus; put on sick list 28 December 1839, discharged 22 January 1840 cured. Folio 28: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 29-33: Surgeon's general remarks about the five convicts who fell victim to dysentery. One was suffering from a scorbutic affection of the legs, the only instance of scurvy was a man [Kearney, case no 5] who proved to be insane from his first arrival on board who for a long time resolutely refused to take fresh provisions when the symptoms began to appear imagining that any change from the general diet of the convicts was from some design against his life.

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