Folios 1-2: Copy of daily sick list, (names and details follow) - continued: Folio...

ADM 101/37/7/2

1833

Folios 1-2: Copy of daily sick list, (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 2: William Jackson, aged 19, convict; sick or hurt, opthalmia; put on sick list 26 November 1833, discharged 6 December 1833 to duty. Folio 2: W J Jones, aged 57, convict; sick or hurt, contusio; put on sick list 2 December 1833, sent 6 December 1833 to Hospital. Signed: Arthur Savage, Surgeon Superintendent.

Folios 3-4: case no 1, James Frawley, aged 39, private 21st Royal North Britain Fusilier; disease or hurt, pneumonia, drank freely of spirits during the day. Put on sick list, 16 July 1833, at Deptford. Discharged 30 July 1833 to duty.

Folios 4-5: case no 2, James Manson, aged 29, private 21st Royal North Britain Fusilier; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 17 July 1833, at Deptford. Discharged 30 July 1833 to duty.

Folios 5-6: case no 3, Antonio Francis, aged 55, sailmaker; disease or hurt, cholera, he was discovered (by his moaning and expressions of pain) on the fore hatchway, the muscles of the abdomen contracted and knotted the extremities irregularly affected in the same way. Put on sick list, 19 July 1833, off the Nore. Died 20 July 1833 at 5.

Folio 7: case no 4, Edmund Carr, aged 29, private 21st Royal North Britain Fusilier; disease or hurt, diarrhoea, much purged in the last two days and four times to stool this morning. Put on sick list, 24 July 1833, at Downs. Discharged 30 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 8: case no 5, Thomas Jones, aged 25, convict; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 30 July 1833, at Spithead. Discharged 6 August 1833 to duty.

Folios 9-10: case no 6, James Fendley, aged 22, convict; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 14 August 1833, at sea. Discharged 24 August 1833 to duty.

Folio 10: case no 7, James Read, aged 23, convict; disease or hurt, icterus, bowels irregular, languid and drowsy loss of appetite. Put on sick list, 17 August 1833, at sea. Discharged 31 August 1833 to duty.

Folio 11: case no 8, Francis Thompson, aged 20, convict; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 21 September 1833, at sea. Discharged 11 October 1833 to duty.

Folios 12-13: case no 9, Thomas Smith, aged 20, convict; disease or hurt, paralysis, could not move his lower limbs, there was a total loss of voluntary motion from the knees downwards the feet and to the belly of the gastronomic were insensible. Put on sick list, 25 September 1833, at sea. Died 21 October 1833.

Folio 14: case no 10, Charles Morrell, aged 22, convict; disease or hurt, concusio, fell on his head and shoulders from the upper deck to the main hold. Put on sick list, 16 October 1833, at sea. Discharged 27 October 1833 to duty.

Folios 14-15: case no 11, James Read, aged 23, convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 24 October 1833, at sea. Discharged 29 November 1833 to duty.

Folios 15-16: case no 12, William Taylor, aged 26, convict; disease or hurt, hepatitis,, much purged but no pain in the bowels, dull pain in the right hypochondrium which accompanied with pain in the right shoulder, bowels very costive. Put on sick list, 26 October 1833, at sea. Died 11 November 1833.

Folio 17: case no 13, Samuel Durrant, aged 25, convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 23 November 1833, at sea. Discharged 29 November 1833 to duty.

Folios 18-19: case no 14, Griffith Rogers, aged 47, convict; disease or hurt, hepatitis, apparently 70 years of age, complained of very much purged and suffered from deranged bowels since he came on board, pain in the right hypochondrium region, loss of appetite and general lassitude. Put on sick list, 11 November 1833, at sea. Died 1 December 1833 at 6 am.

Folio 20: Numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folio 21: List of men who have received wounds or hurts. Number on the ship's book 192, Charles Morrell, aged 22, convict, a baker by trade; hurts, concussion of the brain by a fall from the upper deck to the main hold.

Folios 21-22: Surgeon's general remarks, regarding case no 3, case no 9, case no 12, and case no 14. The Surgeon's passing notes on the medical comforts and provisions. He also states that the ship was well adapted for the service.

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