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Folios 1-8: Sick list of the female convict ship Diana, J Ellis Surgeon and Superintendent...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/19/6/6

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1832-1833

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Folios 1-8: Sick list of the female convict ship Diana, J Ellis Surgeon and Superintendent - continued:

Folio 8: Margaret Baron, aged 32, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 10 May 1833. Discharged, 13 May 1833. Folio 8: Anne Brown, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 11 May 1833. Discharged, 13 May 1833. Folio 8: Elizabeth Whately, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 12 May 1833. Discharged, 14 May 1833. Folio 8: Sarah Kerr, aged 49, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 13 May 1833. Discharged, 15 May 1833. Folio 8: Elizabeth Storey, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 13 May 1833. Discharged, 15 May 1833. Folio 8: Catherine Bainbridge, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 13 May 1833. Discharged, 15 May 1833. Folio 8: Eliza Harvey, aged 16, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche. Put on sick list, 14 May 1833. Discharged, 21 May 1833. Folio 8: Catherine Smith, aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, eruption. Put on sick list, 17 May 1833. Discharged, 22 May 1833. Folio 8: Ann Isherwood, aged 42, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 19 May 1833. Discharged, 28 May 1833. Folio 8: Susan Emerson, aged 29, Convict; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 20 May 1833. Discharged, 22 May 1833. Folio 8: Susan Kerr, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, headache. Put on sick list, 22 May 1833. Discharged, 24 May 1833. Folio 8: M Robson, aged 27, Prisoner; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 22 May 1833. Discharged, 24 May 1833. Folio 8: Jane Pentland, aged 21, Prisoner; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 25 May 1833. Discharged, 27 May 1833. Folio 8: Margaret Sailor, aged 21, Prisoner; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 26 May 1833. Discharged, 28 May 1833. Folio 8: Anne Kean, aged 45, Prisoner; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 29 May 1833. Discharged, 8 June 1833. Folio 8: Eleanor Neal, aged 19, Prisoner; disease or hurt, cynanche. Put on sick list, 29 May 1833. Discharged to the hospital, [3] June 1833. Folio 8: Elizabeth Harrison, aged 38, Prisoner; disease or hurt, abscess. Put on sick list, 5 June 1833. Discharged, 8 June 1833. Folio 8: M Sydney, aged 39, Prisoner; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 6 June 1833. Discharged, 8 June 1833. Folio 8: Anne Mann, aged 24, Prisoner; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 6 June 1833. Discharged, 8 June 1833. Folio 8: June Nelson, aged 20, Prisoner; disease or hurt, costiveness. Put on sick list, 6 June 1833. Discharged, 8 June 1833. Folio 8: M Lambert, aged 45, Prisoner; disease or hurt, cynanche. Put on sick list, 7 June 1833. 14 June 1833. Folio 8: The accouchement of the following women took place during the voyage. M A Howarth, aged 20, [delivered] of a female child on the 8 December 1832. Elizabeth Whately, aged 20, [delivered] of twins, one male and one female on the 4 February 1833. The boy died of debility on 8 February 1833. Margaret Wallace, aged 37, [delivered] of a female child on the 2 March 1833. Signed J Ellis, Surgeon, RN, Superintendent.

Folios 9-10: Mary Anne White, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 26 November 1832, Woolwich. Discharged, 28 December 1832. Described as 'of weak, nervous temperament' and presented herself sick the day after arriving on board.

Folio 10: Mary McCormick, aged 50, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 26 November 1832, at Woolwich. Discharged, 5 December 1832. Attributed her illness to cold which she had been much exposed to on her journey from Manchester.

Folios 10-12: Mary Anne Taylor, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, ischuria renalis. Put on sick list, 30 November 1832, at Woolwich. Discharged, 30 December 1832. Described as 'of full sanguinous temperament'. She had suffered similar symptoms after an attack of cholera at Manchester and had only just been relieved of it before embarking.

Folio 12: A list of women convicts put on the sick list with catarrh in the month of December, a few attended with pyrexial symptoms. The weather was to blame. S Clark, aged 17. Eliza Harrison, aged 38. C [Christine] Bainbridge, aged 22. Sarah Riley, aged 21. Anne Mann, aged 24. Margaret McConnell, aged 31. [Frances] Booth, aged 23. Elizabeth Baker, aged 19. Ellen Walsh, aged 23. Susan Donohoe, aged 20. Mary Butcher, aged 24. Jane Roberts, aged 29. Elizabeth Storey, aged 17. Anne Simpkins, aged 59. Elizabeth Walters, aged 39. Harriet East, aged 22. Sarah Hill, aged 27. Eleanor Neal, aged 19. Margaret Burke, aged 18. Elizabeth [Boothee], aged 35. Mary Redpath, aged 23.

Folio 12: A list of women treated for itch, or psora, during the month of December. Elizabeth Hoskins, aged 49. Maria Roberts, aged 27. Sarah Robinson, aged 28. Margaret McConnel, aged 31. Sarah Thompson, aged 34. Margaret Baron, aged 32. Jane Pentland, aged 21. Maria Jones, aged 24.

Folio 13: A list of women treated for costiveness, or obstipatio, in the month of December, all had previously suffered from sea sickness. Martha O'Brien, aged 19. Margaret Hayes, aged 18. Mary Kelly, aged 19. Anne Mann, aged 24. Mary [Cent], aged 19. S Kennington, aged 25. Jane Nelson, aged 28. Mary McConnel, aged 31. Jane Bull, aged 22. M A White, aged 21.

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