Folio 13: Mary Waterworth, aged 20, and Sophia Lovell, Convicts; disease or hurt,...

ADM 101/19/6/7

1832-1833

Folio 13: Mary Waterworth, aged 20, and Sophia Lovell, Convicts; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Put on sick list, 14 December 1832. Discharged, 30 December 1832.

Folio 13: Mary Ann Howath, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, pregnancy, was delivered of a female child on 8 December 1832.

Folio 13: Eliza [Grevell], aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, dysuria. Put on sick list, 14 December 1832. Discharged, 29 December 1832. Put on the list with symptoms of dysury, ‘evidently brought on by inflammation of the genitals, and filth’.

Folio 13: Susan Donohoe, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 3 December 1832, at Woolwich. Discharged, 18 December 1832. Described as ‘of weak, nervous temperament’, put on sick list with acute dysentery.

Folio 14: List of 34 women and one child treated for costiveness during the month of January 1833. Almost all had suffered sea sickness, many very severely.

Folios 14-17: Maria Jones, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 12 January 1833, at sea. Died, 3 February 1833. Described as ‘of weak, nervous temperament’, presented herself in the hot stage of a paroxysm of fever. She had been discharged from the sick list 4 days earlier, suffering from an eruption or psora.

Folio 17: Elizabeth Whately, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, pregnancy, safely delivered of twins, a boy and a girl, on 4 February 1833. The boy died on 8 February 1833, being unable to swallow or suck since birth.

Folio 17: List of three women treated for slight contusion in the month of January 1833. Margaret Burke, aged 18. M A White, aged 21. Elizabeth [Boothe], aged 35.

Folio 18: List of three women treated for catarrh in January 1833. C Carter, aged 34. Elizabeth Jones, aged 18. Mary McCormick, aged 50.

Folio 18: Mary Jones, aged 15, Convict; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Put on sick list, [10] January 1833. Discharged, [10 February 1833].

Folio 18: Three women put on the list for inflammatory sore throats, or cynanche, [in January?]. Elizabeth Smith, aged 18. Anne Brown, aged 27. Eliza Stewart, aged 26.

Folio 18: Elizabeth [Grevell], aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, dysuria. Put on sick list, [no date recorded]. Discharged, 24 January 1833. Put on the list for a slight return of her former complaint.

Folio 18: M A Stevenson, aged 31, Convict; disease or hurt, tinea capitis. Put on sick list, 10 January 1833, at sea. Discharged, 30 January 1833. The greater part of her hair had fallen out and the disease had become aggravated in consequence of her hiding her complaint.

Folio 18: Martha O'Brien, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 28 January 1833, at sea. Discharged, 8 February 1833. ‘Of full sanguineous temperament’, put on the list with all the symptoms of fever.

Folio 19: M A Tailor, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, ischuria renalis. Put on sick list, 28 January 1833, at sea. Discharged, [27 February 1833].

Folio 19: Three women convicts and a settler’s child put on the list for synocha in February 1833. Elizabeth Stacey, aged 17. Margaret Hayes, aged 18. Mary Jones, aged 15. Anne Ross, aged 14, Settler’s Child.

Folio 19: Five women treated for severe headache, cephalalgia, in February 1833. Anne Mann, aged 24. Mary Kelly, aged 19. Margaret Baron, aged 32. Ellen Walsh, aged 23. Sarah Riordan, aged [36].

Folio 19: List of 47 women treated for costiveness in February 1833, many of them more than once. The surgeon comments that most of them had ‘become so habituated to medicine they could not exist without it’.

Folio 19: Three settler’s children and a convict woman treated for psora in February 1833. D Ross, J Ross and E Ross, Settler’s children. Anne [Yarnold], aged 23, Convict.

Folio 19: M McCormick, aged 50, Convict; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 4 February 1833, at sea. Discharged, 15 February 1833.

Folio 20: Ann Reynolds, aged 30, Convict; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 14 February 1833, at sea. Discharged, 1 March 1833. ‘Of a bilious temperament’ she was put on the sick list with acute dysentery, she had been unwell for two days.

Folio 21: Frances Booth, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 21 February 1833, at sea. Discharged, 10 March 1833. She had been ‘afflicted with an extensive ulcerated leg’ for a long time.

Folio 21: [S] M Riches, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 22 February 1833, at sea. Discharged, 24 April 1833. Described as ‘of nervous temperament and exceedingly indolent’, presented the symptoms of inflammatory fever.

Folio 21: Anne Isherwood, aged 42, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 26 February 1833, at sea. Discharged, [3 March 1833]. She had suffered the diarrhoea for three days, it was ‘induced by suppressed perspiration’.

Folio 21: Margaret Wallace, aged 37, Convict; disease or hurt, pregnancy, safely delivered of a female child on 2 March 1833. Discharged, 18 March 1833.

Folio 21: Mary McAvane, aged 36, Convict; disease or hurt, hepatitis. Put on sick list, 8 March 1833, at sea. Discharged, 24 March 1833. ‘Of bilious temperament’, with symptoms of acute hepatitis. The following month she was back on the sick list with catarrh.

Folio 22: List of 17 women treated for costiveness in March.

Folio 22: Elizabeth Harrison, aged 38, Mary Butcher, aged 20, Eleanor Neal, aged 19, were all treated for catarrh in March.

Folio 22: List of nine women treated for diarrhoea in March and the early part of April. All had previously been constipated and had repeatedly taken medicine for it, which might account for the diarrhoea.

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