Folios 3-4: case no 1, John Wade, aged 22, prisoner, taken ill at Woolwich; sick...

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1843

Folios 3-4: case no 1, John Wade, aged 22, prisoner, taken ill at Woolwich; sick or hurt, tertiana, of a dark bilious temperament. He has complained on one or two occasions of slight febrile attacks of feb. intermt. Of the tertian type; put on sick list 7 July 1843, discharged 20 July 1843 from the list.

Folios 4-5: case no 2, David Hunter, aged 45, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, opthalmia, large prominent eyes, was under treatment from the 4th August for purulent opthalmy: the early symptoms were mild commencing with effusion of tears, intolerable of strong light, redness and inflammation of the conjunctiva...; put on sick list 4 August 1843, sent 20 November 1843 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 6-7: case no 3, John Lynch, aged 28, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, opthalmia, of a scrofulous habit, the left eye was first attacked and the other remained for the space three weeks free of complaint when it likewise seemed to be afflicted. According to the surgeon in this case the ophthalmic inflammation was much more severe than the other, which may be attributed to the scrofulous habit of the patient. The inflammation was confined to the conjunctiva that became highly vascular, puffed up and elevated; put on sick list 22 August 1843, sent 21 November 1843 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 7: case no 4, John Derick, aged 32, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, opthalmia, was on the list on the 7th ultimo with a slight symptoms of the left eye which readily gave in to the treatment. However on the night of 28th September a relapse took place with all symptoms much increased in severity and both eyes affected; put on sick list 28 September 1843, sent 20 November 1843 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 8: case no 5, George Walklett, aged 21, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, opthalmia, was under treatment for dyspepsia and disinclination for food of any kind followed by general debility and emaciation: the eyes became very prominent, pupils dilated and the sight much impaired, according to the surgeon almost blind, and useless in a very strong light; put on sick list 27 September 1843, sent 20 November 1843 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 8-9: case no 6, John Hart, aged 26, Private 99th Regt, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia, he was frequently subject to catarrhal and pneumonic affections during the passage, by his statement never free from fixed pain in the right side which on exposure to cold or damp produced so much febrile excitement as to incapacitated him from duty; put on sick list 6 October 1843, sent 24 November 1843 to Military Hospital at Hobart Town, according to the surgeon, 'it advisable as he is a man of debauched habit and prone to drink to send him to the Military Hospital where he can be kept under more restraint'.

Folios 10-24: Blank.

Folio 25: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 26-27: Surgeon's general remarks. With the exception of the cases of opthalmia confined exclusively to the convicts and a few cases of catarrh from the guard the Henrietta was particularly healthy. The convicts were landed in a far more robust state of health than when embarked. According to the surgeon the opthalmia was of the purulent kind and confined to the convicts - neither the guard nor any other person were affected with it. This lead to the surgeon concluding that the prisoners brought the disease with them from the Warrior Hulk, from which when he inspected the draught of prisoners on board that ship, he objected to receiving one or two who appeared with eyes slightly inflamed. He also stated that at the moment when he became aware of the character of the disease, he immediately separated the infected from the healthy with a marked effect.

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