Folios 1-7: Copy of the daily sick list. Folio 7: Vaccination list, recording date...

ADM 101/65/3/1

1842

Folios 1-7: Copy of the daily sick list.

Folio 7: Vaccination list, recording date of vaccination, name, age and whether the vaccination was successful.

Folio 8: Midwifery list, recording date of birth, sex of baby, age of mother and whether she was a free woman or convict.

Folio 8: Betsy Jones, aged 25; Mary A Donnavin, aged 16; Mary Murray, aged 20; disease or hurt, catarrh. Susan Whatmore, aged 18; Rose Connor, aged 24; Sarah Morrison, aged 46; Sarah Dealtry, aged 35; Mary A Hawse, aged 17; Jane O’Harra, aged 27; Jane Goforth, aged 21; Mary Taylor, aged 26; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Catherine Lister, aged 24; Anne Bankley, aged 25; Jane Odger aged 25; disease or hurt, bronchitis. All entered on the sick list 7 April 1842, at Woolwich, and cured between 14 and 24 April 1842. All except Mary Ann Hawes [or Hawse], who was received from Newgate, came from Cheshire and Liverpool, and owe their afflictions to travelling by rail road, the cold weather and deficiency of clothing.

Folios 8-9: Anne Williams, aged 22; Mary Anderson, aged 21; Jane Whittle, aged 23; Betsy Irwin, aged 24; Margaret Shaw, aged 30; Elizabeth Hemblon, aged 28; disease or hurt, catarrh. Mary Wood, aged 30; Mary Naylor, aged 40; Mary A Savage, aged 19; Sarah A Linford, aged 27; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. All entered on the sick list, 9 April 1842, at Woolwich, and cured between 14 and 24 April 1842. Mostly women from Manchester, some with additional symptoms.

Folio 9: Mary Blinkhorn, aged 40; Ellen Gibbons, aged 22; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 10 April 1842, at Woolwich. Cured between 18 and 23 April 1842.

Folios 9-10: Margaret Martin, aged 16; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 12 April 1842, at Woolwich. Discharged, 23 April 1842. Arrived on board from Manchester on 8 April and felt pain in her right side a couple of mornings later but did not complain immediately. She is described as ‘a small, pale and delicately formed girl, strumous appearance’ and she had been a prostitute since she was eleven years of age.

Folios 10-12: Mary A Elms, aged 18; Mary [Malorry], aged 27; Ann Gifford, aged 27; Ellen Bingham, aged 50; Hannah Smith, aged 24; Susan Harvey, aged 24; Mary A Gale, aged 32; Margaret Jones, aged 15; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Mary Jackson, aged 27; disease or hurt, Bronchitis and diarrhoea. Ellen Murray, Catherine Davis, Eliza Davis, ages not recorded; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Elizabeth [Livirton], age not recorded; disease or hurt, rheumatism. All put on the sick list, 13 April 1842, at Woolwich, and cured between 15 and 27 April 1842. More women who were received from distant places and were affected similarly to the previous cases, some also having additional symptoms. Details are given of treatment of Mary Jackson for oppressed breathing as well as diarrhoea.

Folios 12-13: Mary A Stephens, aged 29; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 14 April 1842, at Woolwich. Discharged, 25 April 1842. She had been confined in ‘the box’ the on bread and water for two nights before she complained of pleuritic pains in her right side.

Folio 13: Eliza Marshall, aged 21; Mary Evans, aged 19; Mary A Galvin, aged 19; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Rhoda Wells, aged 20; Ann Linton, aged 73; [Gemma] Greaves, aged 23; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 15 April 1842, at Woolwich, and cured between 18 and 28 April 1842.

Folio 13: Jane Goforth, aged 21; Hannah Messenger, aged 31; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Mary McGee, aged 18; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 16 April 1842, at Woolwich, and cured between 20 and 30 April 1842. Attributed to change of diet and atmosphere.

Folio 13: Daniel Campbell, aged 1 ½; Elizabeth Sutherland, aged 23; Betsy Percy, aged 40; Alice Leech, aged 20; Louisa [Freth], aged 23; Mary McMahon, aged 27; Louisa Norton, aged 40; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Mary Ryan, aged 16; disease or hurt, catarrh. Mary A White, aged 29; Elizabeth Brown, age not recorded; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. All put on the sick list, 17 April 1842, at Woolwich, and discharged between 19 and 28 April 1842.

Folios 13-15: Catherine Short, aged 40; disease or hurt, ischuria. Put on sick list, 17 April 1842, at Woolwich. Discharged to the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, 27 April 1842, by order of Mr Capper. Received from Durham on 15 April under the impression that she suffered occasional attacks of chronic ischuria, the surgeon had been informed that it yielded readily to diuretics, especially a little gin. The case turned out to be kidney disease and her sufferings were intense.

Folio 15: Martha Thorn, aged 19; Biddy Sherlock, aged 21; Jane Ross, aged 24; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 19 April 1842, at Woolwich. Cured between 24 and 25 April 1842.

Folio 15: Mary Campbell, aged 42; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Margaret Anderson, aged 23; Sarah Baker, aged 19; Mary Southcot, aged 30; Margaret McHague, aged 23; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Elizabeth Wood, aged 30; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 19 April 1842, at Woolwich. All cured between 14 April and 2 May 1842. All slight cases.

Folios 15-16: Hannah Joyce, aged 18; disease or hurt, epilepsy. Put on sick list, 19 April 1842, at Woolwich. Discharged, 24 April 1842. Her attack of epilepsy was severe and she had suffered frequent attacks before. Two drops of croton oil were placed on her tongue as her belly felt hard and she was unable to swallow, ‘cold effusion was tried but a spontaneous hysterical flatus occurred from it, distending the abdomen to a distressing extent’.

Folio 16: Katherine Dawson, aged 31; Maria Newman, aged 22; Rebecca Johnston, aged 40; disease or hurt, pleurodynia. Isabella Collister, aged 21, Mary Brannen, aged 24; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Margaret Galvin, aged 23; disease or hurt, bronchitis. All put on the list, 21 April 1842, at Woolwich, and cured between 25 and 28 April 1842.

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