Folio 3: a female infant; case number 1; disease or hurt, atrophia. Caroline Bartlett...

ADM 101/26/4/2

1843-1844

Folio 3: a female infant; case number 1; disease or hurt, atrophia. Caroline Bartlett wife of one of the privates of the detachment doing duty on board was delivered at 5am of a female infant of 7 months gestation. The power of life seemed very feeble in the infant and it was not till it was bathed in warm water and the lungs inflated that it uttered a feeble cry. It struggled through a weeks existence and died. Put on sick list, 17 January 1844 at Woolwich. Died 24 January 1844 at Woolwich.

Folio 3: Matthias Denton, aged 19, private 58th Regiment; case number 2; disease or hurt, orchitis. Put on sick list, 9 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 12 February 1844 to duty.

Folio 4: James Nokes, aged 39, sergeant 58th Regiment; case number 3; disease or hurt, fractured clavicle. Put on sick list, 10 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 20 March 1844 to duty at sea.

Folio 4: Henry Stubbington, aged 23, prisoner; case number 4; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 14 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 6 March 1844.

Folio 4: Charles Howard, aged [?], prisoner; case number 5; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 15 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 18 February 1844 cured.

Folio 4: Edmund Pukford, aged 29, prisoner; case number 6; disease or hurt, phthisis pulmonalis. Put on sick list, 16 February 1844 at sea. Died 17 February 1844.

Folio 5: William Deegan, aged 20, private 58th Regiment; case number 7; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Put on sick list, 20 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 15 April 1844 to duty.

Folio 5: John Hammond, aged 37, prisoner; case number 8; disease or hurt, hamoptysis. Put on sick list, 19 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 4 March 1844 at sea.

Folios 5-6: Jeremiah Collier, aged 33, prisoner; case number 9; disease or hurt, synochus. Put on sick list, 26 February 1844 at sea. Discharged 28 April 1844 at sea.

Folio 6: John Angelly, aged 35, prisoner; case number 10; disease or hurt, mania. Put on sick list, 4 March 1844 at sea. Discharged 6 May 1844 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 6: John Tomkins, aged 55, prisoner; case number 11; disease or hurt, atrophia. Put on sick list, 20 March 1844 at sea. Discharged 2 May 1844 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 7: George Keates, aged 20, prisoner; case number 12; disease or hurt, fracture of the right clavicle. Put on sick list, 5 April 1844 at sea. Discharged 5 May 1844 at Hobart Town.

Folios 7-8: John Morris, aged 28, prisoner; case number 13; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 14 April 1844 at sea. Died 20 April 1844.

Folio 9: Henry Miller, aged 5 months; case number 14; disease or hurt, tabes merenteria. Put on sick list, [?]. Died 24 February 1844.

Folio 9: Dennis Neville, aged 19, private 58th Regiment; case number 15; disease or hurt, dislocated left clavicle. Put on sick list, 23 April 1844. Discharged 20 May 1844 at Sydney, New South Wales.

Folio 9: Charles Steward, aged 20, prisoner; case number 16; disease or hurt, hurt left leg caused by being jammed between two casks. Put on sick list, 29 April 1844 at sea. Discharged 2 May 1844 to the hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 9: Hugh Thomas, aged 20, private 58th Regiment; case number 17; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 5 April 1844 at sea. Discharged 5 May 1844 to the hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 10-23: Blank.

Folio 24: A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal.

Folio 25: A list of men who have received wounds or hurts, during the period of the journal. [No names recorded].

Folios 25-27: Surgeon’s general remarks. Embarked on boat the Equestrian convict ship at Woolwich on 20 January 1844, 290 male convicts for transportation to Van Dieman’s Land. These men were inspected at Millbank prison and with a few exceptions were in the ‘prime of life’.

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