Folios 45-57: Copy of sick list of the Westmoreland from 7 April until 30 August...

ADM 101/74/3/6

1838

Folios 45-57: Copy of sick list of the Westmoreland from 7 April until 30 August 1838, (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 55: Thomas Reilly, aged 31, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 27 July 1838, discharged 4 August 1838. Folio 55: William Hughes, aged 19, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 27 July 1838, discharged 7 August 1838. Folio 55: Andrew Redmond, aged 26, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 29 July 1838, discharged 10 August 1838. Folio 55: Martin Dwyer, aged 36, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 30 July 1838, discharged 10 August 1838. Folio 55: Hudson Davis, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 30 July 1838, discharged 10 August 1838. Folio 55: Jeremiah Colleghan, aged 28, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 31 July 1838, discharged 11 August 1838. Folio 55: James Brown, aged 38, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and pleuritis; put on sick list, 1 August 1838, sent 23 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney. Folio 55: William Bloomingstock, aged 20, ship’s crew; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and pleuritis; put on sick list, 2 August 1838, discharged 15 August 1838 cured. Folio 55: John Armstrong, aged 36, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and pleuritis; put on sick list, 2 August 1838, discharged 15 August 1838 cured. Folio 55: John Burke, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and pleuritis; put on sick list, 2 August 1838, discharged 15 August 1838 cured. Folio 55: John Maloney, aged 12, convict; sick or hurt, wounded head; put on sick list, 6 August 1838, discharged 16 August 1838 cured. Folio 55: William Winter, aged 21, ship’s crew; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 7 August 1838, discharged 17 August 1838 to duty. Folio 55: Sylvester Carthy, aged 22, ship’s crew; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 8 August 1838, discharged 18 August 1838 cured. Folio 56: John Robinson, aged 46, ship’s cook; sick or hurt, wounded foot; put on sick list, 8 August 1838, discharged 22 August 1838 to duty. Folio 56: John Harrison, aged 37, guard; sick or hurt, scalded hand; put on sick list, 9 August 1838, discharged 15 August 1838 to duty. Folio 56: Alfred A Smith, aged [?], convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus, military deserter and an Englishman, become gradually debititated with loss of appetite, swelled limbs, stiffness of the hams and inability to move with spongy state of the gums; put on sick list, 10 August 1838, sent 23 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney. Folio 56: Patrick Dawson, aged 38, convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 11 August 1838, sent 23 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney. Folio 56: William Dunn, aged 42, convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 11 August 1838, sent 23 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney. Folio 56: Thomas Tomkins, aged 56, convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 13 August 1838, sent 26 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney. Folio 56: Martin Walsh, aged 46, convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 13 August 1838, sent 26 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney. Folio 56: Peter Carroll, aged 34, convict; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 14 August 1838, sent 26 August 1838 to hospital at Sydney.

Folio 56: [surgeon’s note] all the foregoing cases were sent to Sydney hospital immediately on our arrival had we been many more days at sea we would have had a great many on the list afflicted with scurvy as it was beginning to show itself on many of them.

Folio 56: Numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folio 57: Blank.

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