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Medical journal of the hired convict ship Pestonjee Bomanjee , for 30 September to...
Catalogue reference: ADM 101/59/3B
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This record is about the Medical journal of the hired convict ship Pestonjee Bomanjee , for 30 September to... dating from 1849 in the series Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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ADM 101/59/3B
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1849
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Medical journal of the hired convict ship Pestonjee Bomanjee, for 30 September to 12 December 1849 by T H Keown, Surgeon.
[Note: ADM 101/59/3, 3A-3B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/59/3].
Folio 1: Copy of the sick list (names and details follow):
Folio 1: John McLauchlin, aged 28, guard; disease or hurt, chronic dysentery. Put on sick list, 5 October 1849. Discharged 10 October 1849 to the hospital at Queenstown. Folio 1: John Kerr, aged 19, guard; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 5 October 1849. Discharged 21 October 1849 to duty. Folio 1: George Milne, aged 25, guard; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 13 October 1849. Discharged 25 October 1849 to duty. Folio 1: John Hiddell, aged 22, guard; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 20 November 1849. Discharged 24 October [November] 1849 to duty. Folio 1: John Kennedy, aged 20, guard; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 20 November 1849. Discharged 24 October [November] 1849 to duty. Folio 1: James Walker, aged 18, guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 24 November 1849. Discharged 30 October [November] 1849 to duty. Folio 1: William Brown, aged 22, guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 1 December 1849. Discharged 4 December 1849 to duty. Folio 1: Robert Wilson, aged 23, guard; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 9 December 1849. Discharged 12 December 1849 to duty. Folio 1: John Moran, aged 25, prisoner; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Put on sick list, 4 October 1849. Discharged 11 October 1849. Folio 1: William Grady, aged 33, prisoner; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 11 November 1849. Discharged 16 November 1849. Folio 1: William Ford, aged 20, prisoner; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 18 November 1849. Discharged 24 November 1849. Folio 1: Daniel Booth, aged 27, prisoner; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 18 November 1849. Discharged 25 November 1849. Folio 1: Alexander McGuiness, aged 21, prisoner; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 20 November 1849. Discharged 10 December 1849. Folio 1: Pat Rice, aged 34, prisoner; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 21November 1849. Discharged 1 December 1849. Folio 1: William Wilkinson, aged 26, prisoner; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 21November 1849. Discharged 26 November 1849. Folio 1: Pat McGuiney, aged 23, prisoner; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 November 1849. Discharged 30 November 1849. Folio 1: James Martin, aged 40, prisoner; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 26 November 1849. Discharged 4 December 1849. Folio 1: Peter Ward, aged 21, prisoner; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 26 November 1849. Discharged 30 November 1849. Folio 1: John Hannan, aged 25, prisoner; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 27 November 1849. Discharged 1 December 1849. Folio 1: Edward Mee, aged 19, prisoner; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 28 November 1849. Discharged 10 December 1849. Folio 1: William Liniham, aged 35, prisoner; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 6 December 1849. Discharged 10 December 1849. Folio 1: Martin McNamara, aged 23, prisoner; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 8 December 1849. Discharged 12 December 1849. Folio 1: John McDonald, aged 25, prisoner; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 8 December 1849. Discharged 12 December 1849.
Folio 2: Blank.
Folio 3: A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal.
Folios 4-6: Surgeon's general remarks. The surgeon states that it is the first time he had to return a blank journal as he had 'not a single case worthy of note'. Mentions that 301 prisoners were embarked on 22-23 October 1849 at Queenstown. One of the convicts (William Quinlan) was supposed to be feigning insanity.
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