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This record is about the Medical and surgical journal of the Elphinstone , convict ship for 15 May to 18 October... dating from 1837 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 101/24/10A
1837
Medical and surgical journal of the Elphinstone, convict ship for 15 May to 18 October 1837 by Campbell France, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage to Van Diemen's Land.
[NOTE: ADM 101/24/10, 10A-10B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/24/10].
Folio 1: Instructions to Surgeon Superintendent for the compilation of the sick book and journal.
Folios 1-5: A copy of the daily sick book.
Folio 6: Blank.
Folios 7-8: case no 1, John Costar, aged 42, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; disease, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 24 May 1837. Discharged 4 June 1837 from the Hospital.
Folios 8-9: case no 2, Abraham Lee, aged 21, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; disease, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 27 May 1837. Discharged 19 June 1837 from the Hospital.
Folios 9-10: case no 3, James McGregor, aged 31, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; disease, ulcus, formerly a marine, transported for desertion, was put into the sick list with a foul sloughing ulcer on the leg over the fore part of tibia. Put on sick list, 28 May 1837. Discharged 8 July 1837 from the Hospital.
Folio 10: case no 4, John Probert, aged 20, private 80th regt.; taken ill in English Channel; disease, synochus. Put on sick list, 4 June 1837. Discharged 28 June 1837 to duty.
Folio 11: case no 5, James Leys, aged 56, convict; taken ill at sea; disease, phlogosis. Put on sick list, 14 June 1837. Discharged 27 June 1837.
Folios 12-13: case no 6, John Jones, aged 30, convict; taken ill at Sheerness; disease, ulcus, received a blow from iron bar on the right leg while employed in the dock yard at Chatham previous to his embarked on board this ship. Put on sick list, 30 May 1837. Discharged 24 September 1837.
Folios 13-14: case no 7, George Hardy, aged 21, private 80th Regiment.; taken ill at sea; disease, phlogosis. Put on sick list, 7 July 1837. Discharged 17 July 1837 to duty.
Folios 14-15: case no 8, James Wilson, aged 29, convict.; taken ill at sea; disease, synochus. Put on sick list, 19 July 1837. Discharged 26 July 1837 from the Hospital.
Folios 15-16: case no 9, John Campbell, aged 40, convict.; taken ill at sea; disease, hernia humoralis. Put on sick list, 27 July 1837. Discharged 7 September 1837 from the Hospital.
Folios 17-18: case no 10, William Arnold, aged 20, convict.; taken ill off Dungerness; disease, scropulous ulcer. Put on sick list, 2 June 1837. Sent 4 October 1837 to colonial hospital at Hoberton.
Folios 18-19: case no 11, John Probert, aged 20, private of the guard.; taken ill at sea; disease, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 19 August 1837. Sent 5 October 1837 to military hospital at Hobert Town.
Folios 19-20: case no 12, James Lonsdale, aged 37, convict.; taken ill at sea; disease, synocha. Put on sick list, 4 September 1837. Sent 3 October 1837 to colonial hospital at Hoberton.
Folios 20-21: case no 13, Ambrose Elems, aged 24, convict.; taken ill at sea; disease, inflamed eyes and general debility, unhealthy appearances at the time of his embarkation, during the voyage to Van Diemens Land his strength daily failed without apparently any adequate cause. Put on sick list, 6 September 1837. Died 29 September 1837 at about 11 am.
Folios 22-28: Blank.
Folio 29: Nosological synopsis of cases mentioned in the journal.
Folios 30-33: Surgeon's general remarks. The ship was fitted out at Deptford in spring of 1837 for the transportation of 240 convicts to Van Diemen's Land. The military guard was embarked on 15 May, consisting of Captain Chambers of the 4th and ensign Singleton of the 80th Regiments, 30 soldiers, 4 women and six children, they all apparently enjoyed good health. The total number entered on the sick book during the voyage were 105 cases, of those 101 cases were discharged cured, three were sent to hospital on arrival, and one convict died on board.
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