Medical journal of the John William Dare , convict ship from 11 November 1851 to...

ADM 101/254/1F

1851-1852

Medical journal of the John William Dare, convict ship from 11 November 1851 to 29 May 1852 by R Whitmore Clarke, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in the female convict service.

[Note: ADM 101/254, 1A-1H are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/254].

Folio 1: Front cover of the journal.

Folios 2-7: Copy of sick list.

Folio 7: Copy of nosological return.

Folio 8: case no. 1, Patrick Walsh, aged 3, Convict's Child; taken ill in Grange Gorman Prison; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and tabes mesenterica; put on sick list 21 December 1851, died 3 January 1852.

Folio 9: case no 2, Margaret Roache, aged 18, Convict (no 70); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 31 December 1851, discharged 28 January 1852 cured.

Folios 9-12: case no 3, Mary A. Thompson, aged 28, Convict (no 103); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, bronchitis; put on sick list 16 January 1852, sent 25 May 1852 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 13: case no 4, Mary Heafy, aged 30, Convict (no 85); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and typhus fever; put on sick list 28 January 1852, died 11 February 1852 at about 8.15.

Folio 14: case no 5, Eliza Doolan, aged 48, Convict (no 64); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, menorrhagia; put on sick list 24 January 1852, discharged 6 February 1852 cured, she was readmitted again for obstipatio, in consequence of febrile disturbance caused by constipated bowels, on 5 March 1852, sent 25 May 1852 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 14-15: case no 6, Catherine Sullivan, aged 28, Convict (no 72); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, bronchitis chronic, came under treatment originally with gastric irritation resulted from sea sickness; put on sick list 2 February 1852, died 3 May 1852 at 2.30 am.

Folio 15: case no 7, Margaret Keaney, aged 26, Convict (no 39); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 16 February 1852, discharged 27 March 1852 cured.

Folios 15-16: case no 8, Johanna Corbett, aged 17, Convict (no 23); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 16 February 1852, died 25 May 1852 at Hobart Town.

Folio 16: case no 9, Mary Faby, aged 20, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, concussion of the brain, fell from the water closet by losing hold of the rail and falling with the roll of the ship, the back of the head and back were much bruised; put on sick list 27 February 1852, discharged 25 March 1852 cured.

Folio 17: case no 10, Mary Evans, aged 30, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, leucorrhoea; put on sick list 10 March 1852, sent 25 May 1852 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 17-18: case no 11, Martha McBrine, aged 35, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dyspepsia; put on sick list 16 March 1852, died 9 May 1852 at 1.30 pm.

Folio 19: case no 12, Michael Frenerty, aged 2, Convict's Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 25 March 1852, discharged 23 April 1852 off the list.

Folio 19: case no 13, Catherine Connell, aged 2, Convict's Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 5 April 1852, died 14 April 1852.

Folio 20: case no 14, Robert Cunningham, aged 1 ½, Convict's Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 16 April 1852, discharged 6 May 1852 cured.

Folio 20: case no 15, Ellen Conroy, aged 38, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 6 May 1852, discharged 12 May 1852 off the list.

Folio 21: case no 16, Johanna O'Leary, aged 24, Convict (no 93); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synocha; put on sick list 6 May 1852, discharged 16 May 1852 off the list.

Folio 21: case no 17, Catherine McNamara, aged 25, Convict (no 133); taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 7 May 1852, sent 25 May 1852 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 22: Blank.

Folio 23: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 24-26: Surgeon's general remarks, regarding the trial of subcarbonate of potash in the peasoup as a cure for scurvy, which would afford the means of supplying the saline proportion necessary to healthy blood as described by Dr Garrod of the London University.

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Topics

Shipping

Disease

Navy

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Prisons