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Medical journal of the Lady Montague , hired convict ship from 29 June to 15 December...

Catalogue reference: ADM 101/254/1H

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ADM 101/254/1H

Date

1852

Description

Medical journal of the Lady Montague, hired convict ship from 29 June to 15 December 1852 by Samuel Donnelly, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in the conveyance of prisoners to Van Diemen's Land.

[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 2-4: case no 1, Michael Coody, aged 26, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis; put on sick list 15 august 1852, died 4 November 1853.

Folios 4-5: case no 2, D Diver, aged 27, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, tabes mesenterica & debility; put on sick list 4 September 1852, died 21 September 1852.

Folios 5-6: case no 3, A Lindsay, aged 31, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis; put on sick list 3 October 1852, died 2 December 1852.

Folios 6-7: case no 4, William Wynn, aged 26, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 13 October 1852, died 9 November 1852.

Folios 7-8: case no 5, Thomas Whittaker, aged 32, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 13 October 1852, died 19 November 1852.

Folios 8-9: case no 6, William Parry, aged 34, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, chronic bronchitis; put on sick list 4 November 1852, died 9 November 1852.

Folios 9-10: case no 7, John Gilmore, aged 19, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, chronic pneumonia; put on sick list 4 November 1852, died 12 November 1852.

Folios 10-11: case no 8, George Oultram, aged 47, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 8 November 1852, died 24 November 1852.

Folios 11-12: case no 9, William Campson, aged 18, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 8 November 1852, died 25 November 1852.

Folio 12: case no 10, James Hall, aged 27, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis; put on sick list 17 November 1852, sent 10 December 1852 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 13: case no 11, William Andrews, aged 50, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 23 November 1852, sent 10 December 1852 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 13: case no 12, John Layton, aged 27, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, anarsarca; put on sick list 10 December 1852, sent 10 December 1852 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 14: Copy of sick list.

Folios 15-16: Blank.

Folio 17: Nosological returnof cases mentioned in the journal.

Folio 18: Joseph [Comoay?], aged 19, Private 99th Regiment; pension not granted; nature of hurts, oblique inguinal hernia, received on 4 September 1852.

Folios 18-19: Surgeon's general remarks.

Folios 20-21: Blank.

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Subjects
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Shipping
Army
Pay and pensions
Australia and Pacific
Disease
Navy
Medicine
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Record URL
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