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Medical and surgical journal of H.M hired convict ship Sea Park for 1 December 1853...
Catalogue reference: ADM 101/253/1E
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This record is about the Medical and surgical journal of H.M hired convict ship Sea Park for 1 December 1853... dating from 1853-1854 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 101/253/1E
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1853-1854
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Medical and surgical journal of H.M hired convict ship Sea Park for 1 December 1853 to 21 April 1854 by Joseph Caldwell, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in conveying convicts from England to Fremantle, Western Australia.
[Note: ADM 101/253, 1A-1F are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/253].
Folios 1-2: Copy of sick list.
Folio 3: Front cover of journal.
Folio 4: Remarks about the treatment of 25 cases of rubeola.
Folio 5: Matthew Watts, aged 45, prisoner; case number 2; disease or hurt, contusio with old disease. Put on sick list, 1 February 1854 at sea. Discharged 7 April 1854 to the hospital at Fremantle.
Folio 5: Mrs Tubbs, aged 30, prisoner’s wife; case number 3; disease or hurt, inflamed breast (after bearing her child and 8 months pregnant). Put on sick list, 2 March 1854 at sea. Discharged ?
Folio 6: Steven Brown, aged 35, prisoner; case number 4; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 3 March 1854 at sea. Discharged 10 March 1854.
Folios 6-7: Theodore Johnston a ‘black man’, aged 23, prisoner; case number 5; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 16 March 1854 at sea. Discharged to hospital.
Folio 7: Charles Kay, aged 30, prisoner; case number 6; disease or hurt, lues venerea. Put on sick list, 28 March 1854 at sea. Discharged to hospital.
Folio 7: George Walker, aged 34, prisoner; case number 7; disease or hurt, chronic opthalmia. Put on sick list, 28 March 1854 at sea. Discharged to hospital.
Folios 8-11: Blank.
Folio 12: A nosological synopsis of the sick book. Folio 13: Blank Table 2. Folios 13-14: Table 3 – nosological synopsis of the journal.
Folios 14-15: Surgeon’s general remarks.
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