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This record is about the Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's convict ship Aurora for 26 March to... dating from 1851 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 101/6/8
1851
Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's convict ship Aurora for 26 March to 18 August 1851 by Dr W J B Jones, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in conveying 232 female convicts, 35 adults, children and infants to Van Diemen's Land.
Folios 1-2: Susan Dwyer, aged 20, convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, rheumatis acutus. Put on sick list, 17 April 1851. The female was attacked while laying off moorings at the Royal Arsenal with very severe symptoms of acute rheumatism. Discharged 6 May 1851.
Folios 3-4: Janet McGryor, aged 38, convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, hysteria and general debility. Put on sick list, 28 May 1851. Discharged 5 June 1851.
Folios 4-5: Ann Binks, aged 9 months, a convict's child; case number 3; disease or hurt, convulsions. Put on sick list, 29 May 1851. Discharged dead 31 May 1851.
Folio 5: Elizabeth Collins, aged 24, convict; case number 4; disease or hurt, leucorrhoea, homorrhois, general debility, scorbutus. Put on sick list, 29 June 1851. Discharged dead 26 July 1851.
Folio 5: Thomas James, aged 9 months, convict's child; case number 5; disease or hurt, hydrochephalas. Put on sick list, 10 June 1851. Discharged dead 11 June 1851.
Folios 5-9: Emma Williams, aged 20, convict; case number 6; disease or hurt, parturition of a female with physical symptoms in the mother. Put on sick list, 12 June 1851. Discharged dead 2 August 1851.
Folio 10: Eliza Williams, aged 28, convict; case number 7; disease or hurt, dysenteria and syphilis. Put on sick list, 6 July 1851. This woman has been a prostitute and has had the syphilitic disease in the worst form. Discharged dead 9 July 1851.
Folio 11: Louisa Coates, aged 24, convict; case number 8; disease or hurt, scorbutus. Put on sick list, 11 July 1851. This woman is of a delicate constitution, and suckling an infant of about 8 months old, complains of looseness in the bowels of a watery nature. Discharged 31 July 1851.
Folio 12: A nosological synopsis of the sick book.
Folios 13-18: Surgeon's general remarks and general regulations adopted on board.
Folios 19-24: Copy of the sick list.
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