Medical and surgical journal of HM female convict ship Earl of Liverpool from 2 November...

ADM 101/21/6

1830-1831

Medical and surgical journal of HM female convict ship Earl of Liverpool from 2 November 1830 to 10 April 1831 by David Thomson, surgeon, during which time the ship was employed in carrying prisoners to New South Wales.

Folios 1-2: Margaret Kean, aged 29; case number 1; disease or hurt, pyrexia. Put on sick list, 30 November 1830 at Woolwich. Discharged 17 December 1830.

Folios 3-4: Mary McAndrew, aged 21; case number 2; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 21 February 1831 at sea. Discharged 6 April 1831 to the Colonial hospital at Sydney.

Folios 4-5: Jane Gray, aged 35; case number 3; disease or hurt, cynanche. Put on sick list, 19 January 1831 at sea. Discharged 7 February 1831.

Folio 5: Ann Craigie; case number 4; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 24 November 1830 at Woolwich. 3 December 1830, continued to improve and now free of complaint but cough which seems habitual.

Folio 6: Mary Canty, aged 20; case number 5; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 5 December 1830 at sea. 8 December 1830, improves. In about a week she was put off the sick list free of complaint.

Folio 6: F Mathews, aged 22; case number 6; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 7 January 1831. Discharged 14 January 1831.

Folio 6: Mary McGraw, aged 19; case number 7; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 11 January 1831. Discharged 18 January 1831.

Folio 6: Ann Mathews, aged 30; case number 8; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 15 January 1831. Discharged 20 January 1831.

Folios 6-7: Jane Gray, aged 34; case number 9; disease or hurt, hepatitis. Put on sick list, 24 November 1830 at Woolwich. Discharged 5 December 1830.

Folios 7-8: Mary Sheen, aged 24; case number 10; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 24 February 1831 at sea.

Folio 8: Ann Campbell, aged 40; case number 11; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 19 March 1831 at sea. Discharged 26 March 1831.

Folio 9: Helen Dott, aged 22; case number 12; disease or hurt, homoptysis. Put on sick list, 25 November 1830 at Woolwich. Discharged 3 December 1830.

Folio 9: M McAndrew, aged 43; case number 13; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 13 December 1830.

Folio 9: H Cotton, aged 28; case number 14; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 20 December 1830.

Folio 9: S [Defriene?], aged 42; case number 15; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 2 March 1831

Folio 10: Ellen Abrahams, aged 18; case number 16; disease or hurt, homatemesis. Put on sick list, 13 February 1831. Discharged 3 March 1831.

Folios 11-13: Margaret Gorman, aged 22; case number 17; disease or hurt, homatemesis. Put on sick list, [25 December 1830?]. By time of arrival in Sydney quite well.

Folio 14: Mary McAndrew; case number 18; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 15 January 1831 at sea. Discharged 24 January 1831.

Folio 14: Catherine McGilvray; case number 19; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 16 January 1831 at sea. Discharged 21 January 1831.

Folios 14-15: Helen Jeffray; case number 20; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 3 February 1831 at sea. Discharged 14 February 1831.

Folio 15: Catherine Mcfarlane; case number 21; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 14 March 1831 at sea. Discharged 22 March 1831.

Folio 15: Margaret Patterson; case number 22; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 17 March 1831 at sea. Discharged 22 March 1831.

Folios 16-19: Doro Fenn, aged 35; case number 23; disease or hurt, asthma. Put on sick list, 17 November 1830 at Woolwich. 15 April 1831 continues free of complaint and to regain strength till this day that all prisoners were landed at Sydney and sent to their respective situations.

Folios 19-22: Margaret Gorman, aged 22; case number 24; disease or hurt, colica. Put on sick list, 25 December 1830 at sea.

Folio 23: Mary Catarrall, aged 20; case number 25; disease or hurt, palpitato. Put on sick list, 15 December 1830 at sea. Discharged 27 December 1830.

Folios 24-25: Isabella Smith, aged 14 months; case number 26; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 6 December 1830 in the Channel. Died 18 February 1831.

Folio 26: Margaret Forbes, aged 2; case number 27; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 5 December 1830 at sea. Discharged 29 December 1830.

Folio 26: Mary Kelly, aged 20 months; case number 28; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 23 December 1830 at sea. Discharged 29 December 1830.

Folio 26: There were 15 children on board (mostly very young) on leaving England. From their great liability to be attacked with diarrhoea from the use of salted meat, and the danger of the disease in so unfavourable a situation as a ship. I was induced to direct that a portion of the diet prepared from preserved meats and other medical comforts, for the use of the sick, and convalescents; should be given to those children who seemed most likely to suffer and this I judged prudent to continue during the whole voyage, as a measure of prevention.

Folio 26: Eliz Watson, aged 20; case number 29; disease or hurt, hysteria. Folio 26: Eliz Green, aged 19; case number 30; disease or hurt, hysteria.

Folio 26: Janet Morrison, aged 35; case number 31; disease or hurt, hysteria. Folio 27: Mary Smith, aged 38; case number 32; disease or hurt, mania.

Folios 27-31: Maria Tinne, aged 55, mulatto - one of two persons who had been convicted at the colony of Demerara and received sentence of transportation. She was sent to England and was received on board the Earl of Liverpool from the Narcissus hospital ship at Woolwich; case number 33; disease or hurt, atrophia.

Folio 31: Ann Lee, aged 24, parturito- delivered of a male child on 21 December 1830.

Folio 31: Ellen Swift, aged 19, dysentery and parturito- delivered of a male infant on 1 January 1831 which only lived 10 hours.

Folio 32: Elizabeth Smith, aged 19, parturito- delivered of a female infant on 3 April 1831.

Folio 32: Elizabeth Watson, aged 19, case number 37, and Janet Morrison, aged 38, case number 37, both suffered fractures of the clavicle.

Folio 33: a numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 34-35: Surgeon's general remarks. The Earl of Liverpool female convict ship preceeded to Woolwich in the beginning of November 1830 and soon after 46 female prisoners were received on board from Newgate from other parts of England and from Scotland 44 making the number amount to 90. Sixteen of the prisoners children were likewise received with them.

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