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Catalogue reference: ADM 101/34/2
This record is about the Medical and surgical journal of HM hired convict ship Hercules from 22 May to 22... dating from 1830 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 101/34/2
1830
Medical and surgical journal of HM hired convict ship Hercules from 22 May to 22 November 1830 by William Martin, surgeon, during which time the ship was employed in a passage from Deptford to Kingstown and from there conveying 200 male convicts to Sydney in New South Wales.
Folios 1-2: Thomas Marlow, aged 27, convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 17 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 23 July 1830 cured.
Folios 2-3: James Gartland, aged 48, convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 30 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 27 July 1830 cured.
Folios 3-4: Thomas Cassidy, aged 28, convict; case number 3; disease or hurt, nausea marina. Put on sick list, 1 August 1830 at sea. Discharged 1 November 1830.
Folios 5-6: Michael White, aged 33, convict from the hulk at Kingstown; case number 4; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 16 August 1830 at sea. Died 26 August 1830.
Folios 6-8: Robert Bruton, aged 22, convict; case number 5; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 4 September 1830 at sea. Discharged 1 November 1830 to the Colonial hospital at Sydney.
Folio 9: Thomas Marlow, aged 17, convict; case number 6; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 9 September 1830 at sea. Discharged 23 September 1830 cured.
Folio 10: a numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.
Folios 10-11: Surgeon's general remarks. On the 13 June [1830] the Hercules arrived in Kingstown harbour from Deptford, and the prisoners having set fire to the Essex hulk on the following morning with a view to effect their escape in the confusion, 200 male convicts were embarked in the course of the evening. Of these nearly 60 were under 20 years of age; about one half from 20 to 30; and the remainder between that and 70. The city and county of Dublin furnished more than one half of the number including a large proportion of the boys, several of whom, even of the boys, had made serious inroads on their constitutions by their previous irregularities and excesses. As the ship did not go to sea till the 3rd July there was time to establish a little order and cleanliness among them.
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