Medical journal of the Java , convict ship from 30 June to 3 December 1833 by Robert...

ADM 101/37/9

1833

Medical journal of the Java, convict ship from 30 June to 3 December 1833 by Robert Dickson, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in the convict service from Deptford and Cork to Sydney, New South Wales.

[This journal seems to be part of ADM 101/36/5b].

Folio 1: case no 1, Samuel Livingstone, aged 28, Sergeant, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 30 June 1833, discharged 1 July 1833 to duty.

Folios 1-3: case no 2, Michael Cunningham, aged 30, seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 2 July 1833, died 4 July 1833 at 5pm.

Folio 2: case no 3, Edward Gibbons, aged 22, corporal, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 2 July 1833, discharged 16 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 3: case no 4, Joseph Hinkley, aged 28, corporal of 21st regt., taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 5 July 1833, discharged 11 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 3: case no 7, John Watt, aged 37, 21st regt., taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, vulnus, fell down the fore hatchway a distance of 15 feet [with] head first, he alighted with his head betwixt two casks so as to denude and concuse both ears and side of the head; put on sick list 5 July 1833, discharged 13 July 1833 to duty.

Folios 3-4: case no 5, James Graves, aged 26, seaman, taken ill off Isle of Wight; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 5 July 1833, discharged 15 June 1833 to duty.

Folio 4: case no 6, Robert Swan, aged 18, seaman, taken ill off Isle of Wight; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 5 July 1833, discharged 9 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 4: case no 9, John Warden, aged 28, 21st regt., taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pleuritis; put on sick list 9 July 1833, discharged 13 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 4: case no 8, Robert Inglis, aged 23, seaman., taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea with fever; put on sick list 6 July 1833, discharged 9 June 1833 to duty.

Folio 5: case no 10, Christopher Roy, aged 20, 21st regt., taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea with vertigo; put on sick list 9 July 1833, discharged 13 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 5: case no 11, Christopher Roy, aged 20, 21st regt., taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea with vertigo; put on sick list 17 July 1833, discharged 21 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 5: case no 12, John Crawley, aged 27, seaman, taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, diarrhoea vomiting and spasms, cholera; put on sick list 17 July 1833, discharged 22 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 6: case no 13, George Crisop, aged 30, seaman, taken ill at Cove of Cork; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 18 July 1833, discharged 22 July 1833 to duty.

Folio 6: case no 14, Hugh McGovern, aged 21, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 31 July 1833, discharged 10 August 1833 cured.

Folio 6: case no 15, Thomas Murphy, aged 28, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 31 July 1833, discharged 20 August 1833 cured.

Folio 6: case no 16, David Maghue, aged 36, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 31 July 1833, discharged 6 August 1833 cured.

Folio 7: case no 17, Daniel Sheehan, aged 31, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis pulmonalis; put on sick list 1 August 1833, sent 19 November 1834 [1833] to Colonial hospital at Sydney.

Folio 7: case no 18, Thomas Adams, aged 15, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 21 September 1833, died 17 October 1833 at 7 am.

Folio 8: case no 19, Patrick Burke, aged 47, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 5 October 1833, died 8 October 1833 at 9 am.

Folios 9-10: case no 20, Robert Polly, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, tumor in perineo; put on sick list 8 October 1833, died 11 October 1833 at 12.30 pm.

Folios 10-11: case no 21, James Crawley, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 16 October 1833, died 30 October 1833 at 8.20 pm.

Folios 11-12: case no 22, John Dunn, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 16 October 1833, discharged 24 October 1833 cured.

Folios 12-13: case no 23, John Connell, aged 32, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 10 October 1833, sent 19 November 1833 to hospital at Sydney.

Folio 13: case no 24, Tomothy Sullivan, aged 47, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, caries of the left tibia; put on sick list 4 September 1833, sent 19 November 1833 to hospital at Sydney.

Folio 14: case no 25, Robert Meredith, aged 25, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 18 October 1833, discharged 28 October 1833 cured.

Folios 14-15: case no 26, Michael Bercury, aged 20, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 15 October 1833, died 19 November 1833 at noon.

Folio 15: case no 27, John Connolly, aged 27, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 8 November 1833, sent 19 November 1833 to hospital at Sydney.

Folio 16: case no 28, Michael Brennan, aged 26, convict, taken ill at Bass's Straits; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list 16 November 1833, sent 30 November 1833 to hospital at Sydney.

Folio 17: numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal, nosologically arranged.

Folios 18-20: Surgeon's general remarks. On the 22 July 1833 at the Cove of Cork, embarked on board, John Todd, master, 200 convicts, six military convicts anf four free settlers, total 210, of whom three namely Daniel Sheehan, Patrick Burke and john Sullivan, did not appear in health. However, Sheehan landed at Sydney, Sullivan, the only person (a boy of 13 years) whom I objected to, after several physical attacks, rallied, and landed in health, but of exceedingly delicate habit. Burke died.The embarkation of the convicts was more hurried than the surgeon had wished. The surgeon attributed the cause of so many bowel complaints to the sudden change from dry heat to cold moisture, choking perspiration and determining to the intestines. Also mentioned that the Irish convicts (as these were) being so ill fed in their own country do not bear the long passage or the vissitudes of climate so well as there more pampered neighbours. Included in the remark is the surgeon's [Robert Dickson] opinion of the way in which several naval surgeons have boasted of their great success in taking out convicts without losing a man, and instead of filling this journal with a repetition of successful cases the surgeon [Robert Dickson] inserted the most severe, most fatal cases.

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