Medical journal of the John Barry , convict ship, for 14 August 1835 to 4 February...

Medical journal of the John Barry, convict ship, for 14 August 1835 to 4 February 1836 by James W Ternan, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in a passage to Sydney.

Folios 1-2: case no 1, John Whitehouse, aged 40, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, spasmodic diarrhoea; put on sick list 10 September 1835, discharged 16 September 1835 cured.

Folio 2: case no 2, Fredrick Elliott, aged 16, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, spasmodic diarrhoea; put on sick list 15 September 1835, discharged 22 September 1835 cured.

Folios 3-4: case no 3, J H Honey, aged 22, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 17 September 1835, discharged 30 September 1835 cured.

Folios 4-5: case no 4, William Lindoves, aged 23, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, apoplexy; put on sick list 18 September 1835, discharged 14 October 1835 cured.

Folios 6-7: case no 5, William Oldfield, aged 18, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 27 October 1835, discharged 25 November 1835 cured.

Folios 8-9: case no 6, William Barrett, aged 30, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list 24 November 1835, discharged 12 December 1835 cured.

Folios 9-12: case no 7, William White, aged 28, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list 30 November 1835, discharged 25 January 1836 cured.

Folios 12-13: case no 8, J H Ward, aged 18, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, gastritis, in mustering a division on deck after breakfast, he declared himself unable to come up, he was labouring under severe vomiting, great prostration, feeble pulse, cold extremities, clammy moisture all over his body, he pointed to the stomach and abdomen as the seat of his pain, the symptoms continued [and] delirium increasing [he was] screaming expressing of pain directed to the stomach, pupil dilated and fixed, he continued to sink and at 10.30 pm. Died. Those who lived with him in the mess stated that his habits were bad and appetite voracious- that he had on all possible occasions quantities of the fat from the coppers which he devoured most greedily; put on sick list 29 December 1835, died 29 December 1835.

Folios 14-15: case no 9, John Williams, aged 35, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery ending in diarrhoea; put on sick list 28 December 1835, sent 19 January 1836 to the Colonial hospital at Sydney.

Folios 16-17: case no 10, Morgan Davies, aged 52, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, paralysis and extreme debility; put on sick list [?] January 1836, died 4 January 1836.

Folios 17-19: case no 11, Patrick Mahoney, aged 28, corporal 28th Regiment; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synocha; put on sick list 8 January 1836, discharged 18 January 1836 to duty.

Folio 19: case no 12, Robert Cross, aged 27, convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contusion; put on sick list 9 January 1836, sent 19 January 1836 to the Colonial hospital at Sydney.

Folios 19-21: case no 13, William Barrett, aged 30, convict; taken ill at Sydney; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 29 January 1836, sent 4 February 1836 to Colonial hospital at Sydney.

Folio 21: case no 14, William Turly, aged 40, convict; taken ill at Sydney; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 4 February 1836, sent 4 February 1836 to the Colonial hospital at Sydney.

Folio 22: case no 15, William Lees, aged 65, convict; taken ill at Sydney; sick or hurt, accident, when coming up the ladder of the main hatchway fell off it into the main hold a distance of about 12 feet and in immediate contact with the ballast; put on sick list 4 February 1836, killed 4 February 1836.

Folio 23: numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal, nosologically arranged.

Folios 24-26: Surgeon's general remarks.

Topics

Shipping

Army

Disease

Food and drink

Navy

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)