Medical and surgical journal of H.M male convict ship Manlius from 2 April to 20...

Medical and surgical journal of H.M male convict ship Manlius from 2 April to 20 August 1830 by E. Johnston, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in making a passage to Van Diemen’s Land.

Folios 1-2: Joseph Jackson, aged 43, convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, hepatitis. Put on sick list, 4 May 1830 at sea. Discharged 6 July 1830.

Folio 3: John Howard, aged 18, convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, tertiana. Put on sick list, 17 May 1830 at sea. Discharged [?] cured.

Folios 3-5: John Ryan, aged 19, convict; case number 3; disease or hurt, phthisis incipiens. Had been 12 months on the hulks. Put on sick list, 18 May 1830 at sea. Discharged at Van Dieman’s Land.

Folios 5-6: James Harvey, aged 20, convict; case number 4; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 27 May 1830 at sea. Discharged 7 June 1830 cured.

Folios 6-7: George Cole, aged 21, convict; case number 5; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 31 May 1830 at sea. Discharged 12 June 1830 cured.

Folios 7-8: Alexander McKenzie, aged 23, convict; case number 6; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 27 June 1830 at sea. Discharged 12 July 1830 cured

Folios 8-9: Samuel Rudge, aged 31, convict; case number 7; disease or hurt, diarrhoea and rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 14 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 12 August 1830 cured.

Folio 10: Charles Downer, aged 23, convict; case number 8; disease or hurt, injury of the right hand (erysipelas). Put on sick list, 14 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 27 July 1830 cured.

Folios 11-12: Thomas Carver, aged 30, convict; case number 9; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 18 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 6 August 1830 cured.

Folios 12-13: John Toole, aged 19, convict; case number 10; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 22 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 8 August 1830 cured.

Folios 14-15: Peter Tyrrell, aged 32, convict; case number 11; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 23 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 10 August 1830 cured.

Folios 15-16: Samuel Cook, aged 38, convict; case number 12; disease or hurt, erysipelas. Put on sick list, 26 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 7 August 1830 cured.

Folios 17-18: Edward Hennison, aged 27, convict; case number 13; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 27 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 12 August 1830 cured.

Folios 19-20: John Devereux, aged 22, convict; case number 14; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 30 July 1830 at sea. Discharged 8 August 1830 cured.

Folio 21: A numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 22-24: Surgeon’s general remarks. 7 April 1830 embarked the Guards consisting of one commissioned, two non commissioned officers and 27 rank and file of H.M 17th Regiment of Foot, attended by six women and three children all in good health, one of the children had not been vaccinated (total 39). 12 April 1830 received 50 male convicts from the Ganymede Hulk at Woolwich all appeared healthy except case number 3. 13 April 1830 received 50 male convicts from the Justicia Hulk at Woolwich which appeared healthy at the time of inspection, subsequently a boy Joseph Broomley complained of incontinence of urine. 16 April 1830 at Sheerness received 40 male convicts from the Retribution hulk all in excellent health. On 17 April 1830 received 40 male convicts from the Retribution Hulk all in excellent health. 17 April 1830 received 40 male convicts from the Euryalus Hulk at Chatham all in good health making a total of 200 convicts (and a total of 239 all told). We sailed from Sheerness on 27 April 1830 and finally from the Downes on 28 April 1830.

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