Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's female convict ship Margaret for 20...

Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's female convict ship Margaret for 20 April to 26 August 1840 by C A Browning, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in conveying female prisoners from Kingstown in Ireland to Sydney in New South Wales.

Folio 1: Cover sheet of the Sick Book.

Folios 1-8: A copy of the sick list, (names and details follow).

Folios 4-8: Part of the sick book, however the pages are blank.

Folio 2: Eliza [McGarry?], aged 16; disease or hurt, pleurodynia. Put on sick list, 29 April 1840. Discharged 6 May 1840. Folio 2: Thomas Farlong, aged 2; disease or hurt, bronchitis. Put on sick list, 28 April 1840. Discharged 8 May 1840. Folio 2: Rose Parks, aged 24; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 3 May 1840. Discharged 13 May 1840. Folio 2: Mary Connor, aged 15; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 7 May 1840. Discharged 13 May 1840. Folio 2: Pierce Ryan, aged 10; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 7 May 1840. Discharged 14 May 1840. Folio 2: Margaret Smith, aged 49?; disease or hurt, tabes. Put on sick list, 12 May 1840. Discharged dead 23 May 1840. Folio 2: Mary Grey, aged 17; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 15 May 1840. Discharged 11 June 1840. Folio 2: Mary Kieffe, aged 25; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 15 May 1840. Discharged 17 June 1840. Folio 2: Winnefred Kelly, aged 20; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 17 May 1840. Discharged 30 May 1840. Folio 2: Margaret Burke, aged 26; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 19 May 1840. Discharged 30 May 1840. Folio 2: Mary Dillon, aged 32; disease or hurt, colica, pleurodynia. Put on sick list, 23 May 1840. Discharged 25 May 1840. Folio 2: Eliza Conlan, aged 26; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 23 May 1840. Discharged 5 June 1840. Folio 2: Catherine Johnson, aged 25; disease or hurt, colica. Put on sick list, 24 May 1840. Discharged 30 May 1840. Folio 2: Mary Woods, aged 20; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 25 May 1840. Discharged 4 June 1840. Folio 2: Biddy Reilley, aged 37; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 29 May 1840. Discharged 5 June 1840. Folio 2: Litty McNickell, aged 25; disease or hurt, obstipatio and rheumatism. Put on sick list, 1 June 1840. Discharged 10 June 1840. Folio 2: Eliza [McGarry?], aged 17; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 3 June 1840. Discharged 9 June 1840. Folio 2: Thomas Farlong, aged 2; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 9 June 1840. Discharged 12 July 1840. Folio 2: Barbara Davis, aged 27; disease or hurt, epilepsia, hysteria. Put on sick list, 11 June 1840. Discharged 28 June 1840. Folio 2: Mary Ann Maynighan, aged 21; disease or hurt, phlogosis, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 23 June 1840. Discharged 29 June 1840. Folio 2: Jane Johnson, aged 26; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 23 June 1840. Discharged 15 July 1840. Folio 2: Johanna Sweaney, aged 28; disease or hurt, obstipatio, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 6 July 1840. Discharged 17 July 1840. Folio 2: Rose Parks, aged 24; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 6 July 1840. Discharged 15 July 1840. Folio 2: Barbara Davis, aged 27; disease or hurt, hysteria, epiliepsia?. Put on sick list, 6 July 1840. Discharged 9 July 1840. Folio 2: Margaret Madine, aged 17; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 14 July 1840. Discharged 19 August 1840. Folio 3: Eliza McMullan, aged 47; disease or hurt, aphonia. Put on sick list, 16 July 1840. Discharged 19 July 1840. Folio 3: Mary Farlong, aged 26; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 18 July 1840. Discharged 13 August 1840. Folio 3: Jane Quin, aged 19; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 18 July 1840. Discharged 21 July 1840. Folio 3: Litty McNickell, aged 25; disease or hurt, phlogosis, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 19 July 1840. Discharged 10 August 1840. Folio 3: Catherine Hollywood, aged 28; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 25 July 1840. Discharged 29 July 1840. Folio 3: Dr. Browning, aged 49; disease or hurt, febris, vulnus. Put on sick list, 2 August 1840. Debarked sick 26 August 1840. Folio 3: Elizabeth Mullally, aged 24; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 23 August 1840. Discharged 24 August 1840 to hospital.

Folios 8-11: Margaret Smith, aged 49 (but apparently nearer 60), convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, tabes. Put on sick list, 12 May 1840 at sea. Died 23 May 1840.

Folios 11-17: Mary Forlong, aged 26, convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 18 July 1840 at sea. Discharged 13 August 1840 cured.

Folios 18-20: Margaret Burke, aged 26, convict; case number 3; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 19 May 1840 at sea. Discharged 30 May 1840 cured.

Folios 20-21: Elizabeth Garry, aged 17, convict; case number 4; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 3 June 1840 at sea. Discharged 9 June 1840 cured.

Folios 22-27: Barbara Davis, aged 27, convict; case number 5; disease or hurt, epilepsia. Put on sick list, 11 June 1840 at sea. Discharged 9 July 1840 cured.

Folios 27-30: Johanna Sweaney, aged 28, convict; case number 6; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 6 July 1840 at sea. Discharged 17 July 1840 cured. Folio 30: A nosological synopsis of the sick book.

Folios 31-33: Surgeon's general remarks.

Topics

Shipping

Australia and Pacific

Ireland

Disease

Navy

Armed Forces (General Administration)