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This record is about the Medical and Surgical journal of the Morley Convict Ship for 19 August 1822 to 8 July... dating from 1822 - 1823 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 101/55/5
1822 - 1823
Medical and Surgical journal of the Morley Convict Ship for 19 August 1822 to 8 July 1823 by William Bell Carlyle, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in transporting convicts to Van Diemens Land.
Folio 1: 14 September 1822; Mary Haley, a soldier's wife, delivered of a male child.
Folios 1-2: John Hoasley, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, severe pain in the region of the heart, much aggravated on making a full inspiration, and by a short dry teasing cough. Put on sick list, 15 September 1822. Discharged 17 September 1822.
Folio 2: 23 September 1822, sailed from Sheerness in the evening.
Folios 2-10: William Redmond, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, severe pains in all his limbs but particularly in the joints of his knees. Put on sick list, 23 September 1822. Discharged, 19 November 1822.
Folios 2-3: Alfred Moorhouse, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, severe pain in the right side of his breast, much aggravated on making a full inspiration, a short dry cough. Put on sick list, 23 September 1822. Discharged, 26 September 1822.
Folios 2-5: George Pollack, aged 32, Soldier; disease or hurt, purging with severe griping and tenesmus. Put on sick list, 23 September 1822. Discharged, 30 October 1822.
Folios 3-6: John Haydon, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, general pains over the whole of his body but more especially some in the lumbar region. Put on sick list, 27 September 1822. Died, 5 October 1822.
Folios 3-5: Edward Smith, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, violent pain in the left side of his breast, with a scanty viscid expectoration mixed with blood. Put on sick list, 29 September 1822. Discharged, 2 October 1822.
Folios 4-5: No new patients.
Folios 6-7: William Poole, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, virulent gonorrhoea and chancres around the base of the glans penis. Put on sick list, 5 October 1822. Discharged, 20 October 1822. Had been ill for several weeks and had taken medicine.
Folio 6: William Ladkin, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 6 October 1822. Discharged, 14 October 1822.
Folio 6: 8 October 1822, in sight of Porto Santo.
Folios 6-7: Benjamin Taylor, aged 32, Soldier; disease or hurt, violent spasmodic colic. Put on sick list, 11 October 1822. Discharged, 16 October 1822.
Folio 6: 12 October 1822, in sight of [La] Palma.
Folios 7-8: John Riley, aged 34, Soldier; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 16 October 1822. Discharged, 30 October 1822.
Folios 7-8: Jacob Sterling, aged 30, Soldier; disease or hurt, bubo in the right groin and around the prepuce and base of the glans penis. Put on sick list, 17 October 1822. Discharged, 20 November 1822.
Folios 7-10: James [John] Bushy, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, muscular wasting, cadaverous appearance, loss of appetite, debility. Put on sick list, 23 October 1822. No discharge date recorded, last mentioned, 12 November [folio 10], as John Bushy.
Folios 7-8: John Evans, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, violent, purging, griping and tenesmus. Put on sick list, 26 October 1822. Discharged, 1 November 1822.
Folios 8-9: John Casey, aged 39, Soldier; disease or hurt, fell backwards down the main hatchway and was stunned for a while. Put on sick list, 30 October 1822. Discharged, 6 November 1822.
Folios 8-10: John Dodd, aged 32, Convict; disease or hurt, headache, nausea, lassitude and debility. Put on sick list, 1 November 1822. Discharged, 10 November 1822.
Folios 9-10: John Ashman, [age and capacity not recorded]; disease or hurt, an incessant inclination to go to the necessary without the power of voiding himself. Put on sick list, 7 November 1822. Discharged, 11 November 1822.
Folios 9-15: Edwin Longmore, aged 31, Convict; disease or hurt, scorbutic symptoms, pain under the false ribs of the left side, dyspnoea and constant anxiety. Put on sick list, 9 November 1822. Discharged, 7 January 1823. One of a number of men who had been suffering scorbutic symptoms for some days. He attributed the pain in his side to a blow.
Folio 10: 13 November 1822, three additional cases of scurvy today.
Folios 10-14: William Cooper, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, severe cough with a troublesome viscid expectoration and slight flying pains about the right side. Put on sick list, 22 November 1822. Discharged, 5 January 1823.
Folio 14: 5 January 1823, 38 men have been put on the list for extra lime juice for scurvy, nearly half of them in a very aggravated state. The preserved meat being all expended, the Surgeon has been obliged to request fresh meat from the master.
Folio 15: Cast anchor at Hobart Town on 10 January 1823 and sent four of the scurvy cases to hospital the next day. The guard disembarked at Sydney on 8 February 1823. Note that the ship's master supplied fifty seven pounds of mutton.
Folios 16-48: Blank folios.
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