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Catalogue reference: ADM 101/70/11
This record is about the Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's convict ship Susan between 4 April... dating from 1842 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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Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty's convict ship Susan between 4 April 1842 and 6 August 1842 by George T Moxey, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was conveying prisoners from England to Van Diemen's Land.
Folios 1-4: Copy of the sick book.
Folio 5: List of persons vaccinated on board the Convict Ship Susan (names and details to follow).
Folios 6-9: John Wilmot, aged 51, convict; case number 1; disease, scrophulous and scorbutics. Put on sick list, 15 April 1842. Discharged to Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 26 July 1842.
Folios 10-13: George Wilmot, aged 47, convict; case number 2; disease, erysipelas. Put on sick list, 29 April 1842. Discharged to Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 31 July 1842.
Folios 13-18: Eli Butt, aged 37, convict; case number 3; disease, erysipelas phlegmonades. Put on sick list, 4 June 1842. Discharged to Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 31 July 1842.
Folios 19-20: William Aitken, aged 19, convict; case number 4; disease, erysipelas phlegmonades. Put on sick list, 24 June 1842. Died 29 June 1842.
Folios 21-22: George Hindon, aged 26, convict; case number 5; disease, synochus. Put on sick list, 10 July 1842. Died 21 July 1842
Folios 23-24: Charles Morgan, aged 22, convict: case number 6; disease, synochus. Put on sick list, 13 July 1842. Discharged to Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 31 July 1842.
Folios 25-26: James Smith, aged 23, convict; case number 7; disease: opthalmia. Put on sick list, 16 July 1842. Discharged to Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 31 July 1842.
Folio 26-27: Francis Swinton, aged 20, convict; case number 8; disease, cholera. Put on sick list, 6 July 1842. Discharged 26 July 1842.
Folio 26-27: Frederick Fort, aged 30, convict; case number 9; disease, synochus. Put on sick list, 26 July 1842. Discharged to Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, 31 July 1842.
Folio 28: Nosological synopsis of the Susan's sick book kept during the period of the journal.
Folios 29-32: Surgeon's general remarks. The barque Susan sailed from Plymouth on 24 April 1842 with 299 male convicts for Hobart Town in Van Diemen's Land. 20 were received at Deptford, 100 from the hulks off Woolwich and the remaining number came on board at Plymouth. Those embarked in the Thames appeared in better health and condition and they kept more free from disease.
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