Catalogue description Medical and surgical journal of HM convict ship England from 28 March to 24 July 1832 by...

Medical and surgical journal of HM convict ship England from 28 March to 24 July 1832 by T B Wilson, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage from England to Van Diemans Land.

Folios 1-3: Robert Pike, aged 42: case number 1; disease or hurt, febris. Put on sick list, 28 March 1832. Discharged 5 April 1832.

Folio 4: William Parrot, aged 44, prisoner: case number 2; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 30 March 1832. Discharged 3 April 1832 cured.

Folio 5: Thomas Thompson, aged 29, prisoner: case number 3; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 9 April 1832. Discharged 12 April 1832 cured.

Folio 6: Thomas Briggs, aged 15, prisoner: case number 4; disease or hurt, atrophia. Put on sick list, 22 April 1832. Died 2 May 1832.

Folios 7-9: Richard Tomlin, aged 32, prisoner: case number 5; disease or hurt, hepatitis chronica. Put on sick list, 23 April 1832. By 2 May 1832 'the patient was relieved from all his suffering'.

Folio 10: S Gough, aged 42, corporal, 4th Regiment: case number 6; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, [?]. Discharged [?].

Folios 11-12: Letter by G Arthur dated 8 August 1832 to the Honourable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, that T B Wilson esquire, surgeon superintendent of the England, Mr T Blyth, Master, landed in Van Dieman's Land on 27 July 1832 198 male convicts in a clean and healthy state, two of the original number having died on the passage. Part of the military guard consisting of one subaltern of the 45th Regiment, nineteen rank and file of the 4th Regiment, three women and two children, proceed by the ship to New South Wales; and that one subaltern ten rank and file of the 63rd Regiment, with one woman, have been landed at Hobart Town together with their arms, ammunition, clothing, baggage etc.

Folio 13: a numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal nosologically arranged.

Folios 14-15: Surgeon's general remarks.

Folios 16-17: A table showing daily the latitude and longitude and the state of the barometer and thermometer and also the direction on the wind from 5 April to 19 July 1832.