Catalogue description Medical journal of the Lord Auckland, convict ship from 4 September 1848 to 26 January...

Medical journal of the Lord Auckland, convict ship from 4 September 1848 to 26 January 1849 by John Moody, Surgeon Superintendent, during which time the ship was employed in a voyage to Van Diemen’s Land with female convicts, embarked at Kingstown Dublin. (Described at item level).

[Note: ADM 101/255, 1A-1G are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/255].

Folios 1-3: Copy of sick list.

Folio 4: Blank. Folios 5-6: case no. 1, Margaret Sullivan, aged 20, Unmarried; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list 8 October 1848, discharged 16 October 1848 cured.

Folios 6-7: case no. 2, Patrick Farrel, aged 3, male child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, variola; put on sick list 15 October 1848, discharged 9 November 1848 cured.

Folios 7-10: case no. 3, Honora Foley, aged 24, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrh & sea sickness; put on sick list 15 October 1848, discharged 12 December 1848 cured.

Folio 10: case no. 4, Alice Staunton, aged 34, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 19 October 1848, discharged 9 November 1848 cured.

Folios 10-12: case no. 5, Mary Whelan, aged 25, Unmarried; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, abscess of breast, sea sickness and premature labour; put on sick list 17 October 1848, died 28 October 1848.

Folios 12-13: case no. 6, Elizabeth Brennan, aged 34, Widow; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 27 October 1848, discharged 29 October 1848 cured.

Folios 13-14: case no. 7, Mary Smith, aged 4 months, Convict’s Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas of the left leg, stated by her mother that at first it was a small ulcer above the outer ankle that in afew days it began to looked red and laterly accompanied with much restlessness, heat of surface, bowels relaxed the stolls unhealthy; put on sick list 27 October 1848, died 3 November 1848 at about 11.30 pm.

Folio 14: case no. 8, Mary Leyden, aged 24, Widow; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, constipation and sea sickness; put on sick list 24 October 1848, discharged 12 November 1848 cured.

Folio 15: case no. 9, Mary Welsh, aged 30, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, constipation; put on sick list 1 November 1848, discharged 8 November 1848 cured.

Folios 15-16: case no. 10, Catherine Denaghy, aged 20, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cynanche cellurais [cellularis]; put on sick list 9 November 1848, discharged 22 November 1848 cured.

Folio 16: case no. 11, Anne Dailey, aged 1 year and 6 months, Convict’s Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea & tinea capatis; put on sick list 11 November 1848, discharged 26 November 1848 cured.

Folios 17-22: case no. 12, Bridget Fagans, aged 30, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 17 November 1848, sent 24 January 1849 to Hobart Hospital.

Folio 22: case no. 13, Patrick Millican, aged 4 months, Convict’s Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contusion and dislocation, severe contusion of the left shoulder and arm, on examination the head of the humerus found under the clavicle, the mother could give no account of the accident, other than that she was in the habit of giving the child to the other women to nurse and supposed that they must have suffered the child to fall out of their arms; put on sick list 15 November 1848, died 22 November 1848 at 11 am.

Folio 23: case no. 14, Sarah Divine, aged 30, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 20 November 1848, discharged 7 December 1848 cured.

Folio 24: case no. 15, Laurence Wright, aged 2 years, Convict’s Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, infantile remittent fever; put on sick list 26 November 1848, discharged 9 December 1848 cured.

Folio 25: case no. 16, Catherine Glwyan, aged 19, Single; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever; put on sick list 14 December 1848, discharged 6 January 1849 cured.

Folio 26: case no. 17, Jane Henery, aged 40, Widow; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scrofulous dicharged of knee joint; put on sick list 9 January 1849, discharged 19 January 1849 cured.

Folio 26: case no. 18, Catherine Lee, aged 2 weeks, Convict’s Child; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, convulsion; put on sick list 12 January 1849, died 12 January 1849. Folio 26: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 27-28: Surgeon’s general remarks, two hundred convicts, fortyfour children and thirteen free settlers were embarked on board at Kingstown on 4&5 October 1848, apparently in tolerable state of health, however they soon began to suffered from slight catarrh affections – case nos. 1, 3 and 10, which produced by the sudden change from a close prison to a well ventilated ship and exposed to the influenced of a fresh sea breeze. According to the Surgeon the catarrhal complaints were in a great mesure succeeded by sea sickness, confined state of the bowels and great bodily and mental depression, in one case [case no. 5, Mary Whelan] premature labour came on, in which safely delivered but the irritability of stomach continued and she died in a few days. He also stated that it was no uncommon thing for the Irish convicts to go from ten to sixteen days without having their bowels opened. The Surgeon passing remarks on small pox which occurred in a convict’s child [case no. 2], cases of fever [case no. 14 & 16], case of rheumatism [case no. 12], and case on erysipelas in a cnovict’s child [case no. 7].