Catalogue description Folios 21-23: Daily Sick list of the emigrant ship Juliana (names and details follow) -...

Folios 21-23: Daily Sick list of the emigrant ship Juliana (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 22: Matilda Milgate, aged 8; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 20 December 1838. Discharged, 28 December 1838. Folio 22: Charlotte Turner, aged 14; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 20 December 1838. Discharged, 28 December 1838. Folio 22: James Parsons, aged 8; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 21 December 1838. Discharged, 26 December 1838. Folio 22: Jane Catt, aged 39; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 22 December 1838. Discharged, 26 December 1838. Folio 22: Frances Reece, aged 30; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 23 December 1838. Died, 18 January 1838. Folio 22: Sarah Parsons, aged 37; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 24 December 1838. Died, 15 May 1839. Folio 22: Henry Oxley, aged 40; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 25 December 1838. Discharged, 1 January 1838. Folio 22: Mary Eldridge, aged 17; disease or hurt, obstipatio. Put on sick list, 30 December 1838. Discharged, 4 January 1838. Folio 22: Naomi Catt, aged 16; disease or hurt, cephalalgia. Put on sick list, 30 December 1838. Discharged, 5 January 1838. Folio 22: Samuel Ranger, aged 28; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 30 December 1838. Discharged, 6 January 1838. Folio 22: Spencer Milgate, aged 4; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 2 January 1839. Discharged, 11 January 1839.

Folio 23: Maria Hessell, aged 49; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 2 January 1839. Discharged, 15 January 1839. Folio 23: Jesse Huggett, aged 35; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 2 January 1839. Discharged, 10 January 1839. Folio 23: Naomi Edwards, aged 29; disease or hurt, icterus. Put on sick list, 5 January 1839. Discharged, 24 January 1839. Folio 23: Caroline Catt, aged 21; disease or hurt, febris remittens. Put on sick list, 6 January 1839. Discharged, 10 January 1839. Folio 23: Henry Playford, aged 47; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 9 January 1839. Discharged, 19 January 1839. Folio 23: Hanna Daniels, aged 37; disease or hurt, diarrhoea, phthisis. Put on sick list, 18 January 1839. Remained at the Cape. Folio 23: Priscilla Walsh, aged 18; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 18 January 1839. Died, 28 March 1839. Folio 23: Richard Hessell, aged 48; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 1 February 1839. Discharged, 18 February 1839. Folio 23: Maria Hessell, aged 49; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 5 February 1839. Discharged, 16 March 1839. Folio 23: Caroline Catt, aged 21; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 5 February 1839. Discharged, 20 February 1839. Folio 23: David Parsons, aged 41; disease or hurt, fractura brachii etc. Put on sick list, 16 February 1839. Discharged, 26 March 1839. Folio 23: Henry Gurr, aged 23; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 18 February 1839. Discharged, 1 March 1839. Folio 23: Henry Harmer, aged 12; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 28 February 1839. Died, 14 May 1839. Folio 23: James Milgate, aged 19; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 1 March 1839. Discharged, 8 March 1839. Folio 23: Joseph Harmer, aged 35; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 1 March 1839. Discharged, 6 March 1839. Folio 23: Ann Parsons, aged 15; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 4 March 1839. Died, 19 April 1839. Folio 23: Letty Elphick, aged 39; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 23 March 1839. Discharged, 19 May 1839. Folio 23: Samuel Ranger, aged 28; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 23 March 1839. Discharged, 3 April 1839. Folio 23: Winifred Milham, aged 20; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 5 April 1839. Discharged, 15 April 1839. Folio 23: James Parsons, aged 9; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 22 April 1839. Discharged, 15 May 1839. Folio 23: Mary Honess, aged 10; disease or hurt, febris intermittens. Put on sick list, 22 April 1839. Discharged, 19 May 1839. Folio 23: Godfrey Parsons, aged 6; disease or hurt, fractura femoris. Put on sick list, 30 April 1839. Discharged, 21 May 1839, to Sydney Hospital.

Folio 24: Blank.

Folio 25: A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal, in conformity with the 30th article of the Surgeon's Instructions.

Folio 26: Form of a list to be made out of men who have received wounds or hurts, between the [blank] and the [blank].The form has 'Nil' written on it.

Folios 26-28: Surgeon's general remarks. On 17 October 1838, 244 emigrants, with a very large proportion of children among them, embarked at Gravesend. The Juliana sailed on 22 October from the Downs and met with a series of storms until 9 November and was unable to call into Falmouth or Plymouth because of the heavy weather. The emigrants were very miserable and sea sick, unable to take care of their children. The deck leaked and the bedding was wet and the circumstances meant that cleanliness was not observed as it should have been. Many suffered considerably and those with scrofulous constitutions became prey to phthisis, which killed five, three being adult siblings. Because the Surgeon Superintendent has no power to enforce his regulations regarding cleanliness, it was very difficult to clean the decks berths and bedding. The only mode by which the emigrants could be driven off the lower deck, to allow a cleansing by water to take place, was by closing the hatches and smoking them up with the fumes of sulphur, cayenne pepper etc On entering the tropics, remittent fever became prevalent among the emigrants, generally starting with heaviness and pain in the head and pain down the spine. The most successful treatment appeared to be venesection and deliquium, followed by large doses of calomel, until ptyalism was induced, for example, on Samuel Osborne and Jane Harmer. On approaching the Tropic of Capricorn the weather became cooler and the disease subsided but there were so many convalescents the surgeon requested the ship call at the Cape of Good Hope. In doing so, however, the ship was run aground and wrecked at Green Point on 19 January 1839. The emigrants were safely landed and moved to barracks but while waiting the cases of incipient phthisis developed into phthisis confirmata. Thomas Walsh and his sisters, Priscilla Walsh and Ann Ranger died within two months and Samuel Sweetman and Hanna Daniels, who chose to remain at the Cape, appeared to be declining fast. Dysentery became prevalent while at the Cape and also claimed three lives. The last of the emigrants left the Cape on 18 March 1839 and there were no cases of sickness on arrival at Sydney but one case of lumbar abscess convalescing when landed on 21 May 1839. Signed Henry Kelsall RN Surgeon Superintendent of emigrants.