Catalogue description Folios 2-6: Sick list on board the Convict Ship Moffat during her passage from England...

Folios 2-6: Sick list on board the Convict Ship Moffat during her passage from England to New South Wales from 19 April to 2 September 1836. Ages are not recorded but there are remarks against some of the entries and each entry is numbered - continued:

137: G Wing, Convict; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 3 August 1836. Discharged, 14 August 1836. 138: James Johnson, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 4 August 1836. Discharged, 9 August 1836. 139: James Denny, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 5 August 1836. Discharged, 15 August 1836. 140: H T Jay, Convict; disease or hurt, scald (leg), ‘Extensive, by cocoa’. Put on sick list, 5 August 1836. Discharged, 26 August 1836. 141: W Ford, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy, ‘detailed in journal’. Put on sick list, 8 August 1836. Discharged to hospital, 2 September 1836. 142: Robert Haylock, Convict; disease or hurt, jaundice. Put on sick list, 9 August 1836. Discharged, 14 August 1836. 143: Jonathan Allington, Convict; disease or hurt, scaly eruption. Put on sick list, 9 August 1836. Discharged, 17 August 1836. 144: William Steel, Convict; disease or hurt, abscess (in nates). Put on sick list, 9 August 1836. Discharged, 13 August 1836. 145: George Craw, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 10 August 1836. Discharged, 4 September 1836. 146: John, ‘a black’, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 11 August 1836. Discharged, 14 August 1836. 147: George Sheppherd, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 12 August 1836. Discharged, 14 August 1836. 148: R Vandivelle, Convict; disease or hurt, lumbago. Put on sick list, 12 August 1836. Discharged, 16 August 1836. 149: H Shearman, Convict; disease or hurt, scald. Put on sick list, 12 August 1836. Discharged, 1 September 1836. 150: G Rowlidge, Convict; disease or hurt, boil. Put on sick list, 13 August 1836. Discharged, 15 August 1836. 151: James [Dore], Convict; disease or hurt, synochus. Put on sick list, 13 August 1836. Discharged, 16 August 1836. 152: Henry Weland, Convict; disease or hurt, boils, ‘accompanied [..] inflam absorbents’. Put on sick list, 13 August 1836. Discharged, 18 August 1836. 153: Charles Jones, Convict; disease or hurt, abscess (in nates), ‘this and Steel’s just on outer [...] of arms’. Put on sick list, 14 August 1836. Discharged, 17 August 1836. 154: Jonathan Clark, Convict; disease or hurt, abscess (on knee). Put on sick list, 15 August 1836. Discharged, 1 September 1836. 155: McKinnon, Sailor; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 15 August 1836. Discharged, 5 September 1836. Note alongside cases 155 – 159 that all recovered but Paterson and Lewis were not expected to, they had been delirious and were the worst cases the surgeon knew. The crew were not allowed tea, coffee, sugar or ‘small stores’. 156: F Trinling, Sailor; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 August 1836. Discharged, 5 September 1836. 157: Paterson, Sailor; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 August 1836. Discharged, 5 September 1836. 158: Lewis, Sailor; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 August 1836. Discharged, 5 September 1836. 159: Kerr, Sailor; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 August 1836. Discharged, 5 September 1836. 160: Johnson, ‘a black’, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 16 August 1836. Discharged, 19 August 1836. 161: R Balls, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 16 August 1836. Discharged, 20 August 1836. 162: G Tims, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 17 August 1836. Discharged, 19 August 1836. 163: Machoney, Child; disease or hurt, fractured tibia. Put on sick list, 19 August 1836. Went on shore with the guard, 2 September 1836. 164: Jonathan Woodward, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy, ‘slight case, only in gums’. Put on sick list, 19 August 1836. Discharged, 3 September 1836. 165: Henry Bridgedon, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy, ‘slight case, echymosed tumours on arms’. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836. Discharged, 3 September 1836. 166: Neilson, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea, ‘symptoms of diseased heart, died in hospital’. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836. Discharged to hospital, 2 September 1836. 167: A Selwood, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836. Discharged, 25 August 1836. 168: T [Simmons], Convict; disease or hurt, excoriation. Put on sick list, 21 August 1836. Discharged, 27 August 1836. 169: R Jenkins, Convict; disease or hurt, periodical headache. Put on sick list, 21 August 1836. Discharged, 28 August 1836. 170: Thomas Barber, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea, ‘got a truss for inguinal hernia’. Put on sick list, 22 August 1836. Discharged, 31 August 1836. 171: Robert Stewart, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 25 August 1836. Discharged, 30 August 1836. 172: Henry Wagden, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 26 August 1836. Discharged, 31 August 1836. Note alongside cases 172 – 174 that in these cases the tonsils were only slightly swelled and had aphthous sores on them, the weather was cold and squally. 173: Patrick, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 26 August 1836. Discharged, 29 August 1836. 174: Jonathan Kennedy, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche ton. Put on sick list, 29 August 1836. Discharged, 31 August 1836. 175: R Turner, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 29 August 1836. Discharged, 1 September 1836. 176: R Frank, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, ‘Squally cold weather, passing along the coast of New South Wales’. Put on sick list, 29 August 1836. Discharged, 31 August 1836. 177: Jonathan Dean, Convict; disease or hurt, rheumatism (acute), ‘recovering, affects lesser extremities most, taking calomel and opium’. Put on sick list, 28 August 1836. Discharged, 2 September 1836. 178: [Samuel] Gilbert, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 30 August 1836. Discharged, 2 September 1836. 179: T Sullivan, Convict; disease or hurt, epilepsy, ‘one V S [venesection?], frequent purgation & seton in neck. The seton of most use in stopping, while in the ship, a disease which had long existed, recurring every week & sometimes oftener’. Put on sick list, 21 June 1836. Discharged, 10 August 1836. Signed John Smith Surgeon.