Catalogue description Folios 39-40: case no. 22, George Keane, aged 20, Prisoner; taken ill at sea; sick or...

Folios 39-40: case no. 22, George Keane, aged 20, Prisoner; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hemoptysis; put on sick list 22 January 1853, sent 29 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 40: case no. 23, Thomas Kemey, aged 25, Prisoner; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, influenza; put on sick list 24 January 1853, sent 29 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 41: case no. 24, Dennis Ryan, aged 22, Prisoner; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 28 January 1853, sent 29 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 41: case no. 25, Michael Caulfield, aged 51, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 28 January 1853, sent 31 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 41: case no. 26, Thomas Bustard, aged 22, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, scrofulous ophthalmia; put on sick list 31 January 1853, sent 31 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 41: case no. 27, Simon Coolahan, aged 28, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, influenza; put on sick list 31 January 1853, sent 31 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 42: case no. 28, James Halley, aged 30, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, ophthalmia; put on sick list 31 January 1853, sent 31 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 42: case no. 29, John Delahemty, aged 34, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 31 January 1853, sent 31 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 42: case no. 30, Patrick Lynch, aged 28, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 31 January 1853, sent 31 January 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folios 42-43: case no. 31, James Wolfe, aged 21, Private 11th Regt; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, pleuritis; put on sick list 1 February 1853, sent 4 February 1853 to Military Hospital. Folio 43: case no. 32, William Harris, aged 21, Private 11th Regt; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, vulnus, of the right hand extended from midway between the thumb and fore finger; put on sick list 7 February 1853, sent 4 February 1853 to Military Hospital. Folios 43-44: case no. 33, Henry Monroe, aged 30, Prisoner; taken ill at Norfolk Island; sick or hurt, chronic bronchitis; put on sick list 14 March 1853, landed 14 March 1853 at Port Arthur. Folios 44-45: case no. 34, Lawrence Fallan, aged 35, Pass Holder; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, synovitis, while at work in a boat at Norfolk Isand sustained a fall on right knee joint after which it became swallen; put on sick list 29 March 1853, sent 10 April 1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folio 45: case no. 35, Thomas Hayes, aged 28, Prisoner; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, anasarcar; put on sick list 31 January 1853, sent 31 January1853 to Colonial Hospital at Hobart Town. Folios 45-46: Table of medicines prescribed in the journal. Folio 47: Table of meteorological including ship's movements. Folio 47: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal. Folios 48-51: Surgeon's general remarks, the ship was fitting out at Deptford on 17 August with all the requisite arrangement, the guard consisted of Major Wyatt, Ensign Notham, two Sergeants and 48 rank and file of the 11th Regt. with eight women and 12 children, they were embarked on the 1 September, and on the 3 September sailed for Queenstown. During the passage the child Robert Henilson [case no. 1] was brought under the Surgeon noticed as suffered from diarrhoea which terminated fatally on 13 September. On 22 & 24 September 248 prisoners apparently in good health were embarked from Spike Island Prison, and on 29 September the ship sailed for Horbart Town, Van Diemen's Land. According to the urgeon when the ship near the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope, dyspepsia and diarrhoea were the prevailing complaints. At about the same time two cases of scurvy occurred on in the private of 11th Regt. [case no. 4, William Durley] and the other in a prisoner [case no. 7, Michael Caulfield]. The Surgeon also remark on the necessity of a large supplied of flannel waistcoats as meny prisoners complained bitterly of the cold, and he had no means of adding to their comfort. He also stated that the examination of prisoners by the prison's surgeon whether they were fitted for the voyage were often less attentive.