Catalogue description Medical journal of the convict ship Egyptian for April to August 1839 by John Grant...

Medical journal of the convict ship Egyptian for April to August 1839 by John Grant Stewart during which time the said ship was employed in carrying convicts from Sheerness to Van Dieman’s Land.

[NOTE: ADM 101/22/10, 10A-10B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/22/10].

Folios 1-6: Copy of the sick book.

Folio 7: Blank.

Folios 8-9: Thomas Curtis, private in 51st Kings Own Regiment; case number 1; disease or hurt, exanthema [vanilla?]; put on sick list, 5 April 1839, Sheerness; discharged 5 April 1839 to Sheerness military hospital.

Folios 9-10: James Inglis, aged 15, no trade; case number 2; disease or hurt, acute glandular inflammation of the neck; put on sick list, 2 April 1839, Sheerness; landed 23 August 1839 in the same condition.

Folios 11-13: William Pickett, aged 16, trade, brazier; case number 3; disease or hurt, venereal sores on the prepuce. Had previously spent two months in Warwick jail, and 5 months in Euryalus hulk; put on sick list, 16 April 1839, Sheerness; discharged 23 May 1838 well.

Folios 13-14: Edward Burrows, aged 14, no trade; case number 4; disease or hurt, dysentery (had been 6 weeks in prison in London, and 4 months in Euryalus); put on sick list, 20 April 1839, Sheerness; discharged 2 May 1839 well.

Folios 14-17: John Vinson, aged 15, trade, smith; case number 5; disease or hurt, bronchial catarrh ( had been 20 weeks in prison at York Castle, 3 months in Euryalus); put on sick list, 26 April 1839, Sheerness; died 9 July 1839.

Folio 18: John Marchant, aged 16, trade, mint; case number 6; disease or hurt, fever (6 weeks in Euryalus and 6 months in Newgate); put on sick list, 3 May 1839; discharged 13 May 1839.

Folios 18-19: Alexander Smith, aged 16, no trade; case number 7; disease or hurt, fever (Stirling 9 months, Euryalus 4 months); put on sick list, 5 May 1839; discharged 10 May 1839 well.

Folios 19-20: George Fox, aged 16, trade, weaver; case number 7; disease or hurt, scurvy (Nottingham jail 8 weeks, Euryalus 5 months); put on sick list, 5 May 1839; discharged 16 July 1839.

Folios 20-21: John Taylor, aged 18, no trade; case number 8; disease or hurt, scorbutic lichen? (Chester jail 9 weeks, Euryalus 6 months); put on sick list, 3 June 1839; discharged 8 June 1839.

Folio 21: John Francis, aged 18, trade, shoemaker; case number 9; disease or hurt, amaursis (Liverpool jail 15 weeks, Euryalus 5 months); put on sick list, 23 June 1839; discharged 8 July 1839.

Folios 22-23: John Sweeny, aged 19, trade, taylor; case number 10; disease or hurt, lumbago (London 4 weeks, Euryalus 5 months); put on sick list, 4 June 1839; discharged 27 July 1839.

Folios 23-26: Benjamin Turner, aged 26, seaman; case number 11; disease or hurt, venereal; put on sick list, 23 May 1839; discharged 12 August 1839 to duty.

Folio 26: Henry Brothers, aged 22, trade, post officer; case number 12; disease or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list, 24 July 1839; discharged 30 July 1839.

Folio 26: Lawrence Duffy, aged 16, trade, stocking draper; case number 13; disease or hurt, febricula (5 weeks in London, 5 months Euryalus); put on sick list, 20 July 1839; discharged 24 July 1839 well.

Folio 26: Samuel McHenry, aged 14, no trade; case number 14; disease or hurt, febricula (had been in Newgate); put on sick list, 25 July 1839; discharged 27 July 1839.

Folio 27: Corporal Joseph Davies, 51st Kings Own Regiment; case number 15; disease or hurt, dysuria; put on sick list, 14 August 1839; discharged 23 August 1839 to the Military hospital in Hobart Town.

Folio 28: Thomas Boyes, aged 15, trade, nail maker; case number 16; disease or hurt, amaurosis; put on sick list, 3 June 1839; discharged 9 June 1839 well.

Folio 28: Adam Henderson, aged 19, trade, slater; case number 17; disease or hurt, opthalmia; put on sick list, 26 May 1839; discharged 10 June 1839 well.

Folio 29: John Francis, aged 17; case number 18; disease or hurt, fever; put on sick list, 8 August 1839; discharged 13 August 1839. Folio 30: a nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal.

Folios 31-32: Diets (with details of types of food and quantities given) of jails and hulks according to information provided by convicts received on board the Egyptian.

Folios 32-35: Surgeon’s general remarks. The number embarked on board Egyptian was two hundred and fourty, (180 convict boys, and 10 adult convicts, 22 guard, and a crew of 25, a woman and a child).