Catalogue description Medical and surgical journal of His Majesty's convict transport ship the Ocean (437...

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Details of ADM 101/57/8
Reference: ADM 101/57/8
Description: Medical and surgical journal of His Majesty's convict transport ship the Ocean (437 tons), for 21 June 1817 to 16 June 1818 by George Fairfowl, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said transport was employed in a passage to New South Wales. (Described at item level).
The journal records in detail only symptoms and treatments, often with a full page or more to each case, but not the ship's daily routine, provisions, position or weather observations.
Date: 1817-1818
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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