Catalogue description Folio 12: M A Donaldson, aged 23, Prisoner; disease or hurt, urticaria. Put on sick...

Folio 12: M A Donaldson, aged 23, Prisoner; disease or hurt, urticaria. Put on sick list, 8 September 1836, at sea. Discharged, 25 September 1836.

Folio 12: Judith Deering, aged 30, Prisoner; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 15 September 1836, at sea. Discharged, 30 September 1836.

Folio 13: Anne Dunne, aged 16, Prisoner; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, [no date] of some standing. Discharged, 30 September 1836. Several irritable sore just below the knee and in the ham, apparently produced by a garter that was too tight. It was very difficult to get her to attend the hospital so the surgeon had to impose slight punishment for non attendance.

Folios 13-15: Mary Welch, aged 32, Prisoner; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 1 October 1836, at sea. Discharged, 20 October 1836. She had been ill for nearly a week with pain in the side, back and knees and suffered frequent vomiting in the first two days of her illness. 'This woman like most of the other prisoners, is very irritable and [has] been in the habit of indulging most of her passions - which no doubt has contributed greatly to the present affection - suppressed anger often now producing in many of them strong convulsive action, in some cases amounting to epilepsy in all its symptoms'. Her case shows that 'indulgence of passions' can produce congestion which is damaging to health as real inflammation and should be guarded against.

Folios 15-16: Ellen Corcoran, aged 38, Prisoner; disease or hurt, ptyalismus. Put on sick list, 1 September 1836, at sea. Discharged, 25 October 1836. Suffered natural salivation without the administration of medicine of any kind. The effects induced pain in the head, great prostration of strength, loss of appetite, restless nights and fetor of breath, as much as produced by treatment with mercury. There were many similar cases in the England Convict Ship and the surgeon is at a loss to account for it unless it is produced by the sudden change from simple food to 'a very rich diet' and a sea voyage.

Folios 16-17: Sally Hurly, aged 21, Prisoner; disease or hurt, ptyalismus. Put on sick list, 20 October 1836, at sea. Discharged, 28 November 1836. Similar to the previous case but with much more severe symptoms in a 'quiet, well tempered woman of fewer years, and one of the last likely to be attacked with any disease'. The salivation became so severe in a few days that the surgeon feared for her life, her fauces and throat were so inflamed and enlarged that she could not swallow for 2 days. This was one of the worst cases of natural salivation the surgeon had seen.

Folios 17-18: Mary Ryan, aged 27, Prisoner; disease or hurt, ulcus. Put on sick list, 20 August 1836, but of long standing. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 20 December 1836. Several large ulcers on her leg and ankle, the most ill conditioned ulcers the surgeon had seen, her general health was far from good. 'The great want of attention in these people to themselves rendered it a difficult matter to treat them with success'. The surgeon comments on the health benefits of keeping them on deck all day and the richer diet, which, he says 'has much influence on the glands, more particularly in promoting a natural salivation which when begun, is most difficult to subdue'.

Folio 18: Joanna [Shehan], aged 28, Prisoner; disease or hurt, icterus. Put on sick list, 14 December 1836, at Sydney. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 20 December 1836. 'A quiet inoffensive creature', she had suffered biliary affection approaching to jaundice. She was sent to the hospital because she was not healthy enough for assignment.

Folio 19: [Elizabeth] Lawless, aged 30, Prisoner; disease or hurt, icterus. Put on sick list, 20 September 1836, at sea. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 20 December 1836. 'A poor quiet creature with a young infant equally as unhealthy as its mother'. They were kept alive on the voyage by preserved meats and oatmeal granted at the surgeon's special request before sailing.

Folio 19: Mary Ann McCanna, aged 28, Prisoner; disease or hurt, pseudo syphilis. Put on sick list, 1 December 1836, at sea. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 20 December 1836. She had frequently complained of rheumatic affections in various parts of her body. She was sent to the hospital on arrival at Sydney because she was not well enough to be assigned to work.

Folio 20: Eleanor [McKinney], aged 46, Prisoner; disease or hurt, tabes. Put on sick list, 20 September 1836, at sea. She lost her child on the voyage and was so grieved that she 'was quite unmanageable'. She was given every comfort possible and the medicines which were most likely to be of service.

Folio 20: Mary Davison, aged 30, Prisoner; disease or hurt, ulcus. Put on sick list, [no date] of long standing. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 20 December 1836. She 'had an irritable sore on the leg and her habit very cachectic', she was given various treatments without much success and was sent for the benefit of hospital treatment before being assigned work.

Folio 21: Catharine Eagan, aged 24, Prisoner; disease or hurt, palpitatio. Put on sick list, 1 December 1836, at sea. Sent to the hospital at Parramatta, 20 December 1836. She had been healthy until nearly the end of the voyage when she complained of biliary derangement and palpitations.

Folio 21: Owen [McKinney], aged 16 months, Child of Eleanor [McKinney]; disease or hurt, hydrocephalous. Died at sea [no date recorded]. 'This child owed its death in great measure to the obstinacy of the mother who used to cram it with all sorts of trash, contrary to my repeated directions'.

Folio 21: Anne Maxwell, aged 27, Prisoner; disease or hurt, amentia. Put on sick list, [no date recorded] frequently, at sea. Discharged, [16] December 1836. 'This woman was of a full and strong habit and subject to violent fits of passion, which ended in symptoms of epilepsy, sometimes real, sometimes affected. When not in violent fits of passion her conduct was very strange and subject to aberrations of mind, the slightest check of outrageous conduct would call down the most violent abuse on any one, whoever it might be, that offered to check her violent and outrageous conduct'.

Folio 22: Blank.