Catalogue description Folio 1: case no 1, Henry Hanis, aged 2 years, child of female convict; sick or hurt,...

Details of ADM 101/3/2/1
Reference: ADM 101/3/2/1
Description:

Folio 1: case no 1, Henry Hanis, aged 2 years, child of female convict; sick or hurt, diarrhoea, the case appeared in a child of cachetic appearance and scrophulous habit as he had been brought up in a workhouse and badly fed. The child was very pale, emaciated, and very fretful, suffering from pain of bowels. Though this seemed to improve, the child continued to waste rapidly; put on sick list 17 October 1851, died 26 October 1851.

Folios 2-4: case no. 2, Mary Kennedy, aged 20, convict; sick or hurt, phthisis, the subject of this case was a fair delicate young girl of phlegmatic temperent and scrophulous habit. She had led a wild and dissipated life and was at the period of her admission suckling a child. She complained of slight cough, dyspnea and night sweats, the cough being accompanied by a whitish sputa. An examination of the lungs gave undoubted sins of tubercle in the upper lobes of both lungs and she seemed impressed with a conviction that her illness would be fatal.; put on sick list 7 November 1851, died 1 December 1851 at 8:00am.

Folios 4-6: case no 3, Elizabeth Mallam, aged 24, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery, this patient had suffered before from the same disease. Once during the passage she complained of pain about the umbilicus with tenesmus and frequent bloody stools; put on sick list 17 November 1851, died 1 January 1852 at 12.15 pm.

Folio 6: case no 4, Thomas Connolly, aged 6 months, child of female convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, diarrhoea, this child was brought up in a work house separate from its mother and imperfectly nourished. After coming aboard the mother neglected it and did not apply for medical aid till it was too late as the child had been suffering from diarrhoea for some time previously and was much wasted; put on sick list 17 November 1851, died 20 November 1851.

Folio 6: case no 5, Elizabeth Douglas, aged 21, convict; sick or hurt, mania, after some days previous excitement, this girl became so violent that it was necessary to confine her in a straight jacket and it appears that she had before been put under treatment for the same complaint in Scotland. After some time she became less violent and the straight jacket was removed and she was taken to hospital as soon as the ship arrived in Hobart Town; put on sick list 20 November 1851, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 6: case no 6, Henry Kennedy, aged 1 year, child of female convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, atrophy, marasmus, this was the child of the female convict listed in case number 2. After the mother's illness, the child, which was never strong or healthy, gradually wasted without showing any other sign of disease; put on sick list 21 December 1851, died 22 December 1851.

Folio 6: case no 7, Grace Brown, aged 1 year, child of female convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery, this case occurred in a child which had been lively and healthy up to the period of the attack but, at this period the mother became ill and the child suffered from want of its usual nutriment; put on sick list 28 December 1851, died 11 January 1852 at 3:00am.

Folio 7: case no 8, Ann Brown, aged 3, daughter of a female convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery, this poor child had been several times previously afflicted with diarrhoea. She complained of the usual symptoms and would apparently die of exhaustion; put on sick list 28 December 1851, died 4 January 1852 at sea.

Folios 7: case no 9, Eliza Brown, aged 6, convict; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 28 December 1851, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 7: case no 10, Elizabeth Bosanko's child, aged 21 months, convict's child,; sick or hurt, dysentery, the attack of dysentery was brought on by the mother giving it all kinds of food indiscriminately; put on sick list 28 December 1851, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 8: case no 11, Elizabeth Saunders, aged 30, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery, the subject of this case was a poor helpless creature deficient in intellect who had suffered several times before of the same disease; put on sick list 28 December 1851, died 8 January 1852 at sea.

Folios 8-9: case no 12, Catherine Casterton, aged 18, convict; sick or hurt, dysentery, this was the second attack of dysentery she suffered on board.; put on sick list 5 January 1852, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 9: case no 13, Ann Brown, aged 1837 convict; sick or hurt, dysentery, the subject of this attack was a poor woman, the mother of five children who were all attacked by dysentery. She had been badly fed in a workhouse and for some time previously had been exposed to great privations. She was thin and weak and complained of slight pain of bowels with purging of bloody stools and tenesmus; put on sick list 5 January 1852, died 22 January 1852 at sea.

Folio 10: case no 14, James Howis, aged 3, child of female convict; sick or hurt, dysentery, this child was badly fed and had been repeatedly ill with bowel complaints previously He suffered much pain and motions were very bloody; put on sick list 7 January 1852, died 17 January 1852 at sea.

Folios 10-12: case no 15, Hannah Oliver, aged 31, convict; sick or hurt, phythis, she had been wasting for some time before application and probably had disease of [meseutic?] glands. She complained of pain of bowels and want of appetite, great weakness of and foul breath with urgent thirst; put on sick list 12 January 1852, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 11: case no 16, Eliza Holiday, aged 21, convict; sick or hurt, ulcus, the subject of this case had received some time before a trifling injury of the left forearm which degenerated into a bad ulcer; put on sick list 26 January 1852, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 11: case no 17, Mary Williams, aged 24, convict; sick or hurt, dyspepsia, this woman had some time previously suffered a good deal from suppressed menstruation and was still irregular. She complained of debility and want of appetite and was in a weak state; put on sick list 26 January 1852, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 11: case no 18, Bridget McIntyre, aged 15, convict; sick or hurt, dysentery,; put on sick list 26 January 1852, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 11: case no 19, Elizabeth Brown, aged 40, convict; sick or hurt, ulcus, this was a case of ulcer over an old cicatrix on the leg and had been under treatment on a previous occasion for the same disease; put on sick list 27 January 1852, sent 27 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 11: case no 20, Lydia Day, aged 22, convict; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 28 January 1852, sent 31 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 11: case no 21, Mary Ann Crawford, aged 17, convict; sick or hurt, dysentery, this poor girl had suffered three attacks of dysentery on the passage out and was much reduced in strength. She did not complain of much pain but passed mucous and bloody stools; put on sick list 28 January 1852, sent 31 January 1852 to hospital at Hobart Town.

Date: 1851-1852
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research