Catalogue description Medical and surgical journal of the ship Prince Regent for 21 June 1820 to17 January...

Medical and surgical journal of the ship Prince Regent for 21 June 1820 to17 January 1821 by Alexander Taylor, Surgeon Superintendent,during which time the said ship was employed in a voyage from Cork to New South Wales. The journal takes the form of a diary recording the daily routine of allowing prisoners on deck in divisions, cleaning and ventilating the prison and hospital, casks opened, windsails up, prayers and wine issued. No individual cases are recorded and the abstract and general remarks record no disease or accidents, some slight colds are mentioned in the diary. (Described at item level).

[Note: ADM 101/61/1, 1A-1B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/61/1].