Catalogue description Medical journal of the Adelaide , hired convict ship from 2 April to 3 July 1855 by...

Medical journal of the Adelaide, hired convict ship from 2 April to 3 July 1855 by Samuel Donnelly, Surgeon Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in the conveyance of convicts to Port Fremantle, Western Australia.

[Note: ADM 101/254, 1A-1H are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/254].

Folio 1: Blank.

Folio 2: Front cover of the journal.

Folio 3: Copy of sick list.

Folios 5-6: case no 1, John Mitchell, aged 30, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis; put on sick list 1 May 1855, died 12 June 1855.

Folios 6-6A: case no 2, Thomas Boyne, aged 36, Pensioner of the Guard; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fractura, while employed on guard on the poop, a box containing salt fish fell upon his person from the mizzen top. On examination there was an extensive contusion of integuments over the right external malleolus and fore part of tibia...also a slight wound of the scalp over the left parietal...; put on sick list, 22 May 1855, died 28 May 1855.

Folio 6A: case no. 3, Benjamin Wood, aged 30, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrh; put on sick list 6 July 1855, discharged 19 July 1855 to Hospital at Fremantle.

Folios 7-25: Blank.

Folios 26-28: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal, and tables of medical statistics.

Folios 28-29: Surgeon's general remarks, on the 4, 9 and 14 April 1855, 260 male convicts were received on board the ship, 116 from the hulks at Woolwich, 43 from Portsmouth and 101 from Portland they were apparently in healthy condition, with the exception of John Mitchell [case no 1]. One pensioner of the guard died of fever inferencing a fracture of tibia and fibula occasioned by a box of salt fish falling on him. Signed: Samuel Dennelly, Surgeon.