Catalogue description Medical journal of the Hyderabad , convict ship from 20 August to 24 December 1850 by...

Medical journal of the Hyderabad, convict ship from 20 August to 24 December 1850 by Thomas H Keown, Surgeon Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in the convict service.

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

Folio 1: Front cover of the journal.

Folios 2-3: Copy of sick list.

Folios 4-6: Henry Williams, aged 22, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scrofula, stated that six months ago received severe blows in prison over the right clavicle followed soon after by a swelling on its scafular extremity and nothing had been done for it; put on sick list 14 September 1850, discharged 24 October 1850 quite well.

Folio 6: Michael Carney, aged 20, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris synocha; put on sick list 26 November 1850, discharged 30 November 1850 off the list.

Folio 7: James Hitchcock, aged 24, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, colica, suffered from cramps in the abdomen the body quite cold; put on sick list 22 September 1850, discharged 24 September 1850 off the list.

Folios 7-8: George Connerford, aged 33, Ship's Company; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contusio &c, fall between the casks in the hold and received a severe contusion on the right leg; put on sick list 29 October 1850, discharged 10 November 1850.

Folios 8-11: Henry Pearson, aged not stated, Ship's Sailmaker; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatismus with sappuration; put on sick list 1 October 1850, discharged 24 December 1850 to duty.

Folio 11: Patrick McCann, aged 4, Pensioner's Child; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, tabes mesenterica; put on sick list 7 October 1850, died 7 October 1850.

Folios 11-12: Michael Ladden, aged 28, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, opthalmia; put on sick list 20 October 1850, sent 15 December 1850 to Hospital at Hobart Town.

Folio 12: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 13-16: Surgeon's general remarks. Includes the plan of making the ship half emigrant-half prison, with which the surgeon disagreed with [folio 13]; the use of lemon juice as the most grateful antiscorbutic [folio 15]; and some remarks against the nitrate of potass as a remedy in scurvy [folios 15-16].