Catalogue description Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty’s transport Phoebe Dunbar for 4 May to 21...

Medical and surgical journal of Her Majesty’s transport Phoebe Dunbar for 4 May to 21 September 1853 by John W. Bowler, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in making a voyage from Kingstown, Dublin to Swan River, Western Australia.

[Note: ADM 101/253, 1A-1F are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/253].

Folios 1; Front cover Folio 2: A return showing the number of convicts, guard, guard’s families and free settlers embarked on board the convict ship Phoebe Dunbar for a passage to Western Australia the number put on the sick list and who died during the voyage; the number sent to the Colonial Hospital and the number landed in health.

Folio 3: Blank.

Folio 4: Return of casualties of the ship Pheobe Dunbar.

Folio 5: Blank. Folio 6: Letter (with seal) dated 11 October 1853 signed by Charles Fitzgerald, Governor of the Colony of Western Australia verifiying the number of convicts, pensioner guard and thgeir wives and families disembarked at the port of Fremantle.

Folios 6A-7: Blank.

Folios 8-13: Copy of sick list.

Folios 13-14: William McGuigden, aged 21; case number 1; disease or hurt, typhus. Put on sick list, 12 June 1853 at sea. Died 21 June 1853.

Folios 14-15: Elizabeth Browne, aged 1 year and 6 months; case number 2; disease or hurt, pertussis. Put on sick list, 10 May 1853. Died 5 July 1853.

Folios 15-16: Mrs Mary Bennett (wife of Standish Bennett pensioner), aged 35; case number 3; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 17 May 1853. Died 12 July 1853.

Folios 16-17: James Cleighton, aged 28, convict; case number 4; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 18 June 1853. Died 29 August 1853.

Folio 18: Margaret Hollman, aged 1; case number 5; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 7 July 1853. Died 9 August 1853.

Folios 18-20: David Sullivan, aged 30, convict; case number 6; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 10 July 1853. Died 17 July 1853.

Folios 20-21: Jane Savage, aged 5 months; case number 7; disease or hurt, convulsions while labouring under pertussis. Put on sick list, 15 July 1853. Died 20 July 1853.

Folios 21-22: Michael Connor, aged 21, convict; case number 8; disease or hurt, typhus. Put on sick list, 18 July 1853. Died 11 August 1853.

Folios 22-23: John Ennis, aged 19, convict; case number 9; disease or hurt, typhus. Put on sick list, 20 July 1853. Died 31 August 1853.

Folios 23-24: Daniel Collins, aged 43, convict; case number 10; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 20 July 1853. Died 30 July 1853.

Folios 24-25: Patrick Savage, aged 5, son of a pensioner; case number 11; disease or hurt, pertussis. Put on sick list, 20 July 1853. Died 16 August 1853.

Folios 25-27: Corenlius Scott, aged 29, convict; case number 12; disease or hurt, typhus. Put on sick list, 24 July 1853. Died 29 August 1853.

Folios 27-28: Robert Kieffe, aged 18, prisoner; case number 13; disease or hurt, fractura. Put on sick list, 6 August 1853. Died 8 August 1853.

Folio 28: Infant Brown, aged 8 days belonging to a pensioner of the guard; case number 14; disease or hurt, atrophy. Put on sick list, 1 September 1853. Died 9 September 1853.

Folios 29-31: James Barry, aged 31, convict; case number 15; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 3 September 1853. Died 16 September 1853.

Folios 31-32: James Vermoyle, aged 21, convict; case number 16; disease or hurt, cholera. Put on sick list, 1 August 1853. Died 17 August 1853.

Folio 33: John Jackson, aged 19, convict; case number 17; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 18 June 1853. Discharged 31 August 1853 to hospital at Fremantle.

Folios 33-34: James Murray, aged 21, convict; case number 18; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 26 August 1853. Discharged 31 August 1853 to hospital.

Folio 34: Edmund Bailey, aged 30, convict; case number 19; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 8 August 1853. Discharged 31 August 1853 to hospital.

Folios 34-35: John Carthy, aged 29, convict; case number 20; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 7 July 1853. Discharged 31 August 1853 to hospital at Fremantle.

Folio 35: A nosological synopsis of the sick book.

Folio 36: Blank Table 2.

Folios 36-37: Blank Table 3.

Folios 37-38; Surgeon’s general remarks.