Catalogue description Medical and surgical journal of the convict ship Hive from 18 November 1833 to 27 June...

Medical and surgical journal of the convict ship Hive from 18 November 1833 to 27 June 1834 by George Fairfowl, surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed transporting convicts to New South Wales.

Folios 1-2: George Lockhart, aged 21, convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, dull pain in the sinciput, lassitude, and dry urgent cough, profuse discharge of mucus from the nose. Difficulty of deglution and soreness in the throat. Put on sick list, 14 January 1834 Discharged 2 February 1834.

Folios 2-3: John Lawrence, aged 22, convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 20 January 1834. Discharged 4 February 1834.

Folio 3: Henry Ancion, aged 17, convict; case number 3; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 23 January 1834 at Sheerness. Discharged 4 February 1834.

Folios 4-7: William Morris, aged 18, convict; case number 4; disease or hurt, pthisis pulmonalis. Put on sick list, 1 January 1834 at the Downes. Died 9 April 1834.

Folio 8: Thomas Gaskin, aged 35, convict; case number 5; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 30 January 1834 off Torbay. Discharged 12 February 1834.

Folio 8: John Fenn, aged 20, convict; case number 6; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 31 January 1834. Discharged 5 February 1834.

Folio 9: Anthony Tandy, aged 20, convict; case number 7; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 1 February 1834. Discharged 12 February 1834.

Folio 9: James Shuffle [?], aged 25, convict; case number 8; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 2 February 1834. Discharged 10 February 1834.

Folio 9: John Camps, aged 25, convict; case number 9; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 4 February 1834. Discharged 11 February 1834.

Folio 9: John Wickson, aged 27, convict; case number 10; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 4 February 1834. Discharged 10 February 1834.

Folio 9: James William Peat, aged 21, convict; case number 11; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 6 February 1834. Discharged 12 February 1834.

Folio 10: Daniel Driscoll, aged 32, private, soldier, 50th Regiment; case number 12; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris. Put on sick list, 5 February 1834. Discharged 15 February 1834.

Folios 11-12: William Smith, aged 39, convict; case number 13; disease or hurt, icterus. Put on sick list, 17 February 1834. Discharged 20 March 1834.

Folio 13: John Jones, aged 19, convict; case number 14; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 17 March 1834. Discharged 30 March 1834.

Folio 13: Charles White, aged 24, convict; case number 15; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 17 March 1834. Discharged 24 March 1834.

Folio 14: John Finlayson, aged 36, convict; case number 16; disease or hurt, colica. Put on sick list, 20 March 1834. Discharged 25 March 1834.

Folio 14: James Manley, aged 16, convict; case number 17; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 27 March 1834. Discharged 1 April 1834.

Folio 15: Philip Reece, aged 18, convict; case number 18; disease or hurt, scorbutus. Put on sick list, 30 March 1834. Discharged 20 April 1834.

Folio 15: George Warn, aged 18, convict; case number 19; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 10 April 1834. Discharged 17 April 1834.

Folio 16: John Poulter, aged 38, convict; case number 20; disease or hurt, synocha. Put on sick list, 21 April 1834 at sea. Discharged 24 April 1834.

Folios 16-19: John Shibley, aged 51, convict; case number 21; disease or hurt, erysipelas. Put on sick list, 23 May 1834 at sea. Died 10 June 1834, after an operation.

Folio 19: a numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal, nosologically arranged.

Folios 20-21; Surgeon's general remarks. Surgeon received appointment from the Admiralty to the Hive on 18 November 1833. On 14 December 1833 the guard was embarked. 21 December 1833, the ship dropped down the river from Deptford to Woolwich. 23 December 1833, 20 convicts were inspected on board of the Ganymede and 80 on board the Justitia hulks as to their fitness for the voyage. One exception made, [William Morris, stone cutter, see case number 4, folios 17-18], (with a detailed physical description of the man), but this man taken on board nevertheless. From Woolwich the ship went round to Portsmouth where on 8 January 1834 120 convicts were embarked from the hulk York and 30 from the Leviathan, which completed the complement of 250 men. The guard consisted of 31 officers and private. The ship's crew 34, which with women and children and passengers a total of 330 souls. After a tedious passage of 123 days arrived at Port Jackson on the 11 June [1834] having buried two convicts on the voyage. Fairfowl [the surgeon] suffered with bronchitis during the voyage, but does not mention it in the journal.