Catalogue description Medical journal of the Lady Harewood , convict ship, for 22 September 1830 to 16 March...

Medical journal of the Lady Harewood, convict ship, for 22 September 1830 to 16 March 1831 by James W Ternan, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the ship was employed in conveying convicts to New South Wales.

Folios 1-2: John Kiston, private 75th regiment, taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list 9 October 1830, sick quarter 16 October 1830 at [Sheerness].

Folios 2-3, 11-12: John W Coombe, aged 28, private 75th regiment, taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 9 October 1830, discharged 20 October 1830 to duty, readmitted for pneumonia on 5 December 1830, discharged 24 December 1830 to duty.

Folio 3, 15-16, 18: Peter Toan, aged 31, private 57th [75th] regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list 21 October 1830, discharged 27 October 1830 to duty, readmitted for the same symptoms on 31 December 1830, discharged 20 February 1831 to duty.

Folios 4-5, 17: John Ellis, aged 23, private 75th regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hemoptysis; put on sick list 26 October 1830, discharged 12 November 1830 to duty, readmitted for dysentery on 9 January 1831, discharged 22 January 1831 to duty.

Folios 5-6: William Rowley, aged 24, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 1 November 1830, discharged 11 November 1830 cured.

Folios 6-9: Thomas Neilan, aged 40, private 75th regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dusenteria and debility; put on sick list 21 November 1830, discharged 25 January 1831 to duty.

Folios 9-10: John Johnson, aged 21, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 28 November 1830, discharged 16 December 1830 cured.

Folios 12-13, 16: John Mannel, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, incipient phthisis; put on sick list 19 December 1830, discharged 9 January 1831 cured.

Folio 14: George Brown, aged 17, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febris, had rigors and now complains of much pain in his head and back skin hot; put on sick list 20 December 1830, discharged 31 December 1830 cured.

Folios 18-19: James Savage, aged 25, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 9 January 1831, discharged 30 January 1831 cured.

Folios 20-22: Joshua Pitts, aged 24, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 21 January 1831, discharged 16 February 1831 cured.

Folios 21, 23-25: William Fawler, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list 3 February 1831, discharged 28 February 1831 cured.

Folios 22-24: John Smith, aged 44, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 4 February 1831, discharged 24 February 1831 cured.

Folios 25-26: Michael Sweeney, aged 25, private 75th regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, gun shot wound, a musket ball pass through the right palmar arch fracturing the middle metacarpal bone; put on sick list 8 February 1831, discharged 11 March 1831 cured.

Folios 27, 29-30: William Frazer, aged 48, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery ending in diarrhoea and debility; put on sick list 8 February 1831, died 16 February 1831 at 6 am.

Folio 28: Kiddal Dickenson, aged 48, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, intermittent quotidian, [has] no return of his fit whilst in the ship; put on sick list 19 February 1831, discharged 28 February 1831 cured.

Folios 29, 31: Mary Maher, aged 31, soldier's wife, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 28 February 1831, discharged 11 March 1831 cured.

Folio 32: numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal, nosologically arranged.

Folios 33-34: Surgeon's general remarks regarding the benefit of exercise. The surgeon had introduced the 'cheering exercise of the boxing gloves'. He adds that this exercise 'should be very cautiously introduced and the objects of it clearly explained to those about to use it and... under the eye of proper control'.