The medical journal of HM convict ship Dudbrook for 23 October 1852 to 24 February 1853 by Mr Kevern, Surgeon and Superintendent.
ADM 101/20/2/1-3 – from the National Archives website
Folio 1: A return of those persons vaccinated on board HM hired convict ship Dudbrook during the voyage from England to Western Australia.
Folio 1: Lawrence Gorman; age, 3 months; result, failed on both occasions at which six punctures were made; date of operation, 27 November 1852 and 2 December 1852.
Folio 1: Robert Westaway; aged, 18; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 2 December 1852.
Folio 1: Thomas Godden; aged, 27; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 2 December 1852.
Folio 1: John Hodson; aged, 41; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 2 December 1852
Folio 1: Andrew McAnnulty; aged, 20; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 2 December 1852.
Folio 1: Samuel [Frask?]; aged, 19; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 2 December 1852.
Folio 1: Thomas Godden; aged, 27; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 7 December 1852.
Folio 1: John Hodson; aged, 41; result, failed six punctures were made; date of operation, 7 December 1852.
Folio 2: Samuel Beaumont, aged 20; convict; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 31 October 1852. Discharged, 5 November 1852.
Folio 2: Archibald Scott, aged 39; convict; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 1 November 1852. Discharged, 15 November 1852 at Plymouth.
Folio 2: Edward Bowe, aged 29; convict; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 6 November 1852. Discharged, 17 November 1852.
Folio 2: Mary Daly, aged 34; guard's wife; disease or hurt, debilitas and anorexia. Put on sick list, 6 November 1852. Discharged, 10 November 1852.
Folio 2: John Moore, aged 22; crew; disease or hurt, contusion ulcer. Put on sick list, 6 November 1852. Discharged, 26 November 1852.
Folio 2: Catherine Tunny, aged 10 months; guard's child; disease or hurt, catarrhus and bronchitis. Put on sick list, 8 November 1852. Discharged, 20 November 1852.
Folio 2: Simeon Gray, aged 42; guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus and debilitas. Put on sick list, 10 November 1852. Discharged, 26 November 1852.
Folio 2: Ann Leary, aged 34; guard's wife; disease or hurt, constipatio. Put on sick list, 10 November 1852. Discharged, 12 November 1852.
Folio 2: Margaret Hall, aged 21; guard's wife; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 10 November 1852. Discharged, 16 November 1852.
Folio 2: John Brown, aged 52; convict; disease or hurt, stricture urethra. Put on sick list, 13 November 1852. Discharged, 17 November 1852.
Folio 2: John French, aged 23; convict; disease or hurt, pleurodynia. Put on sick list, 15 November 1852. Discharged, 24 November 1852.
Folio 2: Patrick Goulding, aged 30; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 17 November 1852. Discharged, 23 November 1852.
Folio 2: Michael Clapham, aged 29; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 17 November 1852. Discharged, 20 November 1852.
Folio 2: William Marshall, aged 23; convict; disease or hurt, conjunctivitis. Put on sick list, 17 November 1852. Discharged, 23 November 1852.
Folio 2: Elizabeth [Gane?], aged 38; guard's wife; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 17 November 1852. Discharged, 24 November 1852.
Folio 2: William Danford, aged 3 ½ ; guard's child; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 18 November 1852. Discharged, 22 November 1852.
Folio 2: James Deverell, aged 22; convict; disease or hurt, neuralgia. Put on sick list, 18 November 1852. Discharged, 25 November 1852.
Folio 2: William Belbin, aged 26; convict; disease or hurt, epilepsia. Put on sick list, 21 November 1852. Discharged, 25 November 1852.
Folio 2: John Chandler, aged 39; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 21 November 1852. Discharged, 30 November 1852.
Folio 2: David Lovell, aged 41; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 21 November 1852. Discharged, 6 December 1852.
Folio 2: Joseph Brooks, aged 32; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea mucosa. Put on sick list, 21 November 1852. Discharged, 6 December 1852.
Folio 2: William Marshall, aged 32; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 November 1852. Discharged, 28 November 1852.
Folio 2: Thomas H Gower, aged 36; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 24 November 1852. Discharged, 29 November 1852.
Folio 2: William Johnston, aged 7 months; [religious instructor's?] child ; disease or hurt, diarrhoea mucosa enteritis. Put on sick list, 24 November 1852. Discharged, 3 December 1852.
Folio 2: John Lawson, aged 29; convict; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 24 November 1852. Discharged, 24 January 1853.
Folio 2: Surgeon's note; Wife of Joseph Hayes; pensioner; disease or hurt, delivered of a stillborn female child. Put on sick list, 18 November 1852.
Folio 3: John Witheridge, aged 36; crew; disease or hurt, hernia inguinal. Put on sick list, 25 November 1852. Discharged, 29 November 1852.
Folio 3: Abraham Smith, aged 29; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 1 December 1852. Discharged, 6 December 1852.
Folio 3: Stephen Oliver, aged 44; sergeant of the guard; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 1 December 1852. Discharged, 12 December 1852.
Folio 3: John Shea, aged 2; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 1 December 1852. Discharged, 11 December 1852.
Folio 3: Charles Gane, aged 41; guard; disease or hurt, conjunctivitis. Put on sick list, 2 December 1852. Discharged10 December 1852.
Folio 3: Benjamin Eaton, aged 38; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 3 December 1852. Discharged, 7 December 1852.
Folio 3: Edwin Leary, aged 3; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 4 December 1852. Discharged, 7 December 1852.
Folio 3: Joseph Hayes, aged 1 ½ ; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 4 December 1852. Discharged, 8 December 1852.
Folio 3: Phoebe Hayes, aged 4; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 5 December 1852. Discharged, 12 December 1852.
Folio 3: Elizabeth Daly, aged 9 months; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 6 December 1852. Discharged, 10 December 1852.
Folio 3: Charles Gane, aged 10 months; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 6 December 1852. Discharged, 2 January 1853.
Folio 3: Joseph Morton, aged 13; guard's child; disease or hurt, ulcus inguinis. Put on sick list, 7 December 1852. Discharged, 4 January 1853.
Folio 3: Peter McDonald, aged 42; guard; disease or hurt, ulcus tibiae. Put on sick list, 8 December 1852. Discharged, 12 January 1853.
Folio 3: Benjamin Jenkins, aged 22; crew; disease or hurt, psoriasis. Put on sick list, 8 December 1852. Discharged, 9 January 1853.
Folio 3: George Taylor, aged 2; convict; disease or hurt, strictura. Put on sick list, 8 December 1852. Discharged, 10 December 1852.
Folio 3: Francis McKenzie, aged 23; crew; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 10 December 1852. Discharged, 17 December 1852.
Folio 3: Thomas Davenport, aged 13; guard's child; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 11 December 1852. Discharged, 14 December 1852.
Folio 3: Michael Freeman, aged 3; guard's child; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 11 December 1852. Discharged, 15 December 1852.
Folio 3: James Archer, aged 44; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 11 December 1852. Discharged, 18 December 1852.
Folio 3: Richard Parsons, aged 40; corporal of guard; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 12 December 1852. Discharged, 24 December 1852.
Folio 3: Frederick Allen, aged 20; convict; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 12 December 1852. Discharged, 15 December 1852
Folio 3: Elisabeth Gane, aged 38; guard's wife; disease or hurt, agalaxia. Put on sick list, 12 December 1852. Discharged, 16 December 1852.
Folio 3: Ellen Gorman, aged 30; corporal of guard's wife; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 12 December 1852. Discharged, 17 December 1852.
Folio 3: Mary Danford, aged 34; guard's wife; disease or hurt, amenorrhoea and debilitas. Put on sick list, 12 December 1852. Discharged, 26 December 1852.
Folio 3: Margaret Hall, aged 21; guard's wife; disease or hurt, leucorrhoea. Put on sick list, 13 December 1852. Discharged, 20 December 1852.
Folio 3: William Marshall, aged 33; convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 13 December 1852. Discharged, 20 January 1853.
Folio 3: Mary Davenport, aged 39; guard's wife; disease or hurt, debilitas and anorexia. Put on sick list, 13 December 1852. Discharged, 28 December 1852.
Folio 3: Thomas Howell, aged 27; convict; disease or hurt, dysenteria. Put on sick list, 14 December 1852. Discharged, 18 January 1853.
Folio 3: John Freeman, aged 30; guard; disease or hurt, ulcus tibiae. Put on sick list, 14 December 1852. Discharged, 12 January 1853.
Folio 3: Richard Parsons, aged 4; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 14 December 1852. Discharged, 20 December 1852.
Folio 3: Marsella Gorman, aged 3; guard's child; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 17 December 1852. Discharged, 20 December 1852.
Folio 3: Mary Ann Gallagher, aged 10; guard's child; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 17 December 1852. Discharged, 24 December 1852.
Folio 3: Ellen Buckley, aged 3; guard's child; disease or hurt, febris. Put on sick list, 17 December 1852. Discharged, 22 December 1852.
Folio 3: Margaret Buckley, aged 2; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 17 December 1852. Discharged, 20 December 1852.
Folio 3: David Shepherd, aged 28; convict; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 21 December 1852. Discharged, 23 December 1852.
Folio 3: Ammon Winterbottom, aged 32; convict; disease or hurt, erysipelas. Put on sick list, 22 December 1852. Died, 25 December 1852.
Folio 3: Joseph Worrall, aged 24; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 23 December 1852. Discharged, 26 December 1852.
Folio 3: Thomas Evans, aged 37; convict; disease or hurt, phthisis incipiens. Put on sick list, 23 December 1852. Discharged, 6 January 1853.
Folio 3: William Jones, aged 22; convict; disease or hurt, erythema. Put on sick list, 26 December 1852. Discharged, 30 December 1852.
Folio 3: John Shea, aged 2; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 26 December 1852. Discharged, 4 January 1853.
Folio 3: Simeon Gray, aged 42; guard; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 26 December 1852. Discharged, 31 December 1852.
Folio 3: Charles McIntosh, aged 22; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 27 December 1852. Discharged, 2 January 1853.
Folio 3: John Brown, aged 52; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 30 December 1852. Discharged, 1 January 1853.
Folio 3: Daniel O'Brien, aged 21; convict; disease or hurt, vulnus. Put on sick list, 31 December 1852. Discharged, 3 January 1853.
Folio 3: Edwin Leary, aged 3; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 1 January 1853. Discharged, 10 January 1853.
Folio 3: Ellen Buckley, aged 3; guard's child; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 1 January 1853. Discharged, 5 January 1853.
Folio 3: Margaret Hall, aged 20; guard's wife; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 3 January 1853. Discharged, 8 January 1853.
Folio 3: Eliza Reed, aged 42; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 3 January 1853. Discharged, 10 January 1853.
Folio 3: Richard Parsons, aged 40; corporal of guard; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 4 January 1853. Discharged, 14 January 1853.
Folio 3: John Witheridge, aged 36; crew; disease or hurt, dracunculus. Put on sick list, 4 January 1853. Discharged, 4 February 1853.
Folio 3: Timothy Paxley, aged 26; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 5 January 1853. Discharged, 8 January 1853.
Folio 3: Joseph Ormsby, aged 35; convict; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 5 January 1853. Discharged, 11 January 1853.
Folio 3: Hugh Galvin, aged 20; convict; disease or hurt, erythema. Put on sick list, 5 January 1853. Discharged, 9 January 1853.
Folio 3: John Pearcey, aged 28; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 6 January 1853. Discharged, 11 January 1853.
Folio 3: George Felton, aged 27; convict; disease or hurt, abscessus femoris. Put on sick list, 7 January 1853. Discharged, 20 January 1853.
Folio 3: Henry Chartres, aged 47; guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus and diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 20 January 1853. Discharged, 20 January 1853.
Folio 4: James Hunt, aged 22; convict; disease or hurt, cynanche. Put on sick list, 8 January 1853. Discharged, 11 January 1853.
Folio 4: Thomas Gower, aged 35; convict; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 8 January 1853. Discharged, 12 January 1853.
Folio 4: Richard Newman, aged 25; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 9 January 1853. Discharged, 13 January 1853.
Folio 4: Charles [Tramailles?], aged 36; guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 10 January 1853. Discharged, 14 January 1853.
Folio 4: David Wilson, aged 29; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 11 January 1853. Discharged, 14 January 1853.
Folio 4: Samuel Hardwick, aged 23; convict; disease or hurt, erysipelas [phlegmonodus?]. Put on sick list, 14 January 1853. Discharged, 27 January 1853.
Folio 4: Martha [Tramailles?], aged 22; guard's wife; disease or hurt, menorrhagia. Put on sick list, 15 January 1853. Discharged, 23 January 1853.
Folio 4: Ann Griffen, aged 22; guard's wife; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 20 January 1853. Discharged, 23 January 1853.
Folio 4: Sarah Gallagher, aged 35; guard's wife; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 22 January 1853. Discharged, 25 January 1853.
Folio 4: Charles Hall, aged 37; guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 24 January 1853. Discharged, 27 January 1853.
Folio 4: Darby Connor, aged 41; convict; disease or hurt, contusion coxae. Put on sick list, 26 January 1853. Discharged, 6 February 1853.
Folio 4: Thomas Evans, aged 37; convict; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 27 January 1853. Discharged, 10 February 1853 convalescent to hospital Fremantle.
Folio 4: Joseph Hayes, aged 30; guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 27 January 1853. Discharged, 31 January 1853.
Folio 4: Margaret Hall, aged 20; guard's wife; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 27 January 1853. Discharged, 1 February 1853.
Folio 4: Samuel Hardwick, aged 23; convict; disease or hurt, contusio. Put on sick list, 29 January 1853. Discharged, 5 February 1853.
Folio 4: William Marshall, aged 34; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 29 January 1853. Discharged, 2 February 1853.
Folio 4: James Conolly, aged 47; convict; disease or hurt, ulcus. Put on sick list, 1 February 1853. Discharged, 9 February 1853.
Folio 4: George Selby, aged 27; convict; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 1 February 1853. Discharged, 4 February 1853.
Folio 4: George Felton, aged 27; convict; disease or hurt, abscessus femoris. Put on sick list, 2 February 1853. Discharged, 10 February 1853.
Folio 4: Ann Griffin, aged 22; guard's wife; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 2 February 1853. Discharged, 6 February 1853.
Folio 4: Stephen Oliver, aged 44; sergeant of guard; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 4 February 1853. Discharged, 12 February 1853.
Folio 4: John Lawson, aged 29; convict; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 4 February 1853. Discharged, 10 February 1853 convalescent to hospital Fremantle.
Folio 4: James Daly, aged 41; guard; disease or hurt, catarrhus. Put on sick list, 4 February 1853. Discharged, 6 February 1853.
Folio 4: James Went, aged 23; convict; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 4 February 1853. Discharged, 7 February 1853.
Folio 4: George Whitehill, aged 28; convict; disease or hurt, phlgmon. Put on sick list, 5 February 1853. Discharged, 8 February 1853.
Folio 4: Joseph Brooks, aged 32; convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 5 February1853. Discharged, 8 February1853.
Folio 4: John Davis, aged 26; guard; disease or hurt, rheumatismus. Put on sick list, 8 February1853. Discharged, 11 February1853.
Folios 4-5: Archibald Scott, aged 39, convict received from the Defence convict ship at Woolwich on 30 October 1852; case number 1; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 1 November 1852, at Gravesend. Discharged 15 November 1852 at Plymouth for conveyance to Dartmoor prison.
Folios 6-7: John Lawson, aged 29, convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, haemotyon. Put on sick list, 24 November 1852, at Bay of Biscay. Discharged 10 February 1853 to hospital.
Folio 8: John Witheridge, aged 36, sailmaker and boatswain of the ship; case number 1; disease or hurt, hernia inguinis. Put on sick list, 25 November 1852, at sea. Discharged 29 November 1852.
Folios 8-10: William Marshall, aged 33, convict (received on board from Dartmoor prison); case number 1; disease or hurt, hamorrhagia et dysenteria. Put on sick list, 13 December 1852, at sea. Discharged 20 January 1853 cured.
Folios 10-11: Thomas Howell, aged [not stated], convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, dysenteria acute. Put on sick list, 13 December 1852, at sea. Discharged 18 January 1853 cured.
Folios 11-13: Ammon Winterbottom, aged 32, convict; case number 1; disease or hurt, erysepilas gravior. Put on sick list, 21 December 1852, at sea. Died 25 December 1852.
Folios 13-14: Richard Parsons, aged 40, sergeant pensioner guard; case number 2; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 12 December 1852, at sea. Discharged 24 December 1852 to duty. Disease reoccurred on 4 January 1853 at sea, discharged 14 January 1853.
Folios 14-15: Thomas Evans, aged 37, convict; case number 2; disease or hurt, phthisis incipiens. Put on sick list, 23 December 1852, at sea. Discharged 6 January 1853 to duty. Readmitted 27 January 1853 and discharged to the convict hospital in Fremantle on 10 February 1853.
Folios 15-17: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.
Folios 17-21: Surgeon's general remarks The Dudbrook having been fitted at Deptford, for the reception and transport of male convicts and guard of pensioners with their families to Western Australia, embarked her crew and a portion of the troops at that port and proceeded on 29 October [1852] to Woolwich, there received on board 50 prisoners from the convict hulks and family of the Religious Instructor, and calling off Gravesend on 2 November 1852 embarked the remainder of the Guard with the whole of their families consisting of 24 married women, 2 adult females, 43 young children of whom 7 were infants. With these the ship proceeded to Portsmouth anchored at Spithead on the 5 November 1852 when having received from the prisons at Portsmouth 59, Portland 65, and Parkhurst 1convicts, she sailed on the 9 November [1852] for Plymouth, at which place provisions, water were completed and 55 convicts received on 15 November 1852 from the prison at Dartmoor, to the hospital of which one convict being unfit for the voyage from sickness was sent on the same day. The number of persons on board at the time of leaving England were as follows: Surgeon Superintendent, Religious Instructor, Master and Crew, 36; Guard, 30; convicts, 229; families of religious instructor and guard, being women 27, children 45. Total of 367.
Folio 21: Thermometer and weather readings..