New Zealand Company. Miscellanea - Persons. Surgeons' Journals [Blenheim, Birman, Oriental, Lady Nugent, Indus, London, Pekin, Tory] : Shipping Papers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Migration to new worlds.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Description: Journals kept by surgeons on board New Zealand Company-chartered emigrant ships travelling from British ports to New Zealand and Australia. The journals give general accounts of the weather, but also offer daily discussions of the health of passengers, types and quantities of provisions, common ailments suffered and any deaths sustained by illness or due to individuals being lost overboard. There are also references to orders given for the sanitation of the decks and accommodation of passengers, specifying which chemicals are used for such purposes. Accounts of male passengers beating their wives during the voyages are noted, along with the education of children and surgeons' efforts to maintain order on board ship. The log for the 'Oriental' specifies each patient attended by the surgeon, their age, disease and treatment, alongside general comments about their consultation. There are similar journals made for ships travelling from Port Jackson to Batavia (modern day Jakarta), and from Singapore to China.

Notes:

The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858.

AMDigital Reference: CO 208/298.

Description based on online resource (viewed on October 24, 2017).

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