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From: Pamela Dowling <>
Subject: Re: [PJ] Deaths at sea
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:25:15 +1200
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Hi David,

At 20:28 7.04.05 +1000, you wrote:
>The Surgeon Superintendents Journals (if available) are a wealth of info and
>helped me a great deal. So as other Listers have suggested - it is worth the
>research on that Journal.

It's always worth researching, that's for sure. I spent a good deal of time
reading/copying from these Surgeon's Journals films a year or so ago, both
for myself and for a number of other listers. So learned a lot about them
during this time.

The amount and quality of the detail to be found in these journals does
vary wildly. It depends a great deal on the man writing the journal, and
some wrote very minimal journals, and then offered excuses along the lines
of "truly I did write a log but the dog ate it" to the Admiralty, and in
some cases the Surgeons' fees were withheld because of their journals or
lack thereof, or they were not to be given another Surgeon's post.

Some journals would run to 2-3 pages of generalities, some to a hundred
pages, detailing every case. Some, of course, don't survive, or as I said,
were never written.

But it's always, always, worth checking them. :-)

Regards
Pam
An Aussie transplanted to Rotorua, NZ.

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