Article ID: CBB190851487

Surgeon-superintendents and Penal Discipline: The Transportation of Female Convicts 1818–1835 (2020)

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Royal Navy surgeons were introduced onto convict transports from 1815. Using their journals, this paper investigates the surgeon's role in managing the transport ship as a female prison in the period from 1818-1835. Their journals provide an analysis of the women in their care including their previous illnesses, their health coming onto the ship, and their progress during the voyage. It was the surgeon's responsibility to ensure hygienic conditions on the ship, and personal hygiene anda routine of cleanliness were enforced. This article argues that the maintenance of these disciplined practices was a major contributor to the ability of the prisoners to adjust to colonial life.

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Authors & Contributors
Topiwala, Harshad
Hickmott, Jarrad
Yeomans, Neville D.
Sehrawat, Samiksha
Dutta, Manikarnika
Cleary, Michelle
Concepts
Physicians; doctors
Colonialism
Hygiene
Medicine
Women and health
Medicine and gender
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Enlightenment
18th century
Places
Australia
India
England
Great Britain
South Asia
Calcutta (India)
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