Surgeon-superintendent
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Surgeon-superintendent
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A surgeon-superintendent was a position, held by a surgeon officer of the Royal Navy, on board convict transport ship and ships transporting indentured labour, with overall authority in all non-nautical matters. Before 1792, authority over convicts during transportation was wielded by the ship captain. For various reasons this arrangement resulted in neglect of the convicts' health and well-being, and there were many deaths. Often the deaths during a single voyage would number in the hundreds. I
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeon-superintendent
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2022-07-13T04:17:54Z
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