Folios 1-3: Jeffery McDermott, aged 36, Soldier of the 21st Regiment, Royal North...

Folios 1-3: Jeffery McDermott, aged 36, Soldier of the 21st Regiment, Royal North British Fusiliers; disease or hurt, spasmodic cholera. Put on sick list, 23 August 1835, at Deptford. Discharged, 1 September 1835. The guard embarked on 22 August 1835, McDermott was a servant to the junior officer of the guard. He had been in hospital suffering similar symptoms and was discharged on the day they embarked, feeling better. Towards the end of his illness he was so thin, his skin pallid and eyes surrounded by dark rings, that his officer, Captain Potter of the 28th Regiment, said he would not have known him.

Folios 3-4: Alexander McArthur, aged 29, Soldier of the 28th Regiment; disease or hurt, spasmodic cholera. Put on sick list, 25 August 1835, off Gravesend. Discharged, 1 September 1835. This soldier was the principal attendant on McDermott in his illness. He had been in prison for two months for desertion and looked ill when he came on board.

Folio 5: George Nelson, aged 21, Soldier of the 28th Regiment; disease or hurt, erysipelas. Put on sick list, 13 September 1835, at Spithead. Discharged, 21 September 1835. He had not been well for a day or two and complained of headache, pain of the loins, lassitude and suffered 'something like epilepsy' on the day he reported sick. Discharged to the barracks without having recovered his strength because a prisoner with small pox was admitted to the hospital. He returned to duty on 1 October 1835.

Folio 6: Alfred Tibbitt, aged 20, Seaman; disease or hurt, modified small pox. Put on sick list, 26 August 1835, in the channel off Dungeness. Sent on shore to sick lodgings at Portsmouth, 1 September 1835. He had suffered from a cold for a couple of days, with stiffness of his muscles, and complained of thirst, headache and pains in his limbs. On 28 August the surgeon found he had 'very numerous eruptions, over every part of the body, particularly the face' in spite of having been vaccinated. He was sent on shore with his bedding and his sleeping place whitewashed with chloride of lime. All his bedding and clothes were carefully washed while he was ashore. The surgeon notes that on his return the pit marks on his face were unusually shaped, 'as if a small bird had pecked the pieces of skin out'.

Folios 7-8: John Bennett, aged 35, Seaman; disease or hurt, pneumonia, variola confluens. Put on sick list, 11 September 1835, at Spithead. Died, 29 September 1835. The surgeon had remarked to the master of the ship that Bennett was unhealthy when he first came on board, he appeared to have had some disease of the lungs. When he showed signs of eruptions on his face he was removed to the forecastle, to isolate him as much as possible, and Tibbitt appointed to care for him. He would have been put in the prisoners hospital but one of the guard, Nelson, was in there. On 23 September the surgeon describes him as 'one loathsome mass of suppuration'.

Folios 9-10: George Stanbrooke, aged 16, Prisoner; disease or hurt, variola confluens. Put on sick list, 21 September 1835, at sea. Discharged, [no date recorded]. He was carried in to the surgeon having been dreadfully sea sick for a number of days. The sea sickness was so widespread that it prevented the surgeon from telling who amongst the prisoners might be liable to variola. On 11 October he was able to sit up and his appetite was good, he continued to improve but was still a little weak in December.

Folios 10-12: William Newell [or Newall], aged 22, Prisoner; disease or hurt, variola confluens. Put on sick list, 10 October 1835, at sea. Died, 22 October 1835. The surgeon had unsuccessfully tried to vaccinate this man. The vaccination failed in all but two infants and even the fresh matter taken from the infants did not succeed.

Folios 12-13: John Kennedy, aged 14 months, Infant of one of the guard; disease or hurt, variola confluens. Put on sick list, 1 October 1835, at sea. Died, 18 October 1835. The surgeon relates how, when the variola first appeared, he had tried to ascertain if the children of the guards had been vaccinated. All the women said yes but when the surgeon vaccinated the 8 day old child of Sergeant Marshall, two other women came forward with their children saying they had misunderstood. The surgeon suspected they had been unwilling to have their children vaccinated. John Kennedy had vaccination marks on his arms.

Folios 14-17: James Clack, aged 33, Prisoner; disease or hurt, variola confluens. Put on sick list, 13 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, [date not recorded]. He had not had small pox or been vaccinated. His eyes became infected and he lost the sight in his left eye.

Folios 17-18: Thomas Clarke, aged 5 months, Infant of a Corporal of the Guard; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, [12] October 1835. Discharged, 29 October 1835. One of the children brought forward for vaccination at the same time as Sergeant Marshall's child.

Folio 18: The surgeon notes that he has placed all the cases of small pox together in the journal and will continue to list the other cases, after vaccination or inoculation, in date order.

Folios 18-19: John Killick, aged 30, Prisoner; disease or hurt, an eruption of rather large round pimples, moderately hard. Put on sick list, 21 September 1835, at sea. Discharged, [28 September 1835].

Folio 19: John Holloway, aged 30, Prisoner; disease or hurt, gout or rheumatism in the ankle. Put on sick list, 4 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, [16 October 1835]. On 7 October an eruption appeared on his face, small circular and slightly elevated.

Folios 20-21: F C Bridgewater, aged 13, Ship's boy; disease or hurt, severe headache, pain round the ribs, feeling of weakness, an eruption of prickly heat around the abdomen. Put on sick list, 5 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, [16 October 1835]. On 7 October an eruption of small pimples appeared on his face, on 9 October his right eyelid was swollen and his eye closed, though it was open the following day. The tubercles left small pits like those of Tibbitt.

Folios 21-22: Henry Symonds, aged 26, Prisoner; disease or hurt, headache, pulse 90, thirst, bowels costive. Put on sick list, 7 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, [18 October 1835]. He had been vaccinated. On 11 October a pustular eruption appeared on his face.

Folio 22: Richard Clarke, aged 14 months, a child of one of the soldiers of the guard; disease or hurt, feverish symptoms, loss of appetite, small eruptions in spite of having been vaccinated. Put on sick list, 8 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, [no date recorded]. It was this infant being feverish which induced the surgeon to vaccinate Sergeant Marshall's child.

Folio 23: Frances Hood, aged 21, Soldier of the Guard; disease or hurt, vomiting and headache succeeded by faintness. Put on sick list, 9 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, 20 October 1835. On 11 October an eruption appeared.

Folios 23-24: John Cooper, aged 30, Prisoner; disease or hurt, severe headache, pain of the limbs and bowels, constipation. Put on sick list, 10 October 1835. Discharged, [17 October 1835]. On 11 October he was free from complaint in the morning but an eruption had appeared on his face by the evening.

Folio 24: James Waldon, aged 24, Prisoner; disease or hurt, constipation and headache. Put on sick list, 13 October 1835, at sea. Discharged, [22 October 1835]. He had been unwell a couple of days earlier and had been given some purgatives. On 14 October he had 'an eruption of tolerably broad based pimples on the face'.

Folio 24: Note by the surgeon that he has 'preferred placing all the cases of small pox, whether notified or otherwise, together, without intermingling the notices of any other disease in the regular order of their date'. He intends to go on to detail some of the other cases.