Folios 10-11: Michael Cannon, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, tinea capitis. Put...

Folios 10-11: Michael Cannon, aged 18, Convict; disease or hurt, tinea capitis. Put on sick list, 13 September 1836. Discharged, 3 November 1836. One of a number of young convicts who had recently been discharged from the sick list on board the Essex hulk at Kingstown [Dun Laoghaire], where he had received treatment for tinea capitis. By his own account he had been afflicted with 'scald head' for 5 years prior to his conviction. The surgeon had been prepared for a number of such cases from its prevalence on board the hulk and had bought a supply of medicine in Dublin. On being cured of tinea capitis he was 'afflicted with [a] great number of phlegmons'.

Folio 11: Joseph Sherry, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, tinea capitis. Put on sick list, [20 September 1836]. Discharged, 9 November 1836.

Folios 11-12: Lieutenant Ronald Macdonald, aged 36, of the 80th Regiment, in command of the military guard on board; disease or hurt, erysipelas. Put on sick list, 16 October 1836. Discharged, 4 November 1836. A 'powerful, muscular officer', he had been ailing for 2 or 3 days before reporting it to the surgeon. He was 'exceedingly fond of indulging in the luxuries of the table' and had suffered from 'congestion of the brain'. On 17 October, his left eye was closed with tumour of the palpebrae and there was extensive erysipelatous inflammation of the face and left side of the head.

Folios 12-13: Daniel Sullivan, aged 32, Convict; disease or hurt, bulimia. Put on sick list, September 1836. No date of discharge recorded. The case is in the journal 'in consequence of the singularity of the circumstances attending it'. Sullivan was 5 feet 10 inches tall, with blue eyes, brown hair, a swarthy complexion and a thick set, muscular build. He had been convicted of arson and sentenced to transportation for life. A native of Bantry Bay, in the parish of Beerhaven, County Cork, he and his father were both fisherman and he had always had a great appetite. His usual meal on returning from fishing was half a stone of potatoes with 8 to 12 pounds of cod or hake, or if that were not available, 100 herrings. Every day since coming aboard he had eaten the allowance of an entire mess of 8 men and often also drank 4 gallons of sour milk. On 3 October, after finishing his normal meal, for a bet he had eaten 10 pounds of biscuits and drank four quarts of water in an hour. He had been known to eat his own ration and 7 pounds of pork and 3 of bread, and was regularly given the entrails of the poultry by the ship's butcher. When the decks were cleaned after dinner he was given all the leavings and could sometimes be seen at the pig's trough 'feeding tete a tete with them'. What the surgeon refers to as 'the acme of this man's monstrosity' was at the Cape, on 6 November, when he consumed 3 pounds of biscuit, a quart of beef soup containing 12 ounces of beef, 11 pounds of beef, a pint of 'two water grog' and a quart of water. The surgeon does not mention any ill effects or treatment.

Folios 14-15: Charles Macarthy, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, pyrexia phthisis. Put on sick list, 12 September 1836, at sea. Died, 11 December 1836. He had been ailing for 9 months and in the spring had had apparently suffered aggravated symptoms of phthisis while on board the Surprize hulk but his symptoms had improved in the summer. He was attacked with pulmonic affection after only a week at sea on the Earl Grey. His symptoms improved form the Tropic of Cancer until just after leaving the Cape, when there was a sudden change to cold, wet weather.

Folios 15-17: List of sufferers from scurvy with their ages and chief symptoms. All were given lime juice and nitrate of potash, (names and details follow):

• Folio 15: James Mulvihill, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 1 October 1836.
• Folio 15: James McEnerry, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 1 October 1836. Folio 15: Patrick Kenny, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 2 October 1836.
• Folio 15: William Russell, aged 55, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 3 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Gregory Neill, aged 50, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 3 October 1836.
• Folio 16: John Karty, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 5 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Jeremiah Conroy, aged 32, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 5 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Martin Shanahan, aged 28, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 7 October 1836.
• Folio 16: John Coyle, aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 10 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Thomas Horey, aged 39, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 11 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Michael O'Donnell, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 12 October 1836.
• Folio 16: John Casey, aged 23, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 13 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Stephen McCarthy, aged 28, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 14 October 1836.
• Folio 16: Christopher Ryan, aged 31, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 October 1836.
• Folio 17: George Lindop, aged 30, Soldier; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 October 1836.
• Folio 17: John Blackburne, aged 40, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 16 October 1836.
• Folio 17: John Stenson, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 18 October 1836.
• Folio 17: William [Nowlun], aged 25, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 20 October 1836.
• Folio 17: John Smyth, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 21 October 1836.
• Folio 17: William Meade, aged 16, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 21 October 1836.
• Folio 17: Michael Slattery, aged 22, Convict; disease or hurt, scurvy. Put on sick list, 22 October 1836.
• 'The citric acid and the nitrate of potash were exhibited to all the above individuals'. They were all discharged from the sick list 'between the Cape and Isles of St Pauls and Amsterdam'. There were about 30 others with incipient symptoms of scurvy.