Folios 2-4: Jonathan Hart, aged 35; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list,...

Folios 2-4: Jonathan Hart, aged 35; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 26 July 1837, at sea. Discharged, 22 August 1837. 'Of a spare habit of body', he had been seized with chills two days earlier, followed by pain and oppression of the chest.

Folios 4-6: Jonathan Robinson, aged 23, Prisoner; disease or hurt, synochus. Put on sick list, 25 July 1837, at sea. Discharged, 30 August 1837. Had been on the sick list for quotidian intermittent a few days after coming on board and had suffered two similar attacks in the Justitia hulk. The surgeon comments that the primary symptoms marked the seat of disease to be in the cerebrum and medulla spinalis.

Folios 6-7: Abraham Rice, aged 20, Prisoner; disease or hurt, pleuritis. Put on sick list, 4 August 1837, at sea. Discharged, 17 August 1837. A fixed acute pain in the left breast increased upon a full inspiration, with great palpitation of the heart and difficult respiration. Said he had been ill for some time.

Folios 7-8: Abraham Rice, aged 20, Prisoner; disease or hurt, peritonitis. Put on sick list, 19 August 1837, at sea. Discharged, 4 September 1837. Having only just been cured of pleuritis, he complained of severe pain in the abdomen, aggravated by pressure, with tenderness and increased heat.

Folios 8-9: Samuel Cook, aged 65; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 29 September 1837, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 26 October 1837. Complained of pain in his chest, aggravated on deep inspiration, and coughing, also a pain in the head and loins.

Folio 10: David Edwards, aged 16; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 12 November 1837, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 26 October 1837. Had been repeatedly on the sick list with attacks of pulmonary catarrh, he complained of cough with slight pain in the breast and head with increased secretion from the nose and fauces.

Folio 11: Jonathan Bird, aged 24, Prisoner; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 13 October 1837, at sea. Discharged, 24 October 1837.

Folios 12-23: Blank.

Folio 24: A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal, in conformity with the 30th article of the Surgeon's Instructions.

Folios 25-26: Surgeon's general remarks. At Woolwich and Sheerness, 270 male convicts were taken on board, all in good health. The prisoners continued unusually healthy during the passage, 4 being the usual number on the sick list and frequently none on the list. The total on the list was only 42. The catarrhs were the most numerous illness, occurring between the Cape of Good Hope and Bass's Straits where the weather was cold and wet. Prisoners were kept on deck from 8am until sunset, weather permitting. They were mustered and examined daily and bathed every day in the tropics. Schools were formed and dancing held in the evening. Irons were removed at the start of the voyage with the dread of putting them on again ensuring good behaviour. Meals were served regularly at set times and the health of the prisoners can be attributed to the improved mode of victualling. Between decks was kept clean, dry and ventilated by windsails. Signed Thomas Robertson Surgeon