Folios 1-2: copy of daily sick book, (names and details follow) - continued: Folio...

Folios 1-2: copy of daily sick book, (names and details follow) - continued:

Folio 2: C Southwood, aged 21; royal marine; disease or hurt, ophthalmia. Put on sick list, 10 November 1853, discharged, 16 November 1853. Folio 2: R Lawson, aged 20; ordinary seaman; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 26 November 1853, discharged, 6 [Decmeber] 1853. Folio 2: C Osborne, aged 36; [sail?] maker; disease or hurt, otitis. Put on sick list, 14 December 1853, discharged, 26 December 1853. Folio 2: H May, aged 6; able seaman; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 23 December 1853, discharged, 28 December 1853. Folio 2: E Collard, aged 22; royal marine; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 23 December 1853, discharged, 27 December 1853. Folio 2: T Bilton, aged 34; quarter master; disease or hurt, sprain. Put on sick list, 26 December 1853. Folio 2: G Baster, aged 26; [boatswain's?] mate; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 27 December 1853.

Folios 3-15: meteorological register kept on board for the year 1853. Contains daily readings of the moon's age, the position of the ship, the maximum, minimum, and mean of the aneroid barometer and thermometer attached, the mean temperature of the air in shade, the surface of the water, as well as the direction and force of the winds and the general state of the weather and character of the clouds at noon. Contains some remarks.

Folios 16-17: case no 37, Richard Shannon, aged 50, ship's cook, drowned at Wangaroa, New Zealand; sick or hurt, drowned, the ship was anchored in Wangaroa Harbour on the east coast of New Zealand near the north cape. When the hands were turned up in the morning watch, Shannon, the ship's cook, was missing and no traces whatever of him could be found. He was last seen by the quartermaster of the middle watch going to the head, complaining that he had a severe griping in the bowels. After this nothing was heard of him. He was a pensioner from the Royal Marines and a stout, heavy man who appeared older than his years, being rather feeble in his arms and legs from repeated attacks of rheumatism. It is most probably that when at the head, he overbalanced himself and fell into the water and was quickly carried away by the strong tide. The boats of the ship were employed for a considerable time dredging in the vicinity of the vessel and, before the ship sailed, a note was sent to the missionary of the district acquainting him of the accident and also to the natives desiring them to keep a sharp look out for the body; put on sick list 20 September 1853, died 20 September 1853.

Folios 17-18: case no 32, Caleb Southwood, aged 21, Royal Marine, taken ill at Auckland; sick or hurt, ganglion, was placed on the sick list with a large ganglion at the back of the wrist joint. Some months after spraining the right hand a small tumor was observed in the sheath of the extensor tendons at the back of the wrist which, by means of a compress and bandage was speedily removed or so much diminished in size as to cause little or no inconvenience. That tumour had increased in size and was, at times, inflamed which became exceedingly inconvenient causing a dull sickening pain and entirely preventing any heavy work with the affected hand. The tumour was about the size of a large almond shell, tense and elastic to the touch and if pressed hard caused a dull, heavy, aching pain in the wrist and hand. As former treatments produced only temporary relief, a radical cure was determined upon where a common curved suture needle of large size was passed into the sac and its point made to scarify the interior in all directions. After the needle was withdrawn the sac was emptied of a large quantity of a clean viscid fluid resembling the white of egg but of firmer constancy, together with a few drops of blood. A compress was the applied to the place of the tumor and a wet bandage around the wrist and hand and the forearm bandaged to a splint. By 31 December no sign of the tumour and the wrist was as strong as it used to be; put on sick list 1 September 1853, discharged 7 September 1853 to duty.

Folios 18: case no 49, William Stridwer, aged 24, able seaman, taken ill at Auckland; sick or hurt, taenia, this man had for a long time suffered from vomiting, nausea, pain and uneasy sensations in the bowels with occasional irritation about the rectum, headache, foetid breath and loss of appetite, these symptoms becoming more sever over the previous several weeks and applied for treatment after having passed a piece of the tapeworm; put on sick list 4 November 1853, discharged 10 November 1853 to duty.

Folios 19-20: case no 13, Mr P Oke, aged 24, 2nd master, taken ill at sea off Norfolk Island; sick or hurt, bronchitis, placed on the sick list suffering from headache, difficulty of breathing, loss of voice or heard only in a whisper with pain in the chest which is increased on taking a deep inspiration and accompanied by a loud wheezing sound. He attributed his illness to having got thoroughly wet during a stormy night watch some nights previous. Note: 31 December- the patient was much relieved after a surveying trip of six weeks duration on the shore along the eastern coast of New Zealand when he spent every night in a canvas tent and walked a good deal during the day; the weather was very fine and the change and exercise did him a vast deal of good; put on sick list 13 September 1853, discharged 29 September 1853 to duty.

Folios 20-23: case no 8, George Walters, aged 39, P. and P. steward, taken ill at Mannkaw, New Zealand; sick or hurt, enteritis, this patient was a corpulent man leading from the nature of his employment a sedentary life. He lived well and consumed a good quantity of animal food, chiefly pork which was abundant and cheap in New Zealand and, away from the towns, almost the only kind of meat to be procured. This was the third attack of the kind he had experienced in the last two years; the first was very obscure and accompanied with subacute inflammation of the liver, the second in which constipation of the bowels terminated in inflammation. In this instance he complained of great pain just above the right groin over the region of the coecum which was much increased upon pressure or bending the body forward. The bowels were constipated and had not been moved for three days, his tongue was coated and every attempt at swallowing immediately excited retching and vomiting. These symptoms, coming on so suddenly and the pain being confined to so small a space, suggested the possibility of a hernia as it was possible a minute portion of intestine might be strangulated and hidden from external observation beneath the large masses of fat covering the abdomen. However, upon close inspection, nothing of the kind could be discovered. The patient felt much relief after bleeding him of twenty five ounces of blood and a purgative helped to some extent. In June following he had another attack of the same kind and was discharged to duty after the same treatments over sixteen days; put on sick list 2 February 853, discharged 22 February 1853 to duty.

Folio 23: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.