Folio 1: Printed instructions on completing nosological tables, recording where a...

Folio 1: Printed instructions on completing nosological tables, recording where a patient was taken ill, dividing the General Remarks into three sections relating to the ship and crew, her movements and places visited and a consideration of the diseases.

Folio 2: case no 1, John Elston, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Suez; sick or hurt, heart disease (functional), while at Suez, complained of pain over the cardiac region, also dyspneoa greatly increased on making any exertion especially on going aloft; put on sick list 1 January 1875, discharged 31 January 1875 to duty.

Folio 3: case no 2, Thomas Williamson, aged 30, Shipwright; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, heart disease (functional), on passage to Batavia, complained of pain over the region of heart, from which he suffered for sometime past and said the pain much worse after making any exertion; put on sick list 4 March 1875, invalided 30 April 1875, sent 1 May 1875 to mail steamer for passage to England.

Folios 3-4: case no 3, George Dampier, aged 38, quartermaster; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, febricula; put on sick list 19 March 1875, discharged 25 March 1875 to duty.

Folios 4-5: case no 4, Thomas Peyler, aged 17, Boy 1st Class; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, dysentery, suddenly seized with pain in the abdomen, principally confined to the region over the transverse colon. The symptoms resembled those of colic; put on sick list 31 March 1875, sent 3 April 1875 to Civil General Hospital at Singapore, the Surgeon's states that on enquiry he found that for some days before this boy had eaten a quantity of fruit from the bumboat- as his symptoms resembled those of dysentery, the Surgeon classified it under that head, but however the Surgeon had doubts about it.

Folio 5: case no 5, Andrew Burgess, aged 29, Private Royal Marine Light Infantry; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, hepatitis; put on sick list 4 April 1875, discharged 12 May 1875 to duty.

Folios 5-6: case no 6, Edward Peters, aged 27, 2nd Captain of Forecastle; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, epilepsy; put on sick list 3 April 1875, invalided 30 April 1875, sent 1 May 1875 to mail steamer for passage to England.

Folio 6: case no 7, William Curtis, aged 30, Boatswain; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, deafness; put on sick list 1 March 1875, invalided 30 April 1875, recommended by the Surgeon to be sent to England. The Surgeon also stated that he had no reason to believe that this patient was attempting to malinger as he had this patient under close observation for two months.

Folios 6-7: case no 8, Henry Dunne, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, sunstroke; put on sick list 15 April 1875, discharged 1 May 1875 to duty, but excluded from work in a boat or any work that caused exposure to the direct rays of the sun.

Folios 7-8: case no 9, Roger Sheriff, aged 29, Private Royal Marine Light Infantry; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, malignant cholera; put on sick list 11 June 1875, sent 12 June 1875 to the European General Hospital at Singapore, died 17 June 1875 at the Hospital in the morning during the febrile stage.

Folios 8-9: case no 10, William H Roberts, aged 30, Ship's Cook; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, malignant cholera; put on sick list 13 June 1875, died 17 June 1875 at the Lazaretto Quarantine Station. The Surgeon stated that this patient was on shore on leave about the same time of Sheriff [case no 9] and spent a good deal of his time at the same public house, when the case began to look like one of cholera in the early stage the Surgeon determined at once to send him to the Lazaretto in quarantine, but he was unable to do so until 8 pm, as the Lazaretto situated on an island five miles from the ship.

Folio 9: case no 11, Michael Linien, aged 38, Leading Stoker; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 13 June 1875, sent 13 June 1875 to the Lazaretto Quarantine Station, the Surgeon stated that as there were other cases of cholera on board, he considered it better to send all cases of diarrhoea on shore to Lazaretto at Singapore.

Folio 9: case no 12, William Edbrooke, aged 19, Signalman 2nd Class; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 13 June 1875, sent 13 June 1875 to the Lazaretto at Singapore.

Folios 9-10: case no 13, Mr Frederick C. Rogers, aged 27, Assistant Engineer 1st Class; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, drowning, this Officer was about to return on board from leave in company with Mr Bremner, Engineer in charge of this ship, on trying to get into a boat at the pier his foot slipped and he fell into the water - Mr Bremner succeeded in pulling him into the boat after he had been immersed between 2 and 3 minutes - Mr Rogers then showed signs of life though much exhausted, the Surgeon stated that when he first saw Mr Rogers he kept up artificial respiration for nearly an hour and a half to resuscitate him but with no result; put on sick list 10 April 1875, died 10 April 1875 at about 10.15 pm.

Folio 10: case no 14, William Page, aged 42, Private Royal Marine Light Infantry; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, intermittent fever (quotidian); put on sick list 12 July 1875, discharged 1 August 1875 to duty.

Folio 10: case no 15, John Kelland, aged 17, Boy 1st Class; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, nephritis (albuminuria), suffered from ulcerated mosquito bites on both feet; put on sick list 11 July 1875, discharged 12 August 1875 to duty.

Folio 11: case no 16, William Heston, aged 28, Gunner Royal Marine Artillery; taken ill at Singapore; sick or hurt, nephritis (albuminuria), ulcers on his feet and ankles caused by mosquito bites; put on sick list 29 July 1875, discharged 31 August 1875 to duty.

Folio 12: case no 17, Andrew Burgess, aged 29, Private Royal Marine Light Infantry; taken ill at Dinding Island; sick or hurt, remittent fever; put on sick list 5 December 1875, discharged 12 December 1875 to duty.

Folio 13: table showing the movement of the ship during the period 6 January and 29 November 1875, between Suez and Dinding Island. The Surgeon notes that after this latter date the ship was employed blockading, and cruising on the Coast between Penang and the mouth of the Bernam River and also visiting nearly all the Rivers that enter the sea between these points. On 31 December 1875 the ship at anchored in [Jurames?] River Folios 14-16: Tables of medical statistics.

Folios 16-25: Surgeon's general remarks. On 6 January 1875, the Fly left for Aden having spent a week at Suez, nothing of importance occurred, nor epidemic diseases prevailed and the sanitary condition of the place was tolerably good. The Surgeon's remarks on geography and general history of Island of Diego Garcia, Batavia, Java, and Singapore. Also mentioned the outbreak and the cause of cholera on board the Fly at Singapore, which subsequently led to the ship being moved out to the Quarantine anchorage. The Surgeon mentioned the disturbance which was expected to take place in Perak as a result of the murder of the Hon Mr Birch. British Resident in Perak, in which the Fly was ordered to embark troops for passage to Perak, which consisted of 80 Officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 10th Regiment. The Surgeon also makes passing remarks on the medical history of cases mentioned in the journal - case no 14, case no 17, two cases of malignant cholera case no 9 and case no 10.