Folio 2: A record of the number of births having taken place during the voyage. Folios...

Folio 2: A record of the number of births having taken place during the voyage.

Folios 3-7: meteorological remarks.

Folios 7-9: case no 1, Archibald Campbell, aged 25, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria; put on sick list 8 January 1850, discharged 26 January 1850 cured.

Folios 9-10: case no 2, John White, aged 45, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phth. Confir. Sudden death by the bursting of a vomicae in the lungs. Hill Dring's (a fellow prisoner) stated that, 'he was at the Warrior hulk at Woolwich, in the same ward as John White, nearly two years. For the last five months White had been ailing with a bad cold attended with a cough and considerable spitting' left the hospital ship about five weeks before he came on board the Bangalore, had been to the hospital ship twice whilst a prisoner at Woolwich' according to the statement it appeared that there existed more than one vomicae, in which one communicating with other and some was voided by expectoration and the remaining one had diffused themselves into the bronchial tubes; put on sick list 27 January 1850, died 28 January 1850.

Folios 10-11: case no 3, Joseph Kearn, aged 35, Quarter Master Sergeant, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis confir., extremely delicate frame and had a wound in the right cheek by a [musket] ball at the Battle of Sobraon, since on board he complained of constant cough with pain in the epigastric region and more distressing during the night; put on sick list 1 February 1850, died 9 March 1850.

Folio 12: case no 4, William Smith, aged 23, Sailor, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, accident, rupture of left kidney from a fall, a spare cadaverous appearance and a native of St. Helena, stated that he had fallen down the fore hatch way and perched upon a projecting point just over the left kidney, but the spine and the false ribs uninjured, towards evening the pain in the region of the kidney was excruciating and he fainted repeatedly, a blister was applied over the region, he felt easy but restless, pulse fluttering and sank; put on sick list 2 February 1850, died 4 February 1850.

Folios 12-14: case no 5, John Blacknell, aged 21, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus running rapidly into phthisis, on ascending the main hatchway the breathing hurried, says that he has cough at night with expectoration, he was ordered into the hospital. Independent of symptoms already quoted, he also had dull, heavy indescribable pain in the [scrobiculus?] cordis, ever present in scorbutus; put on sick list 12 February 1850, died 2 March 1850.

Folios 14-15: case no 6, James Roy, aged 7, soldier's boy, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, spina bifida, according to the parent he was hurt by being thrown over a stronger lad's shoulder, in the lumber region, on examination found the third lumber vertibra was formed projecting and partially displaced; put on sick list 10 February 1850, discharged 1 April 1850 cured.

Folio 16: case no 7, Brian O'Hara, aged 26, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hemorrptysis; put on sick list 7 March 1850, discharged 2 May 1850 to the Brisbane Hospital.

Folio 17: case no 8, Joseph Willett, aged 40, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, amentia acquisita, from time to time complained of the tediousness of the voyage and tired of his daily rations, did not appear to have any bodily infirmity nor did he complain of any, appeared determined to die and accordingly made his will and nominated an hour that he should cease to exist, although he did not die at the special hour he mentioned but 24 hours after, according to a prisoner who had known him for years past, that this was his character at the Millbank, as well as the hulks that he was excluded from doing work from the circumstance. It is said that illegal conviction and loss of property preyed much upon a weak mind; put on sick list 20 March 1850, died 22 March 1850.

Folios 17-18: case no 9, William Williams, aged 41, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cachexia, a weakly and melancholy both in mind and body, one of an innate qualm of conscience as if some circumstance or another preyed upon his mind, he holds no conversation with any one. In first instance he evidently appeared to suffer from pectoral affection but by blistering and suitable treatment these vanished, after the treatment there appeared to be a new symptom of an unusual character of a feeling of a tightness or a sense of stricture across the oesoplagus and had a difficulty in swallowing and when food was taken, he feels it with in the throat; put on sick list 22 February 1850, discharged 10 April 1850 cured.

Folios 18-20: case no 10, George Baldwin, aged 29, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis incipiens, a mild retired habit and at time melancholy, complained of fixed pain in the anterior, left chest a little to the side of ensiform cartilege, which was removed by [co?] irritant, and antiscorbutic remedies, however after close examination he was labouring under a cough especially at night, appetite indifferent and loosing flesh; put on sick list 14 March 1850, sent 2 May 1850 to Brisbane Civil Hospital.

Folio 20: case no 11, William Wilcock, aged 45, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phthisis incipiens, complained of general debility and slight cough with giddiness, no pectoral disease nor apparently any scorbutic at first, but latterly it has manifested itself more of a [phthiscal?] tendency; put on sick list 1 April 1850, died 28 April 1850 at 2 am.