Folio 21: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal. Folios 22-37: Surgeon...

Folio 21: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 22-37: Surgeon general's remarks. The first case [Archibald Campbell] who was placed on sick list for a severe acute dysenteria which terminated favourably and eventually did well. The second case [John White] was attacked from the bursting of a vomicae in the lungs. The third case was a sergeant [Joseph Kearn] of guard of pensioner, who came on board as an invalid, labouring under an advanced stage of phthisis. The Surgeon remarked about this man that he just returned from India and was at the Battle of Sobraon, under Sir Hugh Gough and Sir Henry Hardinge and was severely wounded by a ball passing through the face and the cicatrix of that wound broke out afresh on board (not from any scorbutic tendency), he mentioned being left for dead on field of battle from exhaustion and the wound, when he was in the Military Hospital he was not expected to survive. The fourth case [William Smith] a spare delicate seaman, who received a fall during the gale of wind down the fore hatchway and punched upon a projecting corner or piece of wood immediately over the left kidney causing a rupture and he died in good deal of suffering but of short duration. On the 18th February, Mary Starkey, wife to a pensioner guard was safely delivered of a boy. The Surgeon also noted on the case of James Roy aged 7 who received an injury according to the parents by being thrown over the shoulders of another boy which injured his back. On the 12th February the first case of scorbutus appeared in a very delicate convict [John Blacknell, case no 5]. Also mentioned, Ann Kearn the widow of the deceased sergeant who died of phthisis, was safely delivered of a female child on the 10th March 1850. The case of weakly minded man [Joseph Willett, case no. 8] who from to time complained of the tedinousness of the voyage and one of those fanatics from imbecility of intellect had determined to leave the world at a certain hour which he specified. The Surgeon also remarks on the relative medicinal properties of the Citric Acid, Lime Juice and the Nitrate of Potass in the case of John Blackwell [case no 5]. Included in the general remarks [but in different hand writing] is an account of the contrasting state of one of the earliest prisoner ships to the New South Wales and those of present day.