Folios 4-5: case no 1, W L Lainson, aged 27, exile; taken ill in Pentonville Prison;...

Folios 4-5: case no 1, W L Lainson, aged 27, exile; taken ill in Pentonville Prison; sick or hurt, phthisis, found him in moribund state when joining the ship, there was great prostration and emaciation, skin cold and clammy, pulse quick, feeble, breathing short and hurried and the power of articulation almost gone. Internal stimulants and external application of heat to the epigastrium, calves of legs and feet were immediately had recourse to with some slight temporary benefits, but again gradually sunk; put on sick list 22 October 1848, died 22 October 1848 at 8 pm.

Folios 5-7: case no 2, Benjamin Barker, aged 25, exile; taken ill in Pentonville Prison; sick or hurt, phthisis, was in the prison for nearly two years, during which he was under the solitary system of punishment. He was subject to slight cough and expectoration, with occasional shooting pains in the chest...By a report from the surgeon of the prison, this man suffered from scurvy during the latter period of his incarceration; put on sick list 23 October 1848, died 4 November 1848 at 6 am.

Folios 7-10: case no 3, William Breffet, aged 25, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas phlegmon, this case was received on board the 'Eden' from Pentonville Prison on the 16th September last, having at that time an ulcer about the size of a shilling behind the outer malleolus of left foot; put on sick list 5 October 1848, discharged 24 November 1848 cured.

Folios 10-12: case no 4, William Clarke, aged 27, exile; taken ill in Pentonville Prison; sick or hurt, diarrhoea and phthisis, miserable looking, emaciated and debilitated man with a clay coloured countenance, stated that he was under solitary system for about two years, and that sometime before leaving Pentonville he was attacked with diarrhoea which has continued more or less ever since; put on sick list 24 October 1848, died 18 January 1849 at 5 am.

Folios 12-13: case no 5, John Stanbury, aged 23, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas, intense headache accompanied with obstipatio of the bowels; put on sick list 5 November 1848, discharged 24 November 1848 cured.

Folios 13-14: case no 6, Thomas Free, aged 20, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas, complained of headache of great severity, but unattended with any well marked, constitutional excitement. His bowels much confined and tongue coated with a thick brown fur, he had two purgative pills followed 6 hours after by Pulv. Jalap, Co.; put on sick list 10 November 1848, died 21 November 1848 at 1 pm.

Folios 14-16: case no 7, Robert Murray, aged 25, sergeant; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, gastritis, before the present attack a fine healthy and robust young man of sanguine temperament. On the 9th inst. he first complained of a severe pain in the umbilicul and epigastric region which pressure over these parts neither increased nor diminished. Under the belief that the attack was one of colic (to which conclusion I was led by there being constipation of the bowels, no acceleration of the pulse, nor increased heat of skin), I prescribed two purgative pills with 3 grs. of the extract of hyosciamus and a dose of black draught to be given in the morning; put on sick list 9 November 1848, discharged 11 December 1848 to duty.

Folios 16-17: case no 8, William White, aged 28, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 18 November 1848, discharged 18 December 1848 cured.

Folios 18-20: case no 9, William Calcott, aged 23, private; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, gargrene, left hand and forearm very much swollen, tense, hard and of a dark livid colour...the sensibility and motion of the limb were lost, nor could pulsation be felt in any artery below the axillary. There were seven black patches over the back of hand and wrist which contained numerous vesicles and the cellular membrane underneath felt slightly [emphysemations?]; put on sick list 18 November 1848, discharged 10 January 1849 to duty.

Folios 20-22: case no 10, John Tomkins, aged 28, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas phlegmonoides, a spare habit of body, present himself with a small irritable and inflamed boil, over the patella of left knee...an opening was made into it, which discharged a small quantity of matter. Formentations and cataplasms were afterwards applied and his bowels being rather confined, he was ordered two purgative pills to be followed after four hours by a drachm of compound jalap powder; put on sick list 3 January 1849, sent 22 January 1849 to Colonial hospital at Hobart Town.

Folios 22-23: case no 11, Luke Kirk, aged 31, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas capitis, erysipelatous patch on right cheek, extending to about an inch above eyebrow of same side and implicating the nose; put on sick list 27 December 1848, discharged 10 January 1849 cured.

Folios 23-24: case no 12, William Lewis, aged 17, exile; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phrenitis, was in the sick list during the greater part of the voyage, first with penosteal of left tibia and latterly with an ulcer in the same locality; put on sick list 3 February 1849, died 9 February 1849 at 4 am.

Folio 25: case no 13, Benjamin Turpe, aged 19, exile; taken ill at Geelong; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list 6 February 1849, discharged 10 February 1849 to sick quarter.

Folio 25: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 26-29: Surgeon's general remarks. The guard consisted of 50 rank and file from the 65th and 99th Regiments, with a Captain from the former and a Subaltern from the latter. Five women and six children also accompanied the detachments. Mr Robert McCrea was Surgeon Superintendent and Mr J G Symons as religions instructor. On 13 September 7 'exiles' were embarked from Millbank Penitentiary and on the 15th and 16th 193 were sent on board from Pentonville Prison. The Eden left Woolwich on 19th September, and on the 23rd anchored off Cowes, here were embarked 37 boys from Parkhurst Prison on the 26th and 27th making a total number of 237 prisoners on board. On the morning of the 21st October the ship was put in Madeira in consequence of the death of the surgeon superintendent [Robert McCrea] on the previous evening, which appeared to have been caused by extraordinary circumstance. On the morning of the 14th October, Mr McCrea made some incisions in the leg of a patient who was suffering from an attack of phlegmonous erysipelas, and in doing so received some poisonous matter into his system through a small wound which he had in the joint of his right thumb. That same evening pain and swelling of the hand and arm set in attended with considerable constitutional excitement followed rapidly towards a fatal termination...it was stated that delirium only set in about two hours before death, so that the patient must have been aware of the collection of matter; but it does not appear that he either attempted to open it himself or asked any one else to do so.