Folio 22: Jeremiac Clintha, aged 28, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt,...

Folio 22: Jeremiac Clintha, aged 28, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 21 September 1854. Discharged, 4 October 1854. Folio 22: Jycof Rosweld, aged 30, from Russia, Merchant Seaman; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 14 November 1854. Discharged, 6 December 1854. Folio 22: Henry Ottenge, aged 30, from Finland, Merchant Seaman; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 17 February 1855. Discharged, 20 February 1855. Folio 22: G Palmgreen, aged 34, from Russia, Merchant Seaman; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 17 February 1855. Discharged, 20 February 1855. Folio 22: Gustavus Wakerem, aged 36, from Russia [vessel], Fisherman; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 28 February 1855. Discharged, 28 April 1855. Folio 22: Tobias Abl, aged 30, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 11 May 1855. Discharged, 16 July 1855. Folio 22: Carl Leyon, aged 30, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 11 May 1855. Discharged, 8 August 1855. Folio 22: Carl Loonstrom, aged 30, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 1 June 1855. Discharged, 9 August 1855. Folio 22: David Oest, aged 30, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 1 June 1855. Discharged, 13 July 1855. Folio 22: Andreas Eggman, aged 32, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 11 June 1855. Discharged, 3 August 1855. Folio 22: Gustaf Euleine, aged 31, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 16 June 1855. Discharged, 16 August 1855. Folio 22: Yalisey Macsimuf, aged 30, from Russia, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 16 June 1855. Discharged, 1 September 1855. Folio 22: Jean Prule, aged 33, from Finland, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, intermittent fever. Put on sick list, 21 June 1855. Discharged, 25 July 1855. Folio 22: Versele Repin, aged 19, from Russia, Private Soldier; disease or hurt, febris. Put on sick list, 19 July 1855. Discharged, 25 July 1855. Folio 22: An account of the number of Prisoners of War who have died in the prison ship Devonshire at Sheerness during the period of this account - viz between the 1st August 1854 and 22nd August 1855. Folio 22: Eppy, Private, of the garrison at Bomarsund, born Finland, aged 30, died 6 September 1854, cholera. Folio 22: Asep Budkeweitz, Private, of the garrison at Bomarsund, born Poland, aged 28, died 8 September 1854, cholera. Folio 22: Michael Lutzky, Private, of the garrison at Bomarsund, born Poland, aged 26, died 8 September 1854, cholera. Folio 22: Johan Erke, Private, of the garrison at Bomarsund, born Finland, aged 28, died 10 September 1854, cholera. Folio 22: Vigèntè Yacoupoff, Private, of the garrison at Bomarsund, born Poland, aged 30, died 2 October 1854, cholera.

Folio 23: Prisoner's synopsis of daily entry book. 'A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal, in conformity with the 30th article of the Surgeon's Instructions'.

Folios 24 - 25: Table III. Summarises the numbers of sick and numbers of days sick for an unspecified period but gives the 'mean numerical strength of prisoners for the past five months' as 274.

Folio 25: Crew's synopsis of daily entry book. 'A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal, in conformity with the 30th article of the Surgeon's Instructions'.

Folios 26-27: Table III. Summarises the numbers of sick and numbers of days sick for an unspecified period but gives the 'mean numerical strength of the ship's company' as 90.

Folios 27-29: Surgeon's general remarks for crew only. The crew had been in generally good health, especially considering they were made up of pensioners and 'uninured boys just joined' and had been through epidemics of diarrhoea, catarrh and rheumatism, with cholera among the prisoners. The diarrhoea was very prevalent in August and September and nearly three quarters of the crew suffered. At the same time cholera was raging on shore and arrived on board with the Russian prisoners on 5 September. There were no cases among the crew and it soon disappeared among the prisoners. Most of the diarrhoea cases were very slight and many were not put on the list. Because of the prevalence of cholera, the diarrhoea cases were watched very closely and treated immediately. The epidemic can be attributed to an uninured crew of old pensioners and young boys joining a large, roomy, damp ship which had been unoccupied for some years. The ship had been commissioned in July and was in a very dirty state and the surgeon had to object to the state of the holds and bilges even after they had been reported clean, 'for such an accumulation of mud, half decomposed vegetable matter, coal tar and nauseous bilge secretion can scarcely be imagined'. They were kept perfectly clean after September and chloride of zinc was used in purifying them and keeping them clean. From the beginning of October to the end of January, catarrh and sore throat, sometimes of a malignant character, was very prevalent. The severity of some of the cases can be attributed to the composition of the crew. The boys had premonitory symptoms of a full pulse and headache, the old men had a day or two of great debility. The prisoners suffered as well as the crew and those who did not suffer catarrh generally had rheumatism of the large joints. December and January were remarkably severe for cold and cutting northerly winds and told heavily on the pensioners and young boys. Two men were invalided, one with intermittent fever and one with dropsy of the knee joint. The general economy of the ship was very good. The pensioners had their wives and families on board. Signed James Harvey Surgeon