Folios 4-5: case no 1, William Beeson, aged 18, convict, taken ill at Sheerness;...

Folios 4-5: case no 1, William Beeson, aged 18, convict, taken ill at Sheerness; sick or hurt, chronic ophthalmia; put on sick list, 25 August 1837, put off list 15 September 1837 cured.

Folios 5-6: case no 2, John Smith, aged 16, convict, taken ill at Downs; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list, 1 September 1837, put off list 23 September 1837 cured.

Folios 7-8: case no 3, Assistant Surgeon Power, aged 24, 51st Regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, icterus; put on sick list, 9 September 1837, put off list 25 October 1837.

Folios 8-9: case no 4, James Cross, aged 14, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fractura clavictula, fell down the main hatchway by accident owing to the rolling of the ship, produced fracture of the left clavicle; put on sick list, 12 September 1837, put off list 6 October 1837 cured.

Folios 9-13: case no 5, Michael McGonigal, aged 20, private 51st Regiment, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, bubo, slight excoration of glands penis took a dose of sulp maganes [sulpher manganese], and had a piece of lint applied; put on sick list, 21 September 1837, put off list 2 January 1838 to duty.

Folios 13-14: case no 6, Robert Pinner, aged 15, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list, 4 October 1837, put off list 13 October 1837 cured.

Folio 14: case no 7, John Campbell, aged 19, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cephalalgia; put on sick list, 24 October 1837, put off list 29 October 1837 cured.

Folios 14-15: case no 8, John Clarke, aged 16, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; put on sick list, 11 November 1837, put off list 28 November 1837 cured.

Folios 15-16: case no 9, James Regan, aged 18, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, catarrhus; put on sick list, 20 November 1837, put off list 27 November 1837 cured.

Folios 16-18: case no 10, William Wood, aged 28, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus, gums spongy and inclined to bleed, bad appetite, bowels rather free, pulse natural, [surgeon had] stopped salt meat and lemon juice, [issued] half a pound of preserved meat in lieu with barley; put on sick list, 20 November 1837, put off list 4 January 1838 cured.

Folios 18-19: case no 11, William Brosson, aged 17, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, scorbutus; put on sick list, 12 November 1837, put off list 14 December 1837 cured.

Folios 19-20: case no 12, Joseph Benn, aged 22, private guard, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, abscessus; put on sick list, 16 December 1837, put off list 24 December 1837 to duty.

Folios 20-21: case no 13, Joseph Runsden, aged 20, private guard, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, bubo; put on sick list, 27 December 1837, landed 9 January 1838 at military hospital, Hobart Town.

Folios 21-23: case no 14, Thomas Brown, aged 17, convict, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, vulnus, had the integuments covering the superior and posterior portion of the left parietal bone cut through by a blow with a tin pot given by other convict; put on sick list, 23 December 1837, landed 17 January 1838 nearly cured.

Folio 23: Nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 24-26: Surgeon's general remarks. The Surgeon was curious to know what increase or diminution in weight the boy prisoners might undergo during the voyage. He had them all weighed on embarkation and again after passing through the Tropics and lastly on reaching the Derwent. The gross weight of the 150 prisoners at Sheerness was 13320 ½ lbs, in the Derwent they weighed 14675 lbs. Being a total increase of 1355 lbs, he found that roughly about 9 lbs added to each individual in about 4 months. He also found that the increase in weight was not equally distributed being that ten adults fell off a little the other half increased, while 137 of the boys out of 140 increased in weight. This result led the surgeon to think that although the diet agrees well at first a continuation of it for a length of time would be attended with that disease termed scurvy in which the blood becomes thin and unfit to nourish the body. Also mentions case no 5 [Michael McGonigal] whom the Surgeon put on preserved meat at the same time stopping his salt ration. Signed: Andrew Henderson, MD, surgeon and superintendent.

Folio 27: Table of mean temperatures of the air and water between 1837 and 1838.