Folios 17-20: case no. 9, John Highland, aged 28, Sergeant 11th Regiment; taken ill...

Folios 17-20: case no. 9, John Highland, aged 28, Sergeant 11th Regiment; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, erysipelas of the face and scalp, he was of intemperate habits, sallow complexion, increased apparently by chronic hepatic derangement and of a bloated aspect, had a small abscess of malignant character formed on the left side of the nose of a dark red colour, accompanied by acute burning pain and tumefaction of cheek and side of the face; put on sick list 10 October 1852, died 13 October 1852 at 11 pm. Folios 20-21: case no. 10, James Limb, aged 26, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysenteria, he was a convict from Dartmoor Prison, with symptoms of dysentery, he was a tall stature and very slender make, but stated that he was formerly strong and muscular before he was captured and imprisoned, and that he suffered severely from bowel complaints in the various prisons, recently was attacked about three or four days since with looseness of his bowels which he paid little or no attention until the symptoms assumed their present acute form; put on sick list 13 October 1852, discharged 10 November 1852 off the list.

Folios 21-23: case no. 11, Thomas Jennings, aged 52, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, rheumatism with diseased heart, an old and much worn prisoner, suffered from acute pain and swelling of the left shoulder occupying the whole surface over the deltoid muscle, rendering the patient unable to moved; put on sick list 13 October 1852, died 22 October 1852 at 8.30 am. Folio 24: case no. 12, Mrs. Cleary, aged 19, Wife of Corporal Cleary 11th Regiment; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, parturition, married about three years and was twice pregnant, in the former confinement she gave birth to a still born child. At about two o'clock in the afternoon was seized with labour pain and at 7.30 pm gave birth to a healthy female child; put on sick list 22 October 1852, discharged 10 November 1852 off the list.

Folio 24: case no. 13, Thomas Auslam, aged 40, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cerebral congestion with dysentery, a very large and powerful man, remarkably steady and well conducted on board the ship, he was suddenly fell down when preparing to bed and lay for some minutes motionless and insensible; put on sick list 22 October 1852, discharged 3 November 1852 quite well. Surgeon noted that for the cerebral attack no other cause could be assigned, than a sudden determination of blood to the vessels of the brain.

Folios 25-26: case no. 14, John Sutcliffe, aged 46, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, chronic dysentery, was a man of worn out constitution, who came from Dartmoor Prison, had led a very loose and dissipated life, and before his capture kept a low public house in Huddersfield, resorted to all the worst character of the place, he freely confessed that he addicted to drunkenness. He was labouring under chronic diarrhoea for about a month, was seized with purging when the ship was in the Tropics, and the complaint in great measure resisted every kind of treatment; put on sick list 3 November 1852, died 15 November 1852 at 5.30 am.

Folios 26-28: case no. 15, James Limb, aged 26, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, chronic dysenteria, subject of case no. 10, was labouring under diarrhoea; put on sick list 20 November 1852, died 9 December 1852 at 11 pm.

Folio 28: case no. 16, Mrs. Craig, aged 25, wife of Corporal Craig 11th Regiment; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fracture of rib, of a violent temper, received a severe beating from her husband which caused a fracture on the left side and contusion on several parts of the body; put on sick list 3 December 1852, discharged 15 December 1852 off the list. Folio 28: case no. 17, Elijah Darrell, aged 24, Convict; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 10 December 1852, sent 10 December 1852 to Colonial Hospital. Folio 28: case no. 18, John Brown, aged 26, Convict; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 18 December 1852, sent 19 December 1852 to Colonial Hospital.

Folio 29: case no. 19, John Ward, aged 17, Convict; taken ill at Hobart Town; sick or hurt, wound, a mauling spike fell out of the fore rigging and entered anteriorly the left thigh of the patient; put on sick list 18 December 1852, sent 18 December 1852 to Colonial Hospital.

Folio 29: case no. 20, George Abbott, aged 20, Private 11th Regiment; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fracture humerus, during the gale of wind the ship heavy lurch and this patient fell across the after hatchway and another man thrown down and fell across the patient left arm caused the simple fracture; put on sick list 3 January 1853, discharged 6 January 1853 to the Head Quarter of 11th Regiment. at Sydney.

Folio 29: nosological return of cases mentioned in the journal. Folio 30: the following is a list of men who received wounds or hurts during the period of the journal. Folio 30: James Molloy, aged 25, Convict; pension not granted; nature of hurts, wound of scalp & severe contusions occasioned by a fall from the upper deck into the main hold, on 3 December 1852. Folio 30: George Abbott, aged 20, Private 11th Regiment; pension not granted; nature of hurts, puncture wound in the right side, occasioned by accidentally falling against the point of a bayonet, on 5 December 1852. Folio 30: John Ward, aged 19, Convict; pension not granted; nature of hurts, flesh wound of left thigh produced by the accidental falling of a marling spike, on 18 December 1852. Folio 30: George Abbott, aged 20, Private 11th Regiment; pension not granted; nature of hurts, simple fracture of left hunerus occasioned by an accidental fall during the hard gale of wind, on 3 January 1853.

Folios 30-31: Tables of medical statistics relating to the ship's compliment including the families of the guard. Folios 31-34: Surgeon's general remarks. He was embarked on board the ship on the 5 August 1852 at Deptford, and on the same day the Military Guard were also embarked, consisting of two Commissioned Officers, two Sergeants and 48 Rank and file of 11th Regiment. Embarked with them were 6 women and 9 children. The first draft of convicts embarked at Woolwich on 10 August consisted of 84, 25 of whom came from the Defence and 24 from the Warrior hulks, 14 from Millbank and 16 from Pentonville Prisons and 5 from the House of Correction at Preston, according to the surgeon 35 prisoners from these prisons were unfurnished with tickets of leave. 65 convicts embarked at Portsmouth, 30 at Cowes from Parkhurst Prison, 54 at Portland and 61 at Plymouth from Dartmoor Prison, making a grand total of 294 convicts received on board, 259 of whom were ticket of leave men. The surgeon stated that on first inspection, the great majority of the prisoners composed of healthy looking men, but however one fourth of the Dartmoor prisoners were old and worn out men. The surgeon mentioned that the Guard were composed chiefly of recruits, mainly Irish, who neither been inured to service, discipline nor the confinement and discomfort of sea voyage, the women were what soldier's wives generally are, indolent and not one cleanly, their children were squalid and unhealthy, this subsequently lead to 17 of the soldiers being sent back to the depot and replaced by an equal number of men of good character. The surgeon also mentioned that on the ship crossing the Tropics during the early October the weather was wet and hot, diarrhoea became very prevalent amongst the convicts and some cases of dysentery likewise occurred, which the surgeon attributed to the impurity of the water in use for it was found to be offensive and deposited a copious dark peat like sediment, which evidently was not properly. Accordingly the surgeon reported this circumstance to Sir William Denison the Governor of Van Diemen's Land.