Folio 21: Charles Redstall, aged 31, Convict; disease or hurt, scorbutus. Put on...

Folio 21: Charles Redstall, aged 31, Convict; disease or hurt, scorbutus. Put on sick list, 10 November 1839, at sea. Discharged, 14 December 1839. He had been very indolent throughout the voyage and was of a leucophlegmatic habit.

Folios 21-22: John Clarke, aged 35, Convict; disease or hurt, scorbutus. Put on sick list, 10 November 1839, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 8 December 1839 and died the following day. Received on board at Portsmouth on 3 July, 'apparently in good health but a perfect idiot reported to be very tractable'. In few days it became apparent that he required constant supervision 'to prevent his committing various [omissions]' but he became very obstinate and refused to take his meals and his left leg swelled and inflamed. Towards the end of the voyage he became very weak and he died the day after being taken to the hospital.

Folio 22: James Baldry, aged 36, Convict; disease or hurt, dyspepsia. Put on sick list, 20 November 1839, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 8 December 1839. Formerly a farm worker, he had been 'melancholy and depressed' for the whole voyage and had suffered slight diarrhoea at the end of the previous month. After being taken to the hospital he soon recovered.

Folio 23: Isaac Driver, aged 55, Convict; disease or hurt, phthysis similis. Put on sick list, 21 November 1839, at sea. Died, 23 November 1839. Received at Woolwich on 26 June apparently emaciated but stated to be in good health. On 22 July he complained with a constant cough and copious expectoration but was discharged on 25 July. He was on the list again on 19 September with catarrh and was discharged on 25 October.

Folio 24: William Coates, aged 45, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 November 1839, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 8 December 1839. An uneducated farm labourer, he had appeared to enjoy good health during the voyage but complained of impaired vision and diarrhoea towards the end of November. He died about a fortnight after going to hospital.

Folio 24: William [Toovey], aged 55, Convict; disease or hurt, anasarca. Put on sick list, 1 December 1839, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 8 December 1839. Received at Woolwich on 26 June not apparently in god health but the surgeon was assured that he was well and the odematous swelling of his leg was due to a wound. He subsequently confessed that he had been 'threatened with the black hole if rejected'. He recovered after being sent to the hospital.

Folio 25: James [Gentles or Gentiles], aged 72, Convict; disease or hurt, anorexia. Put on sick list, 2 December 1839, at sea. Discharged to the hospital, 11 December 1839. 'An infirm old man with large scrotal hernia', he was received on board at Woolwich on 26 June and did much better on the voyage than the surgeon had expected. Around the end of November he had slight diarrhoea and tried to cure it by abstinence, which reduced him greatly and made him very feeble. He recovered after being sent on shore.

Folio 26: Blank.

Folio 27: 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 28-29: Surgeon's general remarks. On 26 June 1839, at Woolwich, 120 convicts were embarked apparently in tolerable health, although 3 were objected to on grounds of age and bodily infirmity. On 28 June another two complained who had been receiving medical assistance for some months and the following day another was brought to the surgeon's notice suffering incontinence and 'an idiot'. Four of these six had been told to conceal their illnesses and threatened with the black hole if the surgeon rejected them for the voyage. The other two concealed their illnesses from anxiety to go. Three of these were sent to hospital at Portsmouth on 3 July and a further 143 prisoners were embarked. They sailed on 13 July, put into Santa Cruz, Tenerife, on 13 August and took on fresh food, leaving on 15 August. They arrived in the Derwent on 7 December, a voyage of 135 days from Plymouth. The weather was fine on the whole. There were no sicknesses incidental to the voyage until 10 November, when there were two cases of scurvy, closely followed by two more and several others with minor symptoms. Three of the four deaths were longstanding cases who should never have been embarked, the fourth, John [Pledger], 'appeared to sink from mental despondence'. Eight of the cases in the journal [case numbers are given] should never have been embarked since they must have been known to be diseased although it could not have been detected at the inspection. The general routine involved keeping half or 5/8ths of the prisoners on deck during the day, except at mealtimes, whenever the weather permitted, rotating them regularly. They were exercised by marching round the deck regularly. Lemon juice was issued from the commencement of salt rations but was not supplied in sufficient quantity to continue full rations the whole voyage, except for the sick. Wine was given every day after arriving in the south temperate zone. The preserved meat was in small canisters which could be opened as needed without expending more of the supply than was required and so lasted the voyage. There were 10 of the guard and 4 of the crew on the sick list with catarrh, fevers, diarrhoea or accidents, 94 convicts were put on the list. Signed Isaac Noott Surgeon.