Folios 1-3: case no 1, Jonas Bishop, aged 19, private 17th Regiment; disease or hurt,...

Folios 1-3: case no 1, Jonas Bishop, aged 19, private 17th Regiment; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 10 November 1832, sent 20 November 1832 to hospital at Chatham.

Folio 3: case no 2, Moses Laughlin, aged 28, convict; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 18 November 1832, died 19 November 1832 at 6.30 pm.

Folio 4: case no 3, Thomas Jones, aged 22, convict; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 21 November 1832, died 22 November 1832 at 8 pm.

Folio 5: case no 4, Isaac Brain, aged 23, convict; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 23 November 1832, died 25 November 1832 at 8 am.

Folio 6: case no 5, Abraham Lyon, aged 26, convict; taken ill at Downes; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 27 November 1832, died 27 November 1832 at 5 pm.

Folio 6: case no 6, John Anderson, aged 18, convict; taken ill at Downes; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 27 November 1832, died 27 November 1832 about 8 o’clock.

Folio 7: case no 7, John Long, aged 16, convict; disease or hurt, injury of loins with cholera; put on sick list 29 November 1832, died 29 November 1832. [Surgeon’s note] punished three boys, his bed fellows for not paying any attention to him, or reporting his condition.

Folios 7-8: case no 8, Henry Wadsworth, aged 28, convict; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 28 November 1832, died 3 December 1832 at 3 pm.

Folio 8: case no 9, William Estell Flynn, aged 29, convict; disease or hurt, cholera; put on sick list 21 November 1832, discharged 30 December 1832 cured.

Folio 9: [Surgeon’s remarks] on the attack of spasmodic cholera, the first appearance of cholera, occurred on the 10th Nov. 1832. The first case Jonas Bishop (soldier), having been severely affected. The next case occurred on the 18th and one or two every day until 23rd and on the 26th the whole of convicts came on deck with their breakfast and stated that their suffering arose from the bad quality of the oatmeal, which the surgeon cordially concurred; as the whole of the guard and seamen had no disease amongst them although their diet was similar excepting the oatmeal, subsequently leading to the surgeon forwarded the sample of the oatmeal to Sir William Burnett and requesting Captain Kemp to issue oatmeal of better quality, that the Captain had on board, although in a very limited quantity. After which the bowel complaints diminished. The surgeon also mentioned that on the 27th a heavy gale of wind greatly aggravated the situation on board the ship, that there was scarcely a convict in the prison who was not seized with vomiting and purging and many of them had severe spasms, the surgeon stated that he never witnessed such a horror, in which two men died and one hundred apparently dying. The disease disappeared as soon as the ship get to sea, after 30th November there was no trace at all of contagion or infection and not one of the guard, seamen or persons laboured under the disease.