Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal. Folio 2: Henry...

Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal.

Folio 2: Henry Heath, aged 37, signal man; case number 1; disease or hurt, dementia (?). Put on the sick list, 28 November 1873 at Portsmouth. Patient marked by weakness of intellect and inability to perform duties. Discharged to Haslar Hospital on 28 November 1873 for observation.

Folio 2: Sidney Cox, aged 21, stoker; case number 2; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on the sick list 29 November 1873 at Portsmouth. Discharged on 29 November 1873 to Haslar Hospital.

Folio 3: John Allsop, aged 38, captain of the forecastle; case number 3; disease or hurt, wound left foot. Put on the sick list, 29 November 1873 at Portsmouth. Suffered an extensive and contused wound of left foot whilst working on the 27th hut of the dockyard. Was granted leave by commanding officer to go home and be seen by private practitioner rather than be sent to the Haslar hospital. Discharged 5 January 1874 to light duty.

Folio 3-5: John Sullivan, aged 26, A B; case number 4; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on the sick list, 6 December 1873 at sea. Had been previously treated on the Haslar and H M S Himalaya for bronchitis for four months. His condition deteriorated but his strength was too low to allow for him to be invalided and return to England at that season of the year. Discharged 23 January 1874 died. No post mortem carried out due to rapid deterioration of the body and no appropriate space to carry it out. Buried at sea off Cape Coast Castle on 23 January 1873.

Folio 5-7: Robert Bradford, aged 21, A B; case number 5; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on the sick list, 18 December 1873 at St Vincent Cape de Verde. Discharged 14 Januury 1874 cured and recommended two weeks of light duty.

Folio 7: Frank Chatill, aged 30, captain of the main top; case number 6; disease or hurt, simple fracture of left humoris. Put on the sick list, 30 December 1873 at sea. Injury sustained by a fall of about twelve feet on the forecastle. Discharged on 7 January 1874 for survey as patient was not amenable to advice, and frequently displacing his bandages and since injury would take at least eight weeks to heal was a fit subject for removal to England, as the ship would be home before that time.

Folio 8: George Clapson, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 7; disease or hurt, secondary syphilis. Put on the sick list, 1 January 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Stated that appearance of disease started nine days previously, and he had contracted a primary sore at Portsmouth in April 1873 where he was treated for fourteen days on the H M S Duke of Wellington. Discharged 7 January 1874 for survey, and invalided for being unfit to remain on the station.

Folio 8: William Ellson, aged 22, painter; case number 8; disease or hurt, epilepsy. Put on the sick list 4 January 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Discharged on the 7 January 1874 invalided having suffered several epileptic attacks. His medical history showed that he had treatment for vertigo on the H M S Asia at Portsmouth last November.

Folio 8: John Howell, aged 21, private royal marine; case number 9; disease or hurt, secondary syphilis. Put on the sick list, 6 January 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Medical history showed that he had spent 200 days last year on the list for syphilis. Discharged on 7 January 1874 for survey at Cape Coast Castle and invalided.

Folio 9: James Hasman, aged 18, ordinary seaman; case number 10; disease or hurt, dislocation of wrist. Put on the sick list, 12 January 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Suffering from a simple and complete dislocation of the left wrist produced from a fall off the mid-awning. Discharged 11 February 11 1874.

Folio 9-10: Henry Maybee, aged 32; captain of the quarter deck; case number 11; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on the sick list, 23 January 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Discharged 14 February 1874 for survey at Cape Coast Castle being considered unfit for further service for suffering debility and partial paralysis of motion and loss of sensibility in lower extremities and subsequently invalided.

Folio 11-12: Thomas Jones, aged 30, leading seaman; case number 12; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on the sick list, 24 January 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Discharged 8 March 1874 cured and recommended for ten days light duty.

Folio 12-13: Robert Groves, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 13; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 14 February 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Surgeon complains that the patient is troublesome and find it difficult to administer medicine too. Discharged 18 February 1874 to Naval Hospital Ship, Nebraska due to escalation of disease and patient giving more trouble and “suitable attendants apparently unfit for watching his care”.

Folio 13: Robert Groves, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 14; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 22 February 1874 readmitted from the 'Nebraska' naval hospital ship. Discharged 22 February 1874 dead. No post mortem carried out as body ordered to be buried at sea the next morning.

Folio 14: Thomas Cousins, aged 19, boy attendant; case number 15; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on the sick list, 15 February 1874 at Cape Coast Castle. Discharged 23 January 1874 to duty.

Folio 14: Joseph Carr, aged 29, stoker; case number 16; disease or hurt, contused and lacerated wound of left forearm. Put on the sick list, 27 February 1874 at sea. Wound received when limb was caught in the machinery of the engine room when the engine was moving. Discharged 15 April 1874 to duty.

Folios 15-16: Mr John Read, aged 35, boatswain; case number 17; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on the sick list, 2 March 1874 at sea, between cape coast cape and Sierra Leone. Surgeon notes that patient is inclined to make trouble by trying to induce fellow sick patients to procure him spirits from his mess. Discharged 26 March 1874 to duty.

Folio 16-18: Toftlow Dunlop,aged 50, sailmakers’ mate; case number 18; disease or hurt, pneumonia and peritonitis. Put on the sick list on 13 March 1874 at sea, about one day’s steaming from St Vincent, Cape de Verde. Removed from sick-bay accommodation to military hospital on 17 March 1874. Discharged 18 March 1874 dead. Autopsy carried out on patient.

Folio 19: Joseph Brooks, aged 24, private royal marine; case number 19; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 27 March 1874. He had lately been under treatment as a military patient having been sent from the Naval Brigade suffering from dysentery contracted in Ashantee, but was found to have only diarrhoea accompanied by debility. Discharged 7 April 1874 for light duty.

Folio 20: Alfred Jones, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 20; disease or hurt, wound of scalp. Put on the sick list, 30 March 1874 at sea. Suffering from contusion and insensibility from a scalp wound caused by a blow from a large double block falling from off the fore sheet. Discharged 11 April 1874 to Haslar Hospital.

Folio 20: William Corney, aged 18, occupation not stated, case number 21; disease or hurt, drowning. At sea about three days steaming from England on voyage home, he accidentally fell overboard, off the Bay of Biscay. The ship was travelling about 9 knots in rough seas, two life buoys were thrown to him but although being a good swimmer could not get to them after struggling for nearly ten minutes. The body was not recovered.