Folio 20: Mark Bolt, aged 22, ordinary seaman, case number 22; disease or hurt, pneumonia....

Folio 20: Mark Bolt, aged 22, ordinary seaman, case number 22; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on the sick list, 25 April off Netley hospital. He was brought on board as a prisoner having broken his leave for 48 hours. Discharged on 25 April 1874 to Haslar hospital.

Folio 21: Mr James Martin, aged 38, boatswain; case number 23; disease or hurt, neuralgia seiatic. Put on the sick list, 11 May at Portsmouth. Discharged 22 May 1874 to Haslar being unfit to remain on board for service in China.

Folio 21: James Robins, aged 27, butcher; case number 24; disease or hurt, dementia (?). Put on sick list, 25 May 1874 at Portsmouth. Brought in by his messmates for 'acting strangely' for somedays; when visited he was in a state of passive excitement but answered questions rationally. Discharged 25 May 1874 to Haslar hospital for observation where he was diagnosed with an 'obscure fever'.

Folio 21: Mr Joseph Larking, aged 48, boatswain; case number 25; disease or hurt, ague. Put on the sick list, 4 June 1874 found to be suffering intermittent fever at own home in Portsmouth. Discharged 11 June 1874 to Haslar hospital and was found unfit for service in China.

Folio 21: Frederick W Payne, aged 28, something's mate; case number 26; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on the sick list, 9 June 1874 at Portsmouth and discharged on the 9 June to Haslar hospital. He had previously been invalided from China in November 1873 for dysentery.

Folio 22-36: Blank.

Folio 37: Table 1 showing the movements of the ship during the period of the journal.

Folio 37: Table 2: A list of men who during the period of this journal, have received wounds or hurts, which may disqualify them for the public service, or subsequently in any way interfere with their earning a livelihood. (Names and details follow).

Folio 38: Table 3: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases which have occurred between 20 November 1873 and 31 December 1873. The average numerical strength of the company 397.

Folio 39: Table 4: A nosological synopsis of the medical cases which have occurred between 1 January 1874 and 17 June 1874. Average numerical strength of ship's company 250.

Folio 40: Table 5: showing the number of cases of diseases arranged between the following periods of age (15 to 25, 25 to 35, 35 to 45, 45 to 55, 55 to 65) for 20 November 1873 to 17 June 1874. Average number victualled daily during the period; aged 15 to 25 (13), aged 25 to 35 (14), aged 35 to 45 (21), aged 45 to 55 (4).

Folio 40: A Letter from the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy to the Admiralty, stating that the age tables be filled in on form number five, in respect to Class I, General Diseases, such as continued fevers.

Folio 41: A sketch of the HMS 'Victor Emanuel', off the Gold Coast, West Africa between January 1 and February 27 1874. Sketch signed by W E Atkins.

Folio 42: Sketch 1: showing a layout of some of the external fixtures of the HMS 'Victor Emmanuel': number 1, 'Birdcage walk' - convalescent platform showing entry port for sick cases; number 2, latrine for ship's company; number 3, auxiliary line.

Folio 42-64 A- Surgeon’s General Remarks.

Folio 42-49- detailed account of the performance of the ship's facilities and suitability of its design. Within the margins there is references towards the sketches to illustrate the facility or area of the ship the surgeon is describing.

Folio 42: HMS 'Victor Emanuel' was commissioned at Portsmouth as the floating hospital for the army engaged in the operation against the Ashantes, on the Gold Coast of Africa. The hospital ship design was devised by the Army Medical Department and the surgeon felt it necessary to review the ships' specific fittings, and the system adopted for carrying out the object on the mission in the face of the criticism from the press and the lecture hall. The ship was originally launched as the 'Repulse' at Pembroke in 1855, a wooden two decker of 3087 tons and 600 horsepower, old measurement but had served only two commissions prior to her Hospital conversion in September 1873.

Folio 44: Dispensary was used by the pathologist of the expedition, who complained of having too frequently been disturbed in his scientific pursuits, by inquisitive bluejackets watching him through the sky light on the upper-deck. Amongst the objects he collected or illustrated, nearly all were either known or described by the Professor of Naval Hygiene at Nettey.

Folio 46: An ice machine was fitted on the slope deck above the engine room. This steam driven machine could produce over four hundred weight of ice per dicem according to its manufactuer, Messers Siebet West of London, but due to the local temperature produced half that. The ice was seen as essential as food in that it made drinking water palatable in temperatures often reaching 80 degrees.

Folio 48: The number of medical personal on the ship numbered 48; of whom ten were officers, seven being for medical duties. The non-commissioned officers and men who belonged to the army hospital corps, acted as clerks, dispensers and nurses. The ship’s company comprised of a number of youths that the surgeon regarded as having 'inferior physique and (being) morally bad'. The worst men came from HMS 'Duke of Wellington', being chiefly new ordinary seamen on their first tour of foreign service possessing but little experience of duties, though full of confidence of their capabilities.

Folio 50: Two sketches that depict scenes on board ship. Sketch 2 is a sketch entitled the 'Bird cage walk', portside looking aft and shows two patients, one sitting and one reclined reading in the caged balcony on board the ship. Sketch 3 is entitled 'Hospital deck, port side, looking forward'. Sketch depicts the layout of the hospital deck with patients in lines of cots being attended to by medical personal.

Folio 50-64: A detailed account of the incidence and type of disease encountered in the duration of the voyage.

Folio 51: Surgeon states that the sick list was comparatively small, considering that the ship was positioned off the most unhealthy coast of Western Africa. The rate of invaliding and death rates could have been reduced if more time was given before embarking to medical inspection of the crew.