Folio 1: Printed instructions on completing the nosological tables, general remarks...

Folio 1: Printed instructions on completing the nosological tables, general remarks and journal.

Folios 2-3: J Porteous, aged 28, Captain of the Fore Top; disease or hurt, wound of phalange and amputation of finger, subsequent bullet wound of shoulder. Put on sick list, 15 December 1878, at the Lower Tugela. Discharged, 10 June 1879. While working as cook for his tent, a cooking knife slipped and wounded the joint of his finger. The finger was amputated on 21 January 1878 and he was discharged to duty. He was subsequently wounded at the battle of 'Mginginlhovo' [Gingindlovu] on 2 April 1878.

Folio 3: W Seddon, aged 41, Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 28 December 1878, in the Naval Brigade Field Hospital at the Lower Tugela. Died, 2 January 1879. 'He was a prematurely an old man and had been drinking hard for several days'.

Folio 3: D Martin, aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, death by drowning, 9 January 1879. While working on a pont on the right bank of the river Tugela a railing gave way and he and some other officers and men were plunged into the river. He was seen to swim for a while in the strong current but suddenly disappeared and may have been taken by a crocodile.

Folio 3: W Aynsley, aged 22, Signalman; disease or hurt, assegai wound. Died, 22 January 1879, Isandlwana. He had been seen to fight for some time with his cutlass, his back to a wagon, before being wounded in the legs and overcome.

Folio 4: G Doran, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, penetrating bullet wound of thigh. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. Discharged, [26 April 1879]. The bullet remained in his body, the surgeon was unable to extract it.

Folio 4:G Benjamin, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, perforating bullet wound of the thigh. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. Discharged, [24 March 1879].

Folio 4: H Gosling, aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, bullet wound of hand. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. Discharged after 33 days.

Folio 4: J Bullen, aged 19, Signalman; disease or hurt, bullet wound of leg. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. Discharged after a week. The wound was form a nearly spent bullet which carried part of his canvas gaiter into the wound without having the strength to penetrate it. Folio 4: E White, aged 29, Captain of the Forecastle; disease or hurt, bullet wound of thigh. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. Discharged after about a week.

Folios 4-5: J Ropeyan, aged 30, Krooman; disease or hurt, bullet wound of thorax. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. Discharged after a few days. He belonged to the rocket party which attacked a kraal forming the centre of the position at Inyezane and was struck in the chest by a bullet which hit one of his ribs without fracturing it and afterwards dropped out of the wound.

Folio 5: J Lewis, aged 38, Krooman; disease or hurt, bullet wound of upper arm. Put on sick list, 22 January 1879, at the battle of Inyezane. The wound rapidly healed. He belonged to the same rocket party as J Ropeyan.

Folio 5: J Moore, aged 38, Shoemaker; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 31 January 1879, at Fort Ekowe [Fort Eshowe]. Died, 10 February 1879. He had got wet digging the ditch round the fort and afterwards had to sleep at his post in the rain.

Folios 5-6: A Pearce, aged 38, Coxswain of the Cutter; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 9 February 1879, at Fort Ekowe [Fort Eshowe]. Died, 22 April 1879. He had to wait some time for a space in the hospital to become available and had become very emaciated. At times he lay in a hammock slung under a wagon.

Folio 6: J Radford, aged 25, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 22 February 1879, at Fort Ekowe [Fort Eshowe]. Died, 8 March 1879.

Folios 6-7: Mr Lewis C Coker, aged 19, Midshipman; disease or hurt, dysentery and death from internal haemorrhage. Put on sick list, 2 March 1879, at Fort Ekowe [Fort Eshowe]. Died, 16 March 1879. He had been under observation for some three weeks previously after getting very wet sleeping at his post before the fortifications were completed.

Folio 7: W Stagg, aged 24, Marine; disease or hurt, double pneumonia. Put on sick list, 8 March 1879, at Fort Ekowe [Fort Eshowe]. Died, 16 March 1879. His complaint is attributed to a period of cold, raw, wet, foggy weather immediately following a few hot days.

Folios 7-8: A Smith, aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, continued fever. Put on sick list, 21 March 1879, at Fort Ekowe [Fort Eshowe]. Died, 2 April 1879.

Folios 8-9: G Walsh, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, enteric fever. Put on sick list, 11 April 1879, at the Lower Tugela. Died, 19 April 1879.

Folio 9: A Essay, aged 30, Armourer; disease or hurt, dysentery, aortic valvular disease, embolism of a cerebral vessel, hemiplegia. Put on sick list, 21 January 1879, during the advance on the Inyezane, and again on 20 July 1879 on the march from Tugela to Durban.

Folio 9: C Hillier, aged 30, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, jaundice, congestion of the liver. Put on sick list, 24 May 1879, at the Lower Tugela. No date of discharge recorded. The case is included as an example of a very common complaint during the Zulu War. It was generally due to the heat of the day followed by the intense cold by night and was especially prevalent at the Lower Tugela where malt liquor could be obtained.

Folios 9-10: T Hill, aged 18, Signalman; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 18 May 1879, at the Lower Tugela. Sent to the Base Hospital at Durban, 13 June 1879, rejoined his ship, 30 July 1879, still very debilitated.

Folios 10-11: C Fleming, aged 31, Marine; disease or hurt, insanity following intemperance. Put on sick list, 5 August 1879, at sea between Simon's Bay and Ascension Island. Sent to hospital at Ascension Island, 24 August 1879. He had been in the service for five years and was previously a navvy, he had served on shore for eight months with the Naval Brigade in the Zulu War. On 31 July he had four days leave on shore and drank heavily, returning with cuts and bruises about his face from having fallen. The ship left Simon's Bay on 5 August and in the night he was put on the sick list with symptoms of delirium tremens. In a few days this was succeeded by 'mental derangement'. He complained of hearing voices and became convinced he was going to be put to death, thinking that men doing drill on deck were preparing to execute him and when a collision mat or Harvey's torpedo was lowered, that he was to be tied up in it and drowned. Fearing he might attempt suicide, the surgeon sent him to the hospital at Ascension Island.

Folio 11: G Smithers, aged 33, Captain of the Main Top; disease or hurt, sciatica. Put on sick list, 22 May 1879, at the Lower Tugela. Discharged, 6 June 1879.

Folio 11: Mr G Dowding, aged 31, Lieutenant Royal Marines; disease or hurt, acute tonsillitis, fungus. Put on sick list, 17 May 1879, at the Lower Tugela. Discharged, 21 May 1879. Yellowish white pustules were seen which when examined under the microscope were found to contain spores and broken filaments of a fungus.