Folio 13: Henry Odell, aged 32, Captain of the Fore Top; disease or hurt, fracture...

Folio 13: Henry Odell, aged 32, Captain of the Fore Top; disease or hurt, fracture of the right middle finger. Put on sick list, 24 May 1867, at Hong Kong. Discharged, 5 July 1867. While helping to move an iron anchor from the dockside into a lighter his right hand was crushed, the two distal phalanges of the middle finger were fractured and protruded through the lacerated integuments. His finger healed but became stiffened and he was granted a pension certificate on 22 August 1867.

Folio 13: James Yates, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 26 August 1867, at Yokohama. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 27 August 1867. Returned to the ship, 2 September 1867.

Folio 13: Henry Ellington, aged 17, 1st Class Boy; disease or hurt, diarrhoea with fever. Put on sick list, 28 August 1867, at Yokohama. Sent to hospital, 2 September 1867.

Folio 13: Mr E Francis, aged 35, Carpenter; disease or hurt, debility etc. Put on sick list, 28 August 1867. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 28 August 1867. On arrival at hospital pneumonia was diagnosed.

Folio 13: John Twine, aged 51, Stoker; disease or hurt, palpitation. Put on sick list, 6 September 1867. Invalided, 8 October 1867. Arrived on HMS Urgent and joined HMS Perseus in May 1867. Placed on the list on 6 September after three days stoking with pains in the loins, on 22 September he complained of pain in the left breast. He had served for 30 years and had suffered dysentery in the Mediterranean, rheumatism with swelling of the joints in the West Indies, fever at Panama and chronic rheumatism on the passage to China.

Folio 14: John Tregunna, aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, diarrhoea chronic. Put on sick list, 7 September 1867. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 11 October 1867. He had been sent to hospital in June 1867 for the same disease and returned on 24 July 1867.

Folio 15: Philip Lunny, aged 31, Private Marine; disease or hurt, varix. Put on sick list, 12 September 1867. Invalided, 8 October 1867, at Yokohama. Was under treatment from 28 August to 6 September 1867 for the same illness.

Folio 15: James Yates, aged 23, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 16 September 1867. Invalided, 8 October 1867, at Yokohama. Had been in the service about 7 years and had suffered much from cough, which he attributed to the trade he was brought up in, a ropemaker.

Folios 15 – 16: James McLean, aged 25, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, pneumonia, followed by gangrene of the left leg. Put on sick list, 24 September 1867, on passage from Hakotade to Yokohama. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 3 October 1867. He had been in HMS Perseus since arriving in China in 1867 and had been repeatedly on the list for a variety of illnesses, a list shows 7 periods with 7 different ailments in 1866 and 1867. He was being treated for pneumonia when, on 1 October, he felt pain in his left calf which became insensible and powerless. His leg was later amputated by Dr Dunwoodie of the Royal Naval Sick Quarters and he made a slow but good recovery.

Folio 17: William Newport, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman. Drowned, 26 September 1867, when the ship’s gig was capsized in the surf at ‘Coodanasower’, Japan. His body was not recovered.

Folio 17: John Williams, aged 37, Caulker; disease or hurt, abscess of leg and bubo. Put on sick list, 27 September 1867. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 7 October 1867.

Folio 17: Henry Odell, aged 32, Captain of the Fore Top; disease or hurt, haemorrhoids. Put on sick list, 1 October 1867. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 7 October 1867.

Folio 17: George Blissett, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, sprain of the right knee. Put on sick list, 31 July 1867. Sent to sick quarters at Yokohama, 7 October 1867. He suffered a contusion of the right knee when he fell down a hatchway. He was treated until 19 September but complained again at the beginning of October.

Folio 18: Table I, A list of men who have received wounds or hurts. Henry Odell, aged 32, 2nd Captain of the Fore Top, certificate granted 22 August 1867, compound comminuted fracture of right middle finger. Folio 19: Table II, not completed.

Folio 20: Table III, all cases for the period 1 January 1867 to 11 October 1867. Mean numerical strength of the ship’s company 167.

Folio 21: Table No 4, A list of deaths which have occurred in the ship during the period of the journal. Will Newport, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman, drowned, 26 September 1867.

Folio 21: Table No 5, Alphabetical list of officers and men invalided in the ship during the period of this journal. James Archer, aged 52, Able Seaman, contusion and debility, invalided 1 January 1867. Philip Lunny, aged 31,Private Marine, varix, invalided 8 October 1867. Mr Frederick Sale, aged 35, Carpenter, febris intermittens, invalided 1 January 1867. John Twine, aged 51, Stoker, palpitation etc, invalided 8 October 1867. James Yates, aged 24, Ordinary Seaman, phthisis, invalided 8 October 1867.

Folio 21: Table No 6, A list of pension certificates granted to men during the period of the journal. Henry Odell, aged 32, 2nd Captain of the Fore Top, compound comminuted fracture of right middle finger, certificate granted 22 August 1867, date of injury 24 May 1867.

Folios 21 – 22: Table No 7, Alphabetical list of officers and men sent to hospital during the period of this journal.

Folio 22: Table No 8: Movements and stations of the ship during period of journal.

Folio 22A: Table No 10, Shewing the comparative ratio of sick, invalided and dead in Perseus and China Station.