Folio 1: Note pasted inside front cover ?A most excellent and beautifully illustrated...

Folio 1: Note pasted inside front cover ‘A most excellent and beautifully illustrated journal. Remarks on structure and ventilation of ships very poor’.

Folio 2: Blank.

Folio 3: Printed instructions on completing the journal, nosological tables and general remarks.

Folio 4: Mr R W White, aged 21, Sub-Lieutenant; disease or hurt, scarlatina. Put on sick list, 30 September 1870, for cynanche. Sent to hospital, 1 October 1870. On enquiry it was found that he had just returned from Exeter where scarlet fever was prevalent.

Folio 4: William H Elliott, aged 25, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, stricture. Put on sick list, 1 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 3 October 1870.

Folios 4 – 5: Stuart Anderson, aged 22, Gunner Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, scrofula, (syph cachex). Sent to hospital, 3 October 1870. He had been treated for primary syphilis at the Marine Artillery Infirmary and also went to hospital for secondary syphilis, Folio 5: John Truscott, aged 30, Carpenter’s Crew; disease or hurt, abscess. Put on sick list, 4 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 15 October 1870.

Folio 5: John Munden, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, phlegmon (abscess). Put on sick list, 2 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 4 October 1870.

Folio 5: Mark Pickett, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, wound (finger). Put on sick list, 18 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 26 October 1870. While employed as cook of his mess he cut his left middle finger on a broken basin.

Folio 5: Reuben Rigran, aged 22, Private Marine; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 17 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 28 November 1870.

Folio 5: Edward Snudden, aged 22, Stoker; disease or hurt, fracture of the left fibula. Put on sick list, 23 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 29 October 1870. Struck on the outside of the left leg by a coil of rope weighing 70 or 80 lbs falling from about 10 feet.

Folio 6: Thomas Nicholas, aged 16, Boy; disease or hurt, fracture of acromion process. Put on sick list, 26 October 1870. Sent to hospital, 29 October 1870. Struck on the shoulder by a boat that he was helping to hoist on board.

Folio 6: Cases invalided on 31 October 1870 following an examination before the ship left England. John Clewes, aged 20, Cooper’s Crew; disease or hurt, varix. Stephen West, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, varix. Henry Hughes, aged 17, Boy; disease or hurt, scrofula. George Curtis, aged 17, Boy; disease or hurt, variocele. George Wheeler, aged 34, Sailmaker; disease or hurt, cataract.

Folio 6: Two cases discharged to the flagship to await survey on 4 November 1870. Dennis Whiting, aged 20, Stoker; disease or hurt, oblique inguinal hernia. William Patterson, aged 17, Boy; disease or hurt, exostosis.

Folios 6 – 7: William Wall, aged 38, Quartet Master; disease or hurt, phthisis pulmonalis. Put on sick list, 1 November 1870, with catarrh and troublesome cough. Sent to Bighi Hospital, 28 November 1870. Specimens of sputum containing pieces of lung tissue were sent to the hospital with him.

Folio 7: John Wood, aged 26, Private Marine; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 24 November 1870. Sent to hospital, 28 November 1870.

Folio 7: Robert Zelley, aged 28, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, stricture. Put on sick list, [no date]. Sent to hospital, 28 November 1870. Stricture aggravated by gonorrhoea.

Folio 7: Lawrence Miller, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, ulcer. Put on sick list, 4 November 1870. Sent to hospital, 28 November 1870.

Folio 7: William Woodward, aged 25, Stoker; disease or hurt, epilepsy. Put on sick list, 25 November 1870. Brought forward for survey, 6 December 1870. He had suffered seizures a couple of years earlier but not since until 25 November and then again on 28 November 1870.

Folio 8: Robert Knight, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, morbus cordis. Put on sick list, 4 December 1870. Invalided, 6 December 1870. Found to be suffering morbus cordis when he was examined for his fitness to undergo punishment.

Folio 8: Robert Benham, aged 35, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, hernia. Put on sick list, 20 November 1870. Invalided, 6 December 1870. Injured on 17 November 1870, he was given a truss when he presented himself on 20 November.

Folio 8: John D MacDonald MD, Staff Surgeon; disease or hurt, dislocation. Put on sick list, 11 December 1870. Fell while jumping from a boat to the hospital steps and dislocated left humerus. It was immediately reduced by Dr Donnville and after a few days the patient returned to his duty.

Folio 8: Conrad Heath, aged 19, Private Marine; disease or hurt, typhoid fever (mild type). Put on sick list, 16 November 1870. Discharged, 14 December 1870.

Folio 8: Joseph Galvin, aged 33, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, syphilis (secondary). Put on sick list, 8 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 14 December 1870. Contracted syphilis in August 1870 at Portsmouth, treated at Haslar, on the sick list 11 October for a slight vesicular eruption until 16 November.

Folio 8: Edward Smith, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, wound. Put on sick list, 16 November 1870. Sent to hospital, 14 December 1870. The end of his right middle finger was crushed by the cog wheel of the winch of an 8 inch gun. The exposed bone was removed with the bone nippers. Suppuration was extending deeper into the finger so he was sent to hospital for further treatment.

Folios 8 – 9: Philip Ferris, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, bubo (simple). Put on sick list, 28 November 1870. Sent to hospital, 14 December 1870.

Folio 9: Thomas Faulkner, aged 17, Boy; disease or hurt, cerebral disease (obscure). Put on sick list, 2 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 14 December 1870. Placed on the list with giddiness and premonitory symptoms of an epileptic seizure, which did not take place. The giddiness remained and on 13 December he experienced pain in his head, auscultation revealed a muffled sounding heartbeat.

Folio 9: William McGillicuddy, aged 32, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, syphilis (primary). Put on sick list, 6 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 14 December 1870.

Folio 9: Jacob Morris, aged 27, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, amaurosis. Put on sick list, 13 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 16 December 1870. Originally on the list on 7 November, for catarrh and slight conjunctivitis, and again on 21 November for pain in the temples and failing vision.

Folios 9 – 10: Mr George H Broadley, aged 25, Assistant Paymaster; disease or hurt, sprain, with fracture of right fibula. Put on sick list, 17 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 18 December 1870. Fell while running down the steps of Strada San Giovanni.

Folio 10: David Connor, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 18 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 18 December 1870. He was in the launch when the fall slipped as it was being hoisted aboard and it fell 35 feet into the water with the crew aboard. He was thrown across the gunwale of the boat striking his head and back. Though not unconscious he had a confused appearance and was unable to move his legs.