Folio 10: Robert Cousins, aged 26, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on...

Folio 10: Robert Cousins, aged 26, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 4 December 1870. Discharged, 18 December 1870. While cleaning one of the 8 inch guns the compressor was let out at an awkward moment and the gun ran out by its own weight, jamming the patient’s body between its muzzle and the port.

Folio 10: John Allen, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fracture (compound). Put on sick list, 25 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 25 December 1870. While cleaning the poop, he slipped and fell overboard striking his ankle against a bolt in the ship’s side. Compound fracture of the tibia just above the malleolus and extending into the joint and the lower third of the fibula was also fractured but without displacement.

Folio 11: Walter King, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 21 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 27 December 1870.

Folio 11: George Kelsey, aged 42, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, sciatica. Put on sick list, 13 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 29 December 1870.

Folio 11: Edmund Prior, aged 40, Captain of the Hold; disease or hurt, rheumatism (chronic). Put on sick list, 19 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 29 December 1870.

Folio 11: John Stamp, aged 23, Private Marine; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 6 January 1871. Sent to hospital, 9 January 1871.

Folio 11: Charles Hammett, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, ulcer. Put on sick list, 29 November 1870, for a wound of the right middle finger. Discharged, 5 December 1870. Returned to the list, 11 December 1870, with an ulcer. Sent to hospital, 9 January 1871.

Folio 11: John Horner, aged 27, Private Marine; disease or hurt, orchitis and hydrocele. Put on sick list, 11 January 1871. Sent to hospital, 17 January 1871.

Folio 12: Samuel Friend, aged 23, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, hernia. Put on sick list, 9 December 1871. Invalided, 19 January 1871. He was given a pension certificate, 9 December, and a truss, 10 December 1870.

Folio 12: John Rose, aged 27, Private Marine; disease or hurt, paralysis agitans. Invalided, 19 January 1871. While being treated for diarrhoea it was noticed that he suffered paralysis agitans which had troubled him for three years so that he was unable to do duty when excited in any way.

Folio 12: Thomas Andrews, aged 35, Private Marine; disease or hurt, varix. Put on sick list, 10 January 1871. Invalided, 19 January 1871.

Folio 12: Samuel McGahey, aged 32, Leading Stoker; disease or hurt, variocele. Invalided, 19 January 1871. Had been surveyed when the ship was commissioned but was found fit for service. On arrival in the Mediterranean his varicocele got worse.

Folio 12: Andrew Seccombe, aged 24, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, syphilitic cachexia, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 26 December 1870. Sent to hospital, 31 January 1871. He had twice suffered primary syphilis and secondary symptoms about eight months before joining the ship.

Folios 12 – 13: Charles Mundy, aged 27, Ship’s Corporal; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 31 January 1871. Sent to hospital, 7 February 1871.

Folio 13: Henry Patterson, aged 21, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, bubo (symp). Put on sick list, 1 February 1871. Sent to hospital, 2 March 1871.

Folio 13: Philip Ferris, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, bubo (symp) and rheumatism. Put on sick list, 3 February 1871. Sent to hospital, 21 February 1871. Had only returned from hospital on 31 January 1871.

Folio 13: Edward Gordon, aged 23, Private Marine; disease or hurt, vertigo. Put on sick list, 15 January 1871. Invalided, 9 February 1871. Joined the ship from the Hibernia on 17 December 1870 complaining at the time of pain in the head and giddiness. He had been three years on the Mediterranean Station and suffered these symptoms for the last twelve months. On 7 February 1871 he had a fainting fit which lasted an hour and a half.

Folios 13 – 14: Henry Jones, aged 26, Painter; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 10 February 1871, for cynanche and fever. Sent to hospital, 2 March 1871. While convalescent from cynanche his general appearance of emaciation gave rise to a suspicion of chest disease.

Folio 14: Jeremiah Hurdley, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, syphilis (secondary). Put on sick list, 17 February 1871. Sent to hospital, 21 February 1871. He had had primary syphilis in November 1870.

Folio 14: Charles Ridout, aged 28, Stoker; disease or hurt, haemorrhoids. Put on sick list, 21 February 1871. Sent to hospital, 21 February 1871. Had been on the list from 26 to 30 December 1870 for the same complaint.

Folio 14: Charles Bong, aged 36, Captain of the Forecastle; disease or hurt, contusion. Put on sick list, 21 February 1871. Sent to hospital, 23 February 1871. His foot and ankle were jammed against the end of the fore top gallant yard while it was being lowered. There was no dislocation or fracture, the leg was put in a McIntyre’s splint but swelled considerably. He was given a pension certificate on 25 April 1871.

Folios 14 – 15: Captain E Horsey, aged 43, Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, fever (continued). Put on sick list, 24 February 1871, at Malta. Sent to hospital, 15 April 1871. He had suffered an attack of yellow fever at Rio de Janeiro in 1853 and had suffered occasional attacks of intermittent fever in England. He was sent to sick quarters at Naples on 17 March until 3 April 1871.

Folio 15: John Snell, aged 30, Private Marine; disease or hurt, varix. Put on sick list, 25 February 1871. Invalided, 27 February 1871. He had twelve years service and had been on the coast of Africa, the West Indies and South East America without any illness.

Folio 15: Richard Harrisson, aged 26, Private Marine; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 26 February 1871. Sent to hospital, 6 March 1871.

Folio 15: Frederick Martin, aged 28, Stoker; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 20 January 1871. Invalided, 27 February 1871. He had been on the sick list from 26 December 1870 to 9 January 1871 for contusion of the foot and complained of feeling too weak for the duty of a stoker. On 20 January 1871 he had an epileptiform seizure followed by giddiness and increasing debility. He was given tonics and did light duty.

Folio15: Thomas Sheffield, aged 24, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, hernia. Put on sick list, 20 December 1870. Invalided, 27 February 1871. He had been issued a truss on 26 December 1871.

Folios 15 – 16: Mr William Eden, aged 21, Sub Lieutenant; disease or hurt, irritable bladder (gonorrhoea). Put on sick list, 3 March 1871. Sent to hospital, 3 March 1871. He had been sent to Haslar Hospital from HMS Excellent in March 1870 for gonorrhoea and was discharged before he was well in order to pass his examination.

Folio 16: George Stacey, aged 37, Leading Stoker; disease or hurt, rheumatism (chronic). Put on sick list, 11 March 1871. Sent to hospital, 18 April 1871. Suffered rheumatic pains in his knees incapacitating him for going up and down the ladders in the engine room.