Folio 16: Edwin White, aged 23, Gunner Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, fracture...

Folio 16: Edwin White, aged 23, Gunner Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, fracture of the femur. Put on sick list, 21 March 1871. Sent to hospital at Malta, 15 April 1871. Fell overboard from the accommodation ladder while returning drunk from leave.

Folio 16: John D’Arcy, aged 24, 2nd Captain of the Fore Castle; disease or hurt, syphilis. Put on sick list, 21 March 1871. Sent to hospital, 18 April 1871.

Folio 16: John Whidburn [Whitburn], aged 27, Writer; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, 3 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 4 [April] 1871.

Folios 16 – 17: Lieutenant John L E Arnnit, aged 22, Royal Marine Light Infantry; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 9 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 15 April 1871. He was of a strumous habit and had been sent to Australia at a young age to obviate a phthisical tendency, his rheumatism was probably due to a venereal taint, he had had syphilis and gonorrhoea.

Folio 17: Thomas Hannan, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fever continued. Put on sick list, 10 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 15 April 1871.

Folio 17: John Bowditch, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, syphilis and bubo. Put on sick list, April 1871. Sent to hospital, 18 April 1871.

Folio 17: Michael Hannan, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fever continued. Put on sick list, 13 April 1871. Sent to hospital at Malta, 27 April 1871.

Folios 17 – 18: William Carney, aged 28, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, 13 April 1871. Sent to hospital at Malta, 15 April 1871.

Folio 18: William James, aged 22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, 17 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 18 April 1871.

Folio 18: Mr William G Gubbins, aged 16, Midshipman; disease or hurt, fever (typhoid). Put on sick list, 20 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 20 April 1871.

Folio 18: Thomas A Adams, aged22, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, fistula in perineo and stricture. Sent to hospital, 17 April 1871. He had been under treatment for two months in 1869 on board HMS Rodney for perinoeal abscess which had established a fistula.

Folio 18: Peter Windsor, aged 25, Blacksmith; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, 21 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 21 April 1871. He had been vaccinated as a child and revaccinated at 13.

Folios 18 – 19: James Dunkley, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fever (continued). Put on sick list, 24 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 26 April 1871.

Folio 19: Nathaniel Bird, aged 26, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, irritation of bladder and stricture. Put on sick list, 26 April 1871. Sent to hospital 2 May 1871. He had been treated for stricture in 1864 and had never since passed urine in a full stream.

Folio 19: Mr Charles Le Strange, aged 24, Lieutenant; disease or hurt, orchitis. Put on sick list, 26 April 1871. Sent to hospital 13 May 1871. Pain and swelling of the left testicle brought on by over exertion pulling with a racing crew the previous evening.

Folio 19: Alfred Gunn, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, 28 April 1871. Sent to hospital, 30 April 1871. He had been vaccinated as a child and revaccinated only five years previously.

Folios 19 – 20: John Henry Smith, aged 22, Admiral’s Domestic; disease or hurt, fever and rheumatism. Put on sick list, 1 May 1871. Sent to hospital, 17 May 1871. Another domestic in Admiralty House suffered similar symptoms and contaminated water was suspected.

Folio 20: Walter Morgan, aged 20, Sail Maker’s Crew; disease or hurt, syphilitic nodes. Put on sick list, 5 May 1871. Sent to hospital, 30 May 1871. He had been sent to Plymouth Hospital in July 1870 for syphilitic rheumatism after contracting syphilis in Bombay while in HMS Daphne.

Folio 20: James Kitchen, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fever (continued). Put on sick list, 10 May 1871. Sent to hospital, 2 June 1871.

Folio 20: Edward Dartnell, aged 18, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, fever (continued). Put on sick list, 11 May 1871. Sent to the hospital, 11 May 1871.

Folio 21: James Curran, aged 26, Private Marine; disease or hurt, variocele. Put on sick list, 3 May 1871. Invalided, 13 May 1871, and ordered a passage to England in HMS Euphrates.

Folio 21: George Liscombe, aged 18, Boy; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 12 May 1871. Sent to hospital, 17 May 1871.

Folio 21: Mr William G Eden, aged 21, Sub Lieutenant; disease or hurt, irritable bladder. Put on sick list, 3 May 1871. Sent to Hospital, 12 May 1871. He had been discharged from hospital for the same complaint on 18 April and remained well until 29 April, when ‘after violent exercise in the fives court’ the complaint returned.

Folio 21: John Horne, aged 27, Private Marine; disease or hurt, mental debility and hydrocele. Sent to hospital, 17 January 1871. Discharged, 18 April 1871. Invalided, 13 May 1871. He had syphilis 9 years previously after which the left testicle enlarged and had given him trouble ever since, causing him to be sent to hospital in January 1871. He could give no account of his case and had difficulty answering simple questions, his mess mates said his intellect had been failing of late, ‘probably from syphilitic deposit in the brain’.

Folio 21: Mr George H Bradley, aged 25, Assistant Paymaster; disease or hurt, diarrhoea (dysenteria). Put on sick list, 30 May 1871. Sent to hospital, 3 June 1871.

Folio 22: Samuel Cotterell, aged 33, [Chief Gunner’s] Mate; disease or hurt, orchitis. Put on sick list, 1 June 1871. Sent to hospital, 12 June 1871. Struck on the right testicle by a powder case while stowing the magazine.

Folio 22: George Moody, aged 29, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, fever (remittent). Put on sick list, 4 June 1871. Sent to hospital, 12 June 1871.

Folio 22: John Gibson, aged 37, Boatswain’s Mate; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 6 June 1871. Sent to Malta Hospital, 12 June 1871. He had been invalided from HMS Victoria on the Mediterranean Station in 1864 for rheumatism which did not trouble him again until he returned to the Mediterranean.

Folios 22 – 23: John [Hagleen], aged 23, Leading Seaman; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 10 May 1871. Sent to hospital, 12 June 1871. The right side of his chest was more prominent than the left and his right thigh an inch and a half shorter than the left, both from a fall from aloft in 1866. He was discharged from the sick list on 27 May 1871 but was put back on it on 8 June 1871. His symptoms suggested incipient phthisis.

Folio 23: William Sweeney, aged 27, Private Marine; disease or hurt, dementia. Put on sick list, 5 June 1871. Sent to hospital, 12 June 1871. Found sitting in his mess in ‘a low and desponding state of mind’, he rarely spoke to anyone and gave silly or incoherent answers to questions.

Folio 23: Mr W W Percy, aged 25, Assistant Paymaster; disease or hurt, variola. Put on sick list, 14 June 1871. Sent to hospital, 14 June 1871. He had been revaccinated two or three times.

Folios 23 – 24: Edward Droughty, aged 36, Chief Signal Man; disease or hurt, caries of nasal and maxillary bones. Put on sick list, 27 June 1871. Invalided, 22 July 1871. He had been stuck by a falling signal lantern on HMS Resistance in 1866, fracturing his nose. Since then he had suffered a discharge from the nose and mouth and pieces of bone had been removed at different times.