Folio 1: Annotation staing that the journal contains sketches and descriptions of...

Folio 1: Annotation staing that the journal contains sketches and descriptions of appliances for moving the wounded on board ship, and a paper on the fever of the Levant. Signed: Thomas R. P.

Folio 2: Printed instructions for surgeon on completing the journal.

Folios 3-4: case no. 1, Mr. Nicholas Meaden, aged 29, Engineer; sick or hurt, small pox modified, he was unsuccessfully revacinated four years before, previous to the ship left Smyrna, he was on shore when he complained of great debility, giddiness and general malaise; put on sick list, 19 January 1877, discharged 28 January 1877 to duty.

Folio 4: case no. 2, James Hunt, aged 40, Stoker; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, wound foot, while he employed in the engine room, had his right foot cought between the radius bar and the link motion, received a very severe contused and lacerated wound extending from the front of the inner malleolus under the sole og the foot to above and behind the outer malleolus, the soft parts were divided down to the bone; put on sick list, 24 January 1877, sent 21 February 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folios 4-5: case no. 3, Edward Hagwood, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Agas Bay, Coast of Syria; sick or hurt, continued simple fever, with slight feverish symptoms, headache, general malaise and debility; put on sick list, 25 January 1877, discharged 11 February 1877 to duty.

Folio 5: case no. 4, William Adams, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, primary syphilis; put on sick list, 12 February 1877, sent 21 February 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 5: case no. 5, John Ellicott, aged 23, Carpenter’s Crew; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list, 19 February 1877, sent 21 February 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 5: case no. 6, William Filster, aged 28, Able Seaman; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, remittant fever; put on sick list, 19 February 1877, sent 21 February 1877 to Malta Hospital, the Surgeon notes that the patient had again another attack with similar symptoms on 16 March and on 22 March the ship having returned to Salonica where the fever was originally contracted, the patient was again sent to Hospital.

Folio 5: case no. 7, Richard Blight, aged 25, Armourer’s Crew; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, gonorrhoea; put on sick list, 6 March 1877, sent 15 March 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folios 5-6: case no. 8, William G. Collins, aged 23, Able Seaman; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list, 10 March 1877, sent 15 March 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 6: case no. 9, William Kent, aged 26, Private Marine; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, primary syphilis; put on sick list, 15 March 1877, sent 15 March 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 6: case no. 10, Charles Leeworthy, aged 29, Private Royal Marine Artillery; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, simple fracture of the right femur, while on sentry on the life buoy on the poop; put on sick list, 21 March 1877, discharged 22 March 1877 to HMS Swiftsure for passage to Malta Hospital.

Folio 6: case no. 11, Michael Turner, aged 25, Able Seaman; taken ill at Smyrna; sick or hurt, hernia; put on sick list, 17 January 1877, invalided 6 June 1877, pension certificate granted on 4 June 1877.

Folios 6-7: case no. 12, Thomas Evans, aged 29, Private Marine; sick or hurt, rheumatism on the left hip; put on sick list, 16 June 1877, sent 21 June 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 7: case no. 13, George McCarthy, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Port Said; sick or hurt, hernia; put on sick list, 18 May 1877, invalided 6 July 1877, pension certificate granted on 25 June 1877.

Folio 7: case no. 14, George England, aged 21, Leading Seaman; taken ill at Phalerum; sick or hurt, morbus cordis; put on sick list, 25 June 1877, invalided 6 July 1877.

Folio 7: case no. 15, Joseph Gibbons, aged 30, Yeoman of Signals; taken ill at Phalerum; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list, 24 June 1877, sent 28 July 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 7: case no. 16, James Hicks, aged 23, Stoker; sick or hurt, secondary syphilis; put on sick list, 24 July 1877, sent 28 July 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folios 7-8: case no. 17, Mr. Richard Biddle, aged 46, Chief Engineer; taken ill at Piroues; sick or hurt, dysentery, contracted while on board HMS Sylvia in China in 1867 and since been liable to frequent recurrences of the symptoms of this disease. Since April last he was place on the list four times for such attacks and each recurrence became more serious; put on sick list, 17 September1877, invalided 3 October 1877, and discharged to HMS Sultan for passage.

Folio 8: case no. 18, Walter Thomas Higgs, aged 29, Private Marine; taken ill at Piroues; sick or hurt, fracture of shull, while on leave at Athens, became embroiled in the street and received two lacerated wounds on the head, apparently inflicted by stones, one wound situated just above the left temple whichextended to the bone which also was fractured. The other wound was situated over the vertex and was a simple incised injury on the scalp; put on sick list, 17 September 1877, he was invalided from Malta Hospital.

Folio 9: case no. 19, Henry Webster, aged 31, Captain Fore Top; taken ill at Beseika [Besika] Bay; sick or hurt, bronchitis phthisis; put on sick list, 26 September 1877, sent 15 November 1877 to Malta Hospital where he was afterwards invalided. Folio 9: case no. 20, Joseph Wylie, aged 30, Bombardier; taken ill at Beseika [Besika] Bay; sick or hurt, bronchitis phthisis; put on sick list, 29 October 1877, sent 15 November 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folios 9-10: case no. 21, William Oliert, aged 43, Boatswain’s Mate; taken ill at Beseika [Besika] Bay; sick or hurt, pneumonia; put on sick list, 26 October 1877, sent 15 November 1877 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 10: case no. 22, John Maker, aged 21, Able Seaman; taken ill at Beseika [Besika] Bay; sick or hurt, fracture, during the ship sailed from Beseika Bay, this man was employ aloft in making sail, when he fell from the fullock rigging overboard and struck on the hammock netting, he was in the water about ten minutes before he was brought on board in a semi conscious state, he was found to have sustained a severe internal injury beside a fracture of the right femur; put on sick list, 19 December 1877, died 19 December 1877 at 10.45 am.

Folio 10: case no. 23, David Minus, aged 25, Private Marine; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, inflamed glands; put on sick list, 26 December 1877, sent 28 December 1877 to Malta Hospital, as the ship about to paid off.

Folio 10: case no. 24, Thomas Evans, aged 29, Private Marine; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, rheumatism; put on sick list, 29 December 1877, sent 29 December 1877 to Malta Hospital, as the ship about to paid off.

Folio 10: case no. 25, John Alexander, aged 23, Able Seaman; taken ill at Malta; sick or hurt, abscess; put on sick list, 28 December 1877, sent 29 December 1877 to Malta Hospital.