Folio 11: case no. 26, Edwin Parsons, aged 17, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Kavala;...

Folio 11: case no. 26, Edwin Parsons, aged 17, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at Kavala; sick or hurt, simple continued fever; put on sick list, 17 April 1877, discharged 28 April 1877 to duty.

Folios 11-12: case no. 27, Peirre G. Evans, aged 27, Lieutenant; taken ill at Beseika [Besika] Bay; sick or hurt, remittent fever, according to the Surgeon, this officer during two previous days he was exposed himself to much fatigue in the marshes of the neighbourhood, taking little food ans drinking of the marsh water; put on sick list, 19 July 1877, died 10 August 1877 10.30 pm.

Folios 12-13: case no. 28, James N. Hill, aged 27, Lieutenant; taken ill at Piroues; sick or hurt, severe lacerated wound of the right hand, index, middle and ring fingers, whilst attempted to easing out a hawser from the stern port to the shore; put on sick list, 1 May 1877, discharged 4 June 1877 to duty, according to the Surgeon, there was considerable stiffness of the fingers and loss of power in the hand, in consequence of the extensive cicatrices, he was supplied with a hurt certificate.

Folio 13: case no. 29, Mr. Arthur Moggridge, aged 19, Midshipman; taken ill at Beseika [Besika] Bay; sick or hurt, tumour epithelioma, a wart like growth upon the lower lip, which was first noticed in December 1876. The tumour was growing larger and harden; put on sick list, 8 November 1877, discharged 16 November 1877 to duty.

Folio 13: case no. 30, James White, aged 20, Able Seaman; taken ill at Phalerum; sick or hurt, fracture clavicle; put on sick list, 10 June 1877, discharged 2 August 1877 to duty.

Folios 14-31: Blank.

Folio 32: Table showing the ship’s movements during 18 January to 22 December 1877. Folio 32: List of men who received wounds or hurts during the period of this journal. Number on ship’s book 193, James Hunt, aged 40, Stoker; pension granted on 21 February 1877; nature of hurts, lacerated wound of right foot, received on 24 January 1877. Number on ship’s book 10, Charles Leeworthy, aged 27, Gunner Royal Marine Artillery; pension granted on 21 March 1877; nature of hurts, fracture of right femur, received on 31 March 1877. Number on ship’s book not stated, Mr. J. N. Hill, aged 27, Lieutenant; pension granted on 4 June 1877; nature of hurts, lacerated wound of right hand and loss of part of right ring finger, received on 1 May 1877. Number on ship’s book 26, Michael Turner, aged 25, Able Seaman; pension granted on 4 June 1877; nature of hurts, right inguinal hernia, received on 17 January 1877. Number on ship’s book 552, James White, aged 20, Able Seaman; pension granted on 11 June 1877; nature of hurts, fracture of left calvicle, received on 11 June 1877. Number on ship’s book 508, George McCarthy, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; pension granted on 25 June 1877; nature of hurts, right inguinal hernia, received on 18 May 1877. Number on ship’s book 68, Walter Thomas Higgs, aged 29, Private Marine; pension not granted; nature of hurts, fracture of the skull, received on 17 September 1877.

Folios 33-35: Tables of medical statistics.

Folios 36-65: Surgeon’s general remarks, regarding the topography, climates, water supplies, inhabitants, geological formation, prevailing fevers of Smyrna, Agas Bay, Turconman, Adalia, Rhodes, Malta, Palermo, Solonica, Kavala, Pirveus, and Phalerum. Also includes passing remarks on a fatal case of marsh fever, a fractured skull, and cases of small pox. Also included in the journal are notes on analyses of water at Salonica and Rhodes; and sketches and descriptions of appliances for moving the wounded on board ship, and a paper on the fever of the Levant. The journal also includes a chart of Salonica [folio 38A] and of the Anchorage at Beseika [Besika] Bay [folio 58A], and two sketches of appliances for moving the wounded [folios 51A and 52A], and three graphs representing the temperature of three cases of fever occurring at Salonica [folios 60A, 60B and 61A].

Folio 66: Blank.

Folio 67: Tables of the number of sick and cases of fever in the Fleet at Besika Bay in 1853, and a weekly return of the sick in the Fleet at same place in 1877.

Folios 68-77: Alphabetical sick list.