Folio 67: John Bartlett, aged 19, Private Marine, 115 Company; disease or hurt, lumbago....

Folio 67: John Bartlett, aged 19, Private Marine, 115 Company; disease or hurt, lumbago. Put on sick list, 10 April 1862, Bermuda. Sent to the Naval Hospital at Bermuda, 17 April 1862. Folio 67: Benjamin Jones, aged 20, Private Marine, 39 Company; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 17 April 1862, Bermuda. Sent to the Naval Hospital at Bermuda, 17 April 1862.

Folio 68: William Flounders, aged 27, Private Marine, 112 Company; disease or hurt, phthisis. Put on sick list, 3 May 1862, Bermuda. Embarked on HMS Donegal for England, 3 May 1862, and sent to Plymouth Hospital, 23 May 1862.

Folios 68 - 69: John Vickery, aged 26, Private Marine, 71 Company; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 4 May 1862, Bermuda. embarked on HMS Donegal for England, 4 May 1862, and sent to Plymouth Hospital, 23 May 1862. Folio 69: Table I, A nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of the journal.

Folio 70: Table II, A list of men who received wounds or hurts. John Neilly, aged 25, Private Marine, certificate 23 December 1861, fracture left femur. John Thomas, aged 27, Private Marine, certificate 23 December 1861, fracture right femur. William H Burgin, aged 31, Private Marine, certificate 23 December 1861, fracture of both femurs.

Folios 70 - 71: Table III, All cases between 9 November 1861 and 31 December 1861. Mean numerical strength of the ship's company 450.

Folios 71 - 72: Table IV, All cases between 1 January 1862 and the 24 May 1862. Mean numerical strength of the ship's company 700.

Folios 72 - 80: General Remarks. Sets out the reasons for the despatch of the Royal Marine Battalion and Naval Squadron to take temporary possession of Vera Cruz, Mexico. On folio 72 a table shows the numbers of officers and men embarked at Plymouth on HMS Conqueror, HMS Donegal and HMS Sanspareil, totalling 700 men. Briefly describes the arrival of the squadron in Mexico, the Spanish and French squadrons at Vera Cruz and the accommodation of the Marine Battalion in the church of 'St Domingo'.

Folio 73 has an inserted table 'Numerical statement of the sick of the Royal Marine Battalion on board HM's Hulk Medway, 18 April 1862'. The battalion was disembarked 16 January 1862 to a better building with latrines. Part of a Mexican Lying In Hospital was used as a hospital. Cases of diarrhoea appeared shortly after the arrival of the Spanish troops, the large number of sick meant some patients had to be accommodated in barracks. Commodore Dunlop issued orders to send sick men on board Sanspareil so that they could be replaced by healthy men.

Folio 75, has a copy of a memo from Commodore Dunlop and the reply from Surgeon Elliott, regarding the advisability of removing the battalion from Vera Cruz. They embarked for Bermuda on 8 March 1862, leaving 150 officers and men as guards (who left on 16 April having had twenty deaths from yellow fever). The journey to Bermuda is briefly described.

Folios 76 to 77, have a copy of a report made by Drs W R E Smart, James Vaughan, Staff Surgeon, HMS Hero, and John Watt Read, Surgeon HMS Nile, for the Commander in Chief, Bermuda, regarding the sickness in the Royal Marine Battalion. Surgeon Elliott was put in charge of a fever hospital for the bad cases, set up on Ports Island, with Assistant Surgeon Anderson and Mr Cundy, and the remainder of the sick and convalescent were to be sent to the Medway Hulk. HMS Sanspareil arrived on 29 March 1862. The progress of the battalion id briefly recounted until 3 May 1862, when Surgeon Elliott was ordered to embark in HMS Donegal with convalescents from Ports Island and sailed on 6 May 1862 for England, with 84 officers and men on board. They arrived at Plymouth on 23 May 1862 with only two men on the sick list.

Folios 78 - 80 discuss the 'special diseases' encountered, with some statistical analysis of the numbers of sick and number of days sick. Comments on the relatively few officers who were sick at Vera Cruz and the better accommodation they occupied.

Folio 81: 'A nominal list of all deaths that have taken place in the Royal Marine Battalion, up to 3 May 1862', lists 50 men, and 'A list of men who died belonging to the detachments that were landed from the ships at Vera Cruz and doing duty with the Battalion', lists 5 men.

Folios 82 - 96: Daily Sick List.