Folio 13: William Harrison, aged 34, Stoker; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Sent to...

Folio 13: William Harrison, aged 34, Stoker; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Sent to hospital, 21 March 1867, at Simon's Bay. He had been invalided from Malta three years previously.

Folio 13: J Dogherty, aged 26, Marine; disease or hurt, haemoptysis. Put on sick list, 17 May 1867. Sent to Hospital Ship Melville at Hong Kong, 24 May 1867.

Folio 13: Enos England, aged 29, Royal Marine Artillery; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 28 April 1867. Sent to Hospital Ship Melville at Hong Kong, 24 May 1867.

Folio 13: Robert Johnson, aged 27, Stoker; disease or hurt, orchitis. Sent to Hospital Ship Melville at Hong Kong, 24 May 1867. He had twice been under treatment on the passage from England and was ordered to a gunboat with no medical officer when they arrived in Hong Kong, so the surgeon sent him to hospital.

Folios 14-16: 'Cases of invalids who died on the passage from Hong Kong to the Mauritius 9th July 1867 that being the date of closing this journal'.

Folios 14-15: James Loughram, aged 23, Stoker from HMS Sylvia; disease or hurt, diseased liver. Put on sick list, 13 June 1867. Died, 1 July 1867. He had been invalided from the Sylvia on 4 June 1867 for debility and general cachexia. When received on the Urgent he was suffering occasionally from slight diarrhoea and pains in the back. Post mortem examination was carried out. His messmates said that 'he was a man of dissolute habits and that he had suffered much from syphilis'.

Folio 16: William Hart, Ordinary Seaman, from Princess Royal; disease or hurt, abscess of the right lung and general tubercular deposit. Received, 5 June 1867. Died, 5 July 1867. He had been received from the Seaman's Hospital at Hong Kong where he had been sent three months earlier apparently close to death from variola. When received he was 'in a distressingly emaciated condition' and had a bad cough. He appeared to be on the brink of death for the first week and ate little but took a great deal of wine, as much as two pints of champagne and two bottles of port in 24 hours, and opiate enemas. A post mortem was carried out.

Folios 17-29: Blank folios.

Folio 30: Table I, A list of men who have received wounds or hurts. John Oberlander, aged 48, Cooper, certificate granted 23 December 1866, shortening of the finger and inability to use other fingers properly.

Folio 31: Table II, All cases between 1 January 1866 and 31 December 1866. Mean numerical strength of the Ship's Company 140.

Folio 32: Table III, all cases between 1 January 1867 and 30 June 1867. Mean numerical strength of the Ship's Company 137.

Folios 33-44: Surgeon's general remarks. Folios 33 to 39, summarises the passage from St Vincent to Gibraltar, where they went into quarantine, and where the 'black troops, women and children' were transferred, they picked up naval, military and convict invalids and sailed for England. They arrived at Portsmouth on 10 August 1866 and the crew were given leave, diarrhoea cases were treated with care for fear of cholera. The ship was in dock for the December quarter, the diseases are summarised. In January 1867 they received orders to sail for China with crews for the Adventure and some gunboats and to return with their crews. On 27 January they left Plymouth with 67 officers and 523 men for the passage to China. The journey out is summarised, travelling via Ascension Island and St Helena rather than by the coast, to the Cape, then via St Pauls Amsterdam [Iles St Paul et Amsterdam], which is briefly described, Java, to Singapore. They remained at Singapore from 12 to 16 May, a number of sick were sent to hospital being too ill to expose to the heat at Hong Kong. They received from HMS Satellite, George Elliott, Ship's Corporal, suffering lumbago; Robert Clements, Captain of the Afterguard, chronic diarrhoea; and Richard Heron, Boy 1st Class, phthisis. The case of George Pratt who died of 'heat apoplexy' is briefly mentioned. They arrived at Hong Kong on 23 May 1867. The large numbers of supernumeraries put on the list, 361, is discussed, the surgeon suggests they should be surveyed before being sent for foreign service. On 24 May a number of men were sent to the Melville Hospital Ship and the remainder sent to their respective ships. They received 52 officers and 313 men from the Adventure and the gunboats, 11 invalid soldiers, 29 seamen and marines, 4 warrant officers, 1 surgeon and 1 lieutenant, for passage home. Their cases and arrangements for accommodating them are briefly described. On 7 June 1867 they sailed from Hong Kong on their homeward passage, arriving at Singapore on 15 June. The case of William Hart and his medical history is discussed briefly. On 9 July they arrived at Mauritius. The surgeon sums up the travels of the previous twelve months and the diseases encountered. Folios 39-40, 'Remarks on Syphilis', contrasts the low number of cases after their stay at Portsmouth with previous experience as evidence of the benefit of the Contagious Diseases Act and discusses some cases. Folio 40, 'Table of cases of primary syphilis from 1 July 1866 to 30 June 1867', lists four cases, and Table of cases of secondary syphilis from 1 July 1866 to 30 June 1867', lists three cases. Folios 41-44, 'Report on the probable causes, progress and decline of the epidemic fever which appeared in the Mauritius in the year 1867', folio 41A is an inserted map showing the districts of Mauritius. Describes the island of Mauritius, climate, lack of sanitation, origins and spread of the epidemic among Indian labour. The military and Indians on plantations were largely spared. On folio 44 are two tables, 'Official statement of mortality of each district of the colony, from 1 January to 6 July 1867' and 'Comparative statement of the mortality of the several districts of the colony, for the first four months of 1866 and 1867'.

Folios 45-49: Alphabetical sick list.