Catalogue description Folios 23 and 26: Hannah Holland, aged 24; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list,...

Folios 23 and 26: Hannah Holland, aged 24; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 19 December 1826 at sea. Discharged 6 January 1827 to hospital.

Folios 24 and 27: Mary Anne Barber, aged 23; disease or hurt, dysentery and diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 24 December 1826. Died 2 January 1827.

Folio 24: Mary Babbington, aged 55, a free woman; disease or hurt, pain of the temples. Put on sick list, 24 December 1826. Discharged 5 January 1827 cured.

Folios 25 and 27: Mary Larkins, aged 28, a free woman; disease or hurt, typhus. Put on sick list, 25 December 1826. Discharged 9 January 1827 cured.

Folio 28: Anne Cadd, aged 20; disease or hurt, pneumonia. Put on sick list, 25 December 1826. Discharged 6 January 1827 cured.

Folios 28 and 30: Rebecca Babington, aged 12, free girl; disease or hurt, typhus. Put on sick list, 27 December 1826. Discharged 7 January 1827 cured.

Folios 29 and 31: Emma Farrow, aged 16; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 29 December 1826 at sea. Discharged 9 January 1827 cured.

Folio 29: Bridget Dart, aged 25; disease or hurt, polypus occupying the septum nose. Put on sick list, 2 January 1827 beating up the Derwent. Discharged 6 January 1827 to hospital.

Folio 32: A numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 32-33: Surgeon’s general remarks. At sea dysentery became very general and obstinate in those who had previously suffered from bowel complaints and (folio 33) in women advanced in pregnancy. Those [cases] who are marked as Cephelagia were habitual dram-drinkers and having on a former occasion gained some experience in such cases I treated them with a [?] of grog regularly administered. The case of apoplexy was a large corpulent woman. The case of tetanus was a little girl whose mind from the day of sailing suffered from nostalgic depression. She had repeatedly begged me to let her go home again. She had had a pneumonia attack accompanied by a good deal of spasmodic irritation and it may be called a singular instance of delicacy and sensibility in a creature of her age and condition that I frequently found her in solitude and in tears for the misconduct of her mother who was then on board in advanced pregnancy tho her husband had been five years a convict and in Van Dieman’s Land.