Catalogue description Folio 26: Case no. 29, Edward [Tu?s], aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill in at...

Folio 26: Case no. 29, Edward [Tu?s], aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill in at Devonport; disease or hurt, ulcer below right inner ankle, Put on sick list, 16 January 1856, sent 22 January 1856 to Hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 26: Case no. 30, Joseph Parker, aged 51, Barber; taken ill in at Devonport; disease or hurt, rheumatism, Put on sick list, 13 January 1856, sent 22 January 1856 to Hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 26: Case no. 31, James Curtis, aged 23, Sick Berth attendant; taken ill in at Devonport; disease or hurt, rheumatism, Put on sick list, 15 January 1856, sent 22 January 1856 to Hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 27: Case no. 32, Thomas Godden, aged 35, Leading Seaman; taken ill in at Devonport; disease or hurt, wound received on the left side of the mesial line of the forehead from the hook, Put on sick list, 21 January 1856, sent 25 January 1856 to Hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 27: Case no. 33, Charles Pooley, aged 21, Marine; taken ill in at [sea?]; disease or hurt, sprain on the right leg, Put on sick list, 12 January 1856, sent 26 January 1856 to Impregnable for passage to his Division.

Folio 27: Case no. 34, Stephen Saunders, aged 28, Marine; taken ill in at sea; disease or hurt, fever intermittent, Put on sick list, 18 December 1855, sent 26 January 1856 to Impregnable for passage to his Division.

Folios 28-29: Case no. 35, Thomas Carter, aged 21, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill in at sea; disease or hurt, fever (continued), Put on sick list, 25 December 1855, sent 16 January 1856 to Hospital at Plymouth.

Folios 29-30: Case no. 36, George Harris, aged 22, Leading Seaman; taken ill in at sea; disease or hurt, fever (continued), Put on sick list, 6 January 1856, sent 16 January 1856 to Hospital at Plymouth.

Folio 31: Table 1: Nosological synopsis of sick book kept during the period of this journal.

Folio 32: Table 2: A list of men who during the period of this journal, have received wounds or hurts which may disqualify them for the public service, or subsequently in any way interfere with their earning a livelihood. (Names and details follow). Number on the ship's books 86; John Hooper, aged 35, Able Seaman; pension certificate granted on 10 August 1855, nature of hurt, wounded on board HMS London by sustaining a severe contusion of the upper & back part of left hip by a shot (which injury was followed by sloughing of considerable portion of soft parts resulting in lameness and inability to go aloft) on 17 October 1854.

Folios 32-33: Table 3: showing medical cases which have occurred during the period covered by the journal [nosological arranged]. The mean numerical strength of the ship's company 635.

Folios 33-36: Surgeon's general remarks. 2 officers and 150 men and boys were discharged to 'Vulcan' for passage to the 'Albion' [folios 33-34]; passing remarks of cases of continued fever, intermittent fever, delirium tremens, cephalalgia, bronchitis, pneumonia, palpitation, dysentery, diarrhoea, rheumatism, ulcers and scurvy [folios 34-36].