Catalogue description Folio 1: 5 March 1820; The soldiers embarked on board this ship are a detachment of the...

Folio 1: 5 March 1820; The soldiers embarked on board this ship are a detachment of the 48th Regiment and lately marched from Chatham to this place and are to act as a Guard over Male convicts, about to be embarked for conveyance to New South Wales.

Folios 1-2: Michael Bone, aged about 19, private, 48th Regiment; disease or hurt, severe catarrhal symptoms, attended with considerable fever and a confined state of the bowels. Put on sick list, 5 March 1820, at Deptford. Discharged to duty 14 March 1820.

Folios 2-3: John Adlington, aged about 28, private, 48th Regiment; disease or hurt, severe griping pain in the belly with frequent loose stools, and is attended with some pyrexia. Put on sick list, 16 March 1820, at Deptford. Discharged 20 March 182 to duty.

Folio 3: 17 March 1820; 190 male convicts embarked on board ship, and as the weather at present is severe and cold and their slop clothing (of which appears to be intended for a warmer climate) is but ill calculated to defend their bodies from its effects. Many convicts suffering from catarrhal complaints.

Folios 3-4: Thomas Rae, convict, an infirm old man; disease or hurt, dull pain in the back and loins with a coldness and nearly total loss of feeling of the lower limbs. Put on sick list, 18 March 1820, at Sheerness. Discharged 24 March 1820 better.

Folio 4: 24 March 1820; on inspecting the soldiers this morning, fourteen of them found to be affected with itch which it appears was brought on board by a common woman while the ship was at Deptford. These mean are separated from the others as well as circumstances will admit. About fifteen of the cases of the convicts who are labouring catarrh, and who are also affected with constipated state of the bowels and some pyrexia.

Folio 4: 26 March 1820; The prisoners labouring under catarrhal affections are much better.

Folios 4-5: 26 March 1820; One of the convicts (a [Jew?] boy) is found to be affected with itch. He is separated from the other prisoners. I carefully examined all the convicts this morning but cannot discover that any of the others are affected with the disease.

Folios 4-8: John King, convict, about 20 years; disease or hurt, hernia humoralis in consequence of a blow he received while on board the prison hulk. Put on sick list, 20 March 1820, at Sheerness. Discharged 14 April 1820 from the hospital for petty thefts.

Folio 5: 28 March 1820; The soldiers with itch appear to be nearly well. Each to take a dose of sulphate of magnesia. Their clothes and bedding to be steeped in boiling water, and to be bathed tomorrow morning.

Folio 5: 29 March 1820; The soldiers appear to be quite well. They are all well washed washed with hot water and soap and discharged to duty. Two of the soldiers who have just been discharged are found to be affected with Lues Venera. The symptoms of each are pretty well marked, being chancres and bubo, … I am not yet a convert to the new method of treating this complaint without mercury.

Folios 5-6: Richard Bushell, convict, aged 24; disease or hurt, swelling of the right testicle, and attended with slight fever which he says arose from an improperly treated gonorrhoea.Put on sick list, 29 March 1820, at Sheerness. Discharged 3 April 1820.

Folios 5-6: James Miller, convict, aged 19; disease or hurt, acute rheumatism (swelling and pain of the knee and elbow joints) attended with smart fever. Put on sick list, 29 March 1820, at Sheerness. Discharged 2 April 1820.

Folios 6-10: William Niblett, convict, aged 56; disease or hurt, while on deck received a blow on the right arm from the heaking and fall of a hook from the foretop mast by which the rddius had fractured about its middle, in an oblique direction, the injury now to the soft parts is inconsiderable. Put on sick list, 29 March 1820, at Sheerness. Discharged 30 April 1820.

Folios 7-8: Richard Peel, private, soldier, 48th Regiment; aged about 20; disease or hurt, diarrhoea with febrile symptoms. Put on sick list, 3 April 1820, at sea. Discharged 12 April 1820.

Folios 8A-10: Thomas Foster, convict boy, aged about 14; disease or hurt, severe pain in the head and much fever. Put on sick list, 16 April 1820, at sea. Discharged 25 April 1820.

Folio 9: William Davis, convict, aged about 30; disease or hurt, severe gripings, pain in the belly, frequent loose stools and painful tenesmus. Put on sick list, 17 April 1820, at sea. Last entry 25 April 1820 (folio 10).

Folio 11: Henry Anderson, convict, aged 19; disease or hurt, fell from the booms upon the main deck by which a severe injury of the left hip joint, which was immediately followed by considerable swelling. I saw him after the receipt of the injuryand on examination cannot discover any fracture or dislocation of the head of the thigh bone. He was conveyed to the hospital and the saturium lation applied to the parts Put on sick list, 11 May 1820, at sea. Discharged 30 May 1820.

Folios 11-12: Richard Bonden, convict, boy, aged 14; disease or hurt, pain at the top of the right thigh, and about a hands head below the groin is forming a tolerably well circumscribed abscess with much inflammation, and extending itself to a considerable distance above and below the abscess. These symptoms are attended by a smart symptomatic fever. Put on sick list, 3 June 1820, at sea. Discharged 18 June 1820.

Folio 13: Thomas Deardon, convict, aged 24; disease or hurt, pain in the heart and sides which is increased on making a moderately full respiration. These symptoms are attended with a teasing dry cough and considerable pyrexia. Put on sick list, 2 July 1820, at sea. Deardon still in hospital on 24 July 1820 (folio 14).