Folios 31-32: John Allen, aged 21, Royal Marine; disease or hurt, remittent fever....

Folios 31-32: John Allen, aged 21, Royal Marine; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 11 May 1861, at sea. Sent to Ascension Hospital, 20 June 1861, and not well enough to return to the ship when she sailed on 20 July 1861.

Folios 32-33: Thomas Burke, aged 27, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 11 May 1861, at sea. Sent to Ascension Hospital, 20 June 1861, and returned to the ship on 19 July 1861. He had been in the lagoon at Porto Novo for six days and on the 30 April joined the Brune tender to assisting getting HMS Bloodhound off a bank 7 miles above Lagos. He was subsequently attacked by diarrhoea.

Folios 33-34: George Barrows, aged 25, Marine; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 9 May 1861. Discharged, 11 June 1861.

Folios 34-35: Charles Isaacs, aged 20, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 16 May 1861, at sea. Died, 22 May 1861. Was in the expedition against Porto Novo and on the Brune tender assisting to get off HMS Bloodhound.

Folio 35: Robert Wells, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, remittent fever. Put on sick list, 7 July 1861, at St Thomas. Died, 17 July 1861.

Folio 36: John Hawkes, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman; disease or hurt, general concussion and fracture of right forearm caused by a fall from aloft. Put on sick list, 18 June 1861, on passage from St Thomas To Ascension Island. Died, 18 June 1861. Working on the cross jack yard he looked down at the men engaged in small arms drill on the quarter deck and slipped and fell, narrowly escaping impalement on their bayonets. He died in half an hour.

Folio 36: Henry Peterson, aged 24, 'a Swede'; disease or hurt, purulent opthalmia. Put on sick list, 20 June 1861, at Ascension Island. Sent to Ascension Hospital, 24 June 1861.

Folios 36-37: Thomas Brown, aged 40, Bandsman; disease or hurt, fistula and chronic diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 20 June 1861, at Ascension Island. Sent to Ascension Hospital, 4 July 1861, and subsequently invalided.

Folios 37-38: James Toms, aged 35, Quartermaster; disease or hurt, dysentery. Put on sick list, 2 August 1861, on passage from Ascension to St Paul de Loanda. Discharged, 25 August 1861.

Folio 38: George Brady, aged 20, Able Seaman; disease or hurt, herpes zoster. Put on sick list, 11 August 1861, at sea. Discharged, 25 August 1861. Had contracted syphilis in December 1860 followed by pustular eruptions on the nates and thighs.

Folio 38: Table I, a nosological synopsis of the sick book kept during the period of this journal, in conformity with the 30th article of the Surgeon’s Instructions.

Folio 39: Table II, A list of men who have received wounds or hurts. William Snelling, aged 23, Sailmaker's Crew, certificate 13 March 1861, gunshot wound right thigh. Charles Hayles, aged 20, Ordinary Seaman, certificate, 28 May 1861, gunshot wound of chest. Thomas Strong, aged 26, Able Seaman, certificate 20 June 1861, gunshot wound left arm. John Wright, aged 24, Captain of the Afterguard, certificate 20 June 1861, gunshot wound right forearm.

Folios 39-40: Table III, All cases between 1 January 1860 and 31 December 1860. Mean numerical strength of the ship's company, 529.

Folios 40-41: Table IV, not completed.

Folios 41-45: Surgeon's general remarks. Mentions the yearly routine of the Commodore's vessel, travelling north to south not staying long enough for meteorological observations to be of any value, the diseases varying with the climate. Poor ventilation of the lower deck, only one windsail at the after hatchway regarded as an eyesore by the commanding officer and removed whenever possible. The crew not looking healthy as they should in the second year of a commission.

Folios 41 and 42 mention the attack on a stockade at Saba in the Gambia River, 'inhabited by a warlike tribe of Mussulmen, tall, powerful men, who were well armed and fought bravely'. The Arrogant contributed 220 officers and men to a force comprising 1400 in all. The West India Regiments and Colonial Militia slept ashore while the naval men returned to their ship at night and were less exposed to night dews and only one man suffered fever. In the lagoon at Lagos six weeks later they encountered a more malignant form of remittent fever. On 22 April 1861 a party of 60 marines and 104 officers and men of HMS Arrogant joined the bombardment of Porto Novo in the Fidelity hired steamer, the Brune tender and four other boats. The Fidelity was in such a foul state that one of the men sent to clean her fainted while others felt nausea and vomited. The lagoon from Lagos to Porto Novo is briefly described. The unhealthiness of the lagoon was taken to a be major factor in the malignant fever which followed.

Folios 43 and 44 describe the disease, Surgeon Jenkins of Ascension Island Hospital described some of the patients as the worst he had seen coming from the coast. On folio 44 is a chart of the cases of fever showing how long they were in boats in the lagoon, which boats they were in, the number of cases each day from 30 April to 15 May and the numbers of deaths.

Folios 44 and 45 discuss the other diseases, including cases of delirium tremens, intermittent fever (only one case), pulmonary affection, tuberculosis, laryngitis, diseases of the heart and of the bowels, syphilis, night blindness and gunshot wounds, fractures and dislocations.

Folios 45-54: Daily Sick Book.