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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
4. That provisions, fuel, and water have been placed on board, of good quality, properly packed, and sufficient to supply the passengers on board during the declared duration of the intended voyage to the following scale:-
DIETARY SCALE.
Proclamation of 1st November, 1872.
Rice Salt Beef
Salt Pork
Salt Fish
Fresh Beef, or Mutton in tins
Salted Vegetables
Pickles
Fresh Vegetables, as Yams, Pumpkins, &c.
Water......
1 per diem.
Ibon alternate days.
thon alternate days.
Imperial qts. 3 a day.
Ibis. 2 a day.
Firewood
Tea
Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar
oz. a day. oz. 2 a week.
Note. Fresh Vegetables to be issued during the first month of the voyage only, unless the master shall obtain a fresh supply en route, when these articles may be again supplied in the above proportion.
5.-That Medicines and Medical Comforts have been placed on board according to the following Scale:-
SCALE OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL COMFORTS.
For every 100 Passengers, and in like Proportion for any greater or less Number :--
Senna Leaves Blistering Plaister
8 oz.
8 oz.
16 oz.
12 oz.
Calomel
3
Oz.
Blue Pill
2
Oz.
1
Rhubarb Powder
2
OZ.
Sulphur Sublimed
Compound Jalap Powder...... 12
Oz.
Sulphur Ointment..
Ipecacuanha Powder
12
OZA
Linseed Flour
Opium
2
02.
Country Soap
Dover's Powder
2
OZ.
Magnesia..
2 Oz.
Epsom Salts
Chloride of Lime
20 lbs.
Simple Ointment
Tartar Emetic..
4 drams.
Quinine..
2 Oz.
Antimonial Powder
05 02.
6 lbs.
Castor Oil
Oil of Peppermint......
Adhesive Plaister, spread
Ringworm Ointment
Jeremie's Opiate
Aromatic Spirit of Hartshorn......
Extract of Colocynth, C'pound
1 oz.
Cholera Pills in phial
Carbonate of Ammonia........
11 oz.
Cubebs Powder
Assafoetida
1 Oz.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre.....
Camphor
1 oz.
Copaiba.....
Camphorated Liniment.
16
Oz.
Sulphate of Copper
Catechu.
2
Oz.
Sulphate of Zinc
Prepared Chalk
2
OZ.
Lunar Caustic
Tincture of Opium...
8
Oz.
Lime Juice......
Turpentine
...
16 Oz.
Rum or Brandy.
4 tb.
24 OL.
6 bottles.
2 oz. 2 yards.
16 oz.
16 oz.
2 oz.
4 oz.
12 drams.
4 lb.
16 oz.
16 oz.
2 oz.
1 oz.
4 drams.
36 quarts. 36 quarts.
INSTRUMENTS, &c.
1 Set of Amputating and other Surgical | 1 Spatula.
Instruments (if there be any person on 1 Dressing Scissors.
board competent to use them).
1 One Ounce Glass Measure.
1 Minim Glass Measure.
1 Pestle and Mortar (Wedgewood).
1 Set of Weights and Scales (Grain in box).
1 Set of common Splints.
1 Set of Bleeding Lancets.
1 Silver Catheter.
1 Infusion Box,
1 Quire of Country Paper.
1 Penknife.
2 Metal Bed Pans.
2 Trusses for Hernia, right and left.
2 Small Syringes.
4 Ounces prepared Lint.
2 Pieces Cloth for Bandages.
V.-The master of any Chinese passenger ship being a British ship and proceed- ing on a voyage of more than seven days' duration shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to the aforesaid dietary scale, and shall not make any alteration, except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect of the space allotted to them as aforesaid, or in respect of them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the vessel; and shall issue