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disease is fever of a typhoid and Malignant type Accompanied in Many Instances, with Gastroenteritic irritation. These cases are
of Course in various stages of intensity- a few progressing rapidly and Certainly to fatal termination. The epidemic has existed for five days.
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The Berths or Accommodation
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6 inches, for his box. On the deck, immediately in front of the main hatch, there is a house used
for
an hospital sufficient to accommodate fourteen or fifteen patients. This Compartiment, with a few important
exceptions, is as
well suited
for it's
purpose as it could be made. There
on deck roacuated
of
bunks
for the Three hundred and
are six privies
fifty passengers occupy the sides
and Centre
of
the "Between decks, +
which is a lofty and well ventilated Compartiment. Each Bunk is
appropriated to four passengers and their personal luggage; it's
6 feet across and
dimensions are
and aft
five feet measured fore which gives a space of 1671⁄2 inches to rack passenger, allowing only
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by shoots at a defective Angle. The ship Carries a surgeon apparently experienced in the management of Emigrants . There is a Medicine Chest - in the hospital for the
lise
of
the
passengers, and one in the Cabin
for the Crew.
The disease is malignant in
its nature and will become
Aggravated
as the air becomes
Contaminated by the Exhalations of