18
laid
up
Si de
19.
211
At 7 a.m. next day it was
M.
reported to the rate, that one of
soon after
also
the
passengers
with fever leaving.. Some ill effect may be attributed to the sudden change
of d
dict and habit, and perhaps the
deprivation in many subjects of their accustomed quantity of orium; to the smoking of which drug, according to the statement of several of the Coolies, come 70
to 80 of
addicted.
Sz
the passengers
appears,
left Whampoa
Do
are
that the vessel.
the
afternoon
"Sunday the 24th April last shaving on board, as for
be ascertained, (fr
the
من
can
passengers
were rist mustered), 350 Coolies.
was
dead; and this
first
seems to have been the
intimation that the medical
officer received
disease.
cases
of
the existence
of
f
He then found several
of fever of a Permittent typi and some of a typhoid character,
Of either of which diseases this man
ho
every appearance of having died the muruber of cases increased to
30
before arrival at Hongkong on Wednesday the 27th of April, another the Coolies died on Thursday evening; and a third on Friday evening - We cannot, as we