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Hongkong, May 11, 1853.
The thep Emigrant arrived from Whampoa in this harbor about sixteen
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days ago, during which time about seventy
of sickness have occurred on board, of various types, cach representing a dicease liable to become malignant and infections;
viz.
Remittent and Continued Fevers, Bilious Diarrhoea, and latterly Haema · temesis. The cases
of sickness, as they have occurres, have been removed from the ship into clean and commodious hospitals
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shore, and placed under constant and experienced medical supervision; removed,
indeed, from every influence which could tend to aggravate
render them
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intensity,
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injurious to others. The ship
has been an object of const-
object of constant and careful
solicitude and watchfulness; and all that
could be accomplished to ameliorate her