182

after a voyage of 118.

By

hf.

lock

days having deacts 202 of her Emigrants and

of her Aew . The mortality among Emigrants amounted therefore to

5. curvived. There were too Chinese

Doctors on board who, he

Lays,

seemed

very unfit to be entrusted with such

the

а

charge,

as neither

of

40.97 percent. From the lish of deaths it appears that 74

were caused.

hy

Aysentery - 23. by "opium. 13 were

suicides - in 15. casce the cause is

#

said to be "unknown" - in the remaining

laces

• faundice, Heart disease. Paint

in the thest and Head re are

at the caust

of death..

them would use.

a lanect or other surgical instruments,

so that the master was

compelled to

perform all recepary surgical

operations. He adds that many of the

recoveries were

of

those who received

Medicines and Comforte from the Captain A. There no possibility prone

given

Mat

scanty

3.

majority of deaths are said to have taken place in a body of 125 chinese sought from keacas, of whom only

The Consul slater that the

documents unthome, of

forming any finion

in the circum=

ей

-stancre connected with this Emigra=

-tion . The inference of the Consul it

that

many of

the Emigrante much

have bess unfit at the time

f

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