fiutting some fellow seamen to temporary
incov.
Case.
venience, for there
was no risk in the
I shall not hesitate to choose the
former alternative.
5.
I
only regret that instead of an
alverity to aid one
of their
own
class, I
any
instance
should have found in
a.
b
selfish unwillingness to undergo-
inconvenience.
Shere
Avas
another case in which
a sick Greek Seaman in a
Seaman in a similar condition
Avus
funt on board of
A
homeward bound
vessel,
but
was s
subsequently landed by the
Master and died in the Seamen's Hospitat
complicated by the double
This case was
removal of the man
first
in
board ship-
and secondly from the Ship to the shore_
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and it is therefore difficult to say whether
the man
could have
the
gone
voyage
in safely if not landed
น
I enclose the evidence at the
Coroner's Inquest which the Jony thought
justified them in binging in a verdict:
"died
"We are
of
of opinion that the deceased exhaustion caused by his illnes and
"Syphilitic cachexia, that his death was
"accelerated by the treatment he
was
"subjected to by being sent on board this " when in an unfit state to be removed.
"Ive feel
it ou
duty to remark
"that the evidence adduced exposes
a
(
"State of affairs
in the shipment of sick
"distressed
seaman which is altogether
"Contrary to the dictates
humanity