ton days quarantine I might be admitted to free pratique, provided that not the slightest novelty should
occur among vessel the people in the
I understand the injustice and disrespect with which this vessel is treated, as well
at the inhumanity of refusing to receive the sick person in one of the hospitals. The small pox is a disease unfortunately well known and prevalent throughout
the world, it is only contagious by contact
and that at the advanced period than that at which the patient on board this vessel now is; is it not,
therefore, inhuman, or compel me to keep a person suffering from the small-pox enclosed in the narrow space of
a berth, or to place him in a lorcha, where, I may say, he will be almost without any help?
Is it not unbecoming in a civilised nation and one that pretends to detest every
kind of shackles to impose a conditional quarantine of ten days upon a vessel where crew is in perfect health, merely because one person among
them has been attacked by the small pox?
Has not the correspondence which this vessel brought been received on shore? Have not the two passengers who embarked at Manilla landed? Have not the officers and workmen gone ashore? Are they not by chance,
carrying the small pox and other more dangerous and more contagious disorders ashore?