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arising out of a heavy mortality
(upwards of 40 per cent) which occured
"Prieder"
board the Ship Incolor carrying
Chinese Laborers from Hong Kong to Surinam in May 1865.
3.
The Governa
to institure
an
wao
enquiry
instructed
into the
circumstances connected with this
Emigration._ Ite accordingly
appointed
ah
Committee to take
evidence and report
result showed that no
attached to the Ship.
mov
to
one
any
the cave, the
blame,
or her fittings,
connected with
the selection and despatch of
the
migrants, but that the mortality
wax
wav
due to the outbreak
epidemic which
waa
f
raging.
an
in the
Victoria Prison at the time the
"Tricolor "sailed, and which must
have been carried on
latent slate be
The enquiry
improvements
details
by
Some
q
board in a
The Emigrants.
however disclosed that
were needed in the
the supervision of Emigrants,
expecially
with
reference
to their
medical examination and
cautions previoris
precaut
so
sanitary
to
embarkation.
A. Mr. Carduell thereupon
directed the forerun
to make
thorough revision of the existing
"regulations with the vais to their
amendment.