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120 buT
due to the overcrowding and heat of the day.
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Next morning (June 13th, 8 a.m.) the Port Doctors arrived 24
The Senior Port Doctor apologised, saying
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hat he could not get the Tug-boat, yet saw tug-boat passed this ship Cene bewice on her way to another vessel lying further out.
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*
MEDICAL EXAMINATION; (June 13th 8 a.m.); - This examination was
simply a Farce from beginning to end. Passengers were rejected for
"Trachoma" who showed not the slightest traces of such disease and whose
eyes were absolutely normal. Amongst others, about eighteen were rejected because their temperatures were 1 or 2 degrees above normal (these
hed been under the sun the whole of the previous day).
I was asked by the Port Doctor to treat these cases, as they would
be re-examined and passed on the following day. I did so, and all were
uite normal on the next morning.
The Fort Doctor voluntarily promised several times, that all
rejected passengers would be re-examined and he thought (he said) that
any of the cases would be passed.
We waited day after day, had the passengers mustered each
morning, but no port doctor has ever appeared to re-examine the ship's
passengers.
Every statement made by the Port Doctor to the Captain and Self
has been incorrect and every promise has been broken.
I wish here again to protest against the refined cruelty which
keeps unfortunate passengers waiting expectantly day after day for a
re-examination.
All the first and second class and about half the Deck passengers
were passed on the 13th June, On June 24th about 135 of the latter were
sent beck to the ship from the Quarantine Station on shore.
Thus 135 passengers who had been 41 days on the ship and were
passed as free from Trachoma on June 13th were sent back eleven days
afterwards with Trachoma. If they had Trachoma where did they get it?
HEALTH IN PORT FROM JUNE 14TH TO DATE:- Health of passengers
remained very good for the first four weeks after arrival. Then we had
our first case of Beri-beri. To date we had 10 cases and four deaths.
These deaths were entirely preventible. If the majority of our