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5. That I have failed to find any counterbalancing advan- tages from their employment.
The potatoes and onions are directed to be stored (p. 89-— Rules) on a platform covered by an awning, but I should beg to recommend that they should be stowed below with the rest of the coolic stores. This is the way that farmers store them, in the dark, which will keep them from sprouting and protected from rain or damp as I have never seen them protected by the awnings generally put up, and being under lock and key they will keep better in another sense also, The pumpkins are strung separately in canvas slings all round the poop-rails, on spars between the davits of the quarter boats and from the spars supporting the platform -anywhere they have room to swing separately and to have air all round them, and as many as possible under cover, and those ripest or most exposed should be used first. This final inspection should engage the Surgeon Superintendent's best attention as it is and ought to be his last opportunity for making any objections to crew, ship, fittings, stores, or medicines; and if anything is found deficient or of inferior quality afterwards he will have only himself to blame.
After an examination of all the coolies in conjunction with the Depot Surgeon everything should now be ready for
THE EMBARKATION OF THE COOLIES.
The Surgeon Superintendent should be at the ship early on the day appointed, and have all his luggage on board, and all his private business finished, as he should not again leave the ship. He will, do well to have all boxes belonging to the coolies on board early and stowed in the hold under charge of the third-mate, go round the decks to see that both, main and coolie, are clear; that the issuing tanks are filled with condensed water (the only water for drinking)—— that the deck tubs at the closets are filled on one side and that side the outer side of the ship as she lies at the jetty- and give the third mate directions to have biscuit and sugar (10 oz. of the former and 2 oz. of the latter for each statute adult) ready for issue as oon as the people are herthed. (The embarkation takes place in the afternoon, and the people have a cooked meal in the depốt). At the hour appointed for embarkation the Medical Inspector of Emigrants and the Surgeon Superintendent will inspect the coolies, and then, when the gangway is secure, the embarkation will commence, parties of 10 being tallied off by one of the Agent's clerks at the shore, and by one of the ship's officers at the other end; and the Surgeon Superintendent should take post at some part of the gangway to see each man,
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woman, and child as they pass along, and finally satisfy him- self as to their fitness. Men of the crew are stationed at the side of the ship to help the coolies with their bundles down the short ladders to the deck; and the Compounders should direct all the women and children down the after- hatch and the men down the main-hatch, and berth them in the following order :—single women aft, married people with their children next, and single men forward. This embarka- tion, with 500 statute adults or, say, 540 soule, should not take more that from 40 to 50 minutes, and the moment the last coolic is on board the gangway should be drawn on shore, and the ship moved away to her moorings for the night. The Surgeon Superintendent and the Captain of the ship remain on shore to sign papers and to receive the records of the voyage which are to be kept by them. Those for the Surgeon Superintendent are as follows:—
1. Nominal list of coolies, No. 1.
2. Surgeon's journal.
3. Admission and discharge book.
4. Case book.
5. Register of births and deaths.
6. Return of deaths for Emigration Agent (1 keep a
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7. Surgeon's report of arrival (three copies enclosed in letter of appointment with directions for disposal, but I always send a fourth to the Emigration Agent.
8. Summary of medical history of the voyage, or abstract report for the medical inspector at Calcutta. (I keep a copy of this for my own information.)
9. Register of cholera cases, four copies, of which three will be handed to him at the embarkation and one sent to him by the Protector.
10. Return of coolies unsuccessfully vaccinated in the depôt (and who will have to be re-vaccinated during the voyage).
11. Book with counterfoils for requisitions for stores, medical comforts, &c.
12. List, receipted by Surgeon Superintendent, for extra clothing, &e. to be issued.
13. Coolies' tickets, one for each man, woman, and child, signed by the Protector, the Emigration Agent, the Sur- geon Superintendent, and the Depot Surgeon. (Their registration papers are kept by themselves, but I generally collect them after sailing for fear of loss.)
14. List of Sirdars, Ban harries, and Topazes, Hospital nurses and attendants, and barbers who have been appointed in the depot; and, in voyages to or from the West Indies,
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