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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
4. That provisions, fuel, and water have been placed on board, of good quality, properly packed, and sufficient to supply the passengers on board during the declared duration of the intended voyage to the following scale :--
DIETARY SCALE.
Proclamation of 1st November, 1872.
Rice Salt Beef
b 1 per diem.
Salt Pork
Ibon alternate days.
Salt Fish
Fresh Beef, or Mutton in tins
Salted Vegetables
Pickles
Fresh Vegetables, as Yams, Pumpkins, &c.
Water....
Firewood
Tea
Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar
Ibon alternate days.
Imperial qts. 3 a day.
lbs. 2 a day.
oz. a day.
oz. 2 a week.
be
Note.-Fresh Vegetables to be issued during the first month of the voyage only, unless the master shall obtain a fresh supply en route, when these articles again supplied in the above proportion.
may
5. That Medicines and Medical Comforts have been placed on board according to the following Scale :-
SCALE OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL COMFORTS,
For every 100 Passengers, and in like Proportion for any greater or less Number:-
Calomel
Blue Pill
Rhubarb Powder
6 lbs.
20 lbs.
Senna Leaves Blistering Plaister Sulphur Sublimed Sulphur Ointment... Linseed Flour Country Soap
Castor Oil ....
Oil of Peppermint.
Adhesivo Plaister, spread
Ringworm Ointment
8 oz.
8 oz.
16 oz.
12 oz. 4 lb.
24 oz.
6 bottles.
3
OZ.
2
oz.
2 OZ.
Compound Jalap Powder...... 12
OZ.
Ipecacuanha Powder
12
OZ.
Opium
2
Oz.
Dover's Powder
2
OZ.
2 oz.
Magnesia......
2 02.
2 yards.
Epsom Salts
Chloride of Lime
Simple Ointment
16 oz.
Tartar Emetic.....
4 drams.
16 oz.
Quinine.
2 Oz.
Jeremie's Opiate
2 oz.
Antimonial Powder
0 oz.
Aromatic Spirit of Hartshorn....
4 oz.
Extract of Colocynth, C'pound
1 oz.
Cholera Pills in phial
12 drams.
Carbonate of Ammonia...
1 oz.
Cubebs Powder
4 lb.
Assafoetida
1
OZ.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre.......
16 oz.
Camphor
1
oz.
Copaiba
16 oz.
Camphorated Liniment...
16
07.
Sulphate of Copper
Catechu....
2
OZ.
Sulphate of Zinc
Prepared Chalk
2
Oz.
Lunar Caustic
Tincture of Opium..
8
OZ.
Lime Juice.....
Turpentine
16
OZ.
Rum or Brandy.
2 oz.
1 oz. 4 drams.
36 quarts. 36 quarts.
INSTRUMENTS, &c.
1 Set of Amputating and other Surgical | 1 Spatula.
Instruments (if there be any person on 1 Dressing Scissors.
board competent to use them).
1 One Ounce Glass Measure.
1 Minim Glass Measure.
1 Pestle and Mortar (Wedgewood).
1 Set of Weights and Scales (Grain in box).
1 Set of common Splints.
1 Set of Bleeding Lancets.
1 Silver Catheter.
1 Infusion Box,
1 Quire of Country Paper.
1 Penknife.
2 Metal Bed Pans.
2 Trusses for Hernia, right and left.
2 Small Syringes.
4 Ounces prepared Lint.
2 Pieces Cloth for Bandages.
V.—The master of any Chinese passenger ship being a British ship and proceed- ing on a voyage of more than seven days' duration shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to the aforesaid dietary scale, and shall not make any alteration, except for the manifest advantage of the passengers,
in respect of the space allotted to them as aforesaid, or in respect of them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the vessel; and shall issue