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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
Salt Pork
Salt Fish
Fresh Beef, or Mutton in tins
fb 11 per
diem.
thon alternate days.
Salted Vegetables
Pickles
Fresh Vegetables, as Yams, Pumpkins, &c.
Ibon alternate days.
Water....
Imperial qts. 3 a day.
lbs. 2 a day.
Firewood
Tea
Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar
oz. a day. oz. 2 a week. 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 may be again supplied in the above proportion.
5. That Me licines and Medical Comforts have been placed on board according to the following Scale :-
SCALE OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL COMFORTS.
For every 100 Fassengers, and in like Proportion for any greater or less Number :-
Calomel
Blue Pill
Rhubarb Powder
[Senna Leaves
Blistering Plaister
8 oz.
8 oz.
16 oz.
12 oz.
3
Oz.
2
Oz.
2
Oz.
Sulphur Sublimed
Compound Jalup Powder..
12 02.
Sulphur Ointment..
Ipecacuanla Powder
12
OZ.
Opium
2
02.
Dover's Powder
2 OZ.
Magnesia.
2 02.
Epsom Salts
6 lbs.
Chloride of Lime
20 lbs.
Tartar Emetic.
4
drams.
Quinine...
2
0%.
Antimonial Powder
04 05.
Extract of Colocynth, C’pound
1 02.
Carbonate of Aumenia..
11 02.
Assafoetida
1 0%.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre.
Camphor
1} 02.
Camphorated Liniment
16
02.
Catechu..
Linseed Flour
Country Soap
Castor Oil
Gil of Peppermint..
Adhesive Plaister, sprend
Simple Ointment
Ringworm Gietment
J. comic's Spate
Aromatic Spart of Har.shern..
Cholera Pill in phial
Cub his Powder
4 lb.
24 02.
6 bottles. 2.03.
2 yards. 16 oz.
16 oz.
2 oz.
4.02.
12 drams.
4 lb.
16 oz.
16 oz.
2 02.
1 07.
Prepared Chalk
Turpentine
Tincture of Opium..
2 Oz.
8 OZ.
16 02.
•
2 0%.
Copaiba
Sulphate of Copper Sulphate of Zine
Lutor Can tic
Lime Juice. Rum or Erindy.
INSTRUMENTS, &c.
1 Set of Amputating and other Surgical Instruments (if there be any person on 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 Sliuts.
1 St of Bleeding Lancets..
1 Silver Catheter.
1 Satula.
1 Dr ssing Scissors.
1 Infusion Box,
1 Quire of Country Paper.
1 Penknife.
2 Metal Bed Pans.
4 drams.
36 quarts.
36 quarts.
| 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' duratin shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to the aforesaid dietary scal, and shall not make any alteration, except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect of the space allotted to them as af resaid, or in respect of them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the vessel; and shall issue