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advantages can be secured along with more light without sacrificing the principle, to him be the "kudos."

Another advantage is that the deck and sides of the ship can be washed down at any time in favourable weather with a solution of any disinfectant with the certainty of its drying within an hour or two. As far as the deck is concerned this should be done every day if possible. Of course this coal tar should be put on when the deck is dry, and it may have to be renewed where worn by the feet of the people, and the captain should be asked to carry a little extra coal tar, which is very cheap.*

Two double lines of bamboos should be strongly lashed to the iron stanchions along the centre of the deck on which to hang the coolies' bundles, and it is well to ask the captain to provide some spare male bamboos, not less than 2 inches in diameter at the smaller end, as they come in very usefully for many purposes during the voyage.

He should look to the state and position of the ventilation, Ventilation. and see that the forehatch is fitted with a grating secured by

a bar and padlock (this is necessary to prevent any forbidden communication between the upper and coolic-decks at this hatchway, at the main and after hatches it ought to be

pre- vented by the sirdars on watch there). For the position of the ventilation I attach plan of the deck of one ship I have had charge of, which was well ventilated. The great principle is to have end to end ventilation, and for this purpose ventilators should be placed as far forward and as far aft as possible-other ventilation as circumstances require; but my experience shows that these ships are generally rather over than under ventilated (pace, certain Medical Inspectors who

* Since writing the above I have found by practical experience that the coal tar does wear off the coolie deck, but this is not to be wondered at as it was not put on in this ship till after all the stores, &c., were stowed away after the final survey, ie, within 24 hours of the embarkation, and was too thick when put on, which is hardly giving it fair play. The proper time for preparing the deck in this way would be as soon as the coolies have left the ship on her arrival at the colony, or at any rate before salt shipped at home. The planks might first be soaked with some quickly drying oil, and then two or three coats of thin coal tar painted on. In talking over this with the captain of this ship (Hereford, Calcutta to Fiji, 1888), he said that as soon as the coolies left the ship he intended to scrape the coolie deck, and spoke of the "deck varnish" which is used on the main deck, and on my asking how long that would stand wear, he told me about three mouths, and I thought that if it would stand sailors' boots for that time it would surely stand the wear of coolics' bare feet for a voyage, and as the ship will pro- bably be taken up for coolies to the West Indies on her return to Calcutta, I have asked him to have part of the coolie deck done with it, and show it to the Protector and Medical Inspector of Emigrants on his arrival there. This will partly meet the objection of darkening the coolie deck if approved, but it matters little what the means are so long as the principal sanitary advan- tage-that of rendering the coolie-deck impermeable to fluids, damp or noxious exhalations-is secured.

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