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disease is fever of a typhoid and Malignant type Accompanied in Many Instances, with Gastroenteritic irritation. These cases are

of Course in various stages of intensity- a few progressing rapidly and Certainly to fatal termination. The epidemic has existed for five days.

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The Berths or Accommodation

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6 inches, for his box. On the deck, immediately in front of the main hatch, there is a house used

for

an hospital sufficient to accommodate fourteen or fifteen patients. This Compartiment, with a few important

exceptions, is as

well suited

for it's

purpose as it could be made. There

on deck roacuated

of

bunks

for the Three hundred and

are six privies

fifty passengers occupy the sides

and Centre

of

the "Between decks, +

which is a lofty and well ventilated Compartiment. Each Bunk is

appropriated to four passengers and their personal luggage; it's

6 feet across and

dimensions are

and aft

five feet measured fore which gives a space of 1671⁄2 inches to rack passenger, allowing only

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9 infor

by shoots at a defective Angle. The ship Carries a surgeon apparently experienced in the management of Emigrants . There is a Medicine Chest - in the hospital for the

lise

of

the

passengers, and one in the Cabin

for the Crew.

The disease is malignant in

its nature and will become

Aggravated

as the air becomes

Contaminated by the Exhalations of