"the emigrants at all times had access to 1081 feet, and therefore the space of the upper
decks was 7 feet to each adult:
The Surgeon General of British Guiana on the other hand states in his report that the Passengers had access to the Poop deck, and that there was left for their use on the main deck a space only equal to 1088 superficial feet.
Dr. Mauget to Mr. Gale Georgetown 19. April 1859.
Government Surveyor of this Colony,
as well as the report of the Fumigation Agent General for British Guiana confirmed as it is by the breach officers' measurement (as it may be presumed he would not have given the measurement of a part of the Ship to which the Emigrants had access) all serve to prove that a space of not less than 7 superficial feet for each adult was available for exercise upon the decks.
10. If the statements of the Surgeon General's report were correct the mortality might well be ascribed amongst other causes to the Emigrants being allowed for exercise less than half the space required by law; but the weight of evidence is all against his statement, for the Certificate of the Government Surveyor of this Colony,
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11. The point raised by the Emigration Agent General, in the concluding part of the paragraph the commencement of which I have above quoted, whether the letter as well as the spirit of the Passenger's Act was complied with saying that the superficial feet...
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Government Surveyor of this Colony,
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