CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 506

fiutting some fellow seamen to temporary

incov.

Case.

venience, for there

was no risk in the

I shall not hesitate to choose the

former alternative.

5.

I

only regret that instead of an

alverity to aid one

of their

own

class, I

any

instance

should have found in

a.

b

selfish unwillingness to undergo-

inconvenience.

Shere

Avas

another case in which

a sick Greek Seaman in a

Seaman in a similar condition

Avus

funt on board of

A

homeward bound

vessel,

but

was s

subsequently landed by the

Master and died in the Seamen's Hospitat

complicated by the double

This case was

removal of the man

first

in

board ship-

and secondly from the Ship to the shore_

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and it is therefore difficult to say whether

the man

could have

the

gone

voyage

in safely if not landed

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I enclose the evidence at the

Coroner's Inquest which the Jony thought

justified them in binging in a verdict:

"died

"We are

of

of opinion that the deceased exhaustion caused by his illnes and

"Syphilitic cachexia, that his death was

"accelerated by the treatment he

was

"subjected to by being sent on board this " when in an unfit state to be removed.

"Ive feel

it ou

duty to remark

"that the evidence adduced exposes

a

(

"State of affairs

in the shipment of sick

"distressed

seaman which is altogether

"Contrary to the dictates

humanity