CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12] — Page 363

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

place 10 days before the arrival of the Ship in Hong Kong -

The only Symptoms which

could be described:

troud

gradual

swelling of the limbs, invelving a

1.

Climately the trunk and Chest.

There was no

was no pain

discoloration.

Constipation and high colored wrine

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generally present. Food was refused for some days before death

great craving for

and there was a

fluids.

From the examination of the 24 men already referred to as seen on boards, most of whom present. now the peaulian spongy guns. with the well defined purple margin

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360

peculiar to the disease, there can be no doubt that Seurvy has been the cause of this great mortality. amounting

as it has done to 23.36

or Lo

cargo or

per cent of the entire lives 30. 26 per cent of the passengers.

The

of Souray may

ނ

in some deg.

degree be accounted for by

the troussition of hard worked and

probably badly fed

residence in o

very

the sold experienced

ZVZZZ mor

after

hot climate to

on the voyage,

but also to the absence of Time juice_

Mibrin creid was supplied

I understand in a sort of rule of

thumb

crystal (probably

about 20 grains) being dissolved in

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