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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
4. That provisions, fuel, and water have been placed on board, of good quality, properly packed, and sufficient to supply the passengers on board during the declared duration of the intended voyage, according to the following scale :-
DIETARY SCALE.
Proclamation of 1st November, 1872.
Rice...... Salt Beef
Salt Pork
Salt Fish
Fresh Beef, or Mutton in tins
Salted Vegetables
Pickles
Fresh Vegetables, as Yams, Pumpkins, &c.
Water...
Firewood
fb 11 per diem.
fb on alternate days.
bon alternate days.
Imperial qts. 3 a day.
lbs. 2 a day.
Tea
Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar
oz. a day. oz. 2 a week. Note.-Fresh Vegetables to be issued during the first month of the voyage only, unless the master shall obtain a fresh supply en route, when these articles may be again supplied in the above proportion
5.-That Medicines and Medical Comforts have been placed on board according to the following Scale :-
SCALE OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL COMFORTS.
For every 100 Passengers, and in like Proportion for any greater or less Number :—
8 oz.
8 oz.
16 oz.
Calomel
Blue Pill
Rhubarb Powder
~~~
3 Oz.
2 Oz.
Senna Leaves Blistering Plaister
2
OZ.
Sulphur Sublimed
Compound Jalap Powder...... 12
OZ.
Ipecacuanha Powder
12
OZ.
Sulphur Ointment. Linseed Flour..............
Opium
2
OZ.
Country Soap
Dover's Powder
2
OZ.
Magnesia...
2 02.
Epsom Salts
6 lbs.
Chloride of Lime
20
1be.
Simple Ointment
Tartar Emetic..
Quinine....
42
drams.
Oz.
Antimonial Powder
01 oz.
Extract of Colocynth, C'pound
1 oz.
Cholera Pills in phial
Carbonate of Ammonia...
11 oz.
Cubebs Powder....
Assafoetida
1 Oz.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre.
Camphor
11 oz.
Castor Oil
Oil of Peppermint..
Adhesive Plaster, spread..
Ringworm Ointment
Jeremie's Opiate
Aromatic Spirit of Hartshorn....
12 oz.
4 lb.
24 oz.
6 bottles.
2 Oz.
2 yards.
16 02.
16 oz.
2.05.
4.0%.
12 drams.
4 lb.
16 oz.
16 08.
Camphorated Liniment.
16
OZ.
Catechu....
Prepared Chalk
22
2
0%.
Tincture of Opium.
8
ᎤᏃ
Turpentine
OZ.
16 oz.
Copaiba
Sulphate of Copper Sulphate of Zinc
Lunar Caustic
Lime Juice.....
Rum or Brandy.
INSTRUMENTS, &c.
1 Set of Amputating and other Surgical Instruments (if there be any person on board competent to use them).
1 One Ounce Glass Measure.
1 Minim Glass Measure.
1 Pestle and Mortar (Wedgewood).
1 Set of Weights and Scales (Grain in box).
1 Set of common Splints.
1 Set of Bleeding Lancets.
1 Silver Catheter.
1 Spatula.
1 Dressing Scissors.
1 Infusion Box,
1 Quire of Country Paper.
1 Penknife.
2 Metal Bed Pans.
2 OZ.
1 oz.
4 drams.
36 quarts. 36 quarts.
| 2 Trusses for Hernia, right and left.
2 Small Syringes.
4 Ounces prepared Lint.
2 Pieces Cloth for Bandages.
V.-The master of any Chinese passenger ship being a British ship and proceeding on a voyage of more than seven days' duration shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to the aforesaid dietary scale, and shall not make any alteration, except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect of the space allotted to them as aforesaid, or in respect of them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the vessel; and shall issue
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