CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
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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 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.......
tb 11 per diem.
Ibon alternate days.
bon alternate days.
Imperial qts. 3 a day.
Ibs. 2 a day.
oz. § a day.
Firewood
Tea
Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar
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 :-
Calomel
Blue Pill
Rhubarb Powder
3 Oz.
2
OZ.
2 OZ.
12 Oz.
‹ Senna Leaves
Blistering Plaister Sulphur Sublimed Sulphur Ointment. Linseed Flour...... Country Soap
Castor Oil
Oil of Peppermint.
Adhesive Plaister, spread
Ringworm Ointment
Aromatic Spirit of Hartshorn..
8 oz.
8 oz.
16 oz.
12 oz.
4 lb.
24 oz.
6 bottles.
2 oz.
2 yards.
16 oz.
Compound Jalap Powder..
Ipecacuanha Powder
12
OZ.
Opium
2
Oz.
Dover's Powder
2 OZ.
Magnesia
2 02.
Epsom Salts
6 lbs.
Chloride of Lime
20 lbs.
Simple Ointment
Tartar Emetic.
4 drams.
16 oz.
Quinine...
2 Oz.
Jeremie's Opiate ....
Antimonial Powder
of oz.
2 oz. 4.02.
Extract of Colocynth, C'pound
1 oz.
Cholera Pills in phial
Carbonate of Ammonia............
11 oz.
Cubbs Powder
4 lb.
Assafoetida
1 OZ.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre..
16 oz.
Camphor
1 oz.
Copaiba
16 oz.
Camphorated Liniment..
16
Oz.
Sulphate of Copper
2 oz.
Catechu...
2 OZ.
Sulphate of Zinc
1 oz.
Prepared Chalk
4 drams.
2
Oz.
Tincture of Opium..
36 quarts.
Turpentine
36 quarts.
12 drams.
8 OZ..
16 02.
Lunar Caustic
Lime Juice..............
Rum or Brandy.
INSTRUMENTS, &c.
1 Set of Amputating and other Surgical 1 Spatula.
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 Dressing Scissors.
1 Infusion Box.
1 Quire of Country Paper.
1 Penknife.
2 Metal Bed Pans.
| 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 proceed. ing 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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