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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 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
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Fresh Vegetables, as Yams, Pumpkins, &c.
t 1 per diem.
Ibon alternate days.
Ibon alternate days,
Water....
Firewood
Tea
Lime or Lemon Juice and Sugar
Imperial qts. 3 a day.
lbs. 2 a day.
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 :-
For
SCALE OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL COMFORTS.
every 100 Passengers, and in like Proportion for any greater or less Number :-
Calomel
Senna Leaves Blistering Plaister
8 oz.
8 oz. 16 oz.
12 oz.
3 oz.
Blue Pill...........
2
OZ.
Rhubarb Powder
2
OZ.
Sulphur Sublimed
Compound Jalap Powder....
12
Oz.
Ipecacuanha Powder
12
02.
Sulphur Ointment.. Linseed Flour
Opium
2
oz.
Dover's Powder
2 Oz.
Magnesia...
2 02.
Epsom Salts
6 lbs.
Chloride of Lime
20 lbs.
Tartar Emetic.....
4 drams.
Quinine.....
2
Oz.
Jeremie's Opiate
Antimonial Powder
O 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
1 oz.
Copaiba
Country Soap
Castor Oil ..
Oil of Peppermint........
Adhesive Plaister, spread
Simple Ointment
Ringworm Ointment
Aromatic Spirit of Hartshorn.....
4 lb.
24 oz.
6 bottles.
2 oz. 2 yards.
16 oz.
16 oz.
2 oz.
4 oz.
12 drams.
4 lb.
16 oz.
16 oz.
Camphorated Liniment.
16
OZ.
Catechu.....
Prepared Chalk
22
Sulphate of Copper
Sulphate of Zinc
2 oz.
Lunar Caustic
Tincture of Opium..
Turpentine
16 Oz.
2
OZ.
oz. 8 OZ.
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.
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 proceed- ing on a voyage of more than seven days' duration shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provision, 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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