Report of the Select Committee of the Senate of the United States on the Sickness and Mortality on Board Emigrant Ships, August 2, 1854B. Tucker, Senate printer, 1854 - 147페이지 Focuses on the diseases often found on emigrant ships (typhus, cholera, small pox), the extent and mortality, and means of prevention. |
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62 페이지 - Lord Palmerston would therefore suggest that the best course which the people of this country can pursue to deserve that the further progress of the cholera should be stayed, will be to employ the interval that will elapse between the present time and the beginning of next spring in planning and executing measures by which those portions of their towns and cities which are inhabited by the...
116 페이지 - ... articles may be increased and substituted therefor ; and in case potatoes cannot be procured on reasonable terms, one pound of either of said articles may be substituted in lieu of five pounds of potatoes, and the...
114 페이지 - States, or transfer or place under foreign registry or flag, any vessel or any interest therein owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States...
114 페이지 - passenger ship " (e) all the male passengers of the age of fourteen years and upwards who shall not occupy berths with their •wives shall, to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, be berthed in the fore part of the ship, in a compartment divided off from the space appropriated to the other passengers by a substantial and well-secured bulkhead...
54 페이지 - I visited the quarantine establishment to enquire into the medical history of the typhus fever, then extensively prevailing, and crowding that institution with patients. On that occasion we visited the ship Ceylon, from Liverpool, which had come to anchor a few hours before, with a large cargo of passengers. A considerable number had died upon the voyage, and one hundred and fifteen were then ill with the fever, and were preparing to be removed to the hospital.
61 페이지 - The Maker of the Universe has established certain laws of nature for the planet in which we live, and the weal or woe of mankind depends upon the observance or neglect of those laws.
114 페이지 - passenger ship " the beams supporting the " passenger decks " shall form part of the permanent structure of the ship : they shall be of adequate strength, in the judgment of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, and shall be firmly secured to the ship to his satisfaction. The
62 페이지 - ... between the present time and the beginning of next spring, in planning and executing measures by which those portions of their towns and cities which are inhabited by the poorest classes, and which, from the nature of things, must most need purification and improvement, may be freed from those causes and sources of contagion, which, if allowed to remain, will infallibly breed pestilence and be fruitful in death, in spite of all the prayers and fastings of a united but inactive nation.
31 페이지 - December, 1853, to consider the causes and the extent of the sickness and mortality prevailing on board the emigrant ships on the voyage to this country, and whether any and what legislation is needed for the better protection of the health and lives of passengers on board such vessels, has submitted a bill of which the following is a synopsis.
61 페이지 - ... faculties which Providence has thus given to man for his own welfare. " The recent visitation of cholera, which has, for the moment, been mercifully checked, is an awful warning, given to the people of this realm, that they have too much neglected their duty in this respect, and that those persons with whom it rested to purify towns and cities, and to prevent or remove the causes of disease, have not been sufficiently active in regard to such matters.