Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U. S. Brig Dolphin, Made Under Direction of the Navy DepartmentB. Tucker, printer to the Senate, 1854 - 333 страници |
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Страница 62 - 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...
Страница 116 - ... 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...
Страница 114 - 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...
Страница 61 - One of those laws connects health with the absence of those gaseous exhalations which proceed from overcrowded human beings, or from decomposing substances, whether animal or vegetable ; and those same laws render sickness the almost inevitable consequence of exposure to those noxious influences.
Страница 114 - 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
Страница 62 - ... 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.
Страница 114 - 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, without opening into, or...
Страница 31 - 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.
Страница 54 - ... bunks, or strewed over the decks, and cumbering the gangways; broken utensils and debris of food spread recklessly about, presented a picture of which neither pen nor pencil can convey a full idea. Some were just rising from their berths for the first time since leaving Liverpool, having been suffered to lie there all the voyage, wallowing in their own filth. It was no wonder to us that, with such total neglect of sanitary supervision, and an entire absence of ventilation, so many of such wretched...
Страница 116 - ... proper and necessary for diseases and accidents incident to sea voyages, and for the...