SHIP WESTLAND.
The Immigration Officer supplies the following extracts from the report of the surgeon-superintendent of the above ship : results oft scarlatina and measles, may be reported as generally good. Scarlatina first appeared on the 30th of November, four days after embarcatiori, and from it nineteen children and one adult have suffered, four being now under treatment. Three of these I shall probably be able to report convalescent to-morrow. The last case dates February 16th. There has been no mortality from this cause. Measles broke out on the 23rd December, and from it forty-six children and one adult have suffered. Five are now under treatment, the last dating February Bth. There have been two deaths from this cause. Notwithstanding the large number of children and infants on board (110), and the prevfllence of these epidemics amongst them, the total mortality amounts to only three souls. The conduct of the immigrants has been very good, that of the single women particularly so. This fact I attribute much to the judicious control and management of a very able matron—Miss Oole." Any letters or parcels left at the Immigration Office for immigrants by this ship will be forwarded to the Quarantine Stations.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1872, 23 February 1880, Page 3
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199SHIP WESTLAND. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1872, 23 February 1880, Page 3
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