ANOTHER PEST SHIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 261, 7 March 1874, Page 4

ANOTHER PEST SHIP.

The ship Carnatic, ft'om London, xvhose arrival was ■announced' on Saturday last, was'towed up''to an anchorage in the quarantine ground, and moored there under the charge of Pilot Paton,.on account of her having disease on board Immediately on her corning to a'o .anchorage the members of the JJoard of Health and the Immigration and Customs Officers profeede'l down to her in: the s s. '.Result, luudly inviting our reporter to accompany them, when he learned the following fact's connected The total number of oases of sickness on the voyage amounted • to 60, mid the diseases were scarlet fever and measles-.: >,There was not the-slightest appearance of fever, on board, when the vessel left Plymouth. The whole' of" the' emigrants appeared healthy then and for \ the following fortnight. Dr. Oil)bs : s suspicion was not rousei during that time by anything on board, as the health of all K'emed very good- But on' the thirteenth day idter starting the first case of measles broke out ; and on the twenty-first day out the more virulent fever made ■known its presence amongst the crowd of. closely. packed hitman beings The first child seized only lasted 17 days, when lie died. The measles were not so' bad/ There Wive 24 cases. ■ but the fever, ■ of which there were '34 cases, was the means of destroying five lives—none having diect from tile measles'. ' The other death was caused by exhaustion from -jevei'e- 'vomiting. The last case broke 1 -out I|B. days ago, and the patient is how convalescent. 'I he only remnant-of the measles now left is a slight cough of a child. :ih j re 'are none sick with that disease.. Of the fever there are two severe cases stili/ and four tire now progressing very well. • The only reason'Dr Gibbs could give for the 'fever breaking out was a fact which he had as r ' eertainod a few days ago/ When telling a woman to keep her child from about those who ■ haa been ill with the fever, Hlie repltfeil, f '-Oh'!'he's-all right; he had the friver only a fortnight ago before we left." To the fact of this child ■ having come on board with the seeds of the fever upon him he attributed the \yhole disease intlieshifi •Soloiigas it was possible, the sick 'were ■ removed to the hospitals, urul the clothes, Were, washed in a solution of flondy's" fluid,'as were also the ' boards, and berths in which thev had been lying Aitenyinds' whe'n' the cases had increased leyon'd the capability rjf the hospitals, thtfv were kept as much as possible apart and'the greatest'cleanliness ■'■bse'ryed and enforced -in every- part of the <diip. ifiVinfpcting powder, carbolic • ticrd OmidV* fluidj and chloride of lime;' being plentifully-used. ■• The'names of ihoao Who died tiro the,'-following/:—'Wil- •; v Jni>Vj C'o-X. aged 10 Week's, from 'exhaustion anW .vomiting.; Fanny harkm; five years', " scarlet-fever; Mary Cox. six y-aro. f*i'a'rlet--''fever ;■ Elizabeth "BowJen, 21 month.', scarlet.'fever; J arte r,ainch.' bitty y«ai»,'ri<!.'ii'lH.t'lever. - The sickness Haa-been''confined to-children during the >■«*'** <-;' tiful *aß usuiu; -of course, in the t'erv !J'iiiiipiirLiiu*: , it where thtfre was the-fei-Jt fitoiti fur attending to the- wmita of the hi vaii■)«.' ; : A' titimhelr of her passen - govs, (if whom t.hoie -ire 251 "on board, were remove!-tn thii airv ii'id comfortable bii'iTUt*(.- ou ''li<- rjuatantine [aland, ■ mid lh" r. .s: .vnl n.'i'it pro'uably be sent there to ui.y is; tn.ii the sii;p w..l not have long

to lie in quarantine. As (soon as she can* be thoroughly fumigated, she will be admitted to pratique, and be brought to a discharging berth. Of her passage we have the following from Captain .Moon . Left Plymouth on the Bth December ; had a passage ■of fine weather to the equator, having very light NE. trades and crossed the line on the Bth January. While running down her easting, which was done between 48leg. and 49Jeg.. of S. latitude, she had a very good steady westerlies, and did the run from the line in 51 days. She made the Snares at noon on the 26th February, and had good weather up the coast. Among her crew she had one death, that of Robert William Gather, a seaman, who fell overboard and was drowned.—' Guardian.'