SHOCKING TREATMENT OF EMIGRANTS.
A horrible story has been disclosed in New York of the treatment of emigrants on board the Nemesis, an English freight steamer. The Nemesis was chartered by the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, to run between Amsterdam and New York. She was commanded by Captain Peace, and the officers were chiefly Englishmen. The tale told by the emigrants is that the steerage was filthy and overcrowded, the food was in* sufficient and unwholesome, and the water was brackish. The surgeon was drunk moat
of the time, and the petty officers, who were very brutal to the unfortunate creatures who had entrusted themselves to their care, yet consented to sell them morsels of food and sips of water, from which they exacted extravagant prices. The children received a rancid mess composed of condensed milk and salt water. The natural consequence of all this was that diarrhoea, dysentery, and measles, broke out among the unhappv passengers of whom eighteen are dead, and there are others dying in the hospital. The official surgeon says it is the worst case he lias ever known, and that it almosts amounts to murder.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1131, 26 August 1882, Page 2
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190SHOCKING TREATMENT OF EMIGRANTS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1131, 26 August 1882, Page 2
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