The Auckland Quarantine Station.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3574, 10 June 1880, Page 2

The Auckland Quarantine Station.

If all that we hear about the state of the Auckland Quarantine Station is true, 1 something is radically wrong somewhere, and we are surprised that this important matter,has not been ventilated turough the newspapers of the provincial metro* polis. Early in March last the immigrant ship Earl Granville with 300 and.odd souls on jjoard, cast anchor iu.theol.lm waters of the Waitemata, and there being one ease of sickness on beard—supposed to be low fever—the vessel was ordered into quarantine. We say. that the existence- of disease was suppositions as, we have been credibly, informed that the person supposed to ba ffflicted with the infectious milady was •hamming* - The unfortunate immigrrati were landed on the quara i me island, which had only been quitted by the fever-stricken passengers of the ship British Empire, and the N quarters were found to be in a most disgustingly filthy condition. The pest house, we can give it no more dignified name, was alive with vermin, and the passengers of the British Empire had ■ evidently left a fearful legacy behind them, as several of the hitherto healthy immigrants contracted a peculiar 1 fever, and about a dozen died on the island. . The quarters were deansed three times, but such was the filth that but little impression was made on it. From advices received br • a psssenger now •*■ resident on the' Thames, it has- beea ascertained that no fewer than 100 of the, ■ unfortunates who larded on our shoies from the Earl Granville in a healthy eon- < dition have died. Surely, someone is to blame for this distressing affair, and we , trust that the maiter will be taken up and sifted to the bottom by the authorities, to""%, prevent a recurrence-of what has been a. disgrace to the colony at largo.