Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-05-29

MISC
DREADFUL CONDITION or AN
EMIGRANT SHIP.
lFrom "a HeEfaat ChronicLe.l

0AsGhDI III 1O4SDIl IOLN OE hN
EMIGRANT SHIP.
From the Be!fast Chronicle.)
Tie emigFant ship swatara, which sail
ed with passengers IN the 14th ultimt
from Liverpool, for Philadelphia, was driv.
en- into this port on the 18th in distress
having lost her ~foretopmast and bowyprit.
Two ofthe sailors were most severely in
Jnred by this accident, and on the arrival d
The ship were conveyed to tho Surgical
Hospital, and promptly attended to. On Sat
urday the 9th, it was reported to the Com.
mittee of tA Hospital, by one oftheir bod
y (the Right Rev. Danvir,) that disease Of
a severe type Thought TO be typhus fover)
prevailed on board. Resolutions were
promptly prepared and sent to Lieutenant
Starko, r. N, and the American Consul,
stating the above reports, and urging upon
them the necessity Of having, il in their
power, q surgeon appointed to the ship.
On Friday last, a d~eputation consisting of
DR.. Danvir, Lieutenant Starke, Mr.. Vulen.
tine, and DIR. Andrews, visited the hospital
to inquire if the sick on board could be re-
moved into the institution. A special
meeting Of the Committee was Immediately
summoned by the resident surgeon; and at
half-past four q large number Of the COM
mittec attended te consider the subject. At
this meeting, Mr.. Brown of the Swatara
attended, and stated that he had received
u letter from the owners of n very harsh
nature, calling upon him to fill up the a
cancies that had occurred n.the ship from
diseased patients leaving it, by other
passengers, and to set sail as soon as
possibly could be done. The committee
decided to receive into the hospital all the
fever cases fiom the ship, end directions
having been given TO Mr. Anderson, ac-
commodation was prepared by ten o'clock
that night for forty patients, and sixteen
were removed that night all being cases Of
typhus fever, 1t was stated, however, to
the committee hat at least fifty or sixty
cases were in the ship, but at six o.
on Friday night no more cases were
applying for admittance. On Saturday,
however DR.. Denvir who has shown the
most prai5ewortby anxiety to minister to
necessities of these ~poorspeopIe, called
ut the hospitaland proceeded to the ship.
accompanied by tho resident surgeon, Mr..
Anderson, who discovered twelve more
cases of well marked typhus fever. These
speedily removed TO the hospital. 1t
was well known that q considerably grea-
er number 0 cases of fever prevailed in
he ship, but the unfortunate sufferers were
unwilling to confess their sickness, for fear
# being taken out of her, and being de-
of their passage, and also from a
ear oftheir passage money being forfeited.
Yesterday, in consequence of an applica-
ion made by DR.. Denvir, Mr.. Anderson,
.c%companiedby Mr.. Black, the very eff
lent medical attendant of the Dock Dis
proceeded to the ship, and after a most
minute examination, succeeded, after a
reat deal of trouble, in selecting seven
labouring under well marked fever.
hey found the ship divided into two com
ailments, fore and aft, each of which was
but the fore Storage was P%articu-
so, and had no means OF ventilation ex.
ept from the h~atchway, nor any light but
'om it, so that these gentlemen were o.
liged to be furnished with a lantern to as
ertain the actual state of passengers. 1t
ppeared to the medical gentlemen that
le accommodation provided for the pas
on board was much too limited,
nd most of them we're only supported on
be Government allowance of | Id. ofbread
day. We understand that the medi.
al gentlemen recommended that the ship
be completely cleared of her pas.
fumigatedan thoroughly cleansed
nd made fit for the reception of the heal
~, and of those who may recover from /
he fever which has prevailed to such an
ztent on board. II
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