, 1896-10-17

undertake the return Journey. AT the Fro.
tectOr'S Office. adults receive three rupees
compensation, and children in proportion, and
are Sent to the station if they wish to return
home, and get II free passage back.
Those emigrants who pass the Agents pre-,
limiuarv examination are then infinitely ex-
aminrd by the native Doctor. the men In a
state of nature; the women are examined by
The Hospital nurse; their names are then en-
tered in the depot register, and a report is
sent to the Protector within "a hours after
their arrival, detailing every name, fathers
nqme, &c.,-a most laborious and useless
work, which takes up the whole time Of one
clerk.
The people are then examined by the depot
Surgeon, usually the Medical Superintendent
of the General Hospital, a man of the highest
medical standing in Calcutta. and any doubt
full cases carefully re-examined. They are
then passed in review by the Government
Medical Inspector Of Emigrants, who detains
or rejects as be sees fit. subsequently they
are handed over to the ships Surgeon, who
with two Compounders to assist him, makes a
searching examination of all. the men nude
behind a screen; md any he rejects finally
are sent to their homes through the Proteo.
tors Office.
AS soon rs the ships Surgeon has con-.
pleted his medical OK tminatioa of the people.
q day is fixed for final examination, at which
the depot Surgeon is present, and the two
Medicos see all the people in q single file;
any against whom the ships surgeon has
made remarks are examined separately, and
passed, detained, or finally rejected and sent
home through the Protectors Office.
The people are alsD Individually seen and
their names compared with the depot regis
ter by the Government Medical Inspector.
and none con he embarked without his sane
ton. One would think that this was modi.
cal examination galore! But the people have
to run the gauntlet OH still two more occa.
sions.
On the morning Of embarkation all the
old clothes are taken away and a new outfit
issued to every emiS rant. The Chief Officer
of the ship then comes a shore and takes over
the people, comparing their papers with the
muster roll, but before they take their places
in the embarkatiOn shed. the native Doctor
examines them one by one and any suspects
are set aside for further examination. Then
the Protector boards the vessel with the
Medical Inspector, ships Surgeon. and the
Agent, and inspects the crew, calling over
their names by the roll. they having been
previously examined by the ships Surgeon,
Finally, the Medical Inspector, in company
with the Surgeon Superintendent, walks
along the rows of emigrants placed in single
lines and the two pick out and reject any
people they object to. whose new clothes are
at once taken away, and other emigrants
with a fresh outfit are then examined and
substituted.
One would i'm CINE that after such care
has been taken, II would be impossible to
do moore!
Finally, the order to embark is given and
tho people, carefully tailed in four places.
march on board in tens from the lefty. along
side of which the ship has been mored.
The single women go first, and are sent
right aft. Then come the families, and last
of all Tie single men, who go to the fore
part of the ship, which is bulk-headed off
for their use.
The writer has given merely a general
outline of emigration operations on this occa-
sion, but should the Editors patience, hold
out, he proposes to take the different per-
SOFAS md places, &c, in detail on some future
OCCASION.
Sufficient has, however, been written 10 give
a general idea of the management of Emf.
grafton work. The greatest difficulty with
which the Agent in India has to contend
is that the chest agricultural labourers
are usually of the most inferior physique.
This will be readily understood when it
is explained that the earnings of field la
bourers in India rarely provide them with
more than one SQUARE meal n dav op,l that