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ana nmery-nint? aouu*.The TaymoiUh CtutJe arrived from Plymouth on the 3rd of May, after a passage of eighty-six days, with 295 emigrants; eleven births and two deaths occurred at sea. The ship was in very good order. The arrangement of the berths in this vessel was on a different system from any hitherto employed. They were grouped together in blocks on the telescope principle, so that when not in use they might bo reduced to half their sire; and the tables were constructed in such a manner as to be allowed to occupy the vacant space during the day. X am not disposed to look on this system as being a desirable mode of berthing emigrant ships. When it becomes necessary to allow one emigrant to remain in bed during the day, the table in that group of berths cannot be used, and about eleven persons are put to great inconvenience foT the sake of one. Where no great amount of sickness prevails, such a system might not seriously inter-fee with the general comfort of the ship, as arrangements might be made to meet individual cases of temporary sickness; but were any general epidemic to prevail, the inconvenience produced by the want of the tables would be excessive. The inner half of the bottom boards of the berths, constructed in the manner described, were fixtures; this is decidedly objectionable, as it interferes with the proper cleaning of the ship. The surgeon-superintendent recommends that the different beds should be numbered, as great disturbance was caused amongst the young women every time the beds were taken on deck by their disputes about ownership. In thin ship there was put on board by the Commissioners an oven capable of baking about 160 lbs. of bread at a time, in order to afford the emigrants, especially the women and children, an occasional supply of soft bread; the supply of flour to the emigrants was by this means issued to them four times in the week, in the shape of soft bread. This is a great improvement, and I think if adopted m all ships would not only add greatly to the comfort but also to the health of the people, if precautions were taken that means are used for properly leavening the hread, so as to make it light andA f D1.
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Adelaide Times
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Thu, Jul 27, 1854
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