We published a short time ago an account of the trials and sufferings of the passengers by the City of Peking, when that steamer was quarantined in San Francisco and when the rotten old Alice Garratt took them out of quarantine and did her best to drown them. The conduct of the Board of Health in San Francisco, or its representatives, was exceedingly blameable, and no reason or excuse forthe detention ofthe passengers beyond their term has been published that we have seen. The minutes of the first monthly meeting of the Board, after the affair of the Alice Garratt make no reference to the matter, but other affairs incidental to the quarantine of the City of Peking were mentioned. The; still on hand, in the second half of are seventeen Japanese passengers and the crew ofthe steamer be were on board the Shenandoah, and a few of whom were convalescent from typhus fever. The had been permitted to dock. The Board City of Peking having been fumigated
apparently find it easier to do as they lease with passengers by steamers from this part of the world, than with their cargo. Men and women and children can be placed in scarcely seaworthy, or harbour-worthy hulks and dealt with as the professional prejudices and personal indolence of the Board's officials may st. No one seemingly tries to get the condition of the unfortunate passengers mitigated. But itis different when the of the steamers come to be dealt with by the officials. It was stated at the monthly meeting of the San Francisco Board of Health that the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company lind presented a petition to the Board, ask permission to remove the cargo of silk on board the quarantined steamer City of Sydney. Whereupon it was moved by one doctor that "force of men should be detailed to discharge the silk from the City of Sydney and others of the company's vessels as they arrived; that the men should be sprinkled with a solution of hi-chloride of mercury, their clothing being previously washed in the same solution, These men could then discharge the silk from the ship's side into lighters. On which a professional brother moved as an amendment that the bales of silk should be fumigated, as it was possible that infection would exist in the wrappers of the bales. On this the mover of the resolution said that fumigation would destroy the silk and the city would be liable for it. The representative of the Occidental and Oriental Company, thereupon said that "his company would not allow any fumigation of packages of silk arriving; by their steamers. - he silk on boa: the City of Sydney was valued at $1,500,000, It was raw silk in hanks and the packages were inclosed in double wrappers of matting." Eventually it was resolved to sponge the outside of the bales with a solution of: hi-chende of mercury in order to fumigate them, And so the bales of silk duly sponged will go on their way to New York, while the passengers by the City of Sydney, of less conseqitence in the eyes of the Board of Health, are detained on board a hulk where they probably endure inconveniences and, perhaps hardships, enough to cause an epidemic to break out among them. he passengers from the City of Peking sutlered much on board the Antelope and Alice Garratt, the acvommodation on both these vessels being of the most insufficient and inferior kind. There was no sickness among them any more than there was among the passen~ gers by the City of Sydney, which was subsequently quarantined, and whose passengers, with clean bill of health, were detained, while the silk by the same steamer was on its way to market in New York. For the minutes say. that a representative of the Pacific Mail Company stated to the meeting that there was no sickness on board the City of Sydney then in quarantine, and he would like to ascertain if the Board would consider the release of the passengers. It was replied to this that "the Board had passed; resolution to the effect that every vessel from China should be kept in quarantine ten days, and as the Company's steamer had been barely a week.in port, the application' was denied."
THE CHINESE IMAGINATION, Coxructus lived upon a plain. Except when he visited the celebrated mountain Tai-shan his mind was not wrought
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