Ste Se pte uns terrible fatality on the Poyang by other and river steamers, has evoked a number of letters on the subject of the messing en tsi sailing out of Shanghai. In some of them the writers have wandered off into discussion of the dirtier between the deck and engineering departments, but the subject is such serious one that we have not felt justified in suppressing for this reason my of the letters that have been being dis which the master "f the voss-1 provides, and they assert that when they complaints to the owners, they Jsclf would disdain to add to his income in this way, he may put tov inch confidence in his steward. Our correspondent goes on ty tell us that one of the leading firms of steamship agents here "withdrew the mossi re told that the stun allow fully from the masters and placed it in Jeqnite, owners have he hands of a resident. chief steward. fall confid ster to whom The result has proved satisfactory its application is confided. both owners and officers, and regard-tether coli will be found a let ug recent deaths, but one in this from an okt hand ea the coast who! company has taken price, which signs himself Deathtrap." who is|should be convincing." no longer conn-ered with any of the generally asserted that shipping firms here. and who writes there is neglect in the supervision with full knowledge and complete of the ice-boxes and galleys on rtiality, The eases of cholera! coasters, that we cannot doubt that which hi red, since the letter! some cases of disease are directly was written, on some " vst traceable to this cause, but it) seems formd and most popu certain that supervision is also very the ssasting Meet here necessary" of the son recs from which i Taportanes of his the supplies of tood are derived, respondent this connection it is impossible unti te menting that no constituted think of a paragraph in the recent steps te investigate of the three doctors, on the con-fatalities dition mutation for the natives to use the wer of the creek for the objectionable purpose of xashing and refteshpen to those ing their vegetables (one of the wi have of any kind. markets of the Foreign Settlement—The uncleanliness of the ice-be: Smith's Market—is in the vicinity of he says. "and the quality or eondiithe creek) is as undesirable as the tion of its contents, are doubtless facility which it affords for the draw-sources of this trouble. but not the ing of water for potable and oth principal source: there is no need of domestic purposes." How much of a long code of rules to rectify this the supplies to the coasting steamers Ex-Mariner " suggest an water, teomes from Smith's Marke... for ordinary common: sume willingness to say that this is reqttired." and cure "which will die give what he ass rts tu be the ange of weather as quickly 1 explanation of the tr fas if ar A scare it may be, but it This explana I is a scare not based on phantasms, but t the sum allowed by the owners on terrible facts which have brought inadequate to provide properly for sorrow to a very large section of the officers and passengers. but that the community.—While to many a in too many eases an_arrangement is sea voyage ina well-appointed coaster made between the master and the lis in itself an infinite delight and steward, by which only a portion-—yelasation, to many it is a time of dis-large portion. no donbt—of the sum comfort and wretchedness only borne allowed is devoted to the purpose for for the sake of the end te which it is which it is intended, This arrange- jo necessary means, The addition he districtly says is net uni! these draiwhacke of he dan; by ang mean. is well-yserinns disease is not to he that thers are several masters eogardes Lwhe are tee hunonrable te enrich the agents of the by this method or to per doing all in their power to disenrer ards to do so: they are and reinnly the weak points to which respected, and it may be the recent fatalities have drawn at-nted that their ships are tention. One useful reform would, papular with passe the officers it seems to us. be the direct supply contented and—happy. and in of all provisions by the companies epidainie the chances of [themselves to their steamers, under their favour." {competent foreign supervision.
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