When the Empress of India arrived at Wowsung from Hongkong on the 28th April, one of the Chinese steerage pas-gers was discovered to be ill, and there occasion to suspect from the symptoms shown that it might he a case of smiallpox. The man was landed and sent to the Sanitary Station, and the steamer's steerage lo no time was eps to have the
lost in subjecting all' the Chinese steerage ation asa precautionary The steamer left Woosung for Nayasesi at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday, the ultimo, and no further case of sickness of any kind declared itself during the to Japan, but it was generally known on board that the steamer might have a difficulty in passing the usual medical inspection at Nagasaki. The Empress of India arrived at that port about 4 a.m. on the 30th ultimo, and of course anchored below the Quarantine Station. Soon after daylight the Japanese inspector paid his official visit on board, and it was ominous that his inspection was. a lengthened one, and that matters were
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