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OTHER DISEASES.
On 1st October the s.s. "Garonne" came in with a convalescent from
chicken-pox on board.
The patient embarked at Sydney on 18th August, and was taken ill on
23rd September. He was isolated on the voyage and the bedding destroyed by
ship's surgeon. No farther action was required.
On 4th October the s.s. " Parthian " reported two cases of intermittent
fever on the voyage. She left Mobile on 16th August. The first patient
was attacked on 19th and the second on 21st. Both being convalescent
on arrival no action was taken.
On 1st October the s.s. "Inventor" came into the Tilbury Docks. On
the following day the engineer was taken ill, and supposed to be suffering
from " inflammation of the lungs." On the 8th, the case proving to be one of
enteric fever, he was removed to the Port Sanitary Hospital, where, after a
lengthy illness, he eventually recovered.
On 24th a case of erysipelas was reported on Canvey Island. The patient
was isolated in her own house, and the room afterwards fumigated, etc.
On 13th November the s.s. "Navarra" arrived at Gravesend and passed
up river.
The crew left her at Erith, and one man who went to the Sailors' Home
was thence removed to the Asylum Board's Hospital with "West Coast fever."
The vessel had been trading up Niger, and all the crew had suffered, with
one death only.
THE TRAINING SHIPS.
The health of these vessels has been extremely good notwithstanding the
great disadvantages, under which they labour.
The " Arethusa," off Greenhithe, as already reported, had three cases of
diphtheria during August, attributed to the boys having been wet through,
and allowing their clothes to dry on them.
On 23rd September, on the same ship, a boy was attacked with enteric
or typhoid fever, for which no cause could be assigned. He was treated in
the ship's boat-house on shore.