Booklet, Instructions to Surgeons Superintendents of New Zealand Government Emigrant Ships

Maker
New Zealand Government
Production date
1877

Object detail

Brief Description
Booklet, Instructions to Surgeons Superintendents of New Zealand Government Emigrant Ships.

Contents include: Joining the Ship; Embarkment; the Voyage; Arrival; Remuneration and Gratuities; list of instruments; ist of medicines; ooking apparatus and miscellaneous articles for each ship; infant diet; hints on the dietary; preservation of order and cleanliness; Regulations to be observed on board Emigrant ships of the Government of New Zealand; information respecting the use of disinfectants by Dr Angus Smith and Mr Crookes; Messrs Winchester and Graveley's water distilling apparatus; test of the purity of water; extract of report by Mr Arthur Goullet, on the appearance of smallpox; Dr Henry Silvester's method of inducing respiration in suspended animation; instructions to schoolmasters of emigrant ships of the Government of New Zealand; instructions to matrons of emigrant ships of the Government of N.Z. (including single women); instruction to bakers; instructions to Captains of emigrant ships; suggestions to Masters of Emigrant ships respecting boats, and fire at sea; specimens of forms.
Production date
1877
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Soft grey cover; bound with string; printed with black ink on paper.
Measurements
Height x Width: 245 x 155mm
Signature/Inscription
F Fox 1.7.1878, Inscription, Handwritten
Subject date
1877
Other number(s)
42115

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