THE SHIP MATAURA IN QUARANTINE.
The ship Mataura, from Glasgow, has bsen towed up as far as the quarantine station, contiguous to Acheron Head, and has in the meantime been anchored there. On arrival, Mr Monson hailed the vessel from the Customs boat, and was informed by the captain that she had sailed from the Clyde on Hie 6th of June. She had 360 souls onboard, consistuig oi 315 passeDgers, 29 mariners, and 9 officers •Sen deaths occurred during the passage, and six persons are now ill on hoard-hut from non-infectious diseases. There were five births during the pa«sa°-e The infectious diseases which prevailed on board were small-pox and scarlet; fever. ' Scarlet f:ver broke out in June and latter end of August, and manifested itselt in eleven cases, four passengers dying of it Small-pox manifested itself in thirteen persons and one, a sailor, died. The lasb appearance of small-pox was on the 3rd September. Scarletfever disappeared on the 20fch of August,; dysmtery, S'll PreVai'^' di 3a PPea«4 on 20th August Janet Henderson 11 months. • Christina Stewart, 3 years. E. Matheson, 22 ypar.«. James Harvey, 20 years. Frederick M-Milton, seaman, 28 years wm. Brown, 8 months. Jane Cadizon, 14 months, Thomas Omand, 22 years. Wm. Wright, 6 months. James Patou, 5 weeks.
John MlMahon, 2 years. Mr Gorn is the pilot "in charge. The members of the Board of Health have been communicated with as to the steps to he taken.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 545, 16 September 1863, Page 4
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