Report of the Select Committee of the Senate of the United States on the sickness and mortality on board emigrant ships, August 2, 1854.

Description

Corporate Author: United States. Congress.
Related Names: Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893
Language(s): English
Published: Washington : B. Tucker, Senate printer, 1854.
Subjects: Communicable diseases
Ships > Ships / Sanitation
Public Health
Ships
Emigration and Immigration
United States > United States / Emigration and immigration
Summary: Focuses on the diseases often found on emigrant ships (typhus, cholera, small pox), the extent and mortality, and means of prevention.
Note: Hamilton Fish, chairman.
Physical Description: 147 p. ; 24 cm.
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