SHIP FKVER IN 1847. 15 



I certify that the iibove is a correct extra(;t from the Register of 

 Burials in the Parish of S. Paul's, Chatham, N. B., in the year of 

 Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. 



D. Forsyth, Rector of S. Paul's, 

 Chatham, N. B. 

 St. P ul s Rectory, Chatliam. N. B., Nov. 12th, 1908. 



On searching through the books of entries in the customs I find 



the following : 



Bark Lilly, 499 tons. 



Entered July 11th, 1899, Capt. Olsen, Para, Brazil, ballast. G. J. 

 Vaughan. 



I c^n find no mention anywhere of what the disease was for which 

 she was quarantined. The sailor hailt^d from Drammen, Norway. 



I applied to Mother Kane, at the Hotel Dieu, in reference to the 

 seaman spoken of as having gone there after leaving the Marine 

 Hospital, and the following is what she gave me : 



"His name was Wm. Dean, and he w^as born at Penarth, Wales, 

 England. His father's name was Frederic Dean. His mother's 

 name was Elizabeth Dean. 



"He entered the hospital here Oct. 4th, 1899, and left Jan. 26th, 

 1900, but worked for us under wages for one yeur and thi-ee 

 months after. We never had a better nurse nor a more honest 

 man about the place. He used to hear from his mother frequent- 

 ly, and, judging from her letters, she was a well-educated woman. 

 His father, 1 think, was dead. He artended the English Church 

 reguhirly, and sang in the choir. We have nothing but good to 

 say for him. Hd seemed an exemplary young man. He had ship 

 fever and malaria, and was crippled from lying in a short bunk 

 on board the Lilly." 



Chatham, January 26th, 1909. 



Mother Kane says that Dr. McDonald pronounced the disease 

 ship fever, and tliat is all the evidence I can find here to tell what 

 it was. 



J. Baxter, Quarantine Physician. 



