[Dr. Baxter's notes cont.]

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

Bark Lilly, 499 tons. Entered July 11th, 1899, Captain Olsen, Para, Brazil, ballast. G.J.Vaughan.

I can find no mention anywhere of what the disease was for which she was quarantined. The sailor hailed 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 was born at Penarth, Wales. England [sic]. 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 year and three months after. We never had a better nurse nor a more honest man about the place. He used to hear from his mother frequently, and, judging from her letters, she was a well-educated woman. His father I think, was dead. He attended the English Church regularly, and sang in the choir. We have nothing but good to say for him. He seemed an exemplary young man. He had ship fever and malaria, and was crippled from lying in a short bunk on board Lilly." -- Chatham, Jan. 26th, 1909

Mother Kane says that Dr. McDonald pronounced the disease ship fever, and that is all the evidence I can find here to tell what it was.--J. Baxter, Quarantine Physician.