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TuE pEsrmENcr ~ CANApA.-Dr
Douglass, health officer below Quebec.
wrote to Mr.. Buchanan, for the information
of the Mayor, dated Crosse Isle, Junc g.
as follows:


"liut out Of the 1000 or 900 that left
since Sunday at leas, two thousand will
fall sick somewhere before three weeks
are over They ought to have accommo.
dalion for 1000 sick, at least, in Montreal
and Qnrbcc. as all the Cork and Liverpool
passengers, ATE half dead from starvation
and want before embarhing, and the least
bowel complaint, which Is sure TO come
with change OF food, finishing them with,
out struggle. never saw people 50 in
different 10 life. They would continue in
The same berth with dead person until
the soamcn or captain dragged out the
corpse with boat hooks.


Good Cod what csi will brllll The CITY
wherever they alighi Hot weather will
incrasc the evil.


The Montreal Herald of the 18th inst, ,
rcmarksi


"Mr. Douglass apprehcnsions arc al.
ready fulfilled here. Our Marine hospital
is filling up fasi-23G patients in il this
morning, and there is only room Tor 800.
Sheds are being erected on the vacant
ground adjoining that building. Several
deaths have occurred in the hospital"


The n. Y. Commercial OF the 18th SAYS:


ave learn from gentleman who arriy.
ed from Quebec this morning, that nj
Crosse Isle on Saturday, tho 5lh inst.
there were sixty funerals, and on Monday,
the 7lh, one hundred and sixty. There
were about fifteen thousand immigrants on
board vessels at anchor, fifteen hundred of
whom were sick, and there were eleven
hundred sick on the island In Montreal
and Quebec, advertisements were posted
upon the walls lor seycrty nurses."