That your committee desire to call at tention to the evidence given by Captain Peek, in which he mentioned the difti culty he experienced in keeping up disci pline among his passengers, in consequence of some being shipped as Government emigrants, under the Agent-General's regulations, and some being shipped by Messrs Brogden, they objecting to be sub ject to the Government rules, and generally making themselves highly dis agreeable. Captain Peek suggests that all passengers on board the same ship should be shipped under one and the same contract.
That your Commissioners have great pleasure in expressing their opinion that the exemption from infectious disease on board the ship Bebington is due to the tact and patience, combined with firmness, displayed by Captain Peek and Surgeon James in carrying out under exceptional difficulties the sanitary measures and general discipline so necessary amongst a class of persons to whom the confinement of a long sea passage, and the enforcement of punctual and regular habits, so neces sary to be maintained on an emigrant ship, and naturally unusually irksome. (Signed) M. S. Grace, Chairman. Alex. Johnston, M.D.
C. E. Haughion

The schedule referred to in the above states that ten children died of diarrhoea alone, or coupled with bronchitis, and that the deaths of the remainder were caused by bronchitis.
CUSTOMS STATISTICS.
