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REPORT

TO THE

CITIZENS OF MONTREAL,

or TBG

Committee appointed at the Public Meeting of the I3th instant, under the
Resolutions then adopted, calling for tKe Establishment of an

IMMIGRANT STATION

Belotx) tl)e Citg of lUonlreal.

The undersigned, appointed a Committee to
carry into eft'ect certain resolutions relative to
the location of a permanent Immigrant Sta-
tion below the city of Montreal, which were
adopted at a public meeting of 'he citiz-^ns

The Com nittee, on the day following the
public meeting, (the 14th instant) solicited
and obtained from His Excellency the Gov-
ernor General, an audience, at which they
handed to him a Memorial, founded on the

Montreal, held on Tuesday, the 13th instant, resolutions ado i ted at the publio meeting,
at the B nsecours Market Hall, conceivejwhich His Excellency graciously promised
ittheir duty to explain to their fellow citizenslto take into his cerious considerauon. His
the steps which they have adopted in pursu- Excellency expressed his derp sympathy

ance of the charge i .posed on them.

It will be fresh in the memory of every
one, that the m eting ab ve referred to was
convened by his Worship the Mayor, in

with ihecitizensof Mont eal, and his anxious
desire to ado|.t every remedial miasuie in
is power, n< t only to ward oflf the danger to
which they were subjected, but to allay the

order that a decidt l expression of opinion apprehensions under which they laboured.

might tw obtained irom the . itizens of Mon
treal, as to the expediency of the erection of
additional Irnmigrai t Sheds, above the < ity,
in direct oppof<ition to the wishes of the citi-
zens, as < xpressed at a previous public meet-
ing, held on Saturday, the 10th i slant.

Atths second lub'ic mteting, which was
att nded by about three thousand persons, in-
cluding individual of the highest respecta-
bility, of ail origins, and of every |olitical
cpini n— as well as at the former meeting-
there was a perfect unanimity of agreement,
that the location of the Immigrant Sheds,
close to and above the city was fraught with
danger to the inhabitants, and that it therefore
became necessary, to urge in the strongest
manner on the proper authorities, the neces-
sity of permanently establishing an Immi-
grant Station, at some cite below and at a
safe distance from the city, where the danger
luigiil be effectuaiiy guarded agaisist. The
grounds on which this conclusion was ar-
rived at, are so fully stated in the resolutions
adopted, which have been published in
all the newspapers of the city, that it is
anneoessary in tnis document to recapitulate
them.

He a terwards granted a private audience to
some of the members of the Committee, when
they were enabled clearly and distinctly to
expla n their v ews and those of the citizens
of Montreal, on this important subject. His
Excellency also promised an early reply to
the Memorial.

As t'leat weight was understood to be at-
tached by the Government to the recommen-
dation of the five Medical membera of the
Joint Immigrant Commission, which bad
been given in favour of the cons ruction of
additional sheds above the city,8 > 1 to their as-
surance that the^e was no ground for the ap-
prehensions of the citizens, the Committee,
with a view to ascertain how far these appre-
hensions were founded in fact, consuhed such
members of the faculty, not being members
of the Joint Emiiirattt Commission, as it was
in their power to see during the short time

The gentlemen so applif d to, almost withoot
excepli(>ii, expressed their entire concurrence
of opinion with the Committee ; and to the
number of nineteen, signed certificates
strongly recommendine the change prayed
for by the Memorial of the citizens.

The Joint Iininigrani Conunisisioii liavingloollencv for the remhvfll nf ih^ r«««.-
. eover asaerted that the removal ot i^^x^Z^JllTJ^T^Vi^l ^

ffi^ eover asserted "that the removal of the
. Tmrniffrant Station below Montreal would be

CCj^jf^ ^^^ sellirth in the extreme," inasmuch
aaft would deprive the unfortunate Immi-

S rants— whose condition none more deeply
epioro than the Committee -of the valuable
services of those .VJinisters of their respective
churches, and of those religims ladies, who
have so heroically endancfered, and too many
of whom have sacrificed, their lives in the
noble office of administering^ both spiritual and
temporal aid to the sufferers; the Commit-
tee applied to the proper sources, and at once
received from the Clergy of every denomin-
ation an assurance of what indeed they never
iloubted,— that those faithfnl and devoted fol-
lowers of « Him who went about doing
»ood," so far from shrinking from the per-
formance of their sacred duty in consequence

Station to some place below Montreal. "Mr.
Moffatt, m strona; terms, urged, tn the pres-
ence of several of the members of the Com-
rmttee, upon the Hon. Messrs. Cayley and
Sherwood, mdividually, the prayer of t&e
Memorial, and expressed his entire disap-
probation of the localities which had been
selected for the new sheds. At the desire,
however, of the Honorable Mr. Sher-
wood, he engaged to defer his motion
nil the return of the Honorable Mr. Camer-
on from Grosse Isle; immediately afte^
which time the Committee w^-re also promised
by Mr. Sherwootl that they should receive a
(telinitive answer to their prayer. The Com-
mittee, m the course of their interviews, ex-
hibited to Mr. MofEitt and Mr. Sherwood the
certificates of the medical practitioners and
ot the clergy, already adverted to, and which

:;fa77;uch=p^^^^

praved for, woukf continue to perform them Or/hriXSnt .h« rH r P""*r u
Witt the same alacrity which^thev have Court of Quar^rSesSo^

fn'fc^l^f "^r"X,'"*"'^''''«^' an/would, ment, whTrdiT hey set fo^^^^^

in fact, prefer, for this purpose, the proposed quiescence in the views of XMSJIn e

Committee received, through His Worship
the Mayor, the letter from the Secretary of
the Province, which, hy order of the Com-
mittee, has been published in the newspa-
Ers, conveying the information that a Mem-
r of tho Government had been despatched
to Grosse Isle for the purpose of causing the
adoption of more stringent measures of pre-
caution at that station, but communicating
no light as to the intentions of the Govarn-
ment on the other most important matters
alluded to in the Memorial. Those matters,
as that letter stated, were under the consider
ation of the Council ; and the result of their
deliberations, it promised, should be com-
municated at the earliest possible moment.

The Committee, deeming the prayer of the
Memorial of a pressing character, and thai
every moment lost added to the public danger,
and aware, moreover, that whilst the Govern,
ment remained in a state of apparent inac-
tion, the sheds, of which the citizena so
loudly and energetically complained, were in
process of erection under the ordera of the
Jomt Immigrant Commission, — determined,
upon the receipt of this letter, to take imme-
diate steps to have the whole matter brought
before the Legislature of the Province, now in
Session. They, accordingly, on the same
evening, waited on the Han. G. Moffatt. one
ui iiio Representatives of the city, who' had
previously stated his entire agreement with
the views of the citizens, and who con
sented to bring forward in the House of As

SAfnnlv. a mntinn fnr nn A.l.l.^~- .. ti!. t:i

«mb.„ a ™&„ for.a Ai7,rHus:i;is:ihra;"jr%tei«i^T.t^^

.s~s«« .w ic^uiiiiiiciiu u sironer-

ly to the favourable notice of the Executive.
On the 19th instant, the Common Council,
at a special meeting, adopted, with two
dissentient voices only, a petition to the three
branches of the Legislature, embodying the
suggestions contained in the resolutions of the
Public Meeting of the 13th.

On the sane evening, Mr. Moffatt made
nis promised motion for an address to His Ex-
cellency for the removal of the Immigrant
5»hed8 to some place below the city ; but
after certain explanations from the Provincial
Ministry, expressed his desire to withdraw
It. This, however, the House of Assembly
would not permit ; and on a division ensuiiiff,
that Honourable House, by a majority of 25 to
18, adopted the Address.

To the Memorial which the Committee
had the honour to present to His Excellency,
and to their repeated verbal communications
with various Members of the Assembly, no
(tehnitive reply has been vouchsafed. This,
perhaps, is not to be wondered at, since the
Address of the Representatives of the people
has remained till this day unanswered, and is
thiP day answered, contrary to all precedent,
as the Committee understand, in the ne.'a-
Uve. Under these circumstances, the one
duty remaining for the Committee has be-

COmn that nf rannt4inr» tn.tU^:^ c^i\ --.-

- - ---J ---5 -.--» tiiczi :~!;uiv~i:iliZGnS

the measures they have taken, in the hope
that they may at least be absolved from all
charge of having neglected the important in-
lerests confided to them. They tleeply de-

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Immigrant
itreal. Mr.
tn the pres-
f the Com-
Cayley and
lyer of the
ntire disap-
h had been
t the desire,
Mr. Sher-
his motion
Vf r. Camer-
ately after
BO protniaed
d receive a

TheCom-
rviews, ex-
erwood the
ioners and
and which
! prints,
fury of the
ir Present-
entire ac~
citizens of
'ing it, ex-
I represent
I it slrong-
Bxecutive.
n Council,
with two
> the three
•dying the
ions of the

Bbtt made
o His Ex-
m migrant
city; but
Provincial
wiilidraw
Assembly
ensuing,
y of 25 to

omraittee
cellenoy,
liiications
mbly, no
!• This,
ilnce the
le people
d, and is
recedent,
he neita-
the one

has be-
-ehizBXlS
he hope

from all
rtant in-
eply de-
ouse the '

}

Crovernmeiit to a proper sense of what they
consider to have been its duty in this mat

ter; and they must throw on that Govern

ment, however reluctantly, the entire respon-
sibility of having jeopardized the health and
lives of the inhabitants of this populous city,
to sustain certain pre-conceived views of a
few gentlemen, who seem to have made it a
point of honor to stand out against, and if pos-
sible defeat, those of the community, at
whatever hazard or sacrifice.

With this simple statement of facts, the
Committee might perhaps terminate their la-
bours ; but a sense of what is due to them-
selves, and to the numerous and highly re-
spectable body whom they on this occcasion
represent, compels them to place before the
public eye a brief statement of the actual con-
dition of the public health within the city,
and of the utter inefficiency of the measuroH
which the public authorities have adopted,
or are understood to be about to adopt, on the
occasion.

Official Returns show the mortality in the
eity, for ihe last six weeks to have been as
follows : —

Residents. Immig.

in town.

Week ending

19th June.. 46.

86ih " ..47.

3rd July.... 53.

10th " ....133..

17th

34th

Immig.
ID aheda.

Total

increase. The totals for the six weeks raniw,
151, 218, 273, 285, 240, 282 : a result in
which (more especially coupled as it is with
the fact of this increased and increasing rate
of Immigrant mortality in town) the Commit-
tee find no matter of congratulation.

Another and even more alarming consi-
deration is the contrast exhibited in respect
of the mortality among the Resident Popula-
tion of the City. Till the last three weeks, it
was rather below that of last year ; but for
these last three weeks it has augmented
three-fold. With the intercourse between the
resident and immigrant populations kept up,
as it is, by the refusal to remove the Immi-
grant Station, and with a consequently in-
creasing amount of Immigrant sickness and
death within the city, how soon is it presum-
able that it will diminish ?

31.
45.
48.
35..

•• ....163 76.

•' ....155 80.

120.
173.,
995..
250..
164..
809..

. 197

, 265

, 326

418

403

437

TotalB...597 315 1134 8046

For the corresponding weeks of last year,
they show the following result : —

Reaidenta. Immig. Total.

Week ending 90th June.. 53 1 54

•• 27th " .. 69 69

" 4ih July.. 51 3 54

11th •* .. 41. ^ 3 44

18th " .. 44 44

" 95th " .. 60 60

The Committee have felt it their duty to
examine the Returns carefully, to ascertain
the number of deaths by /every among the
resident population of the City during the
above six weeks ; and they find them to
stand thus : —

Week ending 19th June, 1847 3

" 86th " 4

3rd July, 1847 18

—19
" 10th ••
•• 17th "
" 94th

,55
58
73
—185

Totals 318 7 325

Upon these figures, independently of the
almost steady increase of the total numl^rts
of this year, and the appalling contrast which
they present to the total numbers of last year,
the Committee must make two remarks.

In the first place, they show no such en-
couraging falling off in the mortality among

deaths at the Sheds have led many to sup-
pose has lately takfln place. At the Sheds,
mdeed, for the last ' ^ight, they show some,
though by no meai,, -eat, reduction. But
m Town — and it is in n where such mor-
tality is most dangerous to the citizens— ttxc*re
h«c been a corresponding and almost equal

304

Week ending 90th June, 1846 9

" a7th •• 9

4th July, 1846 15

,,33

'• 11th " 5

" 18ih " 5

•• 95th " 5

—15

So that, while for the first three weeks the
contrast is again strikingly favorable to th*
present year, as regards the prevalence of
fever, the last thtee weeks show it (as com-
pared with the corresponding three weeks of
last year) to have actually increased twdvt'
fotdf and to be still, to all seeming, on the
increase.

That the Committee draw no unfair inftt-
ence in thus comparing the last six weeks
with the corresponding period of last year, is
easily shown.

For the months of January, February,
^Jaroh and April, the contrast of the two

years is the following : —

1847.

1846.

^ ' - ■' ""\ /' -
Total, Oi Fever. Total.

January 191 18 271.

February. ...104 9 2(»3..

Muroh 143 10 180..

April 109 9 154..

^ «,

or Fever.

Totala 476 53 808 158

Fiom the Ist of May to the commence^
ment of the six weeksin qiiesfion, a pe;fcct!y
exact comparative statement cannot be made ;
because the number of interments at the
Sheds this year (probably fsmalj) during this
period is not given in the Returnu ; but with
tliis defect, the compatison stands thus : —

1847. 1846.

Total. Of Fever.
May and to
I9ihorl3ih
of June,—

Reaiiienu 198 14

liuinigraiitfl 10 (or more 7)...,

Total. Of Fever

.256.
. 1.

It is thus apparent, that for the whole of
this year, till the crowding in of the Immi
grants upon the city, the mortality of the Re
sident Population was greatly below that of
last year ; and that fever, in particular, was

decidedly the reverse of prevalent. The ,»„„.., „.„.o « cicar.^, u me siaiemenis oi
deaths from fever iri five months and a half the New York Report are noi most untrue.

three per cent.f that is to sajr, one in thirty-
three ; that in the unhealthiest parts of Lon-
don, on an average of many years, it is less
than one in twenty-five ; that in the whole
of London it is not one in thirly.five ; that
in Glasgow it is little more than one in thirty-
nine, in Berlin hardly more than one in thir-
ty-seven, and in some European Cities oT
considerable size, Geneva for example, les*
than one in forty-six.

Much stress has been laid by parties op-
posed to the views of the citizens of Montreal,
upon a Report lately made by certain medical
r^entlemen of the New York Academy of Medi-
cine, which has been said to demonstrate, sa-
tisfactorily, the groundlessness of all alarm as
t.i the spread of the fever introduced by the
Immigrants. Whatever may be the merits of
this Report for the localit> for which it was
written,— and it was eviJently written to al-
lay a strong feeling on this subject, existing at
the time among the citizens of New York, —
the Committee cannot regard it as in any way
applicable to the circumstances of this city.
No precise statemenr is made in it of the ex-
tent of the mortality among the Immigrants
arriving at New York ; but it is sufficiently
apparent that it has been materially less than
in Canada. And, as regards the mortality
and spread of fever among the resident popu-
lation, there is clearly, if tlie statements of

had not been one-third as many as during the
same five months and a half of the year be-
fore. What proportion they bear now, the
current returns establish but too sadly. Of
the cause of the change, fraught as it is wi.h
disaster to the City, there can be but one
opinion

no semblance of analogy between the two
cases. It is emphatically stated that in New
York no person living near any of the Hospitals
has been attacked ; that none have suffered
bnt those constantly in attendance on the sick ;
that the fever is confined almost entirely to the
Hospitals ; and that the cases occurring out

Assummg the Resident Population of the of Hospital are so few as to afford no ground
City to be, in round numbers, 50,000,— ami whatever for apprehension. No one pretends
It must be tolerably apparent that it does not to say that such is the case here. On the
at the present moment reach that figure, from contrary, persons have been found bold enough
the unusual numbers who have left town,— to argue, that the measure of precaution de-
the mortality above exhibited (leaving, it manded by the Citizens has become useless,
will be remembered, wholly out of view that 6«:ausc, as is asserted on the alleged authority
of the Immigrant portion of the community) of certain of the Medical Immigrant Com-
has been for the last six weeks at the rate of missioners, there is no street in the city that
About ten and one-third per cent, per annum, has not its five cases of fever already.
or more than one in ten of the whole popiila- Those, however, who quote this Report
*i?° ' i°Ji *^® !f*^ '*''®® weeks, it has been with such approval, might profit from one
about //ifcen and aAaZ/, and for the last fort- sentence of it which informs the shizens of
mght nearly sixteen and a half per cent., or New York, that slight as is the danger with
nearly one in six of the population. which it states hem to be threatened, « ara-

To show the frightful significance of these pie provision has now Ijeen made by the
figures, it is enough to ^ay that for ttie cor- Commissioners of Emigration, to provide for
responding six weeks of last year, the rate the accommodation of stck emisrants bevond
O'Aen a very high rate) was but about ^rearuTt he city precincts." The city precincts of
oAa(/'pcr c«nt. per annum, or not quite one in New York extend some miles beyond the
eighteen; that for the year 1846, it was limits covered by its population. The Com-
Marcelyover/oMrpcrceni., or one in twenty missioners of that city, small as the evil i«
fire i that for the five months and more pre- there in comparison, have not dared venture
TiouB to the last lix weeks it was only about there up<J« the experiment of death, which,

in thirty-
rta of Lon-
I, It ia less
the whole
five ; thi»t
i in Ihirty-
ne in thir-
Citie« oT
mple, less

larties op-
Muntreal)
in medical
yofMedi-
strate, sa-
1 alarm as
;ed by the
B merits of
ich it was
iten to al-
sxistiticr at
V York,—
1 any way
this city,
of the ex-
nmi^rants
ufficieiitly
f less than
mortality
lent popu-
ements of
it untrue,
1 the two
u in New
Hospitals
9 suffered
I the sick;
rely to the
urring out
w ground
I pretends
. On the
Id enough
union de-
a useless,
authority
int Com-
city that

s Report
from one
itizens of

fer with
, " ara-
B by the
rovide for
8 beyond
suincts of
yond the
'he Com-
le evil is
1 venture
if whichy

m defiance of all remonstrance, the Com- in ordinary cases, to repose conHdenoe in those
missioners for this city (its Mayor among the to whom it may have assigned a public duty;
number) have exertud all their energies to but (here are exceptions lo this rule. The
induce the Government to hazard here. jpreseht instmce forms such an exception.

The Committee are well aware that theirJAdmitting, as this Committee unhesitatingly
interference- in this matter has not been fav- does, the high respectability of the medical
ourably regarded by the authorities upon branch of the Joint Immigrant Commission, it
whom it has been directed; and hud that in- still cannot be contended that they comprise

terference been merely the spontaneous act
of the indiv duals composing the Committee,
they would not be surprised at, however they
might regret, the levity with which their re

all the medical talent of the city ; and when
other members of the profession, not inferior
to I hem in standing, and far beyond them in
number, in terms disclaim ttie medical

mously at two largo and influential meetings ;'l ves and property it is the guardian, to ex-
fortified as their statements are, by the ap-jamine fully into the validity of the reasons
proval of a far larger number of the medical assigned on both sides of so a momentous a
gentlemen whose opinions carry weight with question.

the community, than are oppo«ed to them ;l The Committee are not disposed to enter
backed as their prayer is, by the Clergy ofat any length into the subtle questions raised
every denomination of Christians, by the re-'by the medical members of the Joint Immi-
corded declarations of the Grand Jury andWant Commission, or to pronounce, as they
Court of Quarter Sessions for the Di8trict,'have doae ex cathedra, as t . tha distance
by the almost unanimous vote of the Com-jthrough which « ontagion may be conveyed so
moil Council of the city, and by that of a as lo c rry dis ase to a healthy subject. The
majority of the represntatives of the people jtoa they have propounded have been so

and fearfully corroborated a- their apprehen-
sions have been, by the daily record of mor
tality which the official reports for the Immi-
grant Sheds exhibit, and by the weekly re

turns from the Police oflice, of interments
within the city ; they cannot but conceive
that representations so urged were entitled to
the greatest and most favourable considera*
tion at the hands of the Executive, and that
the apprehensi ns upon which they proct:'ed-
ed, — even if they had been as groundless in
fact as they manifestly are but too well
founded, — should have been met by the
a<]option of the one measure called for to al-
lay them.

The Committee are most reluctant to cast any
censure on the constituted authorities ; they
solcmlv disclaim all party bias on ?his occa-
sion ; they acknowledge the difficulty of allay-
ing the fearful evil with which the immigrant
and resident populations are visited ; and they
are fully alive to the duty of aidins the Gov-
ernment in all measures calculated to answer
that purpose. But the same sense of duty to
themselves, their families and the country,
which would prompt them to support the mea-
sures of the Government, wh- n right, impels
them to point out the serious and almost irre-
parable evils to be apprehended from the
course which it has- in this instance la
It has bl.iidly followed the advice, and adopt
•d the theories of the Joint Immigrant Com-
mission. But in so doing, it is practising a
fearful experiment on the public health and
welfare.

clearly and ably controverted as to make
furthiT comment upon them unnecessary.
The citizens of Montreal have, besides, an
evidence of their senses in this matter, which
sets at naught all sophistry. The Medical
Commissioners may deny as stoutly as they
pi' ase the possibility of contagion being com-
niunicated from the Immigrant Sheds to the
city. It signifies little whether their denial
of the contagion passing through the atmos-
phere be foundf i'l truth or not. The tact is
indisputable, thuc : . has been communicated,
and still is daily communicated from the Im-
migrant to the resident population ; that our
citizens are daily falling victims to its ra-
vages ; and that, however communicated,
it is utterly imposssible to establish & cor-
don sanitaire sufficiently rigid to prevent its
transmission.

If the cnmposhion of the medical part of
the Joint Immigrant Commission be not such
as to entitle its theories to implicit confi-
dence from the Government, the Committee
need hardly ask on what errounds the non-
medical part can claim such confidence. Of
the five gentleinen who compose that branch
of the Commission, one is understood not to
have acted ; another was not in a state of
health to act, until sometime after the Com-

it has- I" thia iiiHtanoa laton loiiaei nr> UoA A^^iA^A .,~.~^ .U- * u • i

it has since clung with such pertinacity ; a
third, not many hours before he was named a
m<jiuber of the Commission, was so zealous
an advocate of the measure which he now

,-. , ,, , . ^ joins in oppo8ing,astohave been himself the

It IS doubtless proper for the GoTerament,jdrafter of a strong Memorial tothe ExeoatitQ

in Its favour ; and a fourth is a genlloman
immed upon the Commission originally, ai>
the first Magistrate of the city, and tiiat he
might there watch over its interests and re-

culty of procuriiiff for the sick at such isolat.
ed position, mecfical assistance, nurses and
other appliances necessary in their unfortu-
nate condition. For what reason it should

Pje^nt its views, who ha^-sii;;;' t^ico;.:!;: anvSr^o m^JlC^uy t an
sided at public meotn.«s of the citizens wfiere I«lan J a little way below the Citv than on
those views have been emphaticallvexDmH«.th« h«nk, nf .»,. VT„i^."'! ..1' "*■*".?"

those Views have been emphatically express-
ed, whose signature, as Mayor of the city, has
certihed to His Excellency and the Lejrisla
ture that the citizens in public meeting as-
sembled and the Common Council of the city
pointedly condemn the course which he has
urged as a Commissioner, and who has yet
persisted in making every possible e (fort to

cause the w. hes of the city (which by every
rule of usage and right ought to have been
ni8 own also) to be treated with contempt.
. The Committee disclaim all idea of creat
ing any unnecessary alarm in the city. The
staustics of public health above recited, must
suffice to relieve them from all such impu-
tation. Pending their efforts to urge the
views ot the citizens upon the authorities,
tney have most sedulously abstained from all
agitation of the public mind : and they now
submit their present statement only to acquit
themselves of a painful duty, by a last effort to
make the true state of the case fairly and
fully known. The measure which they
have hitherto urged, they honestly believe to
be imperatively called for, in order to stay
the progrsBs of the impending evil. It may
oe almost too late. But, propagated as the
disease is and must be by all communication
icept up between the sick Immigrants, and
tlie he ilthy resident population, it must be
obvious that no measures can be adequate to
the emergency, which do not to the utmost
possible extent cut off that communication,
and effectually isolate the masses of sick
Immigrants who crowd the country, (wher-
ever they are found— and one of those places
mwtdwaysbe in the neighbourhood of this
city) from the population around them.

What are the reasons assigned or assigna-
ble against the provision of such a station for
immigrants below Montreal as alone can
secure this necessary isolation ?

Firet, it is said, the expense. Why a sta-
tion below the city and away from it, should
cost more than one above and close to it, the

)ut, for argu-

the banks of the Canal close above it, the
Committee cannot imagine. No such diffi-
culty is ever complained of, as a reason
against the est I blishment of the Quarantine
at a far greater distance below Quebec. And
surely, the surveUlance over an estiblishment
so situated, would be far more advantageoua-
\y confided to a medical staff to be appointed
for the express purpose, and held responsible
for the performance of their duties, than to a
number of medical men actively engaged in
practice within the City, and whose visits to
the Sheds can only be made at such intervals
as they can snatch from their more important
and more profitable avocations. As to the
nurses and other attendants, there can be no
doubt whatever, that their efficiency would
be greatly increased by placing them in a
position where they would find it difficult or
impossible to procure those stimulants which
in Ihe present Immigrant Sheds it is found
■mpossible to keep from them.

And thirdhr, it has been said that there
would be difficulty in procuring for the Immi-
grants religious aid and consolation. To thin
objection, the Clergy have made the best and
only answer, by distinctly contradicting it.

In a word, every one of these objections at-
taches as strongly, nay, more so, to the Quar-
antine below Quebec. Yet no one gives them
such an application. That Quarantine, in-
ethciently as it has been maintained this
year from the necessity of the case, has pre-
served Quebec from the evils now threateninir
such injury to Montreal. The Government
has wisely done all it could to prevent the
landing of the Immigrants at Quebec ; but its
Agents have unwisely and obstinately per-
sisted m landing them all close to Montreal,
in converting a part of one of its Suburbs into
a second Grosse Isle, and in covering the
city through its whole length and breadth
with the fever, against which it should have
been their duty, most carefully, to guard it.—
What is rightly done for Quebec, requires, for
precisely the same reasons, to be also done for
Montreal. And whatever may be the obsti-

Conunittee cannot perceive. Bi

m -nt's sake, admitting the expanse to'bel'""""T' : '^"'i wnaiever may be the obsti-

far greater than the largest estitSlte whirfK*°^ °^*^°-*® '''?°^?V''/Pr®*®"^

has%een made of it, thiy still c^nnotlllowt,^^ ^I ^""mph "^ defeating the reasonable

it to be a sufficient consideration tXptacedr",'*"**" 'i' th'sbehalf of the citizens of Mon-

in the balance ""sins* the liv ' ''• - ^:-* ! ' — "^"^ whatever for the present ma" hft

zens: nor can tl^v hftliova »K«T t^^^ri;!..™''^® results of that triumph,— the Committee

zens; nor can they believe that the Govern
mem, whatever stress they mey have laid on
this topic, can have seriously intended to set
off toe one against the other.

Secondly, it has been argued,— the diffi-

cannot entertain a doubt but that, after (if not
before) a full experience of them, the views
whicsh the citizens of Montreal have express-
ed so strongly on this occasion, will be uni-
versally acknowledged to have been right.

in-

•nd will receive the lardy ju»ttoo of being ut
]a*t acted up to.

JOHN FISHER, rhairinan.
JAMESIFEUKIKK.
JOHN YOIIN(i.
PIERRE DEAUBIEN, M. D.
I* T. DRUMMOND, M. I». 1'.
ARCHD. HALL. M. D.
A. LAFRAMB0I8E.
A. GUGY.

J. BETHUNE. D. D.
WM. WORKMAN.
OHRISni. DUNKIN.
J. G. BIBAUD, M. D.
WM. BRISTOW.
R. U. INNES.
JOHN SINCLAIR.
JOHN OSTELL.
JEAN LOUIS BEAUDRY.
J. EMERY CODERRE.
BENJ. HOLMES.
II. MULHOLLLAND.
JOSEPH ERASER.
F. GLACKMEYER.
J. BOULANGET.
Montreal, 26th July, 1817.

spread of tho disease into the city, thin
meeting, composed chiefly of individuals con-
nected with the Montreal Board of Health
and Emigrant Committee, after a personal
jinspection of Bouchorville Island, recom-
mend thut the sume bo selected as a site for
Kmigrant Sheds, Hospitals, &,c. &o., for tho
Port of Montreal, if a better cannot be
found ; and appoint Mr. Wm. Workman,
Dr. Hall and Mr. John Dougall, a Com-
mittee to draw up an Address to the pro-
per authorities, setting forth the reasons for
this recommendation.

APPENDIX.

(From the Montreal Herald of the MJidy.)

Retolntioni adopted at the PuUio Meeting
held oti Saturday, the lOth instant, in the
Bontecours Market Hall; His Worsh^
the Mayor in tht> Chair; W. Bristow,
Esq., Secretary.

1. — Moved by Benjamin Holmes, Esq., se-
conded by the Rev. Mr. Wilkes, and
carried unanimously :

That in the opinion of this meeting, Uie
health of the inliabitants of this ))opulous
city is most seriously endangered by the
vast influx of immigrants recently arrived
in a state of destitution, and suffering'from
maligaant fevers ; that from tho continued

-'••""'"••'•«;/•/ maiiguani lovers; tnat rrom tho continued

Emigration — On Tuesday last, tho 6th^"^"^ o^ those immigrants, the danger to
inst., the following gentlemen visited the[th<' city is hourly increasing, and that it
Island of Boucherville, with the,*object of ^*^o*"®* o^ vital importance that measures
judging of its capabilities as a sort of qua- o/ * ™ore eflicient character than those hi-
rantine depot for the sick and indigent emi

grants daily arriving at c^ i)ort. The
Hon A. Ferrie, President Ltifgrant Com-
mittee ; the Hon James Ferrier, Hon. Col.
Bruce, as a guest and a visitor ; George
Molson, John Molson, J. R. Qrr, Wm.
Workman, John Redpath, M. Valois, J.
Court, W. D. Gibb, Benjamin Brewster,
Charles Lindsay, J. Dougall, Benj. Lyman,
C. H. Castle, G. H. Frothingham, Esqrs. ;
Drs. Beaubien and Hall ; Col. Gugy,

On their return to the city, on board the
steamer, the Hon J. Ferrier was called to
the chair, and a very interestmg discussion
took place on the subject of the mission to

Knii/>li<Mnri1I<t T»1«»J _I.^~ - 1

expression of their views, the annex^ reso-
lution was proposed and unanimously adopt-

thereto adopted, should be immediatclv
adopted to ward ofl" the evil.

2 — Moved by the Hon. James Ferrier, se-
conded by Mr. Innes, and carried unani-
mously :

That the proximity to the city of 'the
Sheds occupied by the immigrants on their
arrival, renders them altogether unfit for
the purposes intended, and that, therefore,
the meeting deprecates, in the strongest
terms, the proposed plan of erecting addi-
tional sheds in that locality.

3. — Moved by John Fisher, Esq., seconded
by Benjn. Workman, Esq., and carried

unajuiuiOusiy t

That the low and unwholesome situation,
together with the crowded state, of the
M 1 ^ mt • above named Immigrant Sheds, has tended

Kesolved,— That in view of the appaUingfereatly to counteract the measure* adopted
mortality among the emigrants, and thefcr the recovery of the patients there; add

thwmeotfar thorefore,urpre8lnth«>stronff-roa!, do horubv convono « M *:

and spread, and that no an.oliorution can] nirv r mt, . '

*-'"-'- ' JOHN E. MILLS,

Mayor,

take plooe.

'■-^if^ .J ^;"s;:::'tT^.:si^"""™'- ''•' ^"'^- «"•

unatiimuiisly :

That tho iiilmbitants of this city hav

ThcnndorsJcrnod.theCMnmittoonppoint-
•'d hy the Public Meeting held „.. SuVurday
iCveniMg Just, to reuionstrnte ngiiinst the

learned with alarm tho contunjplated ar-, , j

rangements for additional shoals at Whul-'r*"""*^. "*'^' V' reuionstrnte against the
mill Point, a measure, in the ophuon of tIns'^r''?wl.-''''^V"" °'". " l"'''"nn^'nt Immi-
meeting, calculated to increase rather thani 71 "' " T*" ^''^ *''*^' '" '''»^ ^'«'n'ty

diminish the danger to which the dtv is ex I , ^'■'''''"' ^""'"ff'-ant Sheds, and to
posed, and therefore, recommend that on Jvll'^!;'' ^'i '"^V'^ ^^l^'^'^^on, by Go-
of tho Bonehervillo Islands be immediati-lvlK' '"** ""^ "" .¥'"'^ '*^''"^^' ti'e city for
"'--' »'««>"t«'}this purpose; finding that new Sheds aro

selected, and suitable accomodation thert
provided for the instant removal of the
immigrants— a situation, in the opinion of
this meeting, sufficiently remote from thi-
city, where pure air and wholesome water
are inexhaustibly supplied, and within th."
reach of the immigrants, and where ade-
quate 8i>ace exists for the separating of the
healthy from the diseased.

5.— Movetl by John Young, Esq., seconded

by E. E. Colburn, Esq., and passed
unanimously :

That Messrs. Ferrior, Workman, Holmes,
Kodier, Dr. Beaubien, Osteil, and J.
Fisher, be a Committee to deliver the Re-
solutions just adopted, and to confer with
the Mayor, as Chairman of the Commission

in process of construction on the site ob-
:,|«'cted to, and having received from tho
Chairman of the Immigrant Connnissioners
the subjoined communication, showing tho
intbntion of making j>ormanont establish-
•nonts, as well for tho sick as for tho healthy
Imn.igrnnts, above the city, to the exclusion
ot the site proposed below the city, and
considering that it is important there
should be a further expression of public

means of giving them effect.

6.--Moved by J. Osteil, Esq., seconded by
P. Mulholland, Esq., and carried unani-
mously :

^^at tlie foregoing Resolutions be pub-
lished m all the newspapers of this city, and
that a copy be transmitted to His Excel-
Jl^pcy the Governor General, through the
Civil Secretary.

Bepty of the Chairman of the Joint Immi

opinion on this subject, as well as on that
ot the other precautions requiring to bo
taken, with a view to tho general health of
the city, request His Worship the Mayor
ot Montreal to convene a Public Meeting
ot the citizens of Montreal, to bo held in
the Bonsecours Market Hall, to-morrow

.;•' rj "-' ,^'""' ""♦""•"'« v^ommission "'« "onsecours iviarket Hall, to-morrnw
appointed by the Executive, upon the best evening, the 13th instant, at siven o'clock
means of giving them effect. ^'''

J. Ferrier, Chairman.
Benj. Holmes.
John Fisiiet?.
Pre. Beaubien, M.D.
William Workman.
JoHM Ostell.

C. E. RODIEB.

Montreal, July 12, 1847.

To the Hon. James Ferrier, Dr. Beaubien
and others, appointed a Committee to

-/-•y V '"" v»«t#/rta» Of me jotnt immt- »"" omers, appointed a Committee to

ffrant Commmion to the Committee namcd| communicate the resolutions passed at a

■fei<v?rr« Giit the forcyoiny JResciutiiriuf, andi public meeting of the citizens of Mont-

comequent Requisition for the Fublid real, held in the Bonsecours Market on

Meeting of the I3th instant:-— the 10th instant:— '

_Ia accordance with the subjoined Requi- Gentlemen,— The Immigrant CommiM
*ition, I, the undersigned Mayor of Mont-jsions of both Boards, appSdby Go^^I

tftH'tlnjf of
10 purposes
t tlw Hoii-
., To-Mor-

HLLS,
Mayor.

oonppoint-
» Saturday
?HiiiHt the
L?nt Imrni-
lio vicinity
l», and to
'H, by Go-
lie city for
Sheds aro
10 site ob-
fioni tho
missionors
owing tho
ostablisli-
l»o liealthy
exclusion
city, and
int there
of public
s on that
ng to bo
health of
10 Mayor
Meeting
3 held in
)-niorrow
1 o'clock,

hairman.

IN, M.D.

tKMAK.

leaubien
littee to
sed at a
P Mont-
rket, on

/ommis-
Grovern-

inont, have received through you tho reso-|wouId, in n few days, and, in many «wet
hitions passed at a public nun-ting of th.even in u f.w hour>., after their arrival in
citizens of Montreal, recommending the Montreal, evince symptoms of divase
»oliH3tion of Boueherv.lle Island as a .ite whieh, at the time *thev left the Island'
for the Imnngrant Shells and iiospitaU,w«s latent in their sv«ten.s, and that tho
and havr the honor to reply- Un,« ncK-essity would Vxi^t as at prenent for

I hat they have mo.Ht att.'ntively con- ho^pitaln for tluur aeeonnnodation in tho
sidcred tlu. van.»us plans propositi for theineighl)orhoiMl of the »it\— vvi(h this ad<li
preservation of tho public health, and n.ore tional ri,k, that, beim? eon.M.lured healthv
os,M...m ly the suggestion con<-erning Bou-they would Ir. receiv..! into the houses Jf
clH-rvill,. IsUnd, and they have arriv.'d. the citizens, and would si)read the disease
unatnmou.sly, at the conviction that the even m n; extensively tim.i under the nros-
arrangements now in progress are the l)est,:ont regulations.

all things considered, for tho citizens as ^rd. The Conunissioncrs l,elievo that it
wen as for the mnngrants. They, there- .« a very serious evil to congregate together
lore, ask the aid and countenance, or at all in larg.* numbers, even for a iVw days in-
events the forbearance of their fellow citi-<lividuals who have iKM.n exposed to con-

rens whilst they are carrying them out.
JOHN E. MILLS,
. Mayor.

Chairman, Ininn'grant Commissioners
Montreal, July 12, 1847.

Further Reptu handed to the Committee dur- — vv...t,. ...,,. «iv-v» uj uiu

iny the PuhHc Meeting of the Vith instant, l"'**P''«*'tl establishment at Uoucherville,

-jv... loav be eouallv u-i.ll i.!.rrw./l ,>..♦ «* rj»«

tnjrl

and bi/ them laid be/ofe the said Meeting :

TO THE HON. JAMES FERRIER,

&c. &c.

Gentlemex,— The Joint Emigrant Com-
missioners deem it advisable, in order to

tagion, and many of whom may have tho
<lisoaae latent in their system-, thus, in their
opinion, taking a most eflci tual means of
eonimunicating the disease to others, who,
but for such j)rotracted contact, would al-
together escaj»e.

4th. All the ends contemplatetl by tho

•nay be equally well carried out at Grosso
Isle, without the unnoctssary expense of a
second similar establishment, and tho se-
rious evils, inconveniences and dangers,
caused to tho poor emigrants by such de-

„no« "'..'m- •'. '^ •*-'••'""-• "' ";"^' t"lay. In order to eftect this, tho Commis-

allay pubhc excitement, to state briefly, nisioners have already requested the Govem-
writing, some of the most prominent rea-ment to issue instructions to tho Medical
sons, more fully expressed to you at our Superintendent at Grosso Isle, to attend
interview yesterday, which have induced more strictly to the cleaming and punfioa-
them to adopt the measures now in pro- «(mi of the persons and clothing of the emi-
gress for the security of the citizens, andgrants, to retain all the doubtful, to allow
the amelioration of suffering and disease, only a limited number to embark on board
among the emigrants, notwithstanding the of each steamer, to take care that passen-
expressed opinion of the public meeting,!gers from healthy vessels are not sent up
held at tho Bonsecours Market on Saturday in the same steamer with those from ships

last.

Ist. They are of opinion that the re
moval of tho sheds to one of the Boucher
ville Islands would not answer the end pro-
posed, inasmuch as the emigrants would
then be placed in a similar position to what
they are in at Grosse Isle, which establish-

in vyhich disease existed, and to notify tho
Kmigrant Commissioners of the description
of passengers shipped by each steamer.

5th. The Commissioners feel convinced
that all the advantages of situation attain-
able at Boucherville .exist, at least in an
■qual degree, at Point St. Charles, where

^ * iu 1 "^""" *"• 7 "•"^" ^-ouiuuau- f.|uui uegree, ac romt &t. t;harles, where
ment though, to a certain extent, it may spacious sheds are now in nrooross nf Pr«n_
fiave diminished, yet, m an emergency likt tion for the accommodation of the sick. It
the present, has signally failed in prevent- possesses high and dry ground, a free eii-
?•?• **»^_,|;»t''o<l"ction of disease into the.'ulation of air, and a strong current of puro

Cities of Montreal and Quebec.
2nd. The Commissioners believe that

water, at such a distance from the city as
to secure a complete isolation of the sick.

^^ ^...„„™«v,»^.o uciicvt; uiai to secure a complete isolation of the sick.

persons passed at Boucherville as healthy, wd to prevent the most timid from fearing

that contagion could be conveyed throughl 7tli The advantages of an insular

the atmosphere. It is a well known fact situation may, in a great degree, be secured
that contagion will not pass many feetjby a cordon sanitaire along the line of the
through the open air, Fever Hospitals, in canal, arrangements for which are now in
many of the large cities of Europe, being progress, without the very serious disa^-

frequently situated in their most crowded
thorougnfares. The following quotations
from Dr. Williams' celebrated work on con-
tagious poisons, places this assertion bpyond
all doubt : —

"The fever wards of the Chester In

vantages that would attend the removal of
the emigrant establishment to Boucherville
Island.

8th. — The Commissioners have reason
to believe that the necessary medical at-
tendance, nurses, and other appliances,

firmary were the first establishment on the could not, in the present state of affairs, be
principle of fever houses, and are situated procured at any distance from the city, and
within thirteen yards of some other wardsjthe valuable services of the Nuns, who
of the building, yet during the space of have been by far the most efficient nurses,
more than twelve years feverwas not known would, by such a removal, be lost Urtho
to have extended to them. The House of emigrants. To shut up these unfortunate
Recovery at Manchester is situated in the people on an island, without such attend

most crowded part of that town, yet Dr.
Ferrier tells us, that so far from fever

ance, in order to save the city from danger,
even were the measure effectual, which it

spreading in that quarter, it was the first could not now be, owing to the spread of
that was cleared of it. The experience the contagion, would be cruel and selfish
also of the London House of Recovery is in the extreme,
equally satisfactory. The original esta- * 9th.— The selection of the Wmdmill

blishment was a small private house in
Gray's-Inn-Lane, standing in a row, and

occupied by fever patients, and the win
dows kept partially open, no fever was
known to have been occasioned by its vi-
cirnty.

" The space which separates the beds in
the London Hospitals is little more than
three feet, and except when fever cases
have been admitted in too large propor-
tions, the disease has been seldom known
to spread from bed to bed. Three feet
around the patient's person may therefore
be said, under circumstances of ordinary
precaution, to secure an exemption from
the infection. A nearer approach, or ac-
tual contact, it is evident, from the num-
ber of nurses attacked, is a much surer
means of contamination."

6th. — With respect to poisoning, at so
great a distance, such a stream as the St.
Lawrence, the Commissioners have only

Point, for the disembarkation and imme-
diate re-embarkation of the emigrants,

in contact, with thin and slender built places them on the side of the city nearest
houses on either side ; but during fourteen their final destination, the sick can be se-
years, although the wards were genersilly parated from them, and conveyed to Point

— ' 5 "• «■"•• i-.-'.-jfiv ^-i iTivisiicai tjuictiy

drink the filth produced by fifty thousand
of its own inhabitants, and they do not
conceive that the necessary ablutions of at
most a couple of thousand sick emigrants
would much increase the evil.

St. Charles, more than half a mile higher
up, without passing through any portion of
the city, and the healthy who are waiting
for the recovery of their sick relations can
be accommodated in the best ventilated
among the present sheds, after thorough
cleansing and purification, with a mediod
officer constantly among them, at once to
separate any oases of sickness that may
break out.

Finally. In the present emergency time
must not be lost, and preparations can be
made much more promptly here than on an
island, to which the very conveyance of the
necessary articles for such an establishment
would greatly retard its completion.

I have the honor to be^
Gentlemen,
Your most obdt. servt.,
(Signed) JOHN E. MILLS, Mayor,

Chainnan Euugruut Couuiuaslos.

Resolutiong adopted ait the Pubiio Meeting
hdd on Tuesday, the 13th instant, in ihe
Bonsecoiirs Market Hall; His Worship

an insular
ie, be secured
e line of the
h are now in
erious disaji-
lie removal of
Boucherville

have reason

medical at-

appliances,

of affairs, be

the city, and

Nuns, who

cient nurses,

3 lost tvtho

unfortunate

such attend-

rom danger,

lal, which it

le spread of

1 and selfish

e Windmill
I and imme-

emigrants,
city nearest
'i. can be se-
ed to Point
mile higher
y portion of
are waiting
elations can
t ventilated
ir thorough
li a medi«d

at once to
I that may

•gency time
ions can be
i than on an
ranee of the
tablishment
tion.

rvt.,

, Mayor,
'orninisslos.

lio Meeting
tant, in the
w Wbrthip'

the Mayor in the Chair, John Ottetty Etq^
Secretary.

1 — Moved by the Hon. James Ferrier, se-
conded by John Young, Esq., and carried
unanimously :

That in view of the immense increase in
the number of Immigrants arriving in this
Province, which has been occasioned by the
extreme distress prevailing in many parts
of the United Kingdom, and by the re-
strictive measures enforced at the sea-ports
of the United States against the landing of
such Immigrants, and in view more espe-
cially of the shocking state oi destitution in
which a large proportion of them arrive, the
prevalence of infectious disease among them
on their passage, the numbers landed sick,
the still greater numbers found by expe-
rience to fall sick after landing, an 'nally,
of the fact, that, for years to come, many
of the causes which have produced these
results cannot be expected to cease to ope-
rate, this Meeting feels deeply impressed

arrival and during theh- passage to their
places of destination, as of protecting the
resident population of this Province from
the dangers of pestilence.

2 — Moved by Pierre Beaubien, Esq. M.D.,
seconded by J. Boulanget, Esq., and
carried unanimously :

That to this end, besides the keeping up
of an adequate Quarantine Establishment

mg sick may again be separated from the
healthy, where proper Hospital may be
maintained for their reception and treat-
ment, and where also the healthy may be
properly lodged during the delay necessary
tor then- trans-shipment from vessel to ves-
sel, as well as for the enforcement of clean-
hness; such Stations, of course, not properly
speaking to be regarded as Quarantine
fevations, nor their rules made such as to
interfere unnecessarily with trade, but all
Immigrants conveyed at public cost to be
landed at them, and not elsewhere, and to
be subjected to their rules, and aU passen-
ger vessels having on board other Immi-
grants sick of infectious disease, to be re-
quired to land such sick Immigrants, to be
there treated in Hospital.

3.— Moved by Benjamin Hohnes, Esq.,
seconded by John Leeming, Esq., and
carried unanimously :

That, in the opinion of this meeting,
each of such Immigrant Stations should be

with the extreme importance of the imme- under the immediate dh^e^dorandmaiLZ

diate adoption of a thoroughly adequate ment of a single resident officer, havfnjr

system of measures as well for alleviating under him a sufficient staff of assistants

the sufferings of the Immigrants on their medical and non-medical; that aJequate

arrival and durmsr theu- nassas-e to tbfiir orovismn sl,/^«u K« «.„j^ .* __.i ./f.

provision should be made at eaoh of them
for the proper lodging, support and control
of the healthy, as well as for the proper
medical treatment of the sick, during their
detention there; and that the sites for the
same should be so selected as to obviate all
detention of the great mass of the Immi-
grants moving westward, at or dose to any
city, or in any other locality, either un-
favourable to the health of the Immigrants,

below Quebec, where the Immigrants, on 17^?,? ,,*^ ***^ ^'^^^^^^^ ^^^^ I"''^'^
their arrival, may be landed, the sick sepa-C 7 • the presence of any large number
rated from the healthy, and treated inK ."^f'"'*'^*'"^*^ ^ P^""*^'^ ^^^""^l-
Hospitals of proper size and construction.r' *** *^^ '®''^^'^* community,
and under medical men of approved capa-**. — Moved by Lewis T. Drummond, Esq
city, ai^d the healthy detained at a safe M. P. P., seconded by Archibald Hall,'
distance from the sick, for such time as to Esq,, M. D., and carried unanimously
admit of the enforcement of all necessary That this meeting must further represent
Ke^Iations m regard to cleanliness, and that the establishment of one of such sta-
besides the maintenance of the salutary tions is in particular imperatively called for
rule lately laid down by Government, for in the neighbourhood of this city • that
the transport of the healthv from such mrrft than nno nf *i.o t«i„«j„ - '
quarantine Station directly up the country below the citv. would aflfhrH a

Quarantine Station directly up the country
without detention at Quebec, — this meet-
mg considers that it is further absolutely
necessary that permanent Immigrant Sta-
tions should be established on a proper foot-
ing at other points, where Immigrants fall-

below the city, would afford a site in every
way unobjectionable, admitting of the land-
ing and reshipment of the Immigrants near
the buildings to be erected for their accom-
modation ; affording abundance of room
for the separation of the sick from the

'TP^

healthy; cut off from all communication
with the main land, and yet sutticiontly ac-
cessible for every useful purpose ; and that
all necessary preparations for the reception
of the Immigrants could be there made with
at least as much despatch and economy as
at any other site.

wards and forwards, either of the Imini.
grants or of the inhabitants of the city.

5 — Moved by Christopher Dunkin, Esq.,
seconded by Charles Wilson, Esq., and
carried unanimously :

That the selection of Windmill Point as
the site for the reception and stay of the
mass of the Immigrants on their way West-
ward, and of Point St. Charles for the Immi-
grant Hospital Establishment, is in every
way most objectionable; because, from those
sites being on the river bank, immediately
above the city, the whole of the drainage
and sewerage from them must be brought
down past the city, and must mingle with
the water used for all household purposes
by almost the whole of its population ; be-
cause, from the wind generally blowing
down the stream of the river during the
summer months, the city must be almost
constantly exposed to the exhalations arising
from ai^ Immigrant stations there to be
maintained ; because they are too near the
most unhealthy suburb of the city, and the
low land traversed by the Lachine Canal,
to be as healthy sites as any sites to be cho-
sen for such a purpose ought to be ; be-
cause their selection will inevitably involve
the landing of the Immigrants at or close
to wharves occupied for the general purposes
of trade, and their re-shipment at the Canal
wharves, where, also, the general trade of
the city must be in constant progress ; be-
cause it will be impossible to land the sick,
during a great part of the summer, within
a distance of about a mile and a half from
the site of the proposed Hospital, and it
will thus become necessary to carry them
in vehicles that distance, all of which must
pass the healthy station on the way ; and
because, from the great amount of business
necessarily transacted all through the sum
mer on both sides of the canal, and close to
Windmill Point, to say nothing of the stea-
dy and rapid exionsion of the city in that
direction, it must be absolutely impossible
to maintain any sort of separation between
the Stations and the city, or any effective
i-estrictions on the constant passage, back

6.— Moved by W. Bristow, Esq., seconded
by F. Glackmeyer, Esq., and carried
unanimously :

That for these reasons this meeting deep-
ly regret the recommendation of these
sites, which has been made, in their opinion,
most unadvisedly by the Immigrant Com-
missioners, and most earnestly prays His
Excellency the Governor General to reject
the same, and to adopt, instead,sueh Island
site as may be found most eligible below
the City.

7 — Moved by John Fisher, Esq., seconded
by Joseph Eraser, Esq., and carried un-
animously :

That the prevalence of fever in the City,
more particularly where the resident inha-
bitants have been brought into communi-
cation with the Immigrants, the very seri-
ous interruption of all travelling through the
Province thereby occasioned, and the last-
ing injury threatened to every branch of
commerce, in consequence of the alarm uni-
versally prevalent, the dreadful mortality
at the present Immigrant Sheds, so near the
sites proposed by the Immigrant Commis-
sioners, and the many deaths which have
occurred among our best and most valued
fellow-citizens, from exposure to contagion,
all combine to render it a matter of ex-
treme urgency to the welfare of the Immi-
grants themselves, of the city and of the Pro-
vince at large, that instant and proper mea-
sures should be taken in this behalf.

8 — Moved by John Sinclair, Esq., second-
ed by A. Laframboise, Esq., and carried
unanimously : —

That this .ueeting feel it necessary, in
connection with this subject, to record their
most energetic remonstrance against any
temporary closing of the Lachine Canal,
for repair or enlargement this year, pre-
vious to the arrival and departure of all the
Immigrants of the season ; as such closing
of the Canal could not fail to be attended
with eousequeuees the most fearfully dis-
astrous ; and to pray that His Excellency,
the Governor General, will be graciously
pleased to direct that such temporary clos-
ing of the Canal shall not take place.

commum-

mously : ^ ^ '^ *''X ^^t?^T "^f^^tions, be signed by His

Ti^of ♦!.• .1 Worship the Mayor in behalf of the citi

That this meet ng cannot but furtherknsof Montreal in this meeting lernhS?"
advert to the serious evils resulting, and that copies of the said re^Sofl^ rln J

^r^y.'^""'f'^"'V^' ^"^'^'' ^hifh hasmittedtothemembersofthTSl^iv^^^^^^
prevailed, of crowding all the passenger'sembly for the City and CouX of mI
steam-vessels. between this cityandQuelSc.;treal. to the City cLk. aS toVe W
mth Immigrant deck passengers, so as notrary Secretary of the Boiu-d of Heahh^
OTly to leave no steam-vessels for the safe and that the Mayor, the Setarv of thil
occupation of the travelling community, meeting, and the movers and secldlr^nf
but also to outrage decency and humanity the several resolutions, be a Commtt^ tf
by the pat numbers of Immigrants often present the said MemorS and oXwi «
put on board of them ; and that they trust to giveeffect to this resolu Ion
that the intervention of the Executive will

effectually regulate in future the number of'

Immigrants to be sent at Government ex- Certificates of Nineteen. PhytiMcm, and of
pense m any vessel, and that the steam- '^^ <^leTgy of all DenonUnationi in Z
boat proprietors wiU see the expediency of ^^"^ of the ieUctiori of a site f(yr ak Immt-
setting apart one vessel daily, for the con- Prant Station belmv the City
yeyance of other passengers exclusively. We. the undersigned Phylans coincide

"^T^S^i^?- U- ^^^''' Esq.. second-WiththeinhabitanLf this'aty!?n^Sn

ea by H. Mulholland, Esq., and carried*"** « situation below Montreal is not onlv

unammously : much preferable to one in the immediate

Ihat m the judgment of this meeting, ""^^'^^ ^^^^^ *own, but we consider it ab-

the number of cases of fever among theT *^'^ necessary, for the preservation of

poorer classes of the resident population of ,"*^' ^^^^ «"«h a location should he

the city, imperatively calls for the imme- '^^^''*®^-

Cliate estamishmonf o* « w._ _«-^ /. i

diate establishment, at a proper site, of a
sufficient Fever Hospital, wholly indepen-
dent of the hospital for Immigrants ; the
site of the present General Hospital being
wholly unfit for this purpose, and the
gravest objections besides subsisting to the
employment of any Hospital to be devoted!
to the reception of surgical and other cases,'
lor the treatment of cases of infectioas fever.
11 — Moved by William Workman, Esq

seconded by the Rev. Dr. Bethune, and

carried unanimously :

That the great number of nuisances,
prejudicial to the public health, still abound-
ing in many parts of the city, and which
are so peculiarly dangerous under existing
circumstances, call most loudly for the enei*
getic action of the proper authorities, and
that this meeting take this occasion to ex-
p-res5 their earnest hope that no further
time will be lost in taking the u o.st decisive
steps, at whatever cost, for their removal.
12._-Moved by J. Emery Coderre, Esq ,
M. D., seconded by J. G. Bibaud, Esq.,
M. D., and carried unanimously :

R. S. Macdonnell, M. D.
PiEriRE Beaubien, M. D.
J. Ba.ber, M. R. C. S. L.
Henry Howard, M. D.
A. H. David, M. D.
A. Hall, M. D.
Hy. Mount. M. D.
J. Emery Codeiihe, M. D.
J. G. Bibaud, M. D.
Hector Peltier, M. D.
D. Leprohon, M. D.
Dr. P. Brosseau.
D. L. F. Ta vernier.
J B. Lrbourdais.
B. M. Okarlebois, M. D.
W. E. Scott, M. D.
0. T. Bruneau, M. D.
F. A. Cadwell, M. D.

x, iiie unucrsigned Physician, coincide
with the inhabitants of the City, in opinion
that a situation below Montreal is very
much preferable to one in its immediate
vicinity ; and that as it would be nearly
impossible to prevent communication be-
tween the Sheds and the City, there would

i (

be danger of disease from the former source
afieoting the community.

(Signed) A. F. Holmes, M. D.

Montreal,- 16th July, 1847.
The undersigned have no hesitation in
stating, that they would prefer visiting the
sick Emigrants at any island below the city,
not more than fifteen miles distant, to doing
so in the present or the contemplated lo-
caUty of the Hospital Sheds in Griffintown,
provided the means of conveyance back-
wards and forwards be supplied.

John Bbthunb, Rector of Christ's

Church.
W. T. Lbaci of St. George's Chapel.
D. Falloon, Minister of St. Ann's

Chapel.
John Fletcher, Assistant Minister.

Christ's Church

In evidence of which, we have signed
these presents.

Given at Montroal, in our Episcopal Pa-
lace, tliis 16th July, 1847.

t Jo. Eve. de Montreal.

Thomas's Church.
Robert M'Gill, Minister of St. Paul's

Church.
Henry Wilkes, Minister of Zion

Church.
W. Taylor, Minister of the United

Presbyterian Church.
William Squire, Wesleyan Church.
W. Agar Adamson, Assistant Minister

Christ's Church.
J. M. Cramp, Baptist Church.
J. GiRDWOOD, do. do.

[translation.]
Montreal, 16th July, 1847.
Gentlemen,— In answer to the enquiry
you have done us the honor of addressing to
us, to ascertain if we will be disposed to af-
ford that spiritual relief to the Irish Immi-
grants on the Island of Boucherville, which
we have hitherto done at the She Is at Mon-
treal, the Seminary has the hontr of infor-
ming you, that having already exhausted
their means for the benefit of these unfortu-
nates, it will be difficult for them hereafter
to do more for them ; but that which they
can do they are perfectly disposed to do to

Charles Bancroft, Minister of SH.T V TT P^^^^^y ^^^sposed to do to
Thomas's Chirch ^*- the end, whether on the Island of Boucher-

[translation.]

We, the undersigned. Bishop of Montreal,
declare, by these presents, that it is our in-
tention, as it is our duty, to carry, and to
Iwve carried, by the Priests under' our au-
thority, the religious succours which belong
to our Ministry, to all sick Immigrants,
whether it be on the Island of Boucherville
or at any other place below the city, which
may please the Government, for the pur-
pose of affording them medical treatment, as
becomes the Father of the People.

We, at the same time, declare that the
Religious communities will always be ready
to give their charitable assistance to these
i-yrji =iv,n.. Ill every iocaucy, so Jong as Di-
vine Providence affords them strength and
health, to aid suffering humanity, so long as
the calamity continues, with which we are
now aiflicted.

viUe or at the Montreal Sheds.
I am, with profound respec^
' Gentlemen,

Your very humble and

Very obedient servant,

P. BlLLAUDELE^

Sup. de Seminaire.
To John Fisher, Esq. and the other
Gentlemen of the Committee.

Letter from the Provincial Seoretary to the
Committee, of the Wth instant.
Secretary's Office,

Montreal, July 16, 1847.
SiR;, — I am instructed by the Governor-
General to acquaint the gentlemen com-
posing the Deputation from the Citizens of
Montreal, that the Memorial placed by them
in the hands of His Excellency, is now nn-
der his consideration in Council ; and that
the result of their deliberations on the
several very important matters therein con-
tained, will be communicated to you at the
earliest possible moment.

I am further instructed to inform you,
that a Member of the Government is now
at Grosse Isle, with a view to the adoption
of measures, to prevent, as far as possible,
the continuance of the present system of
forwarding Immigrants, while in a doubtftil
state of health; and to extend the Quaran-
tine Establishment at that Station; and,

further, to insure the detention of all Im

From the extraordinary number of the

nmiorrAnfa vrlnn liaafA «.«:.. ] A.!.! •

migrans arriving then, in ves^ls in wwS. Immirrlnl; whoTrSvTtX^^ yl^ ^^^
any sickness may have shown itself, until the St Lawience, and Z^ryUZ^

SLS''^ ?"5b"l'' '^T '\^ h^veand sickly conditi;,n in which^ost^^^^
thoroi^hly satined themselves that they have arrived and are daily arriving. tS

R^fT'V^t^r*^^"* endangering thedetention, unavoidable underTprS
health of the Inhabitants nf tha nn^ „«Jo„»* i_— x. xi ""««» ww present

to pass. By these precautions," it is
confidently anticipated that the present

to oass. Bv tnpoA nfo»aiif;^na :* :..^u: /-» i V , * . ""^ •»^"~

system, close to the populous suburb of thi»

chine Canal, has been prod««;tive of the
most fatal consequences, and threatens re-

allien .n*«^>. — . 11* A .• ^

iinhAftlthv fjZT «r« r"*". ""^ F««'»ciuiuuanaHu consequences, and threatens re-
unhealthy tide of Immigration past thdsults even more appalling for the future
Quarantine Station will be arrested, and It h«, Wn fn„«^ Ti^.. ':R.,':_ _®.. _.*!''*•

Quarantine Station will be arrested, and
that for the future the introduction of Im
migrants will be deprived of the melan

accompanied it.

I have the honor to be. Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
D. DALY,

_ Secretary

To His Worship ^

The Mayor of Montreal.

Presentment of the Grand Jury of the Court
of Quarter Settions.

It has been found impossible to maintain a
rigid enforcement of the Quarantine Laws
below Quebec, because of the multitude of

ti'irs-s"^"'' ** --ve h=„= ^^\rTj,\z7:st

Grosse Isle, and their wretchedly destitute
condition. Arrangements have been made,,
and as this Grand Jury fuUy admit, in ac-
cordance with humanity and sound policy,
for carrying the great mass of the Immi-
grants from Grosse Isle, past the city of
Quebec, without stopping. But the neces-
sity of trans-shipping them here, into bar-
ges, which alone can convey them from
hence westward, has caused a constant de-

To His H<yk<^ the Chairman and Jtu^sT^^'^JZ^tyr't"" ^ ^^^'^ ^" ^H
sitting in the Cmrt of General oZ^!.,^' V *^' *'^*^' *"1.*" ""**""* «^
SessLs of the Peace- ^'^^'^^ suffering, disease, and mortaUty, which the

Th^.Z ZJiT^ ' • '.^ .1. , ^"^^ •'"•■y ^^^'^^^^ ^^'""^ 0^ ^itb«"^ horror.

™,w- • ?? / ^ have visited the several The site of the Sheds, heretofore and
pubhc imtitutions which It IS then- duty to still in use, is almost the worst that coZ
visit, and have found them m sucn a state, have been chosen, whether for the health
as evidences the faithfulness and efficiency of the Immigrants or of the Citv
of those in charge of them. The lament- AU that can be said for it L that the
aWe insufficiency of the public buildings spot understood to have been lately selected
us^ for a Gaol and Court-House respec- by the Immigrant Commissioners, at Wind-

iZi V^ r^T"""'' *^^ ^^l '? °?^" ^" ™"^ P*^»°*' ^^^^ th« detention of the more
represented by former Grand Juries, as to healthy class of Immigrants, is even worse •
make ifc idle for them to say more on the because, being about equally unhealthy it

subject, than that the long continued neglect
with which the urgent representations, so
often made of this crying evil, have been
treated, is, in their opinion, most disgraceful
to the authorities, whose duty it is to provide
in these respects for the wants of the com-
munity. Inspiteof thisdiscouragingneglect,
with which so many previous Presentments
of Grand Juries have been treated, they can-
not refrain, in the proper discharge of their
duty to tile public, from adverting to some
considerations of great and absorbing in-
terest, and praying for therrgent recommen-
dation of your Honors to the proper author-
ities, in support of the representation which
they feel called upon thus to make.

is still more in the way of the business
necessarily conducted at the mouth of the
Lachine Canal. Nor will the case be
mended by the proposed plan of removing
the Sheds for the sick to Point St. Charles,
because, not to dwell on other considera-
tions, the sick will still require to be landed
with the healthy at the mouth of the Canal:
great numbers will still always be detained
there, their removal will be difficult and
prejudicial to them ; the whole body of the
sick Immigrants will be kept near the city,
and to windward of it; and neither the
Hospital Sheds at Point St. Charles, nor
the other Shed»» at Windmill Point, can
ever be at all cut off from communication

m i l l ^ BCT

healthy. .„d detain^ ^7"^ Ho°p ta ■t^^^„lv''"™^"r, °' ''""'"«'"■' °*''-
and tho healthy should to prVnerlv Ked'lhand^r ^ fT.f '"""rants ; and tho
and cleanlinMs enforced amX ,{„„*. 'ir """.""' "^ "'« '*> Prevalent praet ce
ring sneh de^ti^n^r/Xf fo„Td tt^TnTcXh'"" •"'""' '"^ '"'^'■'*«

p., d;..t,y th./,h the eainSt^ 'thl t^ra^„StirU''irno'

The present alarming state of thin^&'Tffnl^t" "'"''.T'"''''?''.''" ""■* "f"

ana in that of their fellow citizens uni- tu^ n it,
versally, of no other remedy. Wliatever •!? • ""'^ ^"*^® had under their

effort may be made to increase tho ofRciencv f^"*'^^''''^t^°» t^^o important cases during
of the Quarantine below Quebec thene-n present Session, against one James
—'-" '■- -' ' - ' ^^ ^'^^ and Thomas Nowlan, for highway

eessity for this still further change must
still subsist, because no such eflfbrt can af-
fect the number of the Immigrants arrivlncr
bn our shores, or relieve their destitution,

robbery and shooting at the person of Mr.

hherift Coffin, with intent to commit felony

These cases have been tried, and they are

happy to find that the parties implicated

br materially lessen their liability to fallir^^^u "" ^""^ *^'** *^^ P"^'«« ^P'^C'
sick on their route. *"|have been convicted and sentenced to

At present the Grand Jury must onL- ^P"!^'^^^ in the Provincial Peniten-
their oaths, present to your Hours' therTi,''";^'"^ ^}\^^''^ °^ *^^»' "^t^'-al »^e.
fact, that the greatest and must reasonableL Js ha^^hin •''5' ^"/""^> *° ^hese
alarm prevades the public mind; thatcasesLf^ ', J " induced to do so to bear

fn '^TrlT h '^^^""^ ~"^ praise

m all parts of the city; that the mortality
consequent on the prevailing fever is great,
and among the unfortunate Immigrants
fearful in the last degree ; that many of
our best and most valued citizens have fal-
len and are daily falling victims to their
benevolent efforts to discharge the duties
which humanity and religion call on them
to pertorra in the behalf of these sufferers ;
and that the commerce of the city is seriously
injured in a variety of ways, from the in-
terruptions to all business near the canal,
the greatly lessened number of purchasers
ot goods coming in from the country, the
failure of the markets, caused by the alarm
of the country people, the almost entire
— ....J..-2,. vr ail. piuasuro craveiiiug, and the
constant departure from the city of such
famihes as are not under any necessity of
remaim'ng here. ■

The immediate establishment, at a safe

worthy conduct of His Honor Mr. Justice
Day and Mr. Sheriff" Coffin, on the occa-
sion of the commission of the offences in
question, and especially to the latter gen-
tleman, who, at the most imminent risk of
his life, secured the culprits, and thus they
have reason to believe that an organized
band of robbers w is broken up ; for pre-
vious to their apprehension, offences of a
similar character were of frequent occur-
rence, whilst none have since taken place;
^? .u tS'^"'^ -^"ry beg leave, in the name
of the District, to tender their acknow-
edgments to these two gentlemen for their
laudable behaviour on the occasion re-
I erred to.

The whole is resrinpffnliw o,,v^.

itt*^ -

cu.

Hy. Starnes, Foreman.
(For all the Grand Jury.)

Grand Jury-Room, )
Montreal, July 17, 1847. f

of tax adequate and
r Hospital, for the
'ever arising among

tlie removal of the
'en yot, to the dis-
ss, in the streets;
3 ass of steam ves-
nd Quebec, for the
f passengers other
Migrants ; and the

prevalent practce
id the dead in the
Tfimon use; are all
uire notice at the
y ; and they trust
'ities will lose no
? energetic and ef-
;he existing emer-

had under their
tant cases during
:ainst one James
dan, for highway
the person of Mr.
to commit felony,
ied, and they are
parties implicated
id sentenced to
rovincial Peniten-
their natural life,
alluding to these
to do so to bear
rgetic and praise-
onor Mr. .Justice
ffin, on the occa-
)f the offences in
o the latter gen-
imminent risk of
ts, and thus they
at an organized
ken up ; for pre-
>n, offences of a
' frequent occur-
ince taken place;
save, in the name
r their acknow-
ntlemen for their
he occasion re-

f suomittsu.

lUNES, Foreman,
id Jury.)

Petition of th^ Common Counalof the C%|every diseased person from contact with
oj Montreal, to the Three Branches of the the healthy, and effectually to prevent aU

Legislature, adopted on the Idth of July,
Alderman Tully and Councillor Lynch
alone dissentient.

The Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and

Citizens of the City of Montreal,
Most respectfully represents, —

That the insufficiency of all the exist-
ing arrangements for the reception and
classification of Immigrants is manifest;
that the requisite care has net been taken
of the sick ; that no cflectual distinction
has been made between them and the
healthy ; that airy, salubrious sites for the
temporary abode of either class have not
been selected ; that both classes have been,
hitherto, huddled together in undue and
even dangerous numbers on board of steam-
ers and barges ; that no efficient means of
preventing them from mixing with the rural
or urban population have been adopted ;
that the sheds within the boundaries of this
City, in which thousands in every stage of
disease and destitution have for some time
^een, and continue to be, crowded without
due sanitary regulations, and even without
ablutionary appliances, are causes not only
of alarm, but of danger.

That y< >ur Petitioners, moved not only
by a desire to protect their fellow- citizens,
but by motives of humanity towards their
suffering fellow-subjects, pray that Your
[Excellency] Honorable House will be
pleased to make Legislative provision for
evils of such magnit ude. Your Petitioners
more especially piay that Your [Excellency]
Honorable House will establish some insu-
lar station opposite or below this City,
as the point of landinsr or transshipment ;
that the same may b , ,i^ovided with suf-
ficient tenements for the healthy, with
hospitals for the sick, with f .^esh food, with
cooking apparatus, and with a large medi-
cal staff, and amply supplied with nurses
and attendants, as well as with the means
for insuring ablution and cleanliness ; That
adequate means may be adopted to exclude

Immigrants from passing the limits with-
out previous examination and permission.
Lastly, your Petitioners pray, that the
direction and management of the Station
so formed be entrusted to a single resident
officer, clothed with power to enforce order,
and responsible for his conduct to Colonial
authority.

And your Petitioners, as in duty bound,
will ever pray.

Address of the Legislative Assembly to Hit
Excellency the Governor General, for the
Removal of the Immigrant /Station, at
prayed for by the Citizens.

(Legislative Assembly,
I Monday I'Jth July.
Resolved, — That an humble A«ldres3 be
presented to His Excellency the Governor
General, rejucsenting to His Excellency
the alainiing extent to which contagious
fever unhapi)ily prevails at the Emigrant
Sheds, erected at the mouth of the Lachine
Canal, and among the Emigrants arriving
from below and congregating there, — that
the situation chosen for the said Sheds, and
more especially Windmill Point, is, in the
opinion of this House, unsuitable and in-
convenient for the reception and proper
treatment of the Emigrants, while the ex-
istence of contagious disease in the imme-
diate vicinity of the principal business tho-
roughfare of the City, the daily and una-
voidable resort of a large portion of the
Inhabitants thereof, is attended with immi-
nent danger to the Citizens at large, and is
exciting great uneasiness and apprehension
in the Community, — and praying that His
Kxcellency will be pleased to cause mea-
sures to be promptly taken in order to pro-
vide a Station at some place below the City,
more easy of access, and in other respects
better suited than the locality in question,
for the purposes of a Depot for Emigrants,
and thereby allay the existing fear of con-
tagion.