Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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n greatly ameliorated by thelarge dimensions of modern ships. Owing to theirgreat length they now rest upon two waves insteadof one, and consequently there is less pitching andtossing; and rolling is diminished by the greaterwidth of vessels, and by the provision of bilgekeels and wing tanks. There are tanks not onlyin the bottom and peak of a vessel, but also alongthe sides of the ship, and when filled with waterthey assist in giving the ship an easy motion in asea way. Contagious and suspected diseases are at onceisolated in one of the ships three hospitals; twoare for ordinary complaints, and one for infectiouscases ; but the doctor, subject to the approval of thecaptain, can claim any vacant cabin for the use ofa patient. Steerage passengers are medically ex-amined before coming aboard, and they receivespecial attention during the voyage; this pre-caution is necessary owing to the steerage pas-sengers living together in larger numbers inone compartment. The doctor has trained sick
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PLATE XXXVIII. FIRST-CLASS DINING SALOON. • LUSITANIA. LIFE ON A LINER 265 berth attendants to assist him, and special sickberth stewardesses wait upon sick women andchildren. The purser is an official whose duties are par-ticularly varied. He appears to be factotum ingeneral to the passengers, who pay to him theirbills, leave in his charge any valuables they maywish to be taken care of, hand in and receive theirletters, etc. But the purser and his staff are alsoresponsible for all the ships own accounts, especiallyin connection with payments which she has todisburse at ports of call. We have hitherto been reviewing chiefly onlythe work of some 450 men, whose duty it is tosee that the vessel crosses the ocean from landto land; but the personal or domestic side of the Mauretania or Lusitania calls for the employ-ment of quite as many pairs of hands. Twothousand three hundred passengers and a crew ofnine hundred are equivalent to the entire popula-tion of more than one cathedral city

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