§ ADMIRAL WALCOTTwished to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether it be correct that a malignant fever has for a second time broken out on board Her Majesty's ship Termagant on the West India station; and, whether, if this be so, the Board of Admiralty has given orders, or propose to give them, for the immediate removal of that ship from a station apparently so ill adapted, from her imperfect means of ventilation, to insure the health of her officers and crew.
§ SIR CHARLES WOODbelieved that the vessel alluded to by the hon. and gallant Member was the Termagant. It was not correct that there was malignant fever on board, although, as was not uncommon in the West Indies, some cases of yellow fever had certainly occurred in her, and she had therefore been sent to the northward, which it was well known was one of the best specifics for that malady.