Notwithstanding this disaster, Enoch Train, Esq., of Boston, with a
liberality which does him credit, appointed us surgeon of the ship Mary
Ann, commanded by Captain Albert Brown; thus giving us a second
opportunity of proving what we had asserted, viz., _that the emigrants
might be brought to the United States in better condition, and with less
deaths, than had heretofore been done_. It must be remembered that about
this time the typhus, or ship fever, was making sad havoc amongst all
classes of men, and many talented professional men fell victims to the
dire malady. We left Liverpool at a sickly season, having on board two
hundred persons, and were fortunate enough to land them in this city,
all in good health. Several ships which sailed at the same time, bound
also to different ports in the United States, lost, on the passage, from
ten to twenty persons, although each ship was furnished with a medical
attendant. Here, then, is a proof that our agents cure while others
fail.