HBH 1892 May 26 Shipping Rio Janeiro to Aus ports Page 4 Malaria on Board Vessels arriving at Australian ports from Rio Janeiro recently state that the place is in a fearful state owing to the prevalence of malaria. In February last the death rate of 50 to 60 deaths per day. The mortality amongst the shipping in the port is terrible. The Captain of the Carned Llewellyn had two of his team stricken with the disease, but he insisted upon his crew making free use of tobacco as one of the best preventatives from contracting the disease, and the experiment proved very successful, as none of the other members of the crew ere affected. The barque Carleton was not so fortunate, as more than one-half of her crew succumbed to the disease. Yellow fever broke out on board the ship Wandlatta, and only two of her crew were left alive, the remainder having died. Nine of the crew of a steamer lying in the port were taken to the hospital in one day suffering from yellow fever. Men dropped dead in the streets of the city daily, and it was a daily occurrence to see the "dead carts" flying by at racecourse speed, conveying as many coffins as they could hold to the cemeteries on the outskirts. Many of the remains of the victims had to be conveyed to the burial grounds by the relatives or friends who would volunteer to deposit them in the holes dug out for their reception.