DECEMBER 18TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

A request was received from the medical officer of H.M.S. Speedy for the life-boat to go out to her for a man with scarlet fever.

At 1.15 in the afternoon the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched. A south-west breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat brought the sick man ashore. The medical officer accompanied him and the life-boat later took him back to the Speedy. When she returned she was fumigated before being housed. - Rewards, £8 11s..