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20 Decr 1802

II Hulk Mortality Sinecure made to screen it.

I thought I had done troubling Your Lordship about XVII Hulks

1
Hulks Mortality
on board the Portsmouth
& Langston
1. Portsmouth
the Hulks: but fates have ordered otherwise. Accident has this moment

In the midst of these speculations accident
has just

puts into my hands the interesting publication
of Mr Nield. and from this I derive the followingVisit paid to the Hulks in March last, under
Your Lordships auspices by the author and Sir Henry Mildinay;
intelligence Visit to the Hulks the official screens broke through and among the results the following - -

No 1 Portsmouth HarbourCaptiviiity Hulk March 15th 17812+ Many visited. NoMany with ptures; some with
"trusses:Sore legs, and a A number unable to work in consequence + Neilds Account of
Society for discharge
of small debts pp. 307-
322
of sore legs ..... attributed byCause, according to the Surgeon to " an
"impoverished habit, & the want of proper care:
viz. during their confinement in thosethe Gaols: whence they were sent ++ ib.p. 311
to the Hulks: [+] Mortality proportion onehowever, as yet a trifle: "not one [+] in these Gaols into
which they werehad been kept crowded
by Your LordshipLord Pelham contrary
to law. in pursuance
of the plan
formedlaid down by the Duke of
Portland.
half the number of deathswhere<add>half</add>as great in proportion on board the Langston Hulks; in
which see:- not one eighthguilt are in a twelvemonth not (Your Lordship will
Langston Harbour: the not an half as we shall seethat is
as a fourth of the number in one year ++ so much Lordship as an eighth part of
the whole.

No 2. Langston Harbour; La Fortunce, March 16th 1802.
"Hospital ward... Persons in all stages of disease
"& with all complaints.... intermixed together.
"Water passed in the quarter deck penetrated into it
"through the floor of the quarter deck. Straw in the
"sacking ... almost reduced to powder & full of vermin.
"Decks extremely low, much crowded: no proper ventilation. many of the
"ports nailed down, and could not be opened." — [+]2 Number of the dead
for the whole year supposing
the mortality to
have no such visit, and
the mortality continuing
at the same rate, 165
out of the 300:- more
than half the number
of the living. - Nobly
proper ventilation. D "Divine service...a
"small part only of the convicts only can have access
"to it...Captain never attends himself". Deaths
in and in 1797 nine in a year out of 600;
in 1801 or 120 in a year out of 500: This for 1801. not quite one in four In 1802 Nobly A
[+] Well done done, Duke
Portland and Lord
Pelham! -how convenient
to Mr Addington
andin his accounts!
What a relief gr grievance to the only grievance that passes upon most noble words, "that "the expences attending the custody of these wretches, are "borne by government."
before the first quarter was at an end, viz March
16th, ) deaths 34; though the number alive was by
that time reduced to three hundrednumber of the dead. [+]2This however had for the
whole year at the same rate 165.
it half the number

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Identifier: | JB/116/582/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	582	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles	ii hulks mortality sinecure made to screen it
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / f40
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38115
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