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II. Hulk Mortality_ Sinecure made to screen it.

I thought I had done troubling your Lordship about
the Hulks: but fates have ordered otherwise. Accident
has this moment put into my hand the interesting
publication of Mr Neild. Visit to the Hulks is
March last, by the author and Sir Hen Henry.
Mildmay: the official screens broke through & among
the results the following-

N°1. Portsmouth Harbour; Captivity Hulk, March 15th 1802*. *Neild's Account
of Society for discharging
small debts
pp. 307, 322 "Many with ruptures: none with trusses: Sore
"legs and a number unable to work in consequence..
"..Cause, according to the Surgeon- an impoverished
"habit & want of proper care: viz: during their confinement
in the Gaols: in those Gaols which had been
kept crowded by Lord Pelham contrary to the law, in pursuance
of the plan laid down by the Duke of Portland.
Mortality, however, as yet a trifle: "not one half" as
great in proportion as on board the Langston Hulks;
which see: in a twelvemonth not so much as an
eight part of the whole.

N°2. Langston Harbour; La Fortuneé, March 16th
1802. "Hospital ward...Persons in all stages of disease
and with all complaints...intermixed together.
Water 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
cr crowded: no proper ventilation: many of the ports
nailed down and could not be opened. Divine
service...a small part only of the Convicts can
"have access to it...Captain never affends himself."
Deaths

Identifier: | JB/116/635/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	635	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d47 / d48
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7	ID Number	38168
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