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Liverpool 11 Jan. 1801
My Dear Sir
The commissioners have been here. The prisoners are clothed, and some additional allowance of food made to the most emaciated. Improved regulations have also I understand been made in the prison which will I hope have a salutary effect. I fear these remedies are short of the disease, but I hope additional ones will be employed if experience should point out their necessity. It was time that something should be done, for forty died in the month of December. Examinations are also going on I hear at the other depots where alarming mortality has taken place and I trust that what the calls of humanity require will speedily be granted.
Certainly a mere subsistence is all that prisoners of war can expect in these perilous & scarce times, and this it is equally
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