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Relations
Family[transcribers note- word crossed through & then underlined with dashes indicate stet/stay] must [indecipherable] on the duties of relatives to each other, so that when families continue to live together the sufferings of poverty are equaly[sic] shared between the whole number & thus are all are harrassed in the extreme, yet none die & government of course is no looser[sic], under this policy the situation of a manufacturing town to which individuals flock because they can gain higher wages there than in the labour of husbandry & where the profligate dispositions of all their companions soon teach them to live from hand to mouth in greatest [indecipherable] indeed sickness must be attended by [indecipherable] & must generally terminate in death & in the disgusting public funeral which the missionaries give an account of here