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lying at present in the Port I
allude to the great extent to
which the venereal fainst of a
FOR
virulent descrifition
2.
the Surgeons of the Squadron
report to me, exists amongst
the numerous
crous unfortunate.
native women
who live by
fprostitution, and who being
under no medical Treatment
as I am informed
Regulation, and having no Hospital for that particular disense to which they
Can
resort, remain in their miserable
retreats disseminating daily this destructive Malady amongst the Seamon
of the
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Squadron, and I imagine ala. to the soldier of the Garrison .
altho' these latter are better.
capable of restraint,;
of restraint, from being
kept in their Barracks at night
1., than the Seamen who when
given leberty to
or 18 hours
go on shore for 36
are of course without
control whatever on the feart of
their officers.
The
consequences are really
number of
serious, and the number
who
are suined in health and .___
constitution, and who
are
invalided from the effects of e this malady is very great ; - to
give you
some
idea, in the shipp