CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6] — Page 86

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you

that after the lamentable. effects I have seen fproduced... by Syphiles contracted by the Ship's Company of the Sparton at this place, I have no

stating that

hesitation in stating

coll Hou

you

would be conferring great benefit on the Naval

Service and the Country

the messure you propose.

Young men that left England in this ship in the most robust health have had their constitutions ruined, and en

their services are now useless

from the effects of the above

leath some disease contracted

Loathsome

D

at Berghong.

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You will observe by the Statement of Mr. Pickthorne,

Surgeon of this Ship, the difference between the numbers placed on the sick Lest from Syphilis contracted on there at Macae, where a supervision

is exercised over Prostitution, and that contracted at this I have served for

place.

many years in the Mediterranean, and I can

feelly bear out. Mr. Pick thorne's statiment with regard to the mildoness of this disesse at - Malta, where the same

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