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[Your poor little Infantry are poorly bred
& poorly fed, & most, or all, more or less
scrofulous.
What they want of all things is: fresh air,
good food, exercise, & personal kindness.
- & even with all this some will grow up
to consumption: & many more to incapacity.
To collect these children into large Schools
where they must be crowded & have impure
aire: - the two conditions for the finest
development of Scrofula &
encouragement of incapacity
is: simply dooming 8500 children
of London to this prospect in different degrees.