to be taken to embark such only as are in
good Health; particular Regard ought to be paid to those who are
picked up in the Streets, or have been taken out of the _Savoy_, or
other Jails. All dirty Rags from off such People ought to be thrown
away or burnt; and the Men, after being well washed, and new cloathed,
ought to be kept for a Fortnight or three Weeks in some Garrison Town,
or with their Regiments, in open airy Places, that it may be
ascertained that they have no infectious Disorder before they be put
aboard the Transports.

All Ships allotted for Transports ought to be well aired and purified,
and every Thing fitted up properly, before the Men are embarked. They
ought to be provided with Ventilators, or Wind Sails, to make a free
Circulation of Air through the Vessel[126]; and they ought never to be
crowded; but full Room allowed for each Man, in Proportion to the
Length of the Voyage[127].

[126] See Dr. _Lind's Treatise on the Means of Preserving the
Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy_, where he takes Notice of
most of the Articles here mentioned with regard to Transport
Ships in treating of Ships of War.

[127] When Ships are too much crowded with Men, if they meet
with a tedious Passage, and hot moist close Weather, they are
often attacked with Diseases which prove very fatal. Dr.
_Lind_, talking of Ships of War, says it is a Mistake
destructive to the Men to crowd too many of them together in
a southern Voyage, or in a hot Climate; as the Ship will be
found, before the End of the Voyage, in more Distress for
Want of Men, than she would have been, had she at first
carried out only her proper Compliment. An additional Number
is made, in order to supply an expected Mortality; but they
generally increase that Mortality to double or triple their
own Number. _Ibid. note to p. 48._

In military Expeditions, Soldiers are put upon Ships Allowance;
which, Dr. _Lind_ very justly observes, ought not, in Voyages to the
warm Climates, be made up so much of salted Beef and salted Pork
(which always tend to the Putrescent), as is the common Practice of
the Navy; but that a greater Share of Biscuit, Flour, Oatmeal, Goarts,
Rice, and other Stores of that Kind, ought to be laid in; and a
greater Proportion of them, and a Less of the salted Meat, distributed
among the Men: And he is certainly in the Right, when he says, that a
full Animal Diet, and tenaciou