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found that very few could eat it even when pinched with hunger. I learned from official information that $150 per month is paid in wages to the man who mak this which would supply 50 persons with comfortable rations. The cost of the present rations is 5 cts each - yet for this not 1/4 of what is needful to sustain life is given. The mortality among those thus subsisting is very rapid. In Portsmouth the deaths among the colored people - and mostly the dependent class - averages about 15 a week I saw one family of five
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