People were as tall, strong and healthy as in the late 1900s, not having yet endured the later malnourishment and overcrowding that was its worst in the 1700s and 1800s.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
The under nourishment and malnourishment of convicts is, in fact, one of the worst crimes of the many which their despots perpetrate upon them.
"The Subterranean Brotherhood"
Julian Hawthorne