Continued from above
examine the situation, frequently finds several dead. These dead slaves are thrown to the sharks.

It often happens that those who are placed at a distance from the latrine buckets, in trying to get to them, tumble over their companions, as a result of being shackled. This situation is added to by the tubs being too small and only emptied once every day.
Fever - Alexander Falconbridge (a ship's doctor), An Account of the Slave Trade (1788)
Some wet and blowing weather having caused the port-holes to be shut, fluxes and fevers among the negroes followed. I frequently went down among them, till at length their apartments became so excessively hot as to be only bearable for a very short time...
The floor of their rooms was so covered in the blood and mucus which had come from them because of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house...

Interviewed in Bristol with Thomas Clarkson