Complex sentence: If food was supplied, it was bread and water, or something confiscated from the local market as unfit for human consumption; anyone unfortunate enough to have no money for food, and no one to bring it in for him, simply died of starvation.
Split into simpler sentences: If food was supplied, it was bread and water, or something confiscated from the local market as unfit for human consumption. Anyone unfortunate enough to have no money for food, and no one to bring it in for him, simply died of starvation.