QGR5/395

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions straw plaiting, female prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, gas, new prisoners' diet. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 395 includes the following:

30 May 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George P Livius, Timorthy Fish Foord Bowes. 1st bell rings at 6 - the doors of the night cells are then opened and the prisoners cloths delivered. In half an hour after they are brought down to their day rooms - breakfast at 8 o clock - viz 1/2 loaf. They dine at 1 o clock. The prisonersgo to their night cells at 8 o clock during summer months from March to november and in the winter they are down in the day room at 8 o clock in the morning and locked up by 1/2 past 4 o clock. 5 women on the surgeons list, 3 of them comnvalescent. The Rev H B Worthington visited the prisoners one day during the week and performed Divine Service on the Sunday. It appears from the Matrons journal that the iron blinds in teh Infirmary impede the free circulation of the air.

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Livius, George P,
Bowes, Timothy Fish Foord,
Treganza,
Sanders, Ann,
Barnes, John,
Worthington, Henry Burdett

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