QGR5/518

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, installation of gas, alterations to prison. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 518 includes the following:

6 May 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

George Peter Livius, Thomas Charles Higgins, Thomas Abbott Green. The Governor assures the Justices that every prisoner has a foot bath every week and it is ordered that every prisoner is to have a warm body bath on his admission into the gaol and regularly once a month as long as they continue in the prison.

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Treganza,
Livius, George Peter,
Green, Thomas Abbott,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Appleby, Robert

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