QGR4/18

Minute Book of the Visiting Justices' weekly meetings [second Volume]. Contains information on prisoners' numbers, health, and conduct, officers' conduct, contracts for supplies, those awaiting transportation, etc. Page 18-19 includes the following:

19th July 1825

From: 1825 To: 1825

Philip Hunt: John Clarke who attempted to hang himself with his neck handkerchief this morning appears to have recovered. Constant watching is resorted to in order to prevent a repetition of his crime. It appears from his conversation thathis mind has been disturbed by dreams and that he suffers from scrofulous sores. The Gaoler reported that John Tebbutt & his wife have arrived and entered on their duties as Turnkey & Sub Matron. The intense heat of the weather has caused the Surgeon to recommend a reduction of one hour in the ehat of the day in tread wheel labour.

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Hunt, Philip,
Clarke, John,
Tebbutt, John

BEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, justices of the peace, prison warden, transportation, treadmill, vaccination, tobacco, BEDFORD, illness, chaplains, gaoler, surgeons, suicide, scrofula, weather