QGR4/329

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 329 includes the following:

24 September 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Philip Hunt, Thomas Barber 33 prisoners. There has been a good deal of sickness in the prison since the last visit of the Justices but not of a very serious nature. ELeven are indisposed, five of whom keep to their beds. Myers is gradually recovering his strength. The Gaoler being confined to bed by a fit of gout, the Turnkey reported that all is going on well.

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Hunt, Philip,
Barber, Thomas,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Myers, Andrew

BEDFORD, STOTFOLD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, general justices of the peace, prison warden, transportation, treadmill, vaccination, tobacco, illness, chaplains, gaoler, surgeon, convict labour, imprisonment, magistrate, turnkey, matron, punishment, debtor, bastardy, smoking, food & drink, poaching, Game Laws, cholera, gout, medicine