QGR5/6

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4]. Records their weekly visits to the Gaol, with numbers of prisoners, notes on some individual prisoners, their responses to complaints and reports from the Gaoler, Turnkey, Matron and Surgeon. Mentions execution, transportation, debtors, cases of typhus, ague and smallpox, use of the treadmill, provision of food and drink for prisoners, adaptations to the prison buildings, classification of prisoners, and attempted and successful escapes from the prison. Page 6 includes the following:

29 April 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Philip Hunt, Thomas Barber. 54 prisoners. The child of the female convict, suffering under smallpox, is stated in the Surgeons journal to be convalescent. James Peacock is ill of ague, Newman Emmerton of cold, and Joseph Lines of pain in the leg. ordered that the Chaplain be allowed to extend his attention towards the convicts at hard labour in the Old House of Correction by having them under his private instruction in rotation, each day for half an hour, immediately after dinner.

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Barber, Thomas,
Hunt, Philip,
Warner,
Banfield, James,
Peacock, James,
Emmerton, Newman,
Lines, Joseph

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