QGR5/40

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 40 includes the following:

6 October 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Thomas Barber. Prisoners in the House of Correction.requested to have soup every day in the week.

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Barber, Thomas,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James

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