QGR5/41

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 41 includes the following:

10 October 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Phlip Hunt. Order given to admit a gentleman deputed by the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline to an inspection of the old house of correction.

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Hunt, Philip,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James

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