QGR5/68

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 68 includes the following:

27 January 1834

From: 1834 To: 1834

Philip Hunt, Frederick H Neve, George Cardale, George P Livius, Thomas Barber. 60 male prisoners, 3 female prisoners. [Thomas] Sharpe is now really ill with petechial affection of the leg (a disease allied to sea scurvy) and the pain has most probably been real, of which he complained, and he is now in the infirmary. Sharpe was cautioned to abstain from using any improper language, as it cannot fail to prejudice the officers of the prison against him, so as to make them doubt his assertions respecting illness or weakness, he promised to behave correctly in future.

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Hunt, Philip,
Barber, Thomas,
Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Cardale, George,
Livius, George P,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Sharpe, Thomas

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