QGR5/248

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 248 includes the following:

21 Feb & 5 March 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

21 Feb: Francis Green, George P Livius. One of the debtors remains poorly and one of the females is convalescent. 5 March: Thomas Charles Higgins. A letter from the Secretary of State to the Visiting Justices complaining of inaccuracies in the Gaol returns and requiring an immediate revision. The Gaoler is ordered to give his best attention to this. [James] Biggs & [James] Fisher are still invlaids.

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Green, Francis,
Livius, George P,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Treganza,
Short,
Biggs, James,
Fisher, James

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