QGR5/349

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 349 includes the following:

22 November 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

George P Livius, William Shove Chalk, Charles Longuet Higgins, Foord Bowes. Health of prisoners improving.

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Livius, George P,
Chalk, William Shove,
Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Bowes, Rev Dr Foord,
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