QGR5/374

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 374 includes the following:

4 March 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George Peter Livius, Robert Newland with Mr W Russell, one of the Inspector of the Prisons. It is a painful duty to record certain circumstances which come under our observation - which manifested irregularity and a departure from the prison rules - a report will be made to the Magistrate by Mr Russell.

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Livius, George P,
Newland, Robert,
Treganza,
Russell, W.

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