QGR5/376

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 376 includes the following:

5 March 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George Peter Livius (chairman), William Higgins, Charles Gillies Payne, William Shove Chalk, Robert Newland, Charles Longuet Higgins with Mr Whitworth Russell, one of the Inspector of the Prisons. In this letter [see QGR5/375] is is desireable to state thte average number of the different classes during the past 3 years - the measure of the County ground. The subject alluded to in the entry at the last meeting [see QGR5/374] was reported and a reprimand given to the Gaoler.

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Livius, George P,
Newland, Robert,
Higgins, William,
Payne, Charles Gillies,
Chalk, William Shove,
Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Treganza,
Russell, Whitworth

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