QGR5/380

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 380 includes the following:

21 March 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George Peter Livius. 24 prisoners. Joseph Holloman has typhus fever. He was first unwell on the 10th and has been dangerously ill. Yesterday morning he was thought to be dying - he has been getting gradually better since. His wife and brother were with him some hours yesterday. 2 other prisoners of the name of Josiah Smith and - Barnes are slightly indisposed.

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Livius, George P,
Treganza,
Holloman, Joseph,
Smith, Josiah,
Barnes

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