QGR5/382

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 382 includes the following:

31 March 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George Peter Livius. Five prisoners on Surgeons list - a favourable report from the surgeon. A debtor of the name of George Donaldson of Market Street states that he has no means of procuring subsitence, in consequence I have directed that the prisoner allowance be furnished him. Ordered that the three rooms lately occupied by the prisoners who have had typhus fever be whitewashed.

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Livius, George P,
Treganza,
Donaldson, George

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