QGR5/397

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 397 includes the following:

9 June 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George P Livius. 53 prisoners. 1 male prisoner and 4 female prisoners on the surgeons List. A nurse for the female patients has been engaged. The Governor has taken one of the prisoners today to Ampthill for further examination. Divine Service on the Sunday has been regularly performed by the Rev H B Worthington and has given much satisfaction.

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Livius, George P,
Treganza,
Worthington, Henry Burdett

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