QGR5/446

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, installation of gas, alterations to prison. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 446 includes the following:

24 April 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

George P Livius, William Shove Chalk. 15 male prisoners, 2 female prisoner. [George]Chapman the insane prisoner causes great trouble and inconvenience, the order for his removal is daily expected. The two females [Sarah Dazeley & Jane Stratton] are reported as being unwell and are on the surgeons list.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Chalk, William Shove,
Chapman, George,
Stratton, Jane,
Dazeley, Sarah

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