QGR5/448

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 448 includes the following:

1 May 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

Thomas Charles Higgins. No order has been received at present for the removal of George Chapman to the Lunatic Asylum. All the inmates are well with the exception of James Gibbs and Sarah Dazeley, and she is better.

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Treganza,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Chapman, George,
Gibbs, James,
Dazeley, Sarah

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