QGR5/469

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 469 includes the following:

21 August 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

George P Livius. 19 prisoners in custody. One prisoner named Reuben Bowers committed from Dunstable for three months or find sureties for 6 months - has been confined to his cell for 3 days for an assault on another prisoner William Wilds who were placed in the same day room - William Wilds was found by the Governor bleeding. Two slightly afflicted with influenza.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Bowers, Reuben,
Wilds, William

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