QGR5/503

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 503 includes the following:

11 March 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

George Peter Livius. 50 prisoners. The Surgeons report presents many cases of illness. There are 5 patients on the list - 3 in the Infirmary with a hired nurse 1 in his night cell and one female in the day room. One case is rather of a serious nature viz James Craft, with fever. The Governor reports that the conduct of Thomas Reed, a prisoner for trial on two charges of felony, has been disorderly in breaking out of his yard and conversing with one of the female prisoners who was committed to gaol with him (Mary Reed alias Mary Wilson). This took place on Saturday afternoon - continued QGR5/504.

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Treganza,
Livius, George Peter,
Craft, James,
Reed, Thomas,
Reed, Mary,
Wilson, Mary

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