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Report of the Visiting Justices Midsummer Sessions 1867. William Stuart junior, Montagu Burgoyne, W B Higgins, H W Beauford, F J Thynne, Harry Thornton, Frederic C G Passy, B H Starey, Joseph Tucker. Includes the following:

June 1867

From: 1867 To: 1867

The cooking apparatus erected by Haden & Son continues to work satisfactorily. Repairs of the main pumps completed. Visiting Justices once again recommend the division of the exercise yard. Mr Moore has paid the amount claimed for damaged caused by overflow of sewers. Inspector of prisons suggests some alterations to the rules put forward by the Visiting Justices. One prisoner, John Riddell, having become insane was removed to Fisherton on Saturday June 29th by order of the Secretary of State.

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Stuart, William,
Thornton, Harry,
Higgins, W B,
Thynne, F J,
Beauford, H W,
Starey, Benjamin Helps,
Tucker, Joseph,
Passy, Frederic Charles George,
Burgoyne, Montagu,
Haden & Son,
Moore,
Riddell, John

BEDFORD, Fisherton, gaol, general justices of the peace, prison governors, chaplains, Quarter Sessions, magistrate, imprisonment, punishment, Bedford Gaol, County Gaol, House of Correction, lighting, cooking, kitchen, gas lighting, sanitation, water supply, sewerage, mental health, lunacy