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Annual Report of the Surgeon of the Prison Robert Couchman to Michaelmas Sessions 1867. Includes the following:

15 October 1867

From: 1867 To: 1867

Only a very small number of serious cases have arisen during the year. The cases of illness have not differed in any great degree from those which have occurred in former years - rheumatism, principally chronic, neuralgia, and various forms of chest afflictions, usually in winter and spring. Diarrhoea and disorders of the digestive organs in summer and autumn. Two deaths have occured within the year. John Roberts, a young man, committed to prison September 12th 1866 in delicate health. This man who had prviously been in gaol, soom showed symptoms of consumption, and died on 15th December. John Jones, a middle aged but emaciated man, committed to prison on December 29th died on 19th March from ulceration of the bowels. William Hudson received on 11th March last, was pardoned on medical grounds, and was removed to Bedford Infirmary on the 11th May suffering with severe haemmorhage from the bowels.

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Couchman, Robert,
Roberts, John,
Jones, John,
Hudson, William

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