Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR3/19
  • Title
    Gaol and House of Correction General Annual Report to the General Quarter Sessions, including the reports of the Keeper of the Gaol & House of Correction; the Surgeon of the prisons and the Chaplain of the prisons. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    Michaelmas 1857
  • Production date
    From: 1856 To: 1857
  • Scope and Content
    The Visiting Justices reported at the Epiphany Sessions that they had appointed Isaac Bird Trades Instructor in the room of Jonathan Lodge (resigned) at a salary of £55 per annum and had appointed George Mayle, Warder, in the place of Isaac Bird. In consequence of a prevalence of scarlet fever in the Governors House and the exceedingly cold and damp state of his and the Warders Houses the Visiting Justices referred the matter to the Court to decide upon the most advisable course to be adopted. Charles James a prisoner from Middlesex committed suicide and upon the Coroners inquest the Jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed the act being at the time in an unsound state of mind and that no blame was attributable to the prison officers. Samuel Morris another of the prisoners has been committed for trial at the next Assizes for having attempted to set fire to the prison. Mary Kenny an Irishwoman convicted under the Vagrant Act had become insane and an Order of the Secretary of State had been obtained for her removal to the Fisherton House Asylum. The Chaplain reported that Mr Passmore acted as Clerk and Schoolmaster and gave an hour and a half every Monday and Wednesday to the spellers and those who could read but very imperfectly and that he most zealously discharged that important duty. The Matron devoted much patient and painstaking attention to the instruction of the poor creatures under his charge and at no period during his connection with the prison had the instruction of the prisoners been more carefully attended to.
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