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Continued Thursday 20th. June 1765
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That he shall Supervise all the Servants and if any of them shall be remiss in
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their Duty to Acquaint the Weekly Committee To late care that the Orders for the good
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Government of the Hospital be Strictly Observed and if he finds any Disorder or
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Mismanagement he is to Acquaint the Committee
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That he shall see performed all Causal Orders of the Court Committee or
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That he shall go round the Galleries, and up into the Chequers both on the Means
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and Womens side every Monday Wednesday and Friday in the fore noon to see
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that the Galleries and the Cells are kept as elean and as neat as the Condition of
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the Patients will Admit, and that such Patients as are not fit to be Exposed are kept property
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Confined, that is, the Wickets of their Doors kept Street, as will as the Doors especially on
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the Womans side, and that he shall likewise Order the Men and Maids to Open
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and see that they do open the Upper Doors of those who are their Confined in the Summer
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time that the Circulation of her Air be no ways impeded
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That he shall Observe the Glaizing and the Wires belonging to the Windows
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be kept tight, and in good order and Cause the Men or Maids to take away any rags
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Straw or other Nastiness that may be thrust there and which shall look unseemly to the
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Streets
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That he shall take Care that a proper Quantity of Coals be Distributed to the
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Rooms where Fires are Allowed, Direct the Cinders to be Sifted and suffer no Wash
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to be made thereof or therein
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That he shall Advertize the Weekly Committee if any Repairs are Wanting
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that Notice may be given thereof to the Surveyor
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That he shall every Friday go round the House and take Down in Writing what
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any of the Patients may want in regard to their Cloathing and lay the same before the
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Committee the next Day that what ever is necessary may be provided by Order of the Committee
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That he shall not provide any thing for the Patients without and Previous Order
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unless it be by the Desire of the Physician or on Special necessity; if Notwithstanding this
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the friends of any Patient shall think proper to Order Particular things, they must
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Sign their Names in the Stewards Book to their Order
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That he shall go down into the Kitchen on every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday
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in the Morning time enough to see the Provisions that are taken in that they an
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According to the Contract and laid ready for the Inspection of the
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governors
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if any come
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to View them, if none come he shall see them Weigh'd himself and enter the Weight down
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in his Book to be seen and Examined by the Committee on Saturday
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That he shall number the pieces of Meat before they are put into the Pot, that the
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Assistant Basket Man or such other Person who Cuts up the Dinner may Acquaint
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the Steward with the Number of Pieces Cut up to see if their Accounts Tally
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That he shall take Care that no more Provisions are Drest than are Necessary
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for the Servants and the Patients in the House. And in Order to know this with more
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Certainty the Number of Patients who are on the sick List shall Constantly hang up in the Cutting
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Room
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That he shall not suffer the Small Beer Cellar to be opened but at the Usual
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Hours nor any person to Draw Beer Except the Assistant Basket Man and he to Draw
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only one Hour at Dinner and half an Hour at Supper
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That he shall take all necessary Care that the Cook make no Waste of Provisions
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or Appropriate to herself Perquisites which are not her due
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That he shall not suffer any Strong Beer to be brought into the House for any
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Patient whatever but at Particular Hours for such Persons and in such Quantity as
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shall be Directed by the Physician Surgeon or Apothecary and Set down by them in a
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Written List, and in Order to do this more Compleatly and put a Stop to the bringing in of
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Beer it is Expressly Ordered that none shall come into the House for any Patient but thro
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the Stewards Appartment
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That he shall Advertize the Committee of the Death of the Securities of the
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Incurable Patients or either of them as soon as it comes to his knowledge and
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shall
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