Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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26th April 1781 - 12th July 1792

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Image 139 of 51430th April 1783


Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783.

The Constant Breakfast allotted the Patients throughout
the Year is Water gucel with Bread Butler & Salt. They
have Meat for Dinner three Days in the Week. Beef
is the Sundays fare, Mutton is their Tuesdays Dinner, and
they have Deal on Fridays but the latter only from Lady
Day to Michaelmas during the Winter Months, Mutton
or Pork is substituted in its Place they have also a
sufficient Quantity of Broth and that every Indulgence which
aconomy Permits may be allowed he Poor Patients on the
Meat Days one Gallery is always gratified with roast
Meat The Quantity of food besides Vegetables and a
Pint of small Been allotted to each Individual is eight
Ounces of Solid Meat on the Days in which they have
no Meat and which are called banyan Days they have
Milk Pottage or rice Milk with Bread & Cheese Their
constant Supper is Bread & Cheese with a Pint of small
Beer and twelve out of each Gallery in their turn have
butler if they Prefer it.

The Cells are Visited early every Morning by the
Servants of the House these make their Report to the
Apothecary who goes round about Eight O'Clock to Inspect
them himself and to give such Orders and Directions as
may be Necessary. The Physician Visits the Hospital
three Days a Week There are certain Days fixed for the
proper Medical Operations and the Cold or hot Bath is
used in those Cases where it is Judged to be Salutary
Every Patient is indulged with that Degree of Liberty
which is found Consistent with his own & the general safety




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