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

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Image 242 of 51423rd September 1785


Continued Friday 23d. Septr. 1785.

thrust there and which shall look unseemly to the
Streets.

That he shall take Care a proper Quantity of Coals be
distributed to the Rooms where Fires are allowed direct the
Cinders to be Sifted and suffer no Waste to be thereof or
therein.

That he shall take Care no Waste be made in future in
burning the Straw.

That he shall Advertize the Weekly Committee if any Repairs
are wanting that Notice thereof may be given to the Surveyor.

That he shall go down into the Kitchen on every Tuesday
Thursday and Saturday in the Morning time enough to see the
Provisions that are taken in that they are according to the
Contract and laid ready for the Inspection of the Governors if
any come to View them if none come he shall see them Weighted
himself and enter them down in his Book to be seen and examined
by the Committee on Saturday.

Thats he shall Number the Pieces of Meat before they are
put into the Pot that the Assistant Basket Man or other such
Person who Cuts up the Dinner may acquainted the Steward with
the Number of Pieces cut up to see if their Accounts tally and
that he shall Attend to the Cutting up the Provisions when
Dressed.

That he shall take Care no Person except the Servants of
the House be Permitted to remain in the Kitchens or Cutting Room
whilst the Provisions are cutting or serving up.

That he shall take Care that no more Provisions are Drest
than are necessary for the Servants and the Patients of the House
and in Order to know this with more certainty the Number of
Patients who are on the Sick List shall constantly hang up
in the Cutting Room

That he shall not suffer the small Beer Cellar to be opened
but at the usual Hours nor any Person to draw Beer but the
Assistant Basket Man and he is to draw only one Hour at
Dinner and half an Hour at Supper (and carefully Lock the
[mark] Door when he leaves the Cellar) That he take the Book down




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