London
Informations of Witnesses taken at the
parish of Christ Church
in the Ward of Farringdon
within in London aforesaid on the 2d. day of March
1793. on view of the Bodies of
Joseph Pitchell< no role >
Thomas Hughes< no role >
and
John Riley< no role >
now here lying
dead.
John Radenhurst< no role >
a Prisoner
in His Majestys Gaol of
Newgate
maketh Oath and saith that the deced
Joseph Petchell< no role >
was brought into the Sick Ward where Deponent attends
about a Month Since ill of a fever and the veneral disease
that he continued growing worse daily until Friday Morning
when he died that Deponent also attended on the deced Thos.
Hughes who was brought into the Sick Ward on Sunday last
ill with a Fever attended with convulsion fits that he continued
so until Thursday Evening last when he died That the
other deced John Riley< no role >
was brought into the Sick Ward on
Tuesday last with a fever that he continued [..] with the
fever aforesaid until Friday Morning last when he deced
That the died Hughes died in a Convulsion fit that all
the deceds above mentioned were regularly attended by the
Apothecary
belonging to the said Gaol who administered
Medicine to them
John Radenhurst< no role >
John Francis< no role >
a Prisoner
in the Gaol of Newgate afd.
on his Oath saith that he was in the Sick Ward at the
time the deceds Hughes & Riley were brought in that the
deced Hughes owned extremely ill and had convulsion fits
that Riley also appeared very ill [..] the time he was brot
in that the deced Patchell was in the ward at the time Dept
went in that Mr Gillespy< no role >
the Surgeon attended them as