At the Delivery of the Kings Goal of Newgate holder
for the County of Middlesex at Justice Hall in the Old
Bailey in the Suburbs of the City of London on Wednesday
the fourteenth day of April in the Nineteenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third new King of
Great Britain Etc and in the Year of our Lord 1779

It appearing to the Court this day upon the Examination of Mr.
Olney Surgeon of Newgate that under the General Order of this Court
bearing date the 25th. day of May in the Year 1726 a prisoner was on
Thursday last brought to that Goal by the Keeper of New Prison
in a dying Condition from a Goal Fever and that his disease
was thereby communicated to several other prisoners in
Newgate which had been in a very healthy state before this
Prisoner was brought into the same Goal And it also appearing
upon the Examination of the Keeper of New Prison that he had
neglected to call upon the Apothecary appointed by the Justices of
the peace for the County of Middlesex to attend the prisoners
in New Prison to Visit that prisoner before his Removal
for which neglect he was Reprimanded by the Court And this
Court having this day made an Order that the Keepers of the several
Goals within the County of Middlesex do not for the future
remove to the Goal of Newgate under the said General Order
of this Court any Prisoners in their Custody who shall be found
by the Apothecary or Surgeon attending such Prisoners to have
the Goal Fever upon them or to be otherwise unfit in point of
Health to be Removed under such General Order as aforesaid

It is Recommended by this Court to the Justices of
the peace for the County of Middlesex to take Order at the Sessions of the
peace for the said County for the regular examination of all
Prisoners in the several Goals within the said County by the
respective Apothecaries or Surgeons appointed to attend such
Prisoners imediately previous to their removal to Newgate