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<p n="1878">January 1799.</p>
<p n="1879">where they had a Fire and every necessary atten-<lb></lb>
dance they every one recovered and are now in<lb></lb>
perfect health having some reason to think<lb></lb>
their Complaints might arise from the sudden<lb></lb>
severity of the Weather I communicated my<lb></lb>
Opinion to the Visiting Magistrate who desired me<lb></lb>
to try directly to find out some method to convey<lb></lb>
warmth to the different Cells but after having used<lb></lb>
different means none of which I found to Answer<lb></lb>
the Prisoners were then permitted to go into different<lb></lb>
Rooms with Fires in them where they have been<lb></lb>
suffered to go during the Day time ever since, on<lb></lb>
the 26th. of November one of the Persons committed<lb></lb>
from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1314">Manchester</rs>
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was taken during the night very<lb></lb>
ill, I was sent for to him at 6. o' Clock in the Morning<lb></lb>
and found him in a very alarming and dangerous<lb></lb>
state he Continued so for two Days and two nights<lb></lb>
during which time I was almost Constantly with<lb></lb>
him administering different remedies he is now<lb></lb>
well but it may require some time for him to<lb></lb>
recover his strength after so severe an illness<lb></lb>
I have been 25. Years in practice and have<lb></lb>
attended Workhouses and places of that sort and<lb></lb>
never found any place so free from epidemical<lb></lb>
Complaints or putrefaction as this Prison, as to<lb></lb>
the Coldness of the Cells I have placed Thermometers<lb></lb>
in them and in my own Bed Room at the same<lb></lb>
time and have found the difference to be only<lb></lb>
two Degrees and two Degrees and ½. between the<lb></lb>
Cells and the Room I sleep in I frequently<lb></lb>
Examined the Prisoners Diet there is scarcely a<lb></lb>
Day I do not, I have always found it perfectly.</p>
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