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