Middlesex Sessions:
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April 1765

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fethces it away, That when the privies
ruinover which Occasions a great Stench
he sends to the City Labourers whose
business it is to clean them almost every weekBeing asked
he pd. scavenger for taking dirt away got togr by sweeping & scraping
is pd for by the City which frequently removed and that he sends
wher. if he had a Sufficient gratuity he cod: not
Keep the Gaol and Boghouses clean and
Sweet, he say'd with a proper number of
People the Boghouses might be kept clean
but that they cannot discover when they are stopt
till they actually run over, That the prison
might be kept clean but he did not imagine
it would be in his power to keep it
wholesome for that the Number of prisoners
and Confinement of the Building would
make it unwholesome if ever so clean and
if other Gaols were as badly Constructed
and without an Area they would be as
unwholesome: by an Area be means a
free passage, an open Yard and Draught
of Air through the Rooms-That he cannot
say

at whose Expence the Gaol was kept clean he sayd not is Mr C.
but pays for no repairs and that Cleaning the boghouses
for the City Labourer almost every week whose business
it is to clean them Being further asked




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