applied abt. 4 or 5
yrs ago

was that he would not in danger his life
on any Account whatever, That he has
often offered Money totheapothecaries
to visit prisoners and has been refused
That Mr. Blackden now attends and the
City pays him but he has no Salary That
he don't believe the Gaol Distemper is
peculiar to Newgate but is in all Gaols
That the Coroner of London takes Inquisi-
tions upon the Death of Prisoners & is
paid for it by the CIty, and that Akerman he himself is at
the Expence of their Burial-That the part of
the Gaol where the Debtors are Confined is one of
the worst but that the Felons is extreamly bad
but the felons side is wine and that the Debtors on the Masters side
are now more healthy than on the Common
side-That there are more than 40 Debtors
confined at present That the Situation of
the Debtors on the Common side is worse
that that of some of the Felons but that
he cannot accomodate the debtors better
without

without Mixing them with Felons and he
does not think any precaution could be taken
to keep them apart and yet put the
Debtors in a better Situation-That he believes
that part of the Gaol is appointed for Debtors
by the Court of Aldermen-That more Felons
have died than Debtors in proportion
That the Debtors have no Area and that he
can't keep a Debtor in the press yard it being
a Doubt whether that [..] is part of the Gaol.

Being asked why more Felons die than
Debtors if the Sickness is owing to want of
Air? he Say'd it frequently happens that
Felons brought from other Gaols are distemper'd
and then the prison is liable to those Distempers
as well as it's own.

That when the Coroner comes to take
Inquisitions the Bodies are brought into
the press Yard he having refused to go into
the Wards and he (the Coroner) applyed to
the