took 11 Inquisitions in two days on the Bodies of
Prisoners whom he thought died of the Gaol Distemper
That in Case of Violent death he goes into the
Appartments if not, the Bodies are brought out
to him-That he thinks the Gaol Distemper more
in Newgate than other Gaols-That reced died in
the New Gaol who ever brought from Newgate
where it was thought they Caught the Distemper
That the Smells are so bad in Newgate that he has
been Ill himself

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Being asked whether when he went into the
Cells they were Clean or dirty-He said he
did not make any Particular observations that he
only looked at the deceased.

That upon an average 6 or 7. Felons have died
to one Debtor and believes all the 28 Prisrs
who died in 1763 except about 6 or 7 died of the
Gaol Distemper and he Supposes more thatn 1/3d of
the 132 died of the Distemper which was an
Epidemical Fever and from which the Gaol is
Seldom totally Free but sometimes hardly more
than