every night Tubs
are put ex f
under the pumps &
Wash'd

DistemperThat the Prison is swept every day
in Winter and the Wards where the prisoner lie
are Washed every Morning in the Summer wch
Conduces greatly to their Health-That there are
some Houses very near the said prison but it is
not surrounded part of it being open to a large
Garden which supplies the Prisoners with a
sufficiency of Light and Air-That ill smells
are presented by Constant Clearing otherwise he
should use Herbs and Tobacco to prevent them
and that the Goal would be more Un healthy
if the Cleaning of it was neglectedthat it
would told more prisoners than are usually
there and he apprehends the Prison of
Newgate to be 3 Times as large as New prison ,

5

Mr. James Elemore< no role > Keeper of Clerkenwell
Bridewell said that he had been acquainted
with the said prison about 18 Years & has

a Salary of £50 a Year paid him by the County and
the County defray the Expence of Repairs and all other
incidental Expences-That he has at present only 30
prisoners but the Goal will hold above 150That
the said prison is washed every Morning in the Summer
and in the Winter is Swept twice a Week-That some
Prisoners have died of Fevers but he never knew the
Goal Distemper there,

That he never took any prisoners to Newgate whom
he suspected to have that Distemper That he has
known newgate 18 Years from his frequent Carryingl
prisoners thither & bes: if the same Care and Cleanliness
were used there as at the Prison of which he is Keeper
it would be sweeter but he said the Prisoners have
more Air than they have at Newgate and that if
show was an Area to New gate and the Prisoners
were to be Aired in it every Day it would be
more healthy.