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February 1780

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Sum not Exceeding one thousand two Hundred Pounds be granted to his
Majesty, to be paid to the said Doctor Smith, in recompence for his
constant and humane attendance upon sick and diseased Prisoners
in the several Goals in the County of Middlesex , City of Westminster
and Borough of Southwark , for near four years last past and for [..] paying
6 the said William Smith< no role > the several Sons of Money by him expended
in purchasing proper medianes for such sick and deceased Prisoners

Do the Votes set
forth this Report?

That it appears to your Committee by the Report of
the Committee of the Commons it Mr. John Rident informed that
Committee he had attended the several Goals in the Cities of London
and Westminster and borough of Southwark from the 20th. of March
1776 the 10th. Novr. 1779 and he delivered into them on account
shewing the number of Patients in each Goal together with the
Expences of the Medicines that had been adminished under the
procuptions and by the directions of Doctor Smith. That the
attendance given by Doctor Smith to the Several Goals was daily
and sometimes twice a day and that the Doctor was never ant
for that he did not go That the charges for the Medicines made open
consequence of Doctor Smiths procuptions amounted to £566 or
thereabouts and that such Charges as the same as are generally
made to Paupers for articles of the like kind That at the time when
[..] Ridout began this attendance the Goals were full and the
Prisoners may sickly buts that by skill Management and
attention of Doctor Smith the number [..] is [..]

That Doctor Smith also informed them that he
began his attendance on the Goals the 36 March 1776 and had continue
it to the time of his Examination before the Committee of the Commons
during all which time these had not passed two days together that
he had not visited one or other of the Goals that in Consequence of
his attendance many sabitary Regulation's had taken place in
the several Goals he had issued which are by them means much
more healthy than they used to be that in the Doctors Report of the
sick with the Expence for Medicines sent to several Prisons from the
26th March 1776 to the wth. Novr. 1779 annexed to the said Report of the
Committes [..] the following Articles appear




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