By adjournment same day

Mr Barnfather dated to the Court that about a Year
as an Order of Sessions was made desiring all Justices before
whom Vagrants were brought, to see tha such Vagrants
was in a state of health fit to be passed without endangering
Life. Nothwithstanding which Order the Parish Officer
continue to pass them in Numbers Many of whom are so
dangerously ill & weak; that when in Bridewell , they frequently
dare not remove them agreeable to the Pass, but they remain
in that Gaol, in the most deplorable condition of Fifth
Vermin & Diseases for Weeks, to the great danger of the lives
of the other Prisoners by the infection spreading over the Gaol
That Saturday last 10th. of Novr. a Vagrant was sent into the prison [..]
from Shadwell actually dying & expired early on the Tuesday
Morning. his name John Edwards< no role > , his and Body after death
was full of Vermin & every disorder, looks like a bag of faull
Bones cover'd with Parliment, that this Evil is become so
general that is dangerous for any person to attend them &.
the Apothecary & Nurses have great & unnecessary trouble for
which they have no satisfaction for these these Vagrants are after
so ill that they cannot be passed with safety as directed but lie
in this [..] deplorable condition in the Gaol Weeks together
creating great trouble to the Keepers & others, expences to the
County & highly infections to the Gaol & all therein

Mr Gibbs the apothecary to New prison and the House
of Correction being called in stated to the Court that the said
John Edwards< no role > when he came to the prison he was in the most
deplorable Condition being one Mass of Vermin and disease
he also stated to the Court that the Vagrants in general
which were sent to the said Gaols were in a most week