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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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night about Eleven o'Clock, the Maid said to the Young
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Woman she would be very glad if she would go down and
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lay in the Parlour as no Body lay there, for fear of
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disturbing her, for that she had a pain in her Bowels and
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the Gripes, the young Woman answered the Maid, that
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she would not disturb her, for that there were two Room
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and she might take a Pot and go into another Room
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the young Woman then went out of the Room, on pretence
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of going into the Yard, and went to Mrs. Marsh, and
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told her that her Maid was very ill, beleives she said
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she was in Labour, that Mrs. Marsh answered why
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hang the Girl she never told me she was Child, that
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Mrs. Marsh went up Stairs to the Maid, and said Becky
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have not I asked you several times if you was not with
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Child, and you always desired it, she said why Ma'm I am
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not with Child now I have only a pain in my Bowels, the
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Maid then wanted Mrs. Marsh to go down Stairs, she did
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not want her in the Room with her, the Maid then asked for
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the Chamber pot, said she wanted to make Water, and that
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then something came away from her, Mrs. Marsh told the
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