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January 1799.
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The several Matters Contained in my -
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Examination as entered in this Report are true -
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to the best of my knowledge recollection and belief
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Sworn in Open Court this
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24th.. day of January 1799
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Hall, Cryer.
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Joseph Ballard
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Examination of
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Thomas Webb
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I have been appointed Surgeon to the
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House of Correction
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Clerkenwell
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4. Years next April
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I visit the Prison every Day sometimes 2 and 3
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times in the Day and frequently at Nights
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the Prisoners are generally in a very good
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state of health and seldom any Fevers
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amongst them, I think there cant be a whole some
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place than the Prison is, It is particularly Dry
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both in the Cells and every part of the Prison
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I have made severals Experiments to try
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whether there was any Damp and have
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hung up Sea Weeds in the Cells and in my own
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Apartments at the same time and have found
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the Weed in the Cell us dry quite as in my own
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Apartments and I have found little or no
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difference between the lower Cells and the
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Upper - I went into the Cell Cold. Despard
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was formerly in which had been shut up 4 or
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5 Weeks (from the 25th. November to 26th. - December)
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and found it perfectly dry in every respect
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not withstanding the Season - I never know
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that any Prisoner received the least Injury
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from being Confined in the Cells except on the
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21st. of November 8. Women that had not been long
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brought from Newgate were much Indisposed
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with Fevers which had some symptoms of
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putridity, I had them immediately removed -
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into a Room a distance from the other Prisoners
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