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December 1799
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By adjournment same Day
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The following Report from Mr.Webb the
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of the House of Correction being Read Vizt.
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To
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William Mainwaring
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. and the rest of the
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Magistrates for the
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Gentlemen
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I think it a Duty incumbent on me
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to lay before the Court the very unhealthy state of
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the Prisoners for some time past both in the House of
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Correction and
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, Several have
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Laboured under the same kind of Fever that is so
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prevalent througout the Town the more Particularly
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in the Habitations of the poor within or adjoining
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the City in many instances the Infection has Extended
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to every Inmate and Proved in many Places very
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Fatal it being of the Putrid and Malignant Kind
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I have the Pleasing Satisfaction to say that out of
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about Thirty Persons in the two Prisons and Several
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of them in the Worst stage of Disease and having
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Severe Venereal Complaint Itch Etc. on them at the
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same time, none have Died, the Nurse's at Cosh
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Prisons who attended on the Sick received the Infection
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and nearby proved fatal to them both, at present
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the Prisoners in
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are free from
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Disease but in the House of Correction five have fell
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ill Since the Meeting of the last Committee, tho'
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every means has been taken to prevent it extending
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among the Prisons by placing the Sick in apartments
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by themselves having them Washed twice a Day with
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Vinegar mixed with Water using fumigations with
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Jar, Vinegar Gunpowder Etc. Etc. - It may not be
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improper to remark that this Fever has not arose
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from any unhealthy situation of the Prisons or for
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want of Cleanliness among the Prisoners, for I am
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fully of opinion that the state of the atmosphere must
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undoubtedly caused the Great extention and aggrivated
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; for this kind of Fever has much increased
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since begining of September and still Continues
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