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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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consumption - he drank Rum & Milk for abt. Ten
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days & left it oft because he thought the Milk did not
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agree with his Cough nor present his spitting wch. was very
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great & continued to the last & was so thick it would
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stick to the Handkerchiefs like Glue, & not to be got oft
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That she sat up on the Thursday Night with him till One of
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the Clock but on the Fryday Saturday & Sunday all Night
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That on the Fryday Night Mr. Bearblock , Mr. Sibson, Mrs.
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Tooth & her two Mistersses Sat up till abt. 3 in the Morning
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when her Mistersses went to Bed in other Rooms but before
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50they went, her young Mistress said down by her husband
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-That they
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extremly fond of each other & Mrs. Sibson
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was subject to Fits wch. were very when she was
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in them & for that neon she was remov'd to the other
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side of the Rod & the Witness stood by ker - & heard
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her say she had brot. opium from
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to take when
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her husbd. alter'd for the worse ser she was determin'd to
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die when he died Say her young Mistress also told her
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at the same time by the Bed side That the last Night when
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the Witness was gone to Bed & she was alone with her
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Husband that she went down stairs & spread some Breed
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& Butter & put some Opium upon it & that she eat
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some of it & had Reach'd after it into the Pot - Says
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she afterwds. emptied the Pott & by what she observ'd
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Thinks she had eat much but she did not ineoly
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Exam in it but by what she observ'd thought the Pot was
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