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Why can't these privies be survey'd daily
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and fresh Water of which there's now plently
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in the Goal pour'd down
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vrd. applys them
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That is for want of attendance to Watch
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a little.
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A Single room may be very proper
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but to reserve whole divisions must be
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pernicious, because if there are only few
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that can pay, a great portion of the Gaol
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stands empty whilst the 2 Comon Appartmts.
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are crowded out of reason & proportion.
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It shod. seem that contagion must be personal
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rather than local-and the comon phrase is
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that the distemper is brot. by a prisoner
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from another Gaol. vid pag. 7.
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Many of these runners are men of ill Life
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who ate very intemperate Etc.
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The Ill Name the Gaol has acquired and the unhappy
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Wretches confined therein easily accounts for
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Men of practice being heath to go
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However it might be equally practicable to
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get a phyician thither as well as a Divine
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only advertise an election with a reasonable Salary.
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yet a Worthy
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Apothecary
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does attend
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was without a settled salary.
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The Coroners Accot. a 13s.4d. amots. to about
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£7. P ann vid.
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and I send for City Scavenger almost ever
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Week
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Comitte of City Lands visit Newgate, Sheriffs &
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Aldermen went last. Aldn Harley & Ald. Beck
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was there lately.31
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Gaol clean'd once a Week
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There are 8 or 9 rooms in Press yard
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unfurnish'd-when Gaol full uses them
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Its a lofty part & don't always do it for
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fear of escapes-puts em there for slight
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offences.31
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In all Gaols there are appartmts. let to
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better sent of people
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The Gaol is seldom without Sickness
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About 114 prs now in Gaol31.
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In 1763. about 16 Dyed. In 1414. when the Gaol was in its Infant State
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and not surrounded with Buildings the Keeper and
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no less than 64 prisoners vid stow 37 and it is morally
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impossible to prevent Contagion even in a New
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Gaol which till season'd might be still more
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terrible as well as insecure.
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Can't tell how many rooms in Newgate
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Generally thot. the 16 died (of Gaol Distemper
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) or 2 might
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dye otherwise32
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When full 20 may have been in one room
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Distemper did not comence in that room but
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was all over the Gaol.
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Have buried 8 or 10
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Servts. in 10 yrs
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any prisr may have a room to himself if
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pass & offence not capital
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Has found very great difficulty to get a
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person of the faculty to attend Psons ill 33
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Apply'd to Gentlemen of the hospitals
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Attended for a Short time & then refused.
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does If So must all Gaols be pull'd down? not knew Gaol distemper peculiar
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Newgate believes 'tis in all the Gaols.
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Apothecary
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had sayd he'd not endanger
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his life on any Accot. whatever-he has
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no fees for attend.
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Mr. Blagden attends, City make him a
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satisfaction but he has no salary.
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Coroner
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of London takes, the Inquisitions 33.
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The City pay, They are burged in
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Christ Church
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pays the Expence
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Some delicate person on a single applicn.
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but 'tis submitted under the direction of an
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good
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Approved Apothecary with a Standing Salary
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would rectify the ill State of the Gaol by
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pointing out proper Remedies.
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It appears by the Statute of Chas. 2.
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that they mix't with the Felons which
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was for bidden
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May be reasonably a scribed to their
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more miserable situations & connexions.
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There cannot be a doubt: and if so 't would
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be only hazardous in cases of Execution
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but 'tis absurd to Suffer it to remain doubtful.
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see prced 9 pa.
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Sensible Builders laugh at
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the Expression
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The Ballance must be in favour of the Latter
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Can't he keep it cleanr. It has been
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Clean'd at times & if no good effects
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why clean it at all or to what end.
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The bias is very strong for a New Gaol.
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Here he means the privies again wch.
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Has offer'd Money to 'pothecarys to visit
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patients in Gaol & have refused.
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'Tis the peculiar ill Fate of Debtors taken
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in
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that the Sheriffs of London are the
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Sheriff of
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and pitch'd on this Gaol wch.
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seems was never intended for Debtors. vid Stow. 39.
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who has these words from a Recged
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and
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get there seems tolerable appartments for this
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number. Debtors part is one of the worst-Felony
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as bad-Mars side Debtors more healthy
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than comon side
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Drs. have a Penny Loaf a Day besides
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several Donations so as he his comfortable
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34
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Das. at present rather more than 40.
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No yard for the Debtors, non very little benefit for 35
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the Sun.
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Some part of Debtors side is worse than
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some part of Felons, but not in General
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Don't think Debtors & Felons might be
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kept a part in a better place.
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More felons than Debtors have died in
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proportion.
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Cant Keep Debtor in press yard it being
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matter of doubt whether part of Gao
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or not.35
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Debtors have no Area.
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Frequently Felons brot. from other Gaols
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distemper'd
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and we are lyable
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occasions more
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felons to Dye than Drs.36
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An Area of Ground added might be Some
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benefit but the Walls and so rotten Spring
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damp & bad that twod. not cure it.
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Believes no of prisoners convicted & acqd. nev
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equal, but has kept no accot.
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Don't recollect any Mischief to
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or Nuys
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-Coroner attended by Deputy.
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Coroner
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has refused to go into Cells Etc
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Does not apprehend in the present state of
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Newgate
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, can keep appartmts. Clean & heal
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unless a proper Area
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and the Walls are so very damp spungy rotten
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& ruinous frequently overflowing thinks
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the gaol grows worse
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It's my interest to keep it healthy
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Have heard of gt. Quantities of Dirt & Fi
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carried away abt. 14 or 15 yrs ago.
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