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<p n="1539">Mr: <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1539-1">George Dance</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50547_occ137">Clerk</rs>
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of the City's Works being<lb></lb>
Examined Say'd that he had been acquainted<lb></lb>
with the State of the Prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo811">Newgate</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
30. years past having been often there on account<lb></lb>
of Repairs<del>within Time.</del>
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<p n="1540"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">parts over Gate most<lb></lb>
light</note>
<lb></lb>
That the two Fronts of the Gaol over the<lb></lb>
Gate way have been built since the Fire<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo812">London</rs>
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but that the rest of the prison is<lb></lb>
very old and the Walls in many places<lb></lb>
much decayed and damp-That he<lb></lb>
thinks Newgate was Originally very<lb></lb>
ill constructed being a parcel of Little<lb></lb>
Divisions many of them without light<lb></lb>
or Air-That it is close and as he believes<lb></lb>
unwholesome for prisoners-That in some<lb></lb>
of the largest Rooms there is only one light<lb></lb>
and that very gloomy and that the Stair<lb></lb>
Cases are dark and they are obliged to<lb></lb>
Use links to go up and down them<lb></lb>
That in most of the Wards there are prices<lb></lb>
in</p>
<p n="1541">in which the Soil is Conveyed through Waden<lb></lb>
Pipes which are frequently cheaked and they<lb></lb>
are very offensive and in the present Situation<lb></lb>
of the Gaol cannot be made better, for that if new<lb></lb>
Pipes were laid they would soon be in the same<lb></lb>
Condition-That the whole Gaol is very<lb></lb>
incommodious and bad Except the press yard<lb></lb>
where there is an Area Fifty feet Long<lb></lb>
and 7. wide Surrounded with Buildings<lb></lb>
50. feet high and that there cannot come<lb></lb>
much Air to such a place.<lb></lb>
that if he shod. be employed & it would have an effect on his Evid.</p>
<p n="1542">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1542-1">Richard Akerman</rs>
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being further Examined<lb></lb>
Say'd that Newgate is a very Old Building<lb></lb>
and that the Walls are in many places<lb></lb>
Decayed damp and Spunay, and impregnated<lb></lb>
with bad Stenches that he does not apprehend in the present State of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo813">Newgate</rs>
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that he can keep it clean unless there was a proper area the walls are is very damp spungy & rottey <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and thinks that the Gaol grows worse & worse tis his <obscured></obscured>
to keep it healthy-That there is no free<lb></lb>
passage for the Air through the Wards, That<lb></lb>
the Wards for Felons and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo814">the Common</rs>
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<lb></lb>
side Debtors are<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
dark that they are obliged<lb></lb>
to use Links and Burners in the day Time<lb></lb>
to</p>
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