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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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of the Town he Say'd he believed it might in
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part and partly from its being so irregularly
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built and the want of Air (Mr. Akerman)
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he say'd further that in the year 1763. 16. prisoners
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dyed within a Month, and as he apprehended
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all but two or three of the Gaol Distemper-and that
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in the cours of 10. years he had buried 8. or 10. of
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his Servants-That he found great difficulty
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to prevail on any persons of the Faculty to
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attend the prisoners when they were ill
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That he remembred the Ventilator's being put
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their Husbands and some Children of women
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brought to bed in the Gaol who have caught the
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