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<p n="645">Sum not Exceeding one thousand two Hundred Pounds be granted to his<lb></lb>
Majesty, to be paid to the said Doctor Smith, in recompence for his<lb></lb>
constant and humane attendance upon sick and diseased Prisoners<lb></lb>
in the several Goals in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo658">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo659">Westminster</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo660">Southwark</rs>
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, for near four years last past and for<obscured></obscured>
paying<lb></lb>
6 the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50722_n645-1">William Smith</rs>
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the several Sons of Money by him expended<lb></lb>
in purchasing proper medianes for such sick and deceased Prisoners</p>
<p n="646"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Do the Votes set<lb></lb>
forth this Report?</note>
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<p n="647">That it appears to your Committee by the Report of<lb></lb>
the Committee of the Commons it Mr. John Rident informed that<lb></lb>
Committee he had attended the several Goals in the Cities of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo661">London</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo662">Westminster</rs>
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and borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo663">Southwark</rs>
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from the 20th. of March<lb></lb>
1776 the 10th. Novr. 1779 and he delivered into them on account<lb></lb>
shewing the number of Patients in each Goal together with the<lb></lb>
Expences of the Medicines that had been adminished under the<lb></lb>
procuptions and by the directions of Doctor Smith. That the<lb></lb>
attendance given by Doctor Smith to the Several Goals was daily<lb></lb>
and sometimes twice a day and that the Doctor was never ant<lb></lb>
for that he did not go That the charges for the Medicines made open<lb></lb>
consequence of Doctor Smiths procuptions amounted to £566 or<lb></lb>
thereabouts and that such Charges as the same as are generally<lb></lb>
made to Paupers for articles of the like kind That at the time when<lb></lb>
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Ridout began this attendance the Goals were full and the<lb></lb>
Prisoners may sickly buts that by skill Management and<lb></lb>
attention of Doctor Smith the number<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
is<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="648">That Doctor Smith also informed them that he<lb></lb>
began his attendance on the Goals the 36 March 1776 and had continue<lb></lb>
it to the time of his Examination before the Committee of the Commons<lb></lb>
during all which time these had not passed two days together that<lb></lb>
he had not visited one or other of the Goals that in Consequence of<lb></lb>
his attendance many sabitary Regulation's had taken place in<lb></lb>
the several Goals he had issued which are by them means much<lb></lb>
more healthy than they used to be that in the Doctors Report of the<lb></lb>
sick with the Expence for Medicines sent to several Prisons from the<lb></lb>
26th March 1776 to the wth. Novr. 1779 annexed to the said Report of the<lb></lb>
Committes<obscured></obscured>
the following Articles appear</p>
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