Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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7th January 1762 - 15th March 1781

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Image 514 of 79422nd June 1775


Continued Thursday 22d June 1775

Patients

That no Patients be permitted to go out of their respective
galleries without leave of the Physician Surgeon or Apothecary

Tradesmen

That all Tradesmen Employed by these Hospitals do
within one Week after each Quarter Day deliver in their
Bills up to the Quarter day then last past and that such Bill
be paid as soon as Audited

That any Tradesman giving or receiving any Fee Christmas
Box or other Perquisite to or from any Officer or Servant of these
Hospitals be dismissed from the Service of these Hospitals and be
Incapable of serving the same for the future

Arts Masters & Apprentices

That each Arts Master to be hereafter Elected shall
engage to Employ four Apprentices at the least and upon
failure shall be immediately turned out

That Vacancies of Apprentices be immediately filled if there
are Boys ready who are property Qualified

That the Regulations now in being relating to Arts Masters
and Apprentices be Strictly Observed

Prisons & Prisoners

That the City and Hospital Apprentices be alway kept seperate
from the other Prisoners.

That no Prisoner (except the Chamberlains Apprentices) be
allowed a Bed except by Order of the Prison Committee or (in Case
of Sickness) of some one of the Physical Officers of the Hospitals
or of the Steward of BridewellSuch Beds to be found at the
expence of the Hospital

That a Vintilator be erected in the Mens Prison and that
the Ventilators be worked twice every day half an Hour each time

That the Prisons be Furnigated twice a Week with Tar or
VinegarAnd That the Straw be changed as often as needful

That a Bathing Tub be provided for the Mens Prison and
another for the Womens Prison and that all Prisoners in Health
to bear it be bathed before brought up to a General Court. All these latle
Regulations concerning the Prisoners to be submitted to the Prison Committee




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