Middlesex Sessions:
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October 1772

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prisonsbyas there by the magistrates may the [..] for [..] seb to the will
ordering thereof. nor [..] we conceiveAnd if it she. be appr [..]
thatThatthere willmaybe any danger of infection
in such near situation from what is call'd the Gaol Distemper
We are [..] far, from concerning that to
be likely the atfor upon examination of
the Keepers and consideration of circumstances. it appears to us that
[..] no prisoners have died in either
of the said prisons in the memory of
Man of my contagious distemper and ye.
say few deaths of any sort have happen'd
there But it is conceived that the fatal
occurrences at the old Baily havehappen'd
beentheeby means ofthecrowding the prisoners from the Comptery
& all the out Gaolsabove & Comptenwhich are any into the
mone close Gaol of Newgate all at once
previous to each Gaol Delivery an instance




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