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Continued Thursday 20th. June 1765
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and Employ such of the Patients at their Needle as are Capable when not
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otherwise Busied rather than Let them Walk Idle up and down the House
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Shaving it to Strangers and begging Money
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That she shall bring into the Committee Room such Patients of the Women
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as are Discharged Well
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That she shall take Care that the Shaw on which the Patients are laid is
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Charged when Damp or Dirty
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As to the Office of Basket Men
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And the Committee further find that the Duty and Office of the Basket
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Men has been and is as follows
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Two are to cut the Bread Butter and Cheese by Turns the other to take
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Care of the Beer
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All to Distribute the Provisions and Beer to the Patients
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To Clean the Cells, Galleries, Chequer and Stairs on the Mens end
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To Shift the Men Patients once a Week
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To Attend on the Committees
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To go on Messages and with Letters as Ordered by the Committee
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treasurer
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Clerk
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or Steward
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To Attend and Assist the Men Patients at Bathing Bleeding Shaving and
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taking their Medicines
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To take Care of the Keys of the Gates after Ringing the Bell by Turns
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and on every Sunday and after Ten in the Summer and Nine in the Winter
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every Night to Deliver the Keys to the Porter
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And We are of Opinion that the following regulations and alterations
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should be made in the Office of Basket Men, that is to say
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The Basket Men on the Mens side
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The Offices and Duty of the
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Basketmen on the Mens side
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in Bethlem Hospital
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That they shall rise at Six in the Summer time and at Seven in the
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Winter to Light the Fires in the Store Room Surgery and Infirmary Carry Down their
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Patients as soon as Possible and then Set about Cleaning their Gallories and shall
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take away such provisions as may be found every Morning
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That they shall receive the Linen and other Necessaries brought in wit the Patient
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by their Friends and shall keep an Account in Writing that they may be
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Delivered up when the Patient is Discharged or if Torn that the Pieces may be
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returned to shew that they have not been Purloined
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That they shall suffer no Strong Beer or other Liquors to be brought
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in for the Patients on any Account but thro' the Stewards Apartment
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That they shall Conform to every good Rule made long ago but now
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much neglected, not to suffer Prentice Boys, Idle Girls and Jews on a Saturday
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to Stay long in the House and loiter away their Time and shall turn them out
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if they behave Improperly
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It is the Opinion of this Committee that another Basker Man be Added and
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that his Duty be as follows
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The Assistant Basket Man
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The office and Duty of the
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Assistant Basket man in
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Bethlem Hospital
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That he shall cut out the Meat Bread Butter and Cheese under the
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Direction of the Steward
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That he shall take in the Beer Draw and Deliver it out and keep the
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Cellar Sweet and Clean
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That he shall take in and Deliver out the Coals sift the Cinders and
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take Care there is no Waste
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And for his better Encouragement he may Succeed the Junior Basket man
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on any Death or Vacancy It the Court shall think proper and that it be
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referred to the Weekly Committee to Allot him a proper Apartment
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