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Continued Thursday 20th June 1765
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The Basket Men on the Womans side
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Shall Light the Fire in the Store Room at Seven in the Morning and Assist in carrying
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the Woman thither
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That he shall Assist the Gallery Maids in Bathing Bleeding Shaving and giving the
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Patients their Med
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and also in removing the Shaw and Cleaning the Cells and Galleries
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As to the Office of Cook
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And the Committee further find that the Duty and Office of Cook has been and is as
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follows
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To Dress all the Meat, Boyl all the Pottage Milk Gruel Furmety and Rice Milk
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To Cut out the Meat on Sundays
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To Clean the Coppers Kitchen and Scullerys
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The Duty and Office of
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the Cock in Bethlem
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Hospital
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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 Cock, that is to says
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That she shall Dress all the Meal Boyl all the Pottages Milk, Gruel, Furmety and
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Rice Milk
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That she shall clean the Coppers Kitchen and Scullerys
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That she shall not be allowed to Treat any of the Patients with Strong Beer in the Kitchen
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As to the Office of Gallery Maids
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And the Committee further find that the Duty and office of Gallery Maids have
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been and are as follows
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To Distribute the Provisions to the Women Patients
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To help to wash and Iron the Linen of all the Patients
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To clean the Cells Gallery Chequer and Stairs of the Womans End also the Committee
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Rooms and the Stairs and other parts in the Middle of the House
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The Duty and Office
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of the Gallery Maids
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And We are of Opinion that the following regulations and alterations should be
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made in the Office of the Gallery Maids, that is to say,
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It is the Opinion of this Committee that another Gallery Maid be Added and that
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all be under the immediate Direction of the Matron and that Apartments be provided in
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their respective Galleries
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That they shall be in their Galleries by Six o'Clock in the Summer and Seven in the
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Winter and Open the Doors of the Cells that the Patients may come out of the Roome
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That they shall then Carry down to the Store Room such Patients as ought to be
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put there and afterwards turn out the low Spirited and such as are Mopish and there
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set about Cleaning the Cells and Galleries
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That they shall be very Careful in removing the old Straw and Providing Inosh and
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shall remove the Patients that are Dirty from one Cell to another and Wash their Dirty
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Cells and shall take away such Waste Provisions as may be found every Morning
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That they shall receive the Linen and other Necessaries brought in with the Patients
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by their Friends and shall keep an Account in Writing that they may be Delivered up
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when the Patient is Discharged or if Tern that the pieces may be returned to shew that
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they have not been Purloined
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That they shall Assist in Bringing in the Women Patients to the Committee on
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Saturdays
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Copy
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The Committee are of Opinion that the General Rules and Orders
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following are Necessary to be made for the Good Conduct and Management of the said
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HospitalVizt
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No Patient to be allowed
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Sea Etc Richd. Direction of
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Physician or Surgeon or
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Apothecary in Writing
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And no Visitor to Treat
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the Patient or Servants to
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Retad such things on pain
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of Expulsion
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Wardrobe to be at Stewards
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and Gallery made to lay
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Galleries -
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Bone House to be made
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Incurable Patients to when
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on East on
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to
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be
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charged
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That no Patient whatever shall be allowed Tea Wine or Strong Beer by their Friends
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unless by the Particular Direction of the Physician Surgeon or Apothecary first given in
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Writing Nor shall any Money be taken by the Servants on that Account
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And that no Person coming to Visit their Friends shall be allowed to Treat them
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with Tea Wine Strong Beer or Spirituous Liquors nor shall any of the Servants Order Fetch
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or Retail any such things on Pain of being Discharged
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And That an Apartment be made for the Matron and that the Steward shall
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remove the Wardrobe into his own House; And that each Gallery Maid shall lay
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in her own Gallery
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And that a Bone House shall be made in a proper place
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And that Incurable Patients when they become Mopes or Consumption be
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Discharged if they belongto Parishes as it is Presumed they may be as Commod
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