| Description | Reports on the Gaol by the Visiting Justices G. Rust and John Linton and the Surgeon, Jonah Wilson, mention the death of a prisoner, Samuel Sampson (committed from Godmanchester under the Game Laws) from typhus fever (not contracted in prison and an isolated case); a prisoner Robert Leeding (see Depositions 1840) suffering from scurvy and heeding extra diet, two cases of measles and two of frost bitten toes requiring nutritious diet. |