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lator threw out a confiderable dream of air, of a mod 
offenfive fmell. 
Before we parted, Mr. Stibbs informed us, that 
Clayton Hand, one of his journeymen, whild he was 
employed in fetting up the tubes, was feized with a 
fever, and carried to St. Thomas’s hofpital, after 
lying fome days ill at his own houfe. Whereupon, 
apprehending that this man’s licknefs might be ow- 
ing to the air of the gaol, Dr. Knight and I having 
the curiofity a few days after to go to St. Thomas’s 
to make the inquiry, we found the patient fitting in 
one of the courts, recovered of his fever, tho’ Ml 
weak, and had the following account from himfelf : 
He faid, that upon fird finding himfelf indifpofed, 
he had left off work for fome days ; but upon grow- 
ing better he had returned to Newgate. That foon 
after happening to open one of the tubes of the old 
ventilator, which had flood there for three or four 
years, fuch an offenfive fmell iffued from it, that 
being immediately feized with a naufea and licknefs 
at his flomach, he was obliged to go home, and that 
the night after he fell into a fever, in which he lay 
about eight days before his friends carried him to the 
hofpital. That becoming foon delirious, he recol- 
lected no other fymptom, Succeeding thefe mentioned, 
befides frequent retchings to vomit, a trembling of 
his hands, and a conflant head-ach. This man had 
taken no medicine before he came into St. Thomas’s, 
and fince that time was attended by Dr. Reeves ; but, 
as that gentleman was not then prefent, we were 
informed by the apothecary, that Clayton Hand had 
been admitted in the advanced date of a continued 
fever. 
