Letter from Robert Arthur Jones, surgeon of the County Goal, Caernarfon, 27 May 1870 [image 1 of 3]

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Description

This letter was sent by Robert Arthur Jones, surgeon at the County Gaol, Caernarfon, to the magistrates of the town. Jones refers to the proposed new dietary table at the gaol and the suggestion of Dr Briscoe, Inspector of Prisons for the Southern District, as to the need to increase the amount of meat which prisoners received in their soup.