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1865. [underscored]
October 19th
Thursday Margt [Margaret] OBrian came to ask if we
could tell her how to get into the Infirmary and begd [begged] " a drink of water and a bit of bread" said, "some day my body will be found dead"
Cathr [ Catherine] Richards is idle noisy and troublesome, we fear her case is hopeless.
Mrs Bird sent for the clothes she had left last Teusday [tuesday] for Maria. we [inserted] sent to tell her they could not leave them without a note, in the afternoon another woman came with the required note. The clothes were then given to her. she said Mr Bird had engaged a lawyer to come on Teusday [Tuesday] and that he had given his wife a good beating for not bringing Maria home last Tuesday which had quite laid her up again.
Revd [Reverend?] R Ord preached this eveng.
number present 31 inmates, Mrs A Milinda
& Matron. at 9 oclk [ oclock?] Mrs A came to complain
that Cathn [Catherine?] Richards refused to go to bed.
She "wanted to go out" - she was told, that was
not the time ot go. She must retire [underscored] at once, or
be put in charge of the Police,
She then went quietly to bed,

Friday 20th Mrs Wright complained bitterly of Ester Bruce
conduct in school.

1865. [underscored]
October 19th
Thursday Margt [Margaret] OBrian came to ask if we
could tell her how to get into the Infirmary and begd [begged] " a drink of water and a bit of bread" said, some day my body will be found dead"
Cathr [ Catherine] Richards is idle noisy and
troublesome, we fear her case is hopeless.
Mrs Bird sent for the clothes she had
left last Teusday [tuesday] for Maria. we sent to tell her they could not leave them without a note, in the afternoon another woman came with the required note. The clothes were then given to her. she said Mr Bird had engaged a lawyer to come on Teusday [Tuesday] and that he had given his wife a good beating for not bringing Maria home last Tuesday which had quite laid her up again.
Revd [Reverend?] R Ord preached this eveng.
number present 31 inmates, Mrs A Milinda
& Matron. at 9 oclk [ oclock?] Mrs A came to complain
that Cathn [Catherine?] Richards refused to go to bed.
She "wanted to go out" - she was told, that was
not the time ot go. She must retire [underscored] at once, or
be put in charge of the Police,
She then went quietly to bed,

Friday 20th Mrs Wright complained bitterly of Ester Bruce
conduct in school.