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Duties of gaolers.
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54. In addition to the duties imposed on the gaoler of a prison by the Prisons Acts, it shall be the duty of the goaler to enter in a separate book, called the Punishment Book, a statement of the nature of any offence for which he has awarded punishment to be inflicted on any prisoner, with the addition of the name of the offender, the date of the offence, and the amount of punishment inflicted.
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He shall, without delay, report to the visiting committee of justices any case of insanity or apparent insanity occurring among the prisoners. He shall also, without delay, call the attention of the surgeon to any prisoner whose state of mind or body appears to require attention, and shall carry into effect the directions of the surgeon respecting alterations of the discipline or treatment of any such prisoner.
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He shall notify to the surgeon without delay the illness of any prisoner, and shall deliver to him daily a list of such prisoners as complain of illness, or are removed to the infirmary, or confined to their cells by illness, and he shall deliver to the chaplain and surgeon lists of such prisoners as are confined in punishment cells.
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No prisoner sentenced to hard labour shall be kept at such labour for more than ten hours each day, exclusive of meals.
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