| Administrative History | - Adelaide Peach, born 1864, died 1877, daughter of Thomas and Ann Peach of Holloway
- Samuel Hitchcock of Holloway was buried at Crich on 2 Jan 1878, aged 59
- Jemima/Jamimah Brown, born about 1810, living at Commonside, Holloway
- Alice Munday: not identified
Sources: Civil registration indexes, 1871 and 1881 census |
| Transcript or Index | 23/8/77
My dear Sir
Ad Peach: Could you tell me, besides your opinion of the poor girl, where to get the "powders for the bedsore", which I understand you ordered: and also what to do about getting her a water-pillow or bed, if you order the use of one? and generally what to do?
Hitchcock: Is there anything to be done for him? Is he sinking?
Disinfection: I was told (only yesterday) that a wooden bed-stead, feather bed, feather pillow & bolster & straw mattress were removed from the lad's room the day or the day after the lad took to his bed with smallpox.
The bedstead is out of doors: the bedding in an empty room behind the stables.
I am always for being on the safe side I should have destroyed them had I known.
What would you recommend doing now?
Widow Brown has not gone to Cromford this morning.
Please give me your opinion (tho' I know you will laugh) of all the invalids in all the departments of this house.
Alice: please also see my Alice Mundy here I am sure you will laugh: (she has become so stout since she has been with me: is this not a sign of weak health in a girl of 22)
Please send me your Acct. including poor Hitchcock's: I know we shall never cease troubling you all the time we are here: so it is no use waiting for the end
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