<sod>In historical times "Gaol Fever", or "Aryotitus fever"{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} was common in English prisons, and is believed by modern authorities to have been Typhus. It often occurred when prisoners were crowded together into dark, filthy rooms where lice spread easily. Thus "Imprisonment until the next term of court" was often equivalent to a death sentence. Prisoners brought before the court sometimes infected members of the court itself.<ref name="Ralph D. Smith 1967">Ralph D. Smith, "Comment, Criminal Law—Arrest—The Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest," 7 ''NAT. RESOURCES J.'' 119, 122 n.16 (1967) (hereinafter Comment) (citing John Howard, ''The State of Prisons'' 6–7 (1929)) (Howard's observations are from 1773 to 1775). Copied from ''State v. Valentine'' (May 1997) 132 Wn.2d 1, 935 P.2d 1294</ref> Following the [[assizes]] held at [[Oxford]] in 1577, later deemed the [[Black Assize of Oxford 1577|Black Assize]], over 300 died from gaol fever, including [[Sir Robert Bell (Knight)|Sir Robert Bell]], Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The [[Black Assize of Exeter 1586]] was another notable outbreak. During the Lent assizes court held at [[Taunton]] in 1730, gaol fever caused the death of the [[Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer|Lord Chief Baron]], as well as the [[High Sheriff of Somerset|High Sheriff]], the sergeant, and hundreds of others. During a time when persons were executed for capital offenses, more prisoners died from 'gaol fever' than were put to death by all the public executioners in the British realm. In 1759, an English authority estimated that each year a quarter of the prisoners had died from gaol fever.<ref name="Ralph D. Smith 1967"/> In [[London]], gaol fever frequently broke out among the ill-kept prisoners of [[Newgate Prison]] and then moved into the general city population. In May 1750, the [[Lord Mayor of London]], Sir [[Samuel Pennant]], and a large number of court personnel were fatally infected in the courtroom of the [[Old Bailey]], which adjoined Newgate Prison.<ref>Gordon, Charles [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030386662#page/n347/mode/2up The Old Bailey and Newgate] pp.331–2. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902</ref><eod>
<sod>You should watch hometuck!!!! fever"{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} was common in English prisons, and is believed by modern authorities to have been Typhus. It often occurred when prisoners were crowded together into dark, filthy rooms where lice spread easily. Thus "Imprisonment until the next term of court" was often equivalent to a death sentence. Prisoners brought before the court sometimes infected members of the court itself.<ref name="Ralph D. Smith 1967">Ralph D. Smith, "Comment, Criminal Law—Arrest—The Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest," 7 ''NAT. RESOURCES J.'' 119, 122 n.16 (1967) (hereinafter Comment) (citing John Howard, ''The State of Prisons'' 6–7 (1929)) (Howard's observations are from 1773 to 1775). Copied from ''State v. Valentine'' (May 1997) 132 Wn.2d 1, 935 P.2d 1294</ref> Following the [[assizes]] held at [[Oxford]] in 1577, later deemed the [[Black Assize of Oxford 1577|Black Assize]], over 300 died from gaol fever, including [[Sir Robert Bell (Knight)|Sir Robert Bell]], Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The [[Black Assize of Exeter 1586]] was another notable outbreak. During the Lent assizes court held at [[Taunton]] in 1730, gaol fever caused the death of the [[Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer|Lord Chief Baron]], as well as the [[High Sheriff of Somerset|High Sheriff]], the sergeant, and hundreds of others. During a time when persons were executed for capital offenses, more prisoners died from 'gaol fever' than were put to death by all the public executioners in the British realm. In 1759, an English authority estimated that each year a quarter of the prisoners had died from gaol fever.<ref name="Ralph D. Smith 1967"/> In [[London]], gaol fever frequently broke out among the ill-kept prisoners of [[Newgate Prison]] and then moved into the general city population. In May 1750, the [[Lord Mayor of London]], Sir [[Samuel Pennant]], and a large number of court personnel were fatally infected in the courtroom of the [[Old Bailey]], which adjoined Newgate Prison.<ref>Gordon, Charles [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030386662#page/n347/mode/2up The Old Bailey and Newgate] pp.331–2. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902</ref><eod>