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Gaols &c. Returns from all the gaols, houses of correction or penitentiaries in England, Wales, and Scotland; : specifying the number of persons committed to each, and the greatest number of prisoners confined in each at any period of the year 1820; distinguishing, tried from untried; males from females; and those under the age of seventeen from those above it.
Date: 13 April 1821- Books
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A set of fifty new and correct maps of the counties of England and Wales, &c. with the great roads and principal cross-roads, &c. Shewing the computed miles from town to town. A work long wanted, and very useful for all gentlemen that travel to any part of England. All, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer. Viz. 1. The map intituled, in gratiam itinerantium curiosorum antonini Aug. itinerarium per britanniam tentavit Wil. Stukeley, 1723. 2. A general map of England. 3. Cornwall. 4. Devonshire. 5. Dorsetshire. 6. Somersetshire. 7. Wiltshire. 8. Hampshire. 9. Isle of Wight. 10. Berkshire. 11. Surry. 12. Sussex. 13. Kent. 14. Glocestershire. 15. Oxfordshire. 16. Buckinghamshire. 17. Bedfordshire. 18. Hertfordshire. 19. Middlesex. 20. Essex. 21. Suffolk. 22. Norfolk. 23. Cambridgeshire. 24. Huntingdonshire. 25. Northamptonshire. 26. Leicestershire. 27. Rutlandshire. 28. Lincolnshire. 29. Nottinghamshire. 30. Derbyshire. 31. Warwickshire. 32. Worcestershire. 33. Staffondshire. 34. Shropshire. 35. Cheshire. 36. Herefordshire. 37. South-Wales. 38. Monmouthshire. 39. North-Wales. 40. Denbigh and Flintshires. 41. Yorkshire. 42. -West Riding. 43. -East Riding. 44. -North Riding. 45. Durham. 46. Lancashire. 47. Westmoreland. 48. Cumberland. 49. Northumberland. 50. The isles of Mar, Guernsey, and Jersey. And, to render this work more acceptable to the curious, the margins of each map are adorned with great variety of very remarkable antiquities.
Moll, Herman, -1732.Date: [1739]- Pictures
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Clock and Watchmakers Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: panoramic view. Coloured wood engraving by J. Knight.
Knight, John, active 1849-1880.Date: 1858Reference: 22813i- Books
Tackling cancer in England : saving more lives / report by the Comptroller and Auditor General [Sir John Bourn].
Bourn, John, Sir, 1934-Date: 2004- Books
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Thoughts on the construction and management of prisons; with immediate reference to the intended House of correction, in Middlesex: addressed to William Mainwaring, Esq. One of the Representatives of the Said County, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, &c. &c. &c. And to the Inhabitants of the County at large.
V. M.Date: 1786- Pictures
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An episode in the novel 'Paul Periwinkle': Colonel Sprightly in prison having his hair cut. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1841Reference: 29778i- Books
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Report from the committee appointed to make enquiries relating to the employment, relief, and maintenance, of the poor; the apprehending and passing of vagrants; and regulating houses of correction, with that part of Great Britain called England.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The secrets of the English Bastille disclosed. To which is added a copy of the rules and orders by which the whole system is regulated / By a Middlesex magistrate.
Date: 1799- Books
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Report of the sub-committee respecting the improvements which have been lately made in the prisons and houses of correction in England and Wales.
Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Second report of the sub-committee respecting the improvements which have been lately made in the prisons and houses of correction in England and Wales.
Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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Revelations of prison life : with an enquiry into prison discipline and secondary punishments / by George Laval Chesterton, twenty-five years governor of the House of correction, at Cold Bath Fields.
Chesterton, George Laval.Date: 1856- Books
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A report, with the appendix, from the committee of the House of Commons, To whom the petition of the church-wardens, overseers of the poor, and great numbers of the inhabitants of the several parishes of St. Giles in the Fields, the liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, and Ely rents in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn, St. Dunstan Stepney, St. Paul Shadwell, St. Anne in Middlesex, St. Sepulchre's in Middlesex, St. Luke Middlesex, and St. James Clerkenwell in the county of Middlesex, whole names are thereunto subscribed, on behalf of themselves, and the rest of the parishes of the said county; and also the petition of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, in their general sessions assembled, were referred; and the proceedings of the said House thereupon. Published by order of the House of Commons.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Rules and regulations for the government of the house of correction at Westminster ... and instructions for the guidance of wardens.
Westminster (London, England). House of Correction.Date: 1849- Pictures
Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
Date: Sepr. 1st 1798Reference: 37714i- Books
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Mad-houses : observations on the Act for regulating mad-houses, and a correction of the statements of the case of Benjamin Elliott, convicted of illegally confining Mary Daintree : with remarks addressed to the friends of insane persons / by James Parkinson.
Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.Date: 1811- Pictures
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The house and part of the garden of the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, Middlesex. Etching, 18th century.
Reference: 26712i- Pictures
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Lauderdale House, Highgate, Middlesex: convalescent home of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Wood engraving, 1872.
Date: 13 August 1872Reference: 18067i- Books
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An account of the present state of the prisons, houses of correction, and hospitals in London and Westminster : taken from a late publication of John Howard ... by permission of the author : to which is prefixed, an introduction, stating the Acts lately passed for improving the prisons in this kingdom, the good effects which have resulted from those Acts, where they have been carried into execution, the abuses, which still continue where they have been neglected and the means by which those abuses may most effectually be corrected.
Howard, John, 1726-1790.Date: [1789]- Books
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The plan adopted by the governors of the Middlesex-Hospital for the relief of persons afflicted with cancer.
Howard, John, -1808.Date: 1792- Books
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Giving alms no charity, And Employing the poor A Grievance to the nation, Being an essay Upon this Great Question, Whether Work-Houses, Corporations, and Houses of Correction for Employing the Poor, as now practis'd in England; or Parish-Stocks, as propos'd in a late Pamphlet, Entituled, A Bill for the better Relief, Imployment and Settlement of the Poor, &c. Are not mischievous to the Nation, tending to the Destruction of our Trade, and to encrease the Number and Misery of the Poor. Addressed to the Parliament of England.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Archives and manuscripts
Nursing lecture notebooks of Hedwig Lehmann (1919-2002)
Hedwig Lehmann (1919-2002)Date: 1941-2008Reference: MSS.8597-8603- Books
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Twelve beautiful designs for farm-houses, with their proper offices and estimates of the whole and every distinct building separate; with the measurement, and value of each particular article, Adapted to the Customary Measurements of most Part of England, But more particularly for the following Counties, viz. Middlesex, Surry, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, &c. By William Halfpenny, Carpenter and Architect.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Books
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Defence of the Police bill: in answer to a charge delivered by W. Mainwaring, Esq. at the sessions of the peace held for the county of Middlesex in September 1786. Respectfully Submitted to the Rt. Hon. The Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Inhabitant of Westminster.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Orders formerly conceived and agreed to be published by the Lord Major and the aldermen of the City of London : and the justices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, concerning the infection of the plague. And now re-printed and published by order of the Honourable House of Commons.
City of London (England)Date: 1646