Appendix to the state of the prisons in England and Wales, &c. ... : Containing a farther account of foreign prisons and hospitals, with additional remarks on the prisons of this country / By John Howard.

  • Howard, John, 1726-1790.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Appendix to the state of the prisons in England and Wales, &c. ... : Containing a farther account of foreign prisons and hospitals, with additional remarks on the prisons of this country / By John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Amsterdam The work-room, is a large room up ftairs, feparated hy a wooden Sp IN- HOUSE, baluftrade from the paflage (fix feet wide) into which fpedators are admitted. This room is divided by baluftrades into three, for diftin- guifhing thofe who have fufFered fome public or corporal punijhment^ from the others who have not been whipped, and expofed on a fcaffold. The mother was feated at a defk (where Ihe had a full view of her family at work) with a Bible before her. By calling there on Whitfun-Monday, I found that they keep the fame holidays as at the Rafp-houfe. The kitchen, the dining and lodging-rooms, were on the ground floor. In each of the three bed-rooms were ten wooden cafes, with a ftraw mattrefs, two coverlids, flieets, and one large pillow, for two perfons. All were clean, and fliewed the attention of the regents. Tax. This houfe is fupported by a fmall annual tax on thofe who fell tobacco, beer and other liquors, and ox\t fourth part of what is re- ceived at public exhibitions and diverjions. Work- The old Rafp-houfe or Work-houje is worthy of obfervation, as a well-regulated houfe of induftry.* In one large room were forty-fix women carding, fpinning and reeling; twelve, weaving coarfe linen or fail-cloth j thirteen, making and mending linen j and one em- * Here are confined beggars and vagabonds, who, for the firfl: crime, are com- mitted for fix weeks; for the fecond, three months; and for the third, for a longer period, or are banifhed. Drunkards alfo are here confined, and fuch as are guilty of petty larceny. ployed