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.

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    works by his royal highne/s, they are paid two crazzies (about three Leghork halfpence) a day ; but if employed by other perfons, they are paid four Fortress^ or fix crazzies, according to the nature of the work. At day-break, the turnkeys ring the bell to awake them : and a report is made by them to the keepers, if any have been guilty of irregularities during the night. Their daily allowance is a loaf of thirty ounces (which is made two thirds of flour, and one third of bran,*) and foup made from four ounces of peafe boiled in water, with fait and oil. On each of the two Eajler holidays they are allowed a pound of meat, and three ounces of rice. Every two years they have a coat of gray cloth, a waiftcoat of red cloth, and a red cap; every year a pair of ihoes; and every fix months a fhiri:, and a pair of drawers or breeches. Their drawers are fhifted once a month, their fhirts every week. For lodging, they have a mattrefs filled with fl;raw, and a coverlid : the ftraw is changed, and kept in good order.—If one attempts to defert, and be taken before flin-fet, he muft wear a ring, and a chain of eighteen pounds weight j and he muft pay half his future earnings, till it amounts to a zechin,^ to thofe that apprehended him. If they who are condemned for fi.ve years defert, when retaken, their term again commences : and for repeated defertions, they are more fe- verely punifhed, and fometimes tortured. The chaplain muik injlru^ the prifoners. In the hofpital there muft be all proper provifions for the fick and infirm, viz. veal, mutton, rice, fine bread, broth, good wine, &c. * Their bread was very good. I preferred It to that which I met with at my lodgings, f A ZECHiN is about 9s. 3d. F 2 A phy-