Report of the Committee appointed by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to inquire into the dietaries of county and borough gaols in Ireland / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Date:
1868
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Credit: Report of the Committee appointed by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to inquire into the dietaries of county and borough gaols in Ireland / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPOET OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIE DIETARIES OF COUNTY AND > BOROUGH GAOLS IN IRELAND. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MAYO, CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND, &c., &c. , We, the members of the Committee appointed to inquire into the dietaries of the County and Borough Gaols in Ireland, beg to submit the following report to your Lord- ship for the information of His Excellency the Lord Lieu- tenant. Our instructions, as received from your Lordship were, that after the examination of the dietaries used in the various Prisons, we should, keeping in view the ordinary food of the labouring poor throughout the country, as well as the dietaries in the Workhouses, frame such a dietary as would be lifted for prisoners condemned to hard labour. It was also intimated to us that the rules regulating the amount and application of hard labour in the English Prisons Avould probably be embodied in any Act on Prisons extending to Ireland. Three points of inquiry naturally presented themselves— I. The existing arrangements as to the food for prisoners in the County and Borough Gaols of Ireland. II. The dietary in common use by the labourer, artisan,and small farmer throughout the country. III. A comparison between the dietary in use in the Workhouses and that of the classes above men- tioned. With a view to the first of these objects, the following queries were addressed to the Governors and Surgeons of ft Instruction*. Points of in- quiry. Queries 10 Governors and Surgeons of (»an!s.