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]
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Credit: 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. 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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    diaions, in tlieir quarter feffions anfembled, are hereby authorized and required to order the walls and cielings of the feveral cells and wards, both ot the debtors and the felons, and alfo of any other rooms ufed by the prifoners in their refpec- tive gaols and prifons, where felons are ufually confined, to be feraped and white-wafhed, once in the year at leaft; to be regularly wafhed and Kept clean, and conftantly fupplied with frefh air by means of hand ventilators, or otherwife- to order two rooms in each gaol or prlfon, one’for the men, and the other for the Women, to be fet apart for the fick prifoners, direaing them to be removed into fuch rooms as foon as they fliall be feized with any diforder, and kept feparate from thofe who fliall be in health; to order a warm and cold bath, or commodious bathing tubs, to be provided in each gaol or prifon, and to dired the pnloners to be wafhed in fuch warm or cold baths or bathing tubs, according to the condition in which they fliall be at the time, before they are fuf* fered to go out of fuch gaols or prifons upon any occafion whatever ; to order this aa to be painted in large and legible charaaers upon a board, and hung up in fome confpicuous part of each of the faid gaols and prifons; and to appoint an expe- rienced furgeon or apothecary, at a flated falary, to attend each gaol or prifon refpeaively, who Ihall, and he is hereby direaed to report to the faid Juflices by whom he is appointed, at each quaiter feffions, a ftate of the health of the pxi-^ foners under his care or fupcrintendance.