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1804.

LETTER II. ON PRISONS.

MR. URBAN,

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Jan. 2.
O facts are estab-

lifhed upon more indubitable experience, than that ventilation and *** cleanliness are effential to the preservation of health; to which may be added a proper degree of exercise. But as the enjoyment of the laft is rarely within the reach of the prifoner, more attention is due to the acquifition of the two former; and, happily for the poor objects of confinement, fome of the modern ftructures are jadicionfly formed to promote them; whilft it is more generally to be lamented, that molt of the old prifons, and particularly the Borough ones, are defective in thefe material comforts. They were, however, objects of the first enquiry with the celebrated HowARD; and the fame fentiments influence his fucceffor in the walk of benevolence, whofe letter I fhall take the liberty of introducing here, and which evinces how trivial are the improvements in the ftate of many of our prifons fince the period when HowARD publifhed his "Views of Beneficence;" read indeed by many, adopted but by few. The exertions of HOWARD once roufed the attention of the Legiflature; and, in 1774, a Bill was paffed by Parliament, containing many judicious claufes fuggefted by this celebrated Philanthropist, aided by the fagacity of a FOTHERGILL. The heads of this Bill I inferted in the Gentleman's Magazine in the fame year; and then

obferved that it wifely inculcates cleanlinefs.

"The feveral juftices of the peace are authorized and required to order the walls and cielings of the feveral cells and wards, both of the debtors and felons, and alfo of any other rooms ufed by the prifoners in their respective gaols and prifons, where felons are ufually confined, to be fcraped and white-wafhed once in the year at leaft; and conftantly fupplied with fresh air, to be regularly washed and kept clean, by means of hand ventilators or other wife; to order two rooms in each gaol or prifon, one for the men, and the other for the women, to be fet apart for the fick prifoners; directing them to be removed into fuch rooms as foon as they fhall be feized with any diforder, aud kept feparate from those who shall be in health; to order a warm and cold bath, or commodious bathing-tubs, to be provided in each gaol or prifon, and to direct the prifoners to be washed in fuch warm or cold baths, or bathingtubs, according to the condition in which they fhall be at the time, before they are fuffered to go out of fuch gaols or prifons upon any occation whatever."

So foreign is the economy of prifons from encouraging the acquifition of water, and much lefs of any fpecies of baths, for preferving and promoting the health and comforts of the prifoners; that this falutary article is fcarcely known but on the flooring of their dungeons, and that in a stagnant ftate. HowARD never approached a prifon without enquiring, "Is it well fupplied with good water?" He informed me of an anecdote, in fome measure connected with this idea. He went to Litchfield, with the view of examining the prison there; but pre

viously

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Kent

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725 400 620 430

Hertford 50 Bedford 48 31

37 432 9 2 20 119 829 8 18 8 17 424 11 31 019 10 18 10 31 O 019 638 33

Hunting. 43
Northam. 51
Rutland 55 00
Leicester 53 100 021

819 433 10 Netting. 59 432 024 4 2x 236 6 Derby 58 400 0/26 4 20 10 40 4 Stafford 52 800 025 923 444 5 Salop 47 532 624 1:22 744 5 Hereford 45 1032 024 523 743 2 Worceft. 45 533 223 824 1140 2 Warwick 53 100 025 023 238 6 Wilts 49 000 023 221 •40 4 Berks 53 400 023 322 835 0 Oxford 49 900 021 120 531 21 Bucks 51 100 0122 722 Brecon 49 732 0/25 4/21 Montgo. 46 1100

031 10 20

Suffolk 47 1000 020
Cambrid. 44
Norfolk 45 300 019
Lincoln 48 626
York 49 43 IC22
Durham 49 900
Northum. 46 1036 022
Cumberl. 53 1141
Weftmo. 53 1043
Lancaft. 57 1100
Chefter 52 4100

120 200 200

426 422 225 1024 027 025

027 300 044 Flint 49 400 28 400 Denbigh 54 300 027 4/20 148 Anglefea oo 0100 oce 016 609 Carnarv. 58 048 025 219 600 Merioneth 56 000 027 618 1000 Cardigan 51 000 019 215 11 Co Pembroke 45 100 021 616 000 Carmart. 56

100 022 016 800

Glamorg. 55 7:00 027 819 1100
Glouceft. 49 100 022 722 534
Somerset 54 8100 024 022 200
Monm. 51 1000 025 400 000
Devon 57 00 026 020 9/00
Cornwall 53 600
026 1028 700
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