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Prisoners - Health and hygiene

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  • Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.
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    An address delivered at a general meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and others, assessed to the county rate for the county of Glocester [sic] : convened ... for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committee appointed ... to rebuild the gaol and bridewells thereof; and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792 / by Sir George Onesiphorus Paul.

    Paul, George Onesiphorus, Sir, 1746-1820. | Date: [1792]
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    Remarks on prisons / By Stevenson MacGill.

    MacGill, Stevenson, 1765-1840. | Date: 1810
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    Second report of the Surveyor-General of Prisons.

    Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons. | Date: 1847
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    [Letters on prisons].

    Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815. | Date: [1803-1813]
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    A statistical view of the operation of the penal code of Pennsylvania : To which is added, a view of the present state of the penitentiary and prison in the city of Philadelphia / Prepared and published, in pursuance of a resolution of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.

    Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. | Date: 1817
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