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.
- John Howard
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![In the chapel is a proper feparation of men and women. HerCj and Vienna. at Prague, and in fome other parts of Germany, they have iron grate doors, which do not prevent the circulation of air, fo falutary and ne- ceflary in houfes of confinement. Too little attention is paid to the lodgings of the prifoners, for they have no coverlids. Though I could not mention with commendation the prifons of this city, yet I muft acknov/ledge, I was greatly pleafed with the public buildings for the indigent, the aged, and infirm; which do ho- nour to the citizens in general, and efpecially to the Emprejs ^leen. The great alms-houje in the fuburbs confifts of three courts. The Alms- front of this fpaclous building is fix hundred and thirty-feven feet] house. the fide, eleven hundred and fifty-three. The inhabitants are near three thoufand, including the military invalids. It was agreeable to obferve their order, neatnefs, and cleanlinefs. Here poverty and old age appeared with a fmiling afpe6l. Many of them were feventy or eighty years of age. They were cheerfully fpinning, becaufe v/hat- ever they could gain was to be their own. Les Freres' de Charite have not only wards for the fick in their convent, but thefe friars have alfo another airy and commodious houfe with gardens, to which they remove their patients when they begin to recover. In this were two wards up ftairs, and each ward has fourteen beds. The noble Ho/pital for bringing up children, was the plan of one perfon, whom I left engaged in the improvement of his liberal de- fign. In fixteen rooms for boys, were five hundred and thirty-nine beds, and two hundred and forty-one in eight rooms for girls. The extent of the front is fix hundred and fixty-two feet. E U](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21365301_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
