Proceedings of the grand juries, magistrates, and other noblemen and gentlemen, of the county of Glocester, on designing & executing a general reform in the construction and regulation of the prisons for the said county ... / by Sir G. O. Paul.
- Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, 2nd Baronet
- Date:
- 1808
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Proceedings of the grand juries, magistrates, and other noblemen and gentlemen, of the county of Glocester, on designing & executing a general reform in the construction and regulation of the prisons for the said county ... / by Sir G. O. Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[66] 1. “Is it not abfolutely neceffary, in order fully to obviate the bad effects of that ftagnation of air, “ and accumulation of putrid effluvia, from whence the unhealthy ftate of our Prifons is chiefly derived, that the place of confinement fhould be frequently <c ventilated by currents of freih air taking their “ courfe freely in an horizontal direction? 2. “Is it poffible that this can be effected, when “ the place of confinement is inclofed by four walls? “ On the contrary, will not infection, once received, “ continue to exert its deleterious powers for a great “ length of time, in defiance of every precaution that “ human fagacity can fugged? 3. “ Would not an enclofure by a dry moat and “ funk fence be a fufficient fecurity, inftead of the “ general method by four walls riling high above the “ level of habitation, provided feparate apartments “ were affigned to each prifoner, and efcapes guarded “ againfl: by a rigid and regular police? 4. “In addition to the attention and fidelity of “ the keepers, might not an obfervance of fuch rules “ and orders as public wifdom may prefcribe, be en- “ forced by the afliftance of a Committee of Magif- “ trates or Vifitors fitting weekly, by rotation, at the “ gaol, as is the pra&ice at the houfes of induftry in “ Suffolk and Norfolk?” Although I certainly could not advife to admit this precaution to the full extent it was fuggefted, the principle](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28750160_0168.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
