Third vindication of the General Penitentiary : showing that there is no ground whatever for supposing that the situation of that prison had any share in producing the late disease among the prisoners confined there. Being an answer to some observations contained in a work published by P. Mere Latham, entitled "An account of the disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary." / by George Holford.

  • George Peter Holford
Date:
1825
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Credit: Third vindication of the General Penitentiary : showing that there is no ground whatever for supposing that the situation of that prison had any share in producing the late disease among the prisoners confined there. Being an answer to some observations contained in a work published by P. Mere Latham, entitled "An account of the disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary." / by George Holford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tli'jmrt of the Phys'ic'ians attending at the Penitentiary^ attdresscd to the Committee of thai Estaldishm nt on the Wth Octoher, 18^3—New Circumstancefi stated by Dr. lAiiJiani in aid of that Report—Remarks on suck Statciiwiit, Periiaps llic best answer, that can be made to those who are incHned to suspect the ex- Lstcnce of some influence injurious to healtli in tlie site of the Millbank Penitentiary, is, that the ])risoners who now inlial)it it arc hcallliv, many of tliem beins: mucli ])elter in heaUli tlian tlu^y were when they came tlierc *. Hut as tlie liealthiness of a ])lacc, in which so many individuals are to continue for a h)nn; time in conlinement, nuist be matter of nuicli interest to tlie ])ul)hc at larj^e, as well as of great anxiety to the friends and comiections of tl le i)er>ons confined, it is desirabk^ that * The Pcnitenti.iry was ro-opcncd f(ir tlic reception of prisoners on the \h\\ of August last. Convic t,s have been comini; in •gradually since that time, and there are now between 150 iiul !('>() in the prison.