 | 1827 - 492 pages
...keeping prisoners in safe custody. The rooms and cells were so close as to be almost the constant seat of disease, and sources of infection, to the destruction...of multitudes, not only in the prison, but abroad ; and a shocking instance occurred in the year 1750, when an infectious lever, denominated the gaol... | |
 | John Field - 1856 - 332 pages
...plan, nothing but the single article of keeping prisoners in safe custody. The rooms and cells were so close as to be almost the constant seats of disease...of multitudes, not only in the prison, but abroad. The City had therefore very good reason for their resolution to build a new gaol ; but it has some... | |
 | Philanthropists - 1876 - 138 pages
...plan nothing but the single article of keeping prisoners in safe custody. The rooms and cells were so close as to be almost the constant seats of disease...of multitudes, not only in the prison, but abroad. The city had, therefore, very good reason for their resolution to build a new jail; but it has some... | |
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The builders of Old Newgate seem to have regarded, in their plan, nothing but the single article of keeping prisoners in safe custody. The rooms and cells were so close as to be almost the constant seats of disease and sources of infection ; to the destruction... 