...servations in 1772 and 1773, ' says Mr Howard, * ' 1 was fully convinced that many more were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. This frequent effect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical...

...observations in 1773, 1774 and 1775, 1 was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it, than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom." This is surely dreadful. The number of those who die through the paroxysm of the gaol fever, is small...

...of confining all sorts of prisoners together ; and the too general want of all employment for them. He then calls the attention of his readers to that...gross inattention to the sick, which he witnessed in some of our jails, and in a very large proportion of our bridewells. He closes his account of these...

...them. He then calls the attention of hia readers to that dreadful malady, the jail fever, which, as ihe natural consequences of their filth and closeness,...gross inattention to the sick, which he witnessed in some of our jails, and in a very large proportion of our bridewells. He closes his account of these...

...Fever, by which, in 1773-4, Mr. Howard, from his own obseivations, remarks, that more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom, — which, at a time when the punishment of death was inflicted for one hundred and sixty different...

...Fever, by which, in 1773-4, Mr. Howard, from his own observations, remarks, that more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public, executions in the kingdom, — which, at a time when the punishment of death was inflicted for one hundred and sixty different...

...Fever, by which, in 1773-4, Mr. Howard, from his own observations, remarks, that more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom, — which, at a time when the punishment of death was inflicted for one hundred and sixty different...

...observations in 1773, 1774, and 1775, 1 was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom.* This frequent eftect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical...

..."made in 1773, 74, 75, 1 am fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by the gaol fever than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom." How many rich and how many good men were there at that period who sat down utterly ignorant of these...

...observations in 1772 and 1773," says Mr. Howard, " I was fully convinced that many more were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom ; " and this was when there were one hundred and sixty offences punishable by death. Another flagrant...