 | Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - 262 páginas
...disease was something terrible. " From my own observations in 1773, 1774, and 1775," writes Howard, "I was fully convinced that many more prisoners were...by all the public executions in the kingdom. This frequent effect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1927 - 270 páginas
...1773, 1774 and 1775 I was 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." Howard had no doubt as to the spread of infection from person to person. It is noteworthy that fifty... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Roger French - 1990 - 346 páginas
...was fever. Howard says that from my observations in 1773 and 1774 I was fu"v convinced that many more were destroyed by it, than were put to death by all the public executions in the Kingdom . . . Esq., LL. D. (London, 1791); JB Brown, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard,... | |
 | Ernest W. Pettifer - 1992 - 180 páginas
...disease. He said, "From my own observations in 1773 and 1774, 1 was fully convinced that many more were destroyed by it, than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. But the mischief is not confmed to prisons — multitudes catch the distemper by going to their relatives... | |
 | Richard Creese, J. Bearn - 1995 - 202 páginas
...gaol fever as a matter of moment. 'From my own observations in 1773, 1774, and 1775', he wrote, 'I was fully convinced that many more prisoners were...death by all the public executions in the kingdom'.'" Its evil was multiplied because it could be spread beyond the gaol by released prisoners, if, for instance,... | |
 | Richard Creese, William F. Bynum, J. Bearn - 1995 - 198 páginas
...1773, 1774, and 1775', he wtore, 'I was fully convinced that many more ptisoners were desttoyed by ir, than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom'.'' Irs evil was mulnplied because it could be spread beyond the gaol by released ptisoners, if, for instance,... | |
 | Kevin White - 2004 - 342 páginas
...Withheld that can suppress it. Air Howard thinks, that from this cause alone many more were destroyed than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom. We boast of the independence, the liber- concludty, nnd the freedom, which we are so justly »ns.0bser... | |
 | Candace Ward - 2007 - 306 páginas
...1774, 1775, and 1776, fully convinced him "that many more prisoners were destroyed by [gaol-fever], than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom" (8-9). There were debates about whether or not the 1750 outbreak was actually jail fever. "On 25 May... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1850 - 566 páginas
...From my own 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... | |
 | 1850 - 554 páginas
...From my own 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... | |
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From my own 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. 
