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May 1784
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"Under the end Working Room Tanks may be formed to
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receive all the Rain Water from the Premises with Pumps to
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force up the same into the different Passages but the most convenient
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and least expensive way to supply Water will be the forming
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Cesterns on the Roofs and Pipes to descend therefrom to the
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aforesaid Passages.
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Two Upper Storys
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"To be Ten feet high The several Cells Rooms and Passages
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to be arched in Brick Work & paved with hard White Bricks or Clinkey
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"All the windows to be raised at least Six Feet from ye Floor
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"Ventilators over each Passage and a free currency of Air
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preserved throughout and up the Stair Cases. Air holes in the Walls
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"Water of different Sorts to be laid into each Passage for
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Cleanliness and to prevent Fires Engines placed in the same
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Four Sinks in each Passage and Channels made to convey away
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the foul Water
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"Flews from the Fires below to warm some of the Apart-
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-ments Iron Gates next the Stairs and other parts introduced for
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separation instead of doors. The Privys to be properly detached in
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each Story and to communicate with the open Air
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Enclosures
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" Where the Buildings or
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New Prison
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do not interfere High
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Walls to be built to enclose the same with Iron Tormentors on the
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Tops thereof
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"The space before the front Gateway will be convenient
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in case of any Insurrection to guard the entrance of the Prison
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either by Soldiers or otherwise
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J. Leroux Architect
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Great Russell Stt
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Bloomsbury
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"Some of the upper Cells when not occupied as Lodging rooms
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may be used as Working. Rooms occasionally where separate
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labour is to be preferred
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