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<p n="1528">February 1786</p>
<p n="1529">It appeared also indispensably necessary to the Committee for the<lb></lb>
Preservation of the Health of the Prisoners that a free and copious current of<lb></lb>
Air should be admitted and that ample Supplies of Fresh Water should be<lb></lb>
Secured: To these important Circumstances therefore it will be found that a<lb></lb>
strict attention has been paid - Care has also been taken that the means of<lb></lb>
supporting the Prisoners by a regulated allowance of proper Provision should<lb></lb>
not be wanting: A Kitchen therefore for the general Use of the Prison<lb></lb>
has been provided; from which the Prisoners may be easily and<lb></lb>
expeditiously served without the necessity of an Eating Room</p>
<p n="1530"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3rd</note>
The Correction of the Prisoners not only by the Execution of the<lb></lb>
Sentence of Corporal Punishment but more especially by enforcing the<lb></lb>
sentence to hard Labour and also by the Closer Confinement of such Offenders<lb></lb>
as are of a Refractory or more than usually vicious Disposition has by no means<lb></lb>
escaped the Notice of this Committee. To Effect which it was at this Meeting<lb></lb>
Resolved that Workshops Store Rooms Etc be contrived for the Employment<lb></lb>
of the Prisoners. And the Cells also are directed to be of such Dimensions as to<lb></lb>
admit of the Prisoners doing many kinds of Work in his or her state of<lb></lb>
Solitude and Separation; though it may admit of a doubt whether some of<lb></lb>
the Kinds of Work in which the Prisoners may very properly be employed can<lb></lb>
at any Rate be performed in Apartments of the Size proposed.</p>
<p n="1531">To prevent all Intercourse between Male and Female prisoners<lb></lb>
and also between Prisoners of different descriptions and even to make a<lb></lb>
Separation between Prisoners of the same Sex and of the same description<lb></lb>
the Committee have in Conformity to the Resolutions of the Court in October<lb></lb>
Session 1784 taken care to provide that there should be as many Solitary Cells<lb></lb>
for the Prisoners of the three first Classes as it is proposed that this Prison<lb></lb>
should receive of those Classes ; Vizt. about 25 Cells for Felons Convict Male<lb></lb>
and about 32 for Females of the same Class or Description ; A greater number<lb></lb>
being allotted to Females of this Class as a greater proportion of Male Felons are<lb></lb>
taken off by Transportation Etc 52 Cells are provided for Petty Convicts male<lb></lb>
and 50 for Female of the same Class 18 Cells for Men committed for Trial<lb></lb>
and 18 for Women under the same description which form the third Class<lb></lb>
Besides which it is proposed to provide for the Reception and Lodging of 108<lb></lb>
Men and 58 Women of the 4th. Class of Petty Offenders Vizt. of Persons<lb></lb>
Committed for Assaults for Acts of Vagrancy Etc for some of whom under different<lb></lb>
Circumstances of Guilt i.e. 32 Cells for Males and 15 for Females are<lb></lb>
directed to be prepared.</p>
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