I could not bear the windows drawn up, and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till after spreading it an hour or two before the fire. And even my antidote,... John Howard - Seite 43von Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - 211 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 Seiten
...drawn up, and was therefore obliged commonly to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted that I could not use it till...or two before the fire ; and even my antidote — a phial of vinegar — has, after using it in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable. I did not... | |
| Clement Dukes - 1884 - 252 Seiten
...drawn up, and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till...made excuses, and did not go with me into the felons' wards."1 It cannot be too clearly recognized that where human beings live in a space which is not supplied... | |
| William Scott Tebb - 1898 - 482 Seiten
...drawn up, and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till...excuses, and did not go with me into the felons' wards. " From hence anyone may judge of the probability there is against the health and life of prisoners,... | |
| James Edmund Jones - 1924 - 248 Seiten
...therefore obliged to on horseback. The leaves of book were often so tainted that I could not use it until after spreading it an hour or two before the fire;...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable. " WHITEWASHING THE GAOL, Although many Grand Juries recommended that whitewashing the gaol might do... | |
| Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1927 - 270 Seiten
...conditions in some of the prisons visited by him were so vile that "the leaves of my memorandum book were often so tainted that I could not use it till...after spreading it an hour or two before the fire." .... "From my own observations in 1773, 1774 and 1775 I was fully convinced that many more prisoners... | |
| Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles - 1928 - 180 Seiten
...experiences of prison air in his laboriously compiled survey. He soon found that 'in those journies many gaolers made excuses, and did not go with me into the felons' wards'; even the disinfectant which he carried with him became tainted; and when he left a prison he had to... | |
| Richard B. Schwartz - 1983 - 220 Seiten
...drawn up: and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable" (The State of the Prisons, p. 13). In many gaols and in most Bridewells, Howard reported, there was... | |
| American Correctional Association - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...drawn up ; and was, therefore, often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum book were often so tainted that I could not use it till...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable." These were some of the old abuses that we have partially outgrown. In some of the states these reforms... | |
| Fireside pictorial annual - 1883 - 808 Seiten
...up, and was therefore obliged commonly to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book wore often so tainted that I could not use it till after...in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable." While we have outlived such abominations as these we have also come to the end of more than one kind... | |
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