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Observations, accompanying
the Sketch of Tothill Fields,, exhibiting the proposed Division — Copy sent to the
Bishop of Rochester, 30 Novr 1796

In the void spaces on each side of the proposed site of the two, Penitentiary
Houses, provision will require to be made, for the following purposes.

1. Reception — Houses, two: one for each sex.

2. Burying-Ground.

3. Erections in considerable number, each for one person, distinct from
the Prison, from each other, & more especially from every spot not
comprised within the Establishment — for the lodgment of the sick,
or suspected, in case of contagious disease.

4. Wood Yards (detached for dear of fire) Stone Yards, & Warehouses for
the finished work expected from the labour of several thousand persons,
as well as for the raw materials for them to work upon. N.B. The work
& materials, to which the system of mechanism invented by Brigr
Gen. Bentham for the purpose is adapted, are of the bulkiest kind:
principally Wood & Stone.

5. Turning & Waiting room, for Carriages, bringing Visitors to the Chapel
at the time of Divine Service.

6. The great entrance at Storr's House (from the Horseferry Road)
will require to be perfectly under the command of the Prison Government,
for the purpose of barring the approach upon occasion, against
Hostile Mobs, as well as cutting off the hope of clandestine escape,
by the assistance of accomplices from without.

7. Distance, from all houses not under the controul of the Prison
Government, as well as from every spot on which persons at large
have a right to set foot, distance, to a degree effectually preclusive of
all forbidden communication, is an object uniformly regarded by all the
promoters of the Penitentiary System, as an indispensable requisite.
In the instance of some of the above articles, the demand may
not present immediately in any very considerable magnitude, yet will be
continually extending itself by degrees.— To specify, either in
situation or magnitude, the particular spot requisite in the instance
of each article, is a task for which the Undertaker confesses
himself not as yet prepared, & which he flatters himself will not,
for the present purpose, be thought necessary to be imposed.

Mr Blackburn, the late celebrated Prison Architect, required for
a part only of the above purposes, & for no more than 600 prisoners,

Identifier: | JB/117/127/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1796-11-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	127	Info in main headings field	observations accompanying the sketch of tothill fields exhibiting the proposed division - copy sent to the bishop of rochester 30 novr 1796
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38744
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