JB/119/059/002

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Health and Cleanliness

By the Penitentiary Act, offenders prisoners
"disabled by sickness" are specially excepted from those
whom the duty of visitation imposed in the Committee.
What can have been the
of this consideration clause? The such not
to be inserted? – Why not? What can have
been the principle of this antichristian clause?
In the infirmary designed What then is the
Infirmary to be? – a receptacle for the -?
or a Bastille? The declared purpose of the visitation
is "to examine the ... the management ...
"and the behaviou of the officers ..." To what effect?
while every when whatever prisoner who may have been either the
object of ill usage or the witness of misconduct, now
it is but sending him to the Infirmary at
visitation time, and his the violation his evidence is
got rid of. And why of all the officers is the
Surgeon is it the conduct of the Surgeon that
is to remain for ever out of the reach of the
inspecting eye?

Identifier: | JB/119/059/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	35
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	health & cleanliness
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"note on t'other side" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	39570
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