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4 Letter II. Plan for a Penitentiary Inspection-House.
where directions, given verbally verbally and at a distance, are sufficient, these tubes
of which will be
found of use. They will save, on the one hand, the exertion of voice it would
require, on the part of the instructor, to communicate instruction to the workmen without
quitting his central station in the lodge; and, on the other, the confusion
which would ensue, if different instructors, or persons in the lodge, were
calling to the cells at the same time. And, in the case of Hospitals, the
quiet that may be insured by this little contrivance, trifling as it may
seem at first sight, affords an additional advantage.
A Bell, appropriated exclusively to the purposes of Alarm,
hangs in a belfry with which the building is crowned, communicating, by
a rope, with the Inspector's Lodge.
The most economical, and perhaps the most convenient, way
of warming the Cells and area would be by flues surrounding it, upon the
principle of those in hot-houses. A total want of every means of producing
artificial heat might, in such weather as we have sometimes have in
England, be fatal to the lives of the prisoners: at any rate it would
oftentimes be altogether incompatible with their working at any sedentary
employment. The flues, however, and the fire-places belonging to them
instead of being on the outside, as in hot-houses, should be in the inside.
By this means there would be less waste of heat, and the current of air
that would rush in on all sides through the Cells, to supply the draught
made by the fires, would answer in so far the purpose of ventilation. — But of
this
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