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Letter XIX. Mad houses.

readier satistfaction than it could any where at present.

But without thinking of erecting Mad-houses on purpose,
if we ask Mr Howard, he will tell us if I do not misrecollect, that
there are few persons or work-houses but what are applied occasionally to
this purpose. use. Indeed a receptacle of one or other of these descriptions is
the ready, and I believe the only resource, which Magistrates find
vested in their hands. Hence it was, he so often found his senses
assailed with that strange and unseemly mixture of calamity and
guilt; Lunatics raving and Felons rioting in the same room.
But in every penal Inspection-house, every vacant cell would afford
these afflicted beings an apartement except from disturbance
and adapted to their wants.


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