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cells might be appropriated to that purpose: and perhaps it may be
thought advisable that some even cases of infection should be thrown out and lodged
under another roof .
But, if infection in general must be sent to be cured
elsewhere, there is no spot which infection originating in negligence ca
either in the rise of spread of it, meet with such obstacles as here. In no oth<lb/as in this, will you see the interests of the Governors and the Governed, in th
important particular, so perfectly confounded and made one: those of the
Keepers, with those of the Prisoners: those of the Medical Curator with those
of the Patients, Clean or Unclean, safe or unsafe, he runs the same chance
that they do: of he lets them poison themselves, he lets them poison him.+
stands as a hostage in his own hands for the salubrity of the whole.
+Encompassed on
all sides by a multitude
company of persons whose
good or bad condition depends
upon himself.
Letter 20th XXI.
After applying the Inspection principle first to Prisons, and
bringing down through Mad-houses bringing it down to Hospitals, will the parental feeling
endure my applying it at last to Schools? will the observation of its efficacy
in preventing the irregular application of undue hardship, even to the ,
be sufficient to dispel the apprehension of its tendency to introduce tyranny
into the abodes of innocence and youth?
Applied to them you will find it capable of two very distinguishing
degrees of extension It may be confined to the hours of study; or it
may be made to fill the whole circle of time, including the hours of repose
and refreshment and recreation.
To the first of these applications the most timidity
I think, could hardly fancy an objection. Concerning the hours of study, there
can, I think, be but one wish: that they should be employed in study. It is
more scarce necessary to observe, that gratings, bars, and bolts, and every
circumstance, from which an Inspection-house can derive a terrific character, have
nothing to do here. All play, all chattering, in short all distraction of every
kind, is effectually banished by the central controul and covered situation of the
master, seconded by partitions or screens between the scholars, as slight
as you please. The different measures and casts of talents, by this means
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