The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. IV, No. II, April 1849)Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
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The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. IV, No. II, April 1849)
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
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“CASE IV.--J. G. has a father and mother who live with him; he and
his wife sleep in one bed; his father and mother in another; his two
grown up sisters in a third; his brother, a lad of 19, and a young man
lodger, ‘who is courting one of his sisters,’ in a fourth: all in the
same room. J. G. does not know, or will not tell, how much they all
make, but thinks it ‘a good bit,’ as his wife and sisters and brother
are at farming, himself on a fruit ground, and his father a laborer.”
Dr. Holland furnished Dr. Playfair with the following, in the case of
one of his dispensary patients: “D. E. is a widower, with one sleeping
apartment, in which sleeps his adult son and daughter. The latter has a
bastard child which she affiliates on the father, he upon his son, and
the neighbors upon both.”
[4] Boston Correspondence of the New York Recorder, January 1849.
[5] Opened May 15, 1848.
[6] 39 of dysentery in August and September.
[7] Mrs. Fry’s views, when fairly presented and properly understood,
were altogether in favor of separation, and can never be justly cited
against it.
[8] [Article VI. has been altered so as to make it require twenty
dollars for a life contribution, and two dollars for an annual
contribution.]
[Transcriber’s Note:
Table on page 71, headers: Males., Females., and Totals., were shortened
to read M., Fem., and Tot.
Obvious printer errors corrected silently.
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]
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