Description of the tread mill, for the employment of prisoners : with observations on its management, accompanied by a plate and description of a new instrument, by which the daily amount of individual labour may be determined by inspection, and regulated with uniformity and precision / published by the committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, &c.

  • Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England)
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of the tread mill, for the employment of prisoners : with observations on its management, accompanied by a plate and description of a new instrument, by which the daily amount of individual labour may be determined by inspection, and regulated with uniformity and precision / published by the committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    DESCRIPTION, Sfc. fyc. The annexed engraving exhibits a party of prisoners in the act of working one of the Tread-wheels of the Discipline Mill, invented by Mr. Cubitt, of Ipswich, and recently erected at the House of Correction for the county of Surrey, situated at Brixton. The view is taken from a corner of one of the ten airing yards of the prison, all of which radiate from the governor’s house in the centre, which is seen in the drawing at the opposite end of the yard, so that from his windows he commands a complete view into all the ijards.* The building which appears * The following rough Diagram will explain the relative position of the Tread-wheels with the Governor’s central residence and the Mill-house:— B.—The Mill-house. C CC.—The yards, having next to the centre a strong iron railing, and en- closed by the range of building containing the prisoners’ wards and cells. (») D D- — The Tread-wheels, erected against the radiating walls, covered by a slight shed. • (a) This circular form of building, enclosing the yards, renders the Plan objfeetionable for a Prison. The distance of the building, occupied by the prisoners, from the Governor’s residence, precludes an unobserved and ready access, as well as facility of inspection into the day-rooms, &c.— objects *o essential to every good Prison design.