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Ventilation at Newgate and other prisons cited for health gains
An account from the General Evening Post notes ventilators fixed in Newgate and wards joined to a wind-mill network have reduced deaths compare to prior years. Similar improvements are reported at Savoy and Winchester prisons, with ongoing cleaning and periodic brimstone fumigation under prison masters Hayward and Akerman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eis
Newgate
Akerman
Oitemper
Savoy
Henry Fox
Hayward
Ecclesiasticks
Geneva
Sufa
Mont Cenis
Vienna
Netherlands
Acre
Joseph
Prince Eugene
Cal’d la Favorite
Theresian College
France
Moravia
Bohemia and
Kittee
Pritbuurgh