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" the most pernicious infection next the plague, is the smell of a jail; when the prisoners have been long and close and nastily kept: whereof we have had, in our time, experience twice or thrice; when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers... "
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 98
1834
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Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, Volume 1

Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...whereof we have Ii.ul in our time experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail) and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened upon it and died. Therefore, it were good wisdom that iu such cases the jail were aired before they...
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1

John Ayrton Paris, John Samuel Martin Fonblanque - Medical jurisprudence - 1823 - 556 pages
...whereof we have had, in our time, experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened upon it, and died.(6) charge of Richard Fan, Bishop of Winchester, in the year 1517, those rivers were...
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The New York Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 8

Medicine - 1829 - 522 pages
...whereof we have had, in our time, experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened upon it and died." Nearly nine years subsequent to this event, an infectious fever (as it was called)...
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The Repertory of patent inventions [formerly The Repertory of arts ..., Volume 1

1834 - 462 pages
...mentions it having occurred twice or thrice in his time, when both the judges that sat upon the trial, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened or died" (Pringle's Observations on Diseases of the Army, p. 296). A similar occurrence, related by...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 18

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1835 - 552 pages
...experienced the noxious effects of this alarming distemper, when alike "the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened and died." It may be readily imagined, when the mortality was so certain and unsparing beyond the limits of the...
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department ...

Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - Great Britain - 1842 - 556 pages
...whereof we have had, in our time, experience twice or thrice; when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened and died.' " Sir John Pringle observes that ' gaols have often been the cause of malignant fevers;' and he informs...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...says, ' we have had in our time experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened and died.' At the Lent assize in Taunton, 1730, some prisoners who were brought thither from Ivelchester jail...
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Sanitary Economy: Its Principles and Practice ; and Its Moral Influence on ...

Hygiene - 1850 - 342 pages
...whereof we have had in our time experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened and died.' It may seem like a reproach to those who have the administration of affairs in their hands to show...
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Dublin Hospital Gazette, Volume 3

1856 - 396 pages
...whereof we have had in our time experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the gaol and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened and died." At the Lent Assize in Taunton, 1 730, some prisoners who were brought thithor from the Ilchester gaol,...
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The life of John Howard. Abridged

John Field - 1856 - 332 pages
...; whereof we have, in our time, experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those who attended the business, or were present, sickened upon it and died.' . . . The wards in the gaol at Oxford are close and offensive ; so that, if crowded,...
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