| Description Of Item | At the front of the volume are notes from Jean-François Coindet 'Memoire sur l'hygiene du condamnes detenus dans la prison penitentiaire de Geneve' c1836; John Grant Malcolmson 'Letter to Sir H Hardinge on the effects of solitary confinement on the health of soldiers in India, 1837'; Louis-François Benoiston de Chateauneuf 'Du system penitentiaire', 1844. At the back of the volume are notes on the regime in an institution for boys with notes on the health of each boy and, at the middle of the book, a report on a penitentiary in Perth, Scotland. |