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The Seventeenth Report of the Eastern State Penitentiary.—A few copies of this document, which includes the elaborate tables of the medical officer—showing the sanitary condition of the institution from its commencement.

ALSO,

Numbers 1 and 2 of volume I. of this Journal—the first containing a Review of the History of Penal Legislation in Pennsylvania, and several plates, illustrative of prison architecture; and the second containing a beautiful steel portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, and a view of the New Prison at Pentonville, near London, and an account of its discipline and results.

Either of the above may be had on application to any member of the Acting Committee.

NOTICE.

? Communications and orders for this work, may be addressed “Editor of the Journal of Prison Discipline,” care of the publishers, No. 6, South Fifth Street, Philadelphia.

? Officers of State, Inspectors, or Wardens of Penitentiaries, Keepers of Common Gaols, Houses of Correction, &c., Superintendents or Physicians of Insane Asylums, (whether public or private, and whether for paupers or pay-patients,) officers of Houses of Refuge, Police Magistrates, and others who may be in possession of, or have access to reports or other documents bearing on prison discipline, insanity, juvenile delinquency, police regulations, pauperism, &c., &c., will confer a particular favour by forwarding to the above office copies of such publications for use or notice in this Journal. All such attentions will be gratefully acknowledged, and cheerfully reciprocated.

RECENT NOTICES.

From the North American and United States’ Gazette.

We have received from Messrs. E. C. & J. Biddle the last number of the Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline, which is published quarterly, under the direction of the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. A glance through its pages shows what is well understood—that it is a highly valuable periodical, communicating much and various important information upon the subject of which it treats. It is the only publication of the kind in the country, is certainly a very much needed one, and ought, therefore, to be well sustained by the public.

(See 3d page of Cover.)

BORN AT
GUNDENHAM MANOR
15 DEC.R 1792.

DIED IN
PHILADELPHIA, AMERICA
28 MARCH 1852.


ERRATUM.

On page 102, fourth line from the top, for Russian read Prussian.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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