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In the north-east corner, next Newgate-street, is the condemned yard, in which are kept persons under sentence of death.
The yards and all the wards are repeatedly lime-washed, and by these and other excellent regulations of the Sheriffs of London, Newgate is changed from a loathsome prison, dangerous to the health of the metropolis, to a state which may be quoted as a model for all similar places.
Water is plentiful, ventilators are introduced into every window, and a general system of cleanliness prevails throughout the whole prison.
The morals of its inmates have been improved, and their condition greatly meliorated by Mrs.Elizabeth Fry, who like her predecessor in the exercise of philanthropy, the celebrated Howard, delights in reducing the sum of human misery.
The feelings of the two visitors having been amply gratified by demonstration of the happy result, from superior management, accruing to the prisoners, they departed, not forgetting the poor box, put up for general benefit, inviting the contributions of charitable strangers. Continuing their route, our perambulators proceeded down Skinner street into Holborn, and traversed its extended line without any remarkable occurrence, until they reached Broad Street, St.Giles's.
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