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408 MANCHESTER AND SAI/FORD REFORMATORY.
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Pijkasanttiit Situated On Rising Ground ...
and has since been restricted almost exclusively to criminals . The was accommodation until quite recentl is for y fort forty y - boys two ; but the , as number one of the in young the institution 1 criminals
, confidentially remarked to me , " Some isn ' t thankful , and two has run Every away thing . " in connection with the institution is of the very
plainest description , white-washed walls and bare boards meet the eye in every apartment appropriated to the boys . A large room on
the ground floor answers as school-room , dining-hall , and chapel ; not far from it is a washing-room , with every convenience for
ablutions , including a capital swimming bath , in which the inmates regale themselves three times a day in warm weather , and once a
week in the winter . Contiguous are kitchen , scullery , pantry , storecloset and probation-room , intended for new comers , but devoted also
to other purposes . On the upper floor are three dormitories , each calculated to hold twenty bedsone communicating with the governor ' s
bed-roomthe other two with , that of the assistant master . On this floor are , also a sick-room and linen-store . In the yard are two
workshops , in one of which tailoring and shoemaking are practised , in the other carpentering . The tailor resides on the premises , and
with the assistance of two boys , who are his pupils , makes the clothes for the establishment . The shoes are entirely the _prodiiction of the
inmates . The entire household work is performed by the boys , under the superintendence of a housekeeper . Each boy has his
allotted dutiesand each has to continue constant to his one sphere of duty ; this arrangement , being considered better than an alternation
of work . The school is divided into three classes : the first consists being of boys secluded newly admitted in the prob , not ation partaking -room in below fche privilege stairs , and s of sleep the ing others to- ,
are gether not in allowed one dormit to assume ory under the dress the charge of the of institution a monit , or but . retain These
their own dress , often in a very dilapidated condition . The second tabl is composed they are of those free from who most have of passed the restrictions their first month to which or the so credi lower
contains grade y ; are the subj best ected conducted , and are allowed boys , entitle one suit d to of the clothes full benefit . The of third the of food
institution , receiving two suits of clothes , an extra allowance , etcThe monitors are more plentifully fed than those below them ,
and . have some privileges , not the least of which apparently , in their own estimationis that of wearing a suit of black clothes bound with
crimson , with a , cap to correspond . This system is found to stimulate the boys to good behaviour ; and degradation to a lower class
corporal althoug is a In puni the ii chastisement shment category the actual much of infliction punishments so dreaded prominent of . the , , I but was flagellation the somewhat governor caused surprised assured him me to great th find at
should pain , there do something was nothing to deserve he desired a flogg more ing than ! th Firml at every y and new calml boy y
408 Manchester And Sai/Ford Reformatory.
408 MANCHESTER AND SAI _/ FORD REFORMATORY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/48/
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