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Prisons and Prisoners: Response to an application made by the Board of Superintendence...
Catalogue reference: HO 45/527
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This record is about the Prisons and Prisoners: Response to an application made by the Board of Superintendence... dating from 1843 in the series Home Office: Registered Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 45/527
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1843
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisons and Prisoners: Response to an application made by the Board of Superintendence of the Dublin Prisons asking for advice on the mode in which the Grange German penetentiary should be heated. Includes a pamphlet entitled, Observations on the Relative Advantages of Heating Public and Private Buildings by Open Fires, Stoves, Hot Water, or Steam Circulating Through Metallic Pipes; or by Large Volumes of Warm but not Overheated Air.
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- Topics
- Prisons
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Home Office: Registered Papers
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