Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… in the same apartment, they are passed in solitude; there is no solitude more complete.) Forms and tables, the only furniture. Nothing in the rooms to remind their inmates of the world outside. No domestic articles to occupy, to … of the corridor to the other, as if engaged in some important mission which admitted of not a moment's delay. The only furniture in the common sitting-room not peculiar to a prison or a lunatic asylum of the old school, was a newspaper, … only use his arms and hands in a forward direction; not backward or sideways. Each sleeping cell has two articles of furniture -- a bed and a stool; the latter serving instead of a wardrobe. Many of the patients sleep in single-bedded …
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