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The distinguished D:r Franklin Bach, grandson
of the renowned Banjamin Franklin, states in his
official report, that during the seven years he has
been physician at Cherry-hill, the mortality has on
an average amounted to 3% annually, while in the
town of Philadelphia it was 2¾%. At the old
prison in Walnut Street it had, during 12 years,
risen to 6% yearly.
The opposers of the Philadelphian system have accused it of having an injurious effect upon the spirits of the prisoner. We have, however, seen, that Beaumont, Tocqueville, Julius, Crawford and Demetz, testify the contrary. The circumstance which has probably given rise to this apprehension, is satisfactorily shown by the above mentioned D:r Franklin’s report, stating: that of 697 prisoners, who had, during 7 years, been confined at Cherry-hill, sixteen had shown signs of weakness of intellect; but that it is officially proved, that ten of these had before been disturbed in their minds, and that there are strong reasons to believe, that four had shown signs of melancholy before they were condemned. This state of things is easily explained by there being no madhouse in the counties of Pensylvania, so that the judges are often obliged to send to the penitentiaries, those who in other countries are delivered over to the care of the physician, as suffering under mental derangement.
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