This place, which is in Bridge street, Blackfriars, and has lately been much improved, has already been mentioned amongst the prisons; for it is now a house of correction for dissolute persons, idle apprentices, and to maintain vagrants. From the following return, the use and character of the institution may be inferred:—
Vagrants committed by the lord mayor and sitting aldermen........... 764
Apprentices sent to solitary confinement ....................................... 44
Persons to be sent to different parishes ....................................... 362
Apprentices to be brought up to different trades ............................ 28
Source: New Picture of London, Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18, Strand; by W. Clowes, Northumberland Court. 1819
Source: Leigh's New Picture of London. Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18, Strand;
by W. Clowes, Northumberland Court. 1819