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and one old man and his son performed the duties of warders. Without bedding, the women slept on the floor, the boards of which were raised to supply a sort of pillow. In these rooms they lived, cooked, and washed, and history says that the Governor of Newgate entered this portion of the jail with reluctance.
The kitchen arrangements of the jails in Hyderabad State are particularly satisfactory, and the prisoners are well-fed, well-housed, and well-cared-for. Probably of all the government institutions in H. H. the Nizam's Dominions none are so thoroughly satisfactory as the prisons.
