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The House of Detention Records include:

• Annual Reports
• Monthly Reports
• Records of the release or transfer of federal prisoners
• Medical Records

Additional records for the House of Detention can be found in the City Documents collection under the call number TS150-TS220.

Scope and Contents The records are manuscript volumes. Included are two volumes of minutes, dating 1856-1876, with a gap during the 1862-1866 period (internal evidence suggests that the Board did not meet during these years of war and federal occupation). In addition to the proceedings of Board meetings, these volumes also contain copies of various committee reports, financial reports, and narrative reports of the superintendent. These latter reports include the names of those being admitted and discharged,...

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Reports, handbooks, and fact sheets from the Milne Boy's Home.

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The majority of records are manuscript volumes, in French, and include daily reports of the police jail, and separate registers of enslaved persons entering the jail and employed in public works. Also included here are later records, written in English, of prisoners committed to the Parish Prison (1852-1862) and daily reports from the Parish Prison and House of Detention (1903-1907).

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Records of the Workhouse include:

• Inventories of stock on hand, 1851-1856
• Record of medical care administered to the inmates of the Workhouse, 1854-1856
• Record of work performed by the Workhouse, 1852-185
• Account book, 1852-1857