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Identifier: siberiaexilesyst01kenn (find matches)
Title: Siberia and the exile system
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Kennan, George, 1845-1924
Subjects: Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Exiles
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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some ventilation can be secured in thatway; but when the weather becomes cold and stormy thewindows must be closed, and then there is no ventilationat all. We suffer from it as well as the prisoners. Myassistant has only recently recovered from an attack oftyphus fever which kept him in bed for six weeks, and hecaught the disease in the prison. The local authoritieshere have again and again urged the Government to makeadequate provision for the large number of exiles crowdedinto this prison during the season of navigation, but thusfar nothing has been done beyond the building of two logbarracks. The warden spoke naturally and frankly, as if the factsthat he gave me were known to everybody in Tinmen, andas if there was no use in trying to conceal them even froma foreign traveler when the latter had been through theprison and the prison hospital. From the main prison building we went to the womensprison, which was situated on the other side of the road in THE TIUMEN FORWARDING PRISON 93
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COURT-YARD OF THE WOMENS PRISON, TltTMEN. 1)4 SIBEEIA a court-yard formed by a high stockade of closely set andsharpened logs. It did not differ much in external appear-ance from the mens barracks inside the prison-wall, whichwe had already examined. The hdmeyas viiried in size from10 feet by VI to 30 feet by 45, and contained from three toforty women each. They were all clean and well lighted,the floors and sleeping-platforms had been scrubbed to asnowy whiteness, strips of coarse carpet had been laid downhere and there in^the gangways between the ndri, and onecell even had potted plants in the window. The women,like the men, were obliged to sleep in rows on the hardplatforms without pillows or blankets, but their cells werenot so overcrowded as were those of the men, and theair was infinitely purer. Most of the women seemed tobelong to the peasant class; many of them were accom-panied by children, and I saw very few hard or viciousfaces. From the womens prison we went to the prison

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