... until 1842 new prisons were starting to be built to enable this new act to be carried out. Prisons did not fully come under the Home Office Control until 1877 therefore conditions and medical provisions were still very poor. The conventional ideas of the Medical Service Providers in the prisons were that the prison is a place of punishment and deterrence and was not a place for the poor to stay. The Home Office had ideas of less eligibility which is pointed out by Sim's examination, which made prison reform very slow. Power of Surgeons Sim, J shows in his examination how the power of the medical service providers was strong and anything they suggested be accepted. This slowed down the processes of development in the prison medical service provisions, as many surgeons believed in discipline rather than welfare of their patients. Reformists explained in Sim, J's examination how lack of diet and ...

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