Section 8. Punishment for Refusal to Work
If any person committed to the said House of Correction, employment and reformation, according to law, shall refuse or neglect to perform the work assigned to him or her, it shall be the duty of the superintendent to punish such persons by close confinement, on a diet of bread and water only, for such time as may be deemed necessary; which refusal and punishment shall be forthwith reported to the managers and shall, by the clerk of the board, be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose; it shall be the duty of the physician of the institution to visit every person, so confined for punishment, at lease once in each and every twenty-four hours, and he shall record, in a book to be kept for that purpose, his opinion upon the health of the person confined; upon his opinion being given of said confinement acting injuriously thereon, the said confinement or diet shall be altered in such manner as he shall direct. 1871, June 2, P.L. 1301, Sec. 8.