Continued, Thursday, 31st. Jany. 1799 .

Report
Select Commitee

course of industry and occupation.

Case of
"Convalesents
"from Hospital"
considered

That, the Case of Convaleseents from Hospitals", a
Class of Persons which was one of the original objects of
the institution and is now intitled to it's Protection is
very deserving of mention. It is withen the observation
of those who have atended in the Circumstances of Beggain
that many of the most deserving and necessitaces of them are
Persons from Hospitals, from which they have been discharged
without the pouse, of labor, or the means of support,
and who, for want of such an asylum as Bridewell was
intended to be have been driven to solicit the Charity of
the Public as, Street Beggars. That (such is the infirmity
of human nature) those who have in that manner
discovered a sucessful and lasy trade, are not likely to
discontinue it, and to return to a course of labour unless
some assistance and encouragement is offered them for that
purpose, and from the infortunate disposition of too many
of our fellow creatures, if the Pauper does not receive
charitable relief under such distressed circumstances.
he is in many instances induced to prey upon the Public
for his subsistences, and to use the language of the
Rules of the House of Bridewell, drawn up in the year
1557 being "Set at liberty in the Highways is made of
"a Sick Beggar a whole Thief.

That, the expence and difficult of providing,
according to the original plan for Convalescents upon
the establishment, would be inconsiderable, as they are of
a description of Persons, who do not in general require
reform or correction, but only want an asylum and
reception, and that for a short time; that being many
of them Artizans instructed in a Trade, and almost all
of them habituated to employment, some of them might
be able to earn more than the cost of their diet, if
economically managed, would amount to, to whom the
Surplus