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<p n="3379">Continued, Thursday, <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20210_date272">31st. Jany. 1799</rs>
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<p n="3380"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report<lb></lb>
Select Commitee</note>
<lb></lb>
course of industry and occupation.</p>
<p n="3381"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Case of<lb></lb>
"Convalesents<lb></lb>
"from Hospital"<lb></lb>
considered</note>
<lb></lb>
That, the Case of Convaleseents from Hospitals", a<lb></lb>
Class of Persons which was one of the original objects of<lb></lb>
the institution and is now intitled to it's Protection is<lb></lb>
very deserving of mention. It is withen the observation<lb></lb>
of those who have atended in the Circumstances of Beggain<lb></lb>
that many of the most deserving and necessitaces of them are<lb></lb>
Persons from Hospitals, from which they have been discharged<lb></lb>
without the pouse, of labor, or the means of support,<lb></lb>
and who, for want of such an asylum as Bridewell was<lb></lb>
intended to be have been driven to solicit the Charity of<lb></lb>
the Public as, Street Beggars. That (such is the infirmity<lb></lb>
of human nature) those who have in that manner<lb></lb>
discovered a sucessful and lasy trade, are not likely to<lb></lb>
discontinue it, and to return to a course of labour unless<lb></lb>
some assistance and encouragement is offered them for that<lb></lb>
purpose, and from the infortunate disposition of too many<lb></lb>
of our fellow creatures, if the Pauper does not receive<lb></lb>
charitable relief under such distressed circumstances.<lb></lb>
he is in many instances induced to prey upon the Public<lb></lb>
for his subsistences, and to use the language of the<lb></lb>
Rules of the House of Bridewell, drawn up in the year<lb></lb>
1557 being "Set at liberty in the Highways is made of<lb></lb>
"a Sick Beggar a whole Thief.</p>
<p n="3382">That, the expence and difficult of providing,<lb></lb>
according to the original plan for Convalescents upon<lb></lb>
the establishment, would be inconsiderable, as they are of<lb></lb>
a description of Persons, who do not in general require<lb></lb>
reform or correction, but only want an asylum and<lb></lb>
reception, and that for a short time; that being many<lb></lb>
of them Artizans instructed in a Trade, and almost all<lb></lb>
of them habituated to employment, some of them might<lb></lb>
be able to earn more than the cost of their diet, if<lb></lb>
economically managed, would amount to, to whom the<lb></lb>
Surplus</p>
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