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<p n="1660">December 1798.</p>
<p n="1661">less than 2d. Per Day for each Prisoner except when<lb></lb>
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is occasionally Ordered by the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ611">Surgeon</rs>
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for Sick Prisoners.</p>
<p n="1662">The difference of Expence to the County in <lb></lb>
maintaining the Prisoners in the House of <lb></lb>
Correction and in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1214">Tothill fields</rs>
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and <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1216">New Prison</rs>
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being so great Your Committee have <lb></lb>
thought it proper to enquire respecting the Health<lb></lb>
of the Prisoners in the different Prisons and find <lb></lb>
that the Prisoners in General in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1217">New Prison</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1218">Tothill fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1219">Bridewell</rs>
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are as healthy as <lb></lb>
in the House of Correction -</p>
<p n="1663">Your Committee also find that Male <lb></lb>
Prisoners in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55611_geo1220">House of Correction</rs>
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to the number <lb></lb>
of about 40. each Day are permitted to come out<lb></lb>
from close Confinement to do such Labour as they<lb></lb>
are Capable of some are employed as Common <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55611_occ612">Labourers</rs>
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and others in such Handycraft Work as <lb></lb>
they have been accustomed to that such Persons <lb></lb>
so permitted to come out of Work are Allowed a <lb></lb>
double Allowance of Bread two pound Loaves <lb></lb>
each and also one pint of Porter each Per Day<lb></lb>
and some of them 4d. Per Day as a supposed Sixth<lb></lb>
part of their Earnings that at present they Work<lb></lb>
about seven hours in the Day during the time<lb></lb>
they are so at large and that three Servants of<lb></lb>
the Prison are Constantly attending them during <lb></lb>
that time that the value of the Labour of such<lb></lb>
Prisoners therefore the Additional Expence attending <lb></lb>
it being reckoned must be very inconsiderable <lb></lb>
and in an Economical point of View not an<lb></lb>
Object worth Consideration how far the practice <lb></lb>
of suffering so great a November of Prisoners to be</p>
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