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