to employ them in hard Labour to the House of Correction
yet there are [..] great Numbers of the Sort sent to the other Prisons
From the Premises therefore it will necessarily follow that an
average drawn from the Numbers as they stand in the
return will not convey a just Idea of the medium Number committed
to the House of Correction for hard Labour in any other
period of the like extent.

Observ. 4th.

These Sums include the Expences attending the subsisting and
relieving the Prisoners that are committed as well to the House of
Correction at Clerkenwell as to that of Tothill Fields in
Westminster and the Interment of such as die under confinement
with other contingent charged, and not even with respect to those who are comitted
to Hard Labour but the Vagrants and all others confined there
and it seems that an Account which would only regard those
committed for Hard Labour could not be composed with any
degree of Precission or accuracy; [..] owing to the manner
in which the accounts have for [..] of Years been kept no
distinction having been made as to what is expended for Prisoners
of one Class or those of another However (excepting as to the
Interments and charged for medical relief) some kind of calculation
may be formed from the number of Persons committed to the
House of Correction at Clerkenwell to Hard Labour. there
appears to have been 745 persons committed in the Year 1774
The allowance at the House of Correction at Clerkenwell is one
Pennyworth of Bread to each Prisoner and to particulars some
times more 3d Three pences a day therefore may be reasonably allowed for the
support of the average Number of those committed, which in the Year
would amount only to 4.11.3 Whence it follows that the greatest