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Treasury Committee investigated the Affairs of the Hospitals;
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and, for similar Reasons, they have generally in other
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respects confined a great Part of their Attention to the
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Transactions since that Period.
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MUCH of the Time of the Committee hath been spent in
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extracting the several Items stated in the Appendix from the
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Court Books and Cash Books of the different Officers for
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many Years; partly, because no regular and compleat Col-
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lection of the Rules and Orders was to be found, no such
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Book having been lately kept; and partly because the Pub-
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lic Accompts of the Hospitals are extremely obscure and de-
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fective.
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HAVING already trespassed upon the Patience of the Court,
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it would be too much to recite and comment upon the va-
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rious Subjects, as well considerable as minute, which have
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come under the the Notice of the Committee, and co-operated
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more of less with weightier Reasons in determining their
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Opinions. They have therefore contented themselves with
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stating (they hope with sufficient Fullness) in the Appendix
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the most important Particulars relative to the Accompts, the
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Revenues, and Expenditure; and their Sentiments respecting
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(18)
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Reforms and Improvements in the Management will be
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found classed under the several Heads to which they respec-
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tively refer.
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IT is sufficient here to observe, that, by one of those
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Statements, it appears that £5957. 11s. hath been expended
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on the Apprentices, and £7493. 16s. 4d. in maintaining the
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Vagrants (the only two supposed Objects of the Charity of
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Bridewell); whereas it has cost within the same Period
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£19,254. Os.4d. in Salaries, Etc. of the Officers employed in
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the Management; besides £6341.6s.1½d. for their Taxes,
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Views of Estates, Etc. and £3234. 9s. 1d. in Feasts; toge-
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ther £28,329.15s.6½d; and, what seems equally extraor-
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dinary, the further enormous Sum of £17,332.19s.7d. for
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Repairs at the Hospital of Bridewell alone.
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FACTS, which clearly demonstrate that there must be some
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effential Defect in that System of Management, wherein
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there is such a Disproportion of Expence; and for which a
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radical Cure should be provided.
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YOUR Committee therefore proceed to offer a few shore
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Observations on each respective Head of Reference.
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REVENUE
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(19)
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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE;
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RELYING chiefly upon the Abstracts No. I to VI. in the
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Appendix for the Explanation of Particulars, your
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Committee observe generally;
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THAT No. I, contains a Summary of the present Re-
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venues of both Hospitals: distinguishing the Part due to the
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Incurables, and the Periods when the said Revenues are re-
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ceivable.
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No. II, shews the Average Annual Income of Bridewell,
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taken for the last 16 Years (deducting £361.7s.1½d. for Quit
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Rents, Etc.) to be £3954.0s.6¾d.; which your Committee
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believe may increased.
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No. III, states the Average Annual Expenditure at that
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Hospital, taken for the same Period (deducting also the Quit
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Rents above-mentioned) to be £3725.17s.8¾d.; and, after
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what your Committee have already hinted as to the Extrava-
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gance of some of the Articles of Expence, and their Dispro-
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(20)
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portion to others, it is not too much to say, that the Dif-
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bursements are capable of great Reductions, and that the
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Savings may be more usefully and properly applied.
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No. IV, shews the nett Average Annual Income of Bethlem
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for the same Period, deducting as before, to have been
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£6608.15s.9d.; and Part of the Estates of that Hospital ha-
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ving been recently let at advanced Rents, which only com-
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menced at Lady-day last, the Committee would have been
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justified in adding the same to that Average Income; but, as
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they strongly recommend a Reduction of the Admission and
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some other Fees in Favour of the poor Patients who are not sent
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by Parishes, which they trust will be adopted, a Diminution
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of that Branch of the Income will be thereby occasioned,
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which may be equal to the increased Rents alluded to. There
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is, however, Reason to expect that this Revenue also may
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be improved in other respects.
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No. V, states the nett Average Annual Expenditure of Beth-
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lem, taken for the like Period of 16 Years, to be £6532.7s.3d.;
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which perhaps in not capable of any material Reduction, nor
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do your Committee think it liable to an Increate, except from
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the Article of Repairs, or a new Building; either of which
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may render a strong Appeal to the Feelings and the Charity
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of
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