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<p n="1273">to employ them in hard Labour to the House of Correction<lb></lb>
yet there are<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
great Numbers of the Sort sent to the other Prisons<lb></lb>
From the Premises therefore it will necessarily follow that an<lb></lb>
average drawn from the Numbers as they stand in the<lb></lb>
return will not convey a just Idea of the medium Number committed<lb></lb>
to the House of Correction for hard Labour in any other<lb></lb>
period of the like extent.</p>
<p n="1274"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Observ. 4th.</note>
<lb></lb>
These Sums include the Expences attending the subsisting and<lb></lb>
relieving the Prisoners that are committed as well to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo473">House of<lb></lb>
Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo474">Clerkenwell</rs>
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as to that of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo475">Tothill Fields</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo476">Westminster</rs>
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and the Interment of such as die under confinement<lb></lb>
with other contingent charged, and not even with respect to those who are comitted<lb></lb>
to Hard Labour but the Vagrants and all others confined there<lb></lb>
and it seems that an Account which would only regard those<lb></lb>
committed for Hard Labour could not be composed with any<lb></lb>
degree of Precission or accuracy;<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
owing to the manner<lb></lb>
in which the accounts have for<obscured></obscured>
of Years been kept no<lb></lb>
distinction having been made as to what is expended for Prisoners<lb></lb>
of one Class or those of another However (excepting as to the<lb></lb>
Interments and charged for medical relief) some kind of calculation<lb></lb>
may be formed from the number of Persons committed to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo477">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo478">Clerkenwell</rs>
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to Hard Labour. there<lb></lb>
appears to have been 745 persons committed in the Year 1774<lb></lb>
The allowance at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo479">House of Correction</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50652_geo479" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50652_geo480">Clerkenwell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50652_geo480" type="placeName" value="Clerkenwell"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50652_geo480" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
is one<lb></lb>
Pennyworth of Bread to each Prisoner and to particulars some<lb></lb>
times more 3d Three pences a day therefore may be reasonably allowed for the<lb></lb>
support of the average Number of those committed, which in the Year<lb></lb>
would amount only to 4.11.3 Whence it follows that the greatest</p>
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