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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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But what will more plainly prove that Hemp cannot be beaten
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at the price now Given with advantage in point of profit is
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the following calculation
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The House of Correction at
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Clerkenwell
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is furnished with
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forty Blocks and two Persons may and sometimes do
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work at the same Block Suppose then all the Blocks
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constantly at work throughout the Year and six hundred
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Weight of Hemp produced every Week which might be done
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upon a calculation formed from the Numbers as they stand
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in the return the receipt upon the Labour would amount
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to7-16-0
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The Expence of a Task Master the same
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time alone would be31-4-0
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Whence there would follow an Annual Loss of 23-8-0
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