Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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12th July 1792 - 31st January 1800

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Image 322 of 37831st January 1799


Continued, Thursday, 31st. Janry. 1799 .

Report.
that Committee


and attention, the affection the confidence, and the implict
reliance of the Poor may be obtained.

a separation to
late place be to
[..] clape sexes
2 Establishment fee
employing a going of
each sex
do. as to Convales
ets to. fm. Hospl.
do as to those
discharged fm.
Prisonser
committed to
hand labour
& these whance
a purportion of
their profits.

That in carrying into execution the intentions of the
Founders of Bridewell, it will be necessary that a complete
separation should take place between the different Classes
and Sexes of Persons that have been enumerated, And, first
That two separate establishments be recommended to be made
for the employment of the Young Persons of each Sex, dividing them
again according to their behaviour and improvement Secondly,
that, as to Convalescents from Hospitals, distinct, Apartments be
provided for each Sex, and employment given to them. And
thirdly that separate places be prepared for Persons of each
Sex discharged from Prisons or committed to hard labour; and
that those Persons respectively have a reasonable and liberal
proportion of the profits of their labour reserved for them on their
good behaviour and paid them on their being discharged, in order
to enable them to set off in a course of honest and useful
employment; subject only to a small deduction or deductions,
if thought, proper on account of their diet and clothings.

All there to be
helped to situations
of a live be livelihood as
they merit it
wch. will relieve
dfunds.

That, the execution of this plan would be very much assisted
and the means extended by a system of recommending, and
helping such Persons as fast as they merit it, to situations
in which they may find employment and a livelihood, as
thereby the Apartments and the Funds would be sooner ready
for new objects; at the same that by a wise and liberal
encouragement to labour, and good conduct, and by an
economical system of diet, many of the Persons would nearly
maintain themselves, and all would be earning something and
be supported in the House, at much less expence than they
now are.

That it is the sacred and inviolable Duty of the acting
Governors to apply the Funds, and Buildings of Bridewell
Hospital




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