Continued, Thursday, 31st. Jany 1799 .

Report
Select Commitee

Passes Committed
for a week to be
passed. or Desordy.
Committed for a
Month Etc. to hard
labour.

Their
Average No.
ford Cart 4
Years. as also
the average for
that Period o
Vagrats . forty day
& Disorderly for
a longer time
& the average
produce of their
labour Contrazted
with Diavenuge
expence of their
maintenence

That the other Persons in the House are Vagrants taken
up in London, and committed for a Week in order to be passed to
their own Parish or County and Disorderly Persons committed
for a Month or some other Period to hard labour. That the
Permanent. average number of such Vagrants & disorderly
Persons (whose Numbers are nearby equal) is Fifteen Men and
Twenty five Women, at one time with another during the
last four Years: That during the same Period, the Yearly
Average Number of Vagrants, Committed for seven Days has
as also been One thousand and forty two: of Disorderly Persons
committed for a longer time three hundred and Nine: and
that the produce of the whole of their Labour during the
same Period has been on an average of the four Years
£19..3..1½ a Year, which, at the rate above stated of the
general Average of Forty Persons continuing in the House,
does not amount to so much as ten Shillings a head for the
Years Produce of the Labour of each individual.That the
average expence of the Maintenance of these Persons
amounts at Present to the Sum of £582 a Year being fixed at
an allowance of Nine Pence a Day for each Person; and that
the Salaries of the Task Master nd Task; Mestress, appointed
to deliver out their Work, but who were discharged for
misbehaviour in April 1797 amounted to £65 a Year.

No employmt.
but Oakum Hemp
wch earns not
quite 1d. adig.

reprolated
unless.

That, no other emplyment is provided for the
Persons confined in Bridewell, except Picking Oakum, and
Beating Hemp; in which they earn on an average not quite
a Denny a day, tho' thy are few of them, at the Period
of life, or in a state of Health to be disabled from Labour
as is the case with most of the Inhabitants of Door Houses
and other Hospitals. That this employment is not so
profitable