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<p n="3336">Continued, Thursday, <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20210_date265">31st. Janry. 1799</rs>
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<p n="3337"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report<lb></lb>
Select Committee<lb></lb>
Objects now<lb></lb>
in want<lb></lb>
Prostitutes not<lb></lb>
expressly named but<lb></lb>
see<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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of Bridewell are at the present time in the greatest want<lb></lb>
of it, to the great increase of Beggary and distress, and to<lb></lb>
the disgrace and detriment of the Community, Vizt. Idle,<lb></lb>
uneducated Youth, of both Sexes, who are advancing to maturity,<lb></lb>
and are becoming Profligate, and Vicious for want of<lb></lb>
Character or Occupation; Convalescents from Hospitals, who<lb></lb>
require gentle employment and nourishing food to recover<lb></lb>
intirely their Health, and Strength and the means and<lb></lb>
power of labour; and Discharged Prisoners, and other<lb></lb>
Persons, who, not having Character, or the means of,<lb></lb>
honest employment are frequently reduced to the deadful<lb></lb>
alternative, either to Steal or to Starve.</p>
<p n="3338"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sen Plan or permission<lb></lb>
for mark recommended</note>
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That, in order to diminish the number of Beggars and<lb></lb>
of idle and dissolate persons as well as to reform Beggary.<lb></lb>
it is the opinion of your Committee, that some general<lb></lb>
Plan or Provision for Work, should be adopted & encouraged<lb></lb>
within the Walls of this Hospital, where with the willing<lb></lb>
Poor, may more usefully to themselves and to the Public<lb></lb>
be employed, than they are at present, and whereby the<lb></lb>
froward, strong and sturdy Vagabond may be induced<lb></lb>
to live with increased comfort to himself, and with increased<lb></lb>
Profit to <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20210_geo372">the Common</rs>
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wealth.</p>
<p n="3339">That your Committee is of Opinion, that with<lb></lb>
economical management particularly in the Articles of<lb></lb>
Clothing and Food, a small Revenue may be sufficient for<lb></lb>
great and extensive Purposes, that by a marked distinction<lb></lb>
between the industrious and the idle, and between the<lb></lb>
Vicious, and the well disposed, and by affording countenance<lb></lb>
and favour to those who endeavour to do well, reform<lb></lb>
may be effected, that by example, by encouragement and<lb></lb>
by holding forth the prospect of an improved condition of<lb></lb>
life, the energy, and the industry of Man may be awakened<lb></lb>
and brought into action in any situation, and under any<lb></lb>
circumstances; and lastly that by disinterested kindness,<lb></lb>
and</p>
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