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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Butter,Cheese, and Porter,
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That they have selected the Years 1791
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92, 96 and 97, as proper years of Examination
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the year 1791 being the first year of the late
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Master and the years 94 and 95 being Omitted
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as being uncommonly severe
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That the Committee have found a very great
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and alarming increase of each of the above
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Articles from the year 1791 to the present time
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that the Increase of Coals is from 75 Chaldron
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to 112 Chaldron.
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That the Increase of Flour is from 180
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to 270 Sacks which has occasioned the Overseers
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to discontinue Baking for the present and to
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Contract for the Bread
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That the Increase of the Butchers Bills
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after allowing for the difference of the Price and the
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Numbers of the Poor in the difft. Periods is £100 per
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Annum
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That the Consumption of Foreign and
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British Wines have increased so much that the
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Committee thought it their duty to Recommend to the
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Overseers not to Permit any Wine Spirits or Porter to
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come into the House but from an Order in Writing by
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the Faculty - which has been done
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That the Consumption of Malt and Hops
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had increased so much that the Committee Resolved it
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To require the immediate Attention of the Overseers
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