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System of Industry Houses. Collateral Uses.

II. Itinerary

1. Poor-Man's Inns

2. Poor Man's Stage Houses

To such as do require an escort, the expences will likewise be reduced in a very great degree: since the conductors, being stationed at the several Industry Houses, will have no Public-House Charges to defray. The time of the Conductor will be the only charge: & this need cost very little, since it will be extraordinary, if the whole establishment does not afford one inmate capable of executing such a trust.

Female

& those the London prices, of the present winder: being an allowance, in point of nutrition evidently much greater, & probably at least twice as great, as the average of the allowance at which Prisoners have been actually kept for many years, in remarkably good health, at the Penitentiary House at Wymondham. See account of the regimen of that House in the Annual Register for 1788 -

The value of the work I set down at 1 s a day: being no more than the lowest wages of the commonest day labour, any where in England.

On this footing, the average value of a man's daily earnings, in one of the Houses in question, in the instance of adults of the male sex (being in a state of ordinary health & strength & not disabled by age) may be stated at four times the daily expence of his food, leaving a clear surplus of 9 d.

The value of the earnings of a grown person of the female sex, I set down at 6 d: half the value of that of a grown person of the male sex. The valuation seems rather low than high, if applied to such works of the laborious kind, as are exercised in common by both sexes: & in the instance of the sedentary employment of spinning, the average earnings of 112 children, candidates for premium was 5 d2. See Account of the Society for the promotion of Industry in Lindsey district - 3 Edition: no date, but posterior to 1789-p89 - The children, it is true, were all candidates for premiums - But the average of their wages (most of them females) was but 11 years 11 months.