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[152b-472] Note to p.25 Poor
[152b-472]

Note to p.25

Poor Bill Systems compared

(a) Note

(a)

Weekly Expence in food of a family of 5 +

5 s.8 d

[...?] D o of an average individual

1 12

Therefore annual expence of d o 1 s1 d2 X 52 =

2.18. 6

Annual expence of 500,000 Poor persons under the Home Provision System

Amount of Ten per Cent upon the above fare

146,250: 0: 0

But Count Rumford for a course of years maintained in perfect health and strength many thousands of persons (in Bavaria) /at an/ by allowance, of food which even for a grown person of the male sex would not in London at a time still dearer than the present (Jan. 1797) cost more per day per head than \ZS\

So much depends upon habit, and in a a country so abundant in humanity as well as opulence the practice of less favoured countries is so little susceptible of being taken as a standard without great alteration on the indulgent side, that I could not consider /a case set down/ as requisite for an English Stomach, even of the hardest-pinched class, less than /half as much again/ double of what is not only deemed necessary, but found sufficient for a Bavarian Stomach: instead therefore of \ZS\ per head per day say

+ Davies 12.
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