[152a-122]

Collateral Uses 4. [...?]

5. & 6 Poor Mans Inns &

Carriage Stages

Note to p.1

(a) The degree of economy with which this business may be carried on depends, on one hand, on the expense for which a man can be maintained in full health and strength for a day, on the other hand on the value of the work which a man of the working class, being in a state of ordinary health and strength, can without hardship be made to perform in the same compass of time. The expense I state at 3 d: grounding the estimate on the experiments and observations made by [...?] Romford in his 3 [...?] pay relative to the Poor (p.239), in which the expense of a days allowance of soup and bread consisting of 4lb 3oz is stated at 2 d:, computed according to the extraordinarily high prices and those the London prices of the present winter: being an allowance in point of nutrition evidently much greater and 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 least, at the Penitentiary House at Wymondham, See Account of the regime of that House in the Annual Register for 1788.

The value of the work I set down at 1 s a day: being less than the lowest wages of the commonest Day.-bour any where in England.

On this footing, the average value of a man's daily earnings, in one of the Houses in question among adults of the male sex being in a state of ordinary health and strength and not disabled by age, may be stated at four times the daily expense 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 calculation seems rather low than high, if applied to such works of the laborious kind as are exercised in common by both sexes: and in the instance of the [...?] employment of spinning the average earnings of 112 children candidates for [...?] was 5 d2. See Account of the Society for the prevention of Industry in London District F Edition No date but [...?] to 1789.p.89. The children, it is true were all candidates for [...?]. But the average of their ages (most of them female) was but ll years, ll months.