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establishments # fll tfe f ^ ftfhred . u l do not tbfrk it * W'be * feet © plac ^ t * er ^ t « WttKtncot # more distant frot * ** cW dther « & * # &W ** & < the excuse for vagrancy wrl * not be destroys ! if the ^ ikn ) tt > i <* lr AiMltt apart * A person fetgatog ^ great fatigue , sickness , or pergotifclinfitiUhr , or a + oman having young children with her , will certainlyvbt&tiMitU if more tfcatt five miUs from a house of refuge . " * n < v / ^
These btoridings are to be capable of holding 2 GKT'pgrfcriH * , exceptftig * when the district includes a town having mbfe I&& 1 15 , flw'tffr ' 20 , 000 inhabitants . In this way accomthofafohtivetitA be ftittfislteel for 100 , 000 persons . Mr Re vans gives rfcrtsixi * &r thinkibg that able-bodied men only should be adrrtitted'into tbfctfe housefe . * Aiid if tley only were admitted , and ou&dtiOrVrrftef adttrinf § te * Sdto tfceir families , estimating each fyitiiV y < ** ti *' $ Tt persdA ^ rctief ^ with the aid of these houses , could be bdrrtirmtfefed
to 50 O , tH > O pfcr&otas . To this is to be added 300 , 000 p € ff * OB 4 , ivffirm tHboiign age or accident , who might with safety w relieved at th ^ tir hdusee . Thus it is proposed to be prepared to'tdliwe 800 ^ 000 ^ -or one-tenth of the population . The calgul&tfon is made ibr an extreme case » and not at all under the i&fea A&i raoli
a ftuniber would become dependent . A grand featBT ^ thrauifhout thfeWorkis the writer ' s endeavour to make the regiA&P feel the imrjortaitce of diminishing the competition for land * With thteVic&ijirst , houses of refuge are proposed ; aiidi tectmdly , ohly tdifeceive the competitors for land , or able-bodied labourers , intof these asvlums . ' JJ < nt '
Wi hitVe then an estimate of the expense . Tk ^ defetf erectifig f 'tlic / buildings , it is stated , would not exceed oftferflilliitm . ; This e § tirtafe v is made iipon the cost of erecting * sirtiilaf biHdrrtgsr in fcliw 66 untr y , where a superior building , from the slip ^ rtor co noition of the " people , is required ; where labour fo'd £ &r £ H ^ o ^ *^ materials a * near , if not dearer , than in Ireland . Exisfcirtg premises , it is asuiinted , might frequently be bought at a fourth « the coat of erecti'ttgV afid made suitable at a tri 8 ing expense . By adapting this mode , the outlay would not equal the above estimate . The cdfct of maintaining the inmates is estimated at 6 d . per week per head , or 26 s . a year for each individual . If the famines
average live persons , this is 2 s . 6 d . per week for each family , which is fully as much as a labourer now earns in Ireland * It is almost unnecessary to observe , that a large number of families ctfuld , Mving together , be fed more economically than Ihring separately , and consequently this estimate would allow df « uperh > r diet . Aet *> fding to tfiis showing , 520 , 000 / . would WkinfaAr a permanent body of 400 , 000 persons , in a rt \ ott c ^ hlfbrtAMe manner than the Iriak peasantry are now maintained . ' ' ' " - This e 9 tipiat € Ha anhuai expenditure , MrRevaiifi 6 dto&tdta % , W > ald be a gross exaggeration . &ud he thinks so , beca , u ^ % A fip ^ tha t in 1680 , or a little more than fifty years after the paitoiftg of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 517, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/57/
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