272 Public Establishment for 



from the funds of the institution for the poor. By this 

 arrangement, not only the inhabitants are relieved from 

 the importunity which always attends public collections 

 of alms, but the sufferers save a great deal of time, which 

 they formerly spent in going about from house to house ; 

 and the sale of these permissions to undertakers, and 

 many other abuses, but too frequent before this arrange- 

 ment took place, are now prevented. 



The detailed account published in the Appendix No. 

 III. of the receipts and expenditures of the institution 

 during five years will show the amount of the expense 

 incurred in relieving the inhabitants from the various 

 periodical and other collections before mentioned. 



But not to lose sight too long of the most interesting 

 object of this establishment, we must follow the people 

 who were arrested in the streets to the asylum which 

 was prepared for them, but which no doubt appeared to 

 them at first a most odious prison. 



CHAPTER V. 



The different Kinds of Employment given to the Beggars 

 upon their being assembled in the House of Industry. 

 Their great Awkwardness at first. Their Do- 

 cility, and their Progress in useful Industry. The 

 Manner in which they were treated. The Man- 

 ner in which they were fed. The Precautions used 

 to prevent Abuses in the public Kitchen from which 

 they were fed. 



AS by far the greater part of these poor creatures 

 were totally unacquainted with every kind of use- 



