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Rh on while it continues bubbling and hot; as is the practice of the House of Recovery at Manchester.

I suppose the master of the poorhouse to do the work himself. If a workman is employed to put it on, the additional expence would be about six-pence a room, which for the fifteen rooms would be 7s. 6d. a time, or £1. 10s. a year.—If indeed the overseer's brother or nephew, is to be employed in the job by the yard, the increase of expence would be very considerable; and might, instead of eight-pence a year, amount to an annual expenditure of several pounds, and the cost prove almost equal to the benefit of the work being done.

31st Oct. 1797.