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APPENDIX.

A LARGE PUBLIC SCHOOL IN LONDON.

The expense of each boy's and servant's diet per day:

	d.
Meat, ¾ lb., at 7d. per lb.	5¼
Bread, 1 lb., at 1½d. per lb	1½
Potatoes and other vegetables (say) ½ lb., at 1d. per lb.	½
Milk, 1 pint, at 1½d	1½
Pudding or pie (once a week), at 2d. per week (about)	½
Beer, 1 pint	¾
Total	10

N.B. If beer instead of milk for suppers, then 2 pints of beer, and only half a pint of milk, which would make no difference in the total.

LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM.

Average number of children, with cost of Provisions, fuel, and washing at per head, per annum, without holidays: