BOW STREET POLICE OFFICE—1808.
The amount of the general expense of the criminal police of the kingdom, is stated by the Committee as follows:
| 1st. | The annual average of the total expenseof the seven public offices in the Metropolisfrom their institution in 1792, tothe end of the year 1797 | £18,281 | 18 | 6 |
| 2nd. | Total expenses of the office in BowStreet in the year 1797, including remunerationto the magistrates in lieu offees, perquisites, &c., and the expenseof a patrol of sixty-eight persons | 7,901 | 7 | 7 |
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| Total for the Metropolis | £26,183 | 6 | 1 | |
| The other expenses for the prosecutionand conviction of felons, the maintenance,clothing, employment, and transportationof convicts, to which may beadded the farther sums annually chargedon the county rates, amounted in 1797 to | £215,869 | 13 | 10½ | |
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In 1804, it was estimated that there were 2,044 beadles and watchmen, and 38 patrols, on nightly duty in, and around the Metropolis. Of these, the City proper, with its 25 wards, contributed 765 watchmen, and 38 patrols.
The poor were pretty well taken care of. Besides the parochial workhouses, there were 107 endowed almshouses, and many other like institutions; the City Companies, it was computed, giving upwards of £75,000, yearly, away in charity. There were very many institutions for charitable, and humane purposes—mostly founded during the previous century—for the relief of widows and orphans, deaf and dumb persons, lunatics, relief of small debtors, the blind, the industrious poor, &c. And there were 1,600 Friendly Societies in the Metropolis, and its vicinity, enrolled under the Act, 33 George III. cap. 54. These had 80,000 members, and their average payments were £1 each per annum.
For education in London, there were: