A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1828
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Credit: A new system of practical domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESTIMATE VI. Appropriate to an Income of 3,000/. per annum. The Family consisting of a Gentleman, his Lady, and Three Children ; with an Establishment of Eight Male and Eight Female Servants; in all Twenty-one Persons;—a Coach or Chariot, &c. a Curricle, and Six Horses. Household Expenses, weekly Bread and Flour—for twenty-one Persons Is. each Butter,—lib. each, or 211bs. at a« average of Is. per lb.— Is. each Butcher’s-Meat,-—11b. per day each, or 1471bs. at 6}d. per lb. (3s. 9fd. each). .£3 19 7f 7 , . *d Fish, Poultry, &c.—3s. 7fd. a day 15 4^ • P ■> Beer —1 quart each, per daj’, or 36 j gallons, at 8d. (Is. 2d. each) =£1 4 G?,. . Other Liquors—(7s. 6d. per day) 2 12- 6^ s‘ *ler a' Cheese, -fib. each per week, or lOflbs. at 101. per lb. average Ad.each. Garden-Produce—Gardener’s Wages 2G/., Duty 21. 16s. (exclusive of board 9s., making in all 20s. per week) Grocery of all kinds, (except Tea and Sugar)—Is. each Sugar,— lib. each per week, or 211bs., viz. Albs, at Is., and lGlbs. at 8d.—(9d. each) Ten, Coffee, &c.—(Servants finding their own) Milk and F.ggs—the Produce of 2 Cows, and the Poultry— (7d. each) Total for Provisions, weekly, being 784/. 11s. a year.— Coals and Wood—12 Fires, (See Estimate I.) each 2s. 6d. per week Candles, Gas, and Oil,—equal (o 41bs. Candles per night, or 281bs. at 9d. per lb.—average 3s. a day Soap, Starch, Blue, &c. for washing—2s. a day Sundries, for cleaning, scowering, &c.—2s. a day £ 8. d. 1 l 0 1 i 0 5 5 0 3 17 0 0 8 9 0 11 0 1 1 0 0 15 9 0 9 0 0 12 «■» J 15 1 9 1 10 0 1 1 0 0 14 0 0 14 O £19 O 9 Total, per week, 19/. Os. 9d. which is 990/. per annum, or 33 per cent. Extra,for Entertainments. 00 2 Medicine, Medical Assistance, tfec.... 30 1