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Article 18. Mr Bentham submits to Mr
Ford's Proposal in regard to the excluding out of
the Estimate all ages under ten years: but he flatters
himself Mr Ford will not think it unreasonable
that the exclusion should be suspended for the first
year, considering the dangers to health that threaten
an institution of this sort at its outset, when persons
of that description are received in such large
multitudes at once from all the Jails in the Kingdom
(of which a few only have been so improved
as not to be occasionally the seats of pestilence)
into an unseasoned building: dangers against which
the best professional advice seconded by the strictest
attention may be no adequate defense.

In the Hulks under Mr Campbel's care the
mortality was very considerable at first as appears
by Howard's Books, and by the Reports made
to the House of Commons. At Portsmouth or
Plymouth out of about 700 there died in one year
between 1/6 and 1/5 of the whole number, as appears
from the Reports made to the King's Bench from
which Mr Bentham has extracts.

According to this alteration the words to be
inserted might stand as follows. After the words
"D<hi rend='superscript'>r Price" insert, "Provided that in the first year's
"account, in the computation of the deaths so to be

Identifier: | JB/115/112/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1795-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	answers to mr fords observations upon panopticon contract
Image	003	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	37487
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