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Letter 3d
XVII Improved Prisons whole of South Britain would have been £10,275,250
Do upon the proposed Panopticon plan & scale £2,357,000
{Waste being the amount of the difference
waste though altogether blameless & unpreventible} £7,918,250
Two thousand to a house was the number
upon the Panopticon plan and scale: two
hundred in round numbers upon the Suffolk
scale: but upon Mr Pitt's plan they would have
been of all manner of smaller sizes. The eg eight
million — the amount of the waste upon that
single article — would have been frugality, in
comparison of the waste aimed at by Mr Pitt. —
This upon main buildings alone.
{total of the estimated part of the expence
upon this plan, Main buildings, Airing£
grounds , and Official establishment 22,459,561
together —Annual amount of official establishments
(to match with the other
expences) reduced to capital viz at 20 years
purchase} — — — — — — —}
{Deduct expence of do on the Panopticon
scale and plan} — — — — — —} 6,022,000
Remains for the amount of waste on this
{part of the aggregate of expence upon this
plan, frugal as it would have been in 16,437,561
comparison of Mr Pitt's}— — —
In round numbers sixteen millions and a half
out of two and twenty millions and a half the
waste by having ten establishments instead of one. Wasteful
Identifier: | JB/116/611/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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john herbert koe |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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