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14 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
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Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

611

Info in main headings field

letter 3d

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d14

Penner

john herbert koe

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7

ID Number

38144

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