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penitentiary establishments instead of one: say for
round numbers, only 250 .* If then an excess to
the amount of ten 10 houses instead of one, makes
the expence three times as much as it need be,
how many times as much as it need be will
240 instead of one make the expence? — Answer,
seventy two times as much: — for the ratio of 240
to one is 24 times as great as the ratio of ten to
one: - 24 times 3 is 72. —

But the quantity of needless expence in poor
house architecture, upon the current plan & scale,
taking the Suffolk Industry Houses for the standard,
is but small in comparison of what it is in
prison architecture, taking Cold Bath Fields Prison
for the standard: for of that Penitentiary House the
expence was found to be about 20 times as great
per head, + * If out of the 257, the odd 17 exist already in the improved form, so much of the expence in question is already defrayed. + The calculation was grounded on the most particular information that could be obtained from the most authentic sources. It is at your Lordship's command at any time. — (little more or less - say for round numbers
21 times as great per head —) as in the proposed
Panopticon Penitentiary House: — 21 times instead of
3 times. This being assumed, the quantity of needless
expence in prison architecture on the plan of 240 penitentiary

Identifier: | JB/116/613/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	613	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d16
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38146
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