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change of posture.

Of the difficulty which for want of that source
of simplification attends the management
even of a Poor House and of a moderate size,
upon any ordinary plan of construction, an
exemplification may be seen in Pauper Management
improved, p. 43: and in Panopticon
Letter VI and in various parts of the Postscript.

In the case of Poor-Houses, In the tract entitled Pauper Management
improved &c, published in Young Annals of
Agriculture (a copy of it lies (I understand)
upon the Table of the Committee,) in p. 43 may
be seen a calculation, made by a professional
and official hand, in which, under the head
of construction, the expence for South Britain
of for a system of Poor Houses, on that small scale
which then was and still is actually in practice
in the Suffolk Poorhouses, being the expence for all England being
£10,275,250. money of that time on the scale of 2,000 inhabitants to a the expence
of the Central Inspection plan, is stated at no more than
of £2,8357,000; considerably less than a quarter: amount of
the saving £7,918,250: and upon the official establishment,
(an annually recurring expence) the amount of the
annual saving is therein stated at £408,131:5 £447,879
So multiplied by 20 (to bring it, like the other expence,
to principal money) £8,162,625. Number of persons
maintained in each such supposed Panopticon Poor house,
2000: being the exact number of the persons for
whom in the character of prisoners, above eleven years ago,
viz: on the 25th of March 1800, as stated in a former Letter of
mine now lying before the Committee, I was ordered to prepare

This in the case
of Poor Houses: and, both
being on the Panopticon plan
for as concerns the influence
of magnitude
of scale on expence
no Difference will
be found between the
case of Poor Houses
and the case of Prisons.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	434	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f41
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39051
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