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Article 18. Mr Bentham submitts to Mr
Ford's proposal of excluding in regard to the
excluding all persons out of the Estimate all ages under ten years: old:
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 caused to be the seats of pestilence occasionally the seat of pestilence)
from all the into an unseasoned building: dangers to against which
the best professional advice seconded by the strictest
attention may be no adequate defence.
In the Hulks under Mr Campbel's care the
mortality was very considerable at first as appears
by Howard's books, and by the Report,
made to the House of Commons. In a
single Hulk At Portsmouth or Plymouth out
of about 700 have died in one year between
1/tth and 1/5th of the whole number, as appears
from the Reports made to the King's Bench
from which he Mr Bentham has extracts.
According to this alteration the words to be inserted
might stand as follows. After the words "Dr Pries'y insert,
"Provided that during in the of in the first years account, in the computation
"of the Deaths so to be expected according to the
"said Bills and Calculations the whole number of deaths
"among persons of all ages shall be taken into account;
"that that in the account of every subsequent year, all
"ages earlier than that of ten years shall be excluded."
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