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13 Aug 1802 +
N.S. Wales 3

In speaking of mortality the account of death I have mentioned as yet but
one of the efficient causes of this species of security: viz:
disease on by damp on ship-board. beg At their arrival at on this land
of cruel promise, the fugitives from disease poison + + (for what else is vitiated air?) were received
by famine. Those who had escaped the first decimation
were now directed to to go through a second. In one year (1792) out of
fewer than 4000 convicts a man 436 breathed their last, of whom more than 400 were
carried off by famine. I say by famine: for such
was the healthiness of sign of natural salubrity in the spot (a property altogether above degree in so prodigious so prodigiously superior </add>
to any thing which antecedent experience could have promised)
that, out of in 1794 out of a greater number there died
but 42, and in 1798 but 20. + (a)by natural mortality Died in 1794, 46 in 1795 20 Total in the last years 66 (a) note Medium of the two years, 33: This taken from the total number of deaths in 1792 leaves for the number of deaths 436 that when the destroying Angel of death in this way a had fulfilled his mission that might have been by famine in that same year 403

At the end of the year 1792, the destroying angel of famine hath
having been working at work in this way for three years, out of the whole number
shipped off within these times, by sea or by land, more than
one fourth, by sea and land together, had died: out of 5548, 1475.

In this combination of all associated scourges — (both of them the result work
of official wickedness and folly) one circumstance is curious enough
In this class of abomination, one
requires to be observed. Of that part of the mortality or both elements that part which took place at
is curious enough. The mortality by sea, deplorable
as it was in itself, was may have been relatively a blessing; — it may have operated in in effect diminution of the
whole. Had the 513, who perished, by prison or at <add>famine, perished in the voyage </add>by poiso chiefly
victims these enviable wretched because earlier victims — these wretches, superfluous wretches
from forward and thus before had they landed, would probably
proportion beyond and by a number still greater than
their own, themselves number themselves,<add>their own</add> have increased the number multitude of the +
+ then others which subsequent victims to whom by an tells when famine presented, called her own by an undisputed title, famine called her own. + having been thus destroyed in turn, having saved more than 513 from being destroyed by famine in addition to the 763 or thereabouts who actually owed their received their deaths quietus from that scourge. victims to <add> famine. from minimum of the
considered with returning From the amount of the least ration
considered with returning necessary to health, take away a certain portion —
certain part, only a part may die: add <add> aggravate the deficiency
subtracted by a small fraction </add>to the portion thus
taken but some small portion more, the same fate may involve
the whole. The 913 and upwards who perished at sea may by having

Identifier: | JB/116/276/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-08-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	42
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	276	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37809
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