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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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