JB/117/369/001

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I come now to that part of the question which concerns
the difference in point of terms between Panopticon
for the accommodation of the several numbers 1,300
1000 and 700 prisoners.

For the reasons that were submitted in my former letter
numbers of pound's—arithmetical details in General—
are a sort of answer which it is out of my power
now to give. But what can not be detailed in figures
may be rendered sufficiently clear by being stated in
principle.

The reduction in the expence of the building was this
among the considerations that suggested the wish to see
the proposed reduction made upon the number for
which provision should be made?

Upon a second glance, any saving that by any such
reduction as is proposed would be made under this head
would be found much less considerable than on a first
glance may have been supposed.

To understand this—Two thousand was at one time
for the standard number of prisoners to be accommodated,
take no more than the above proposed number of 1,300.
From this standard number let the two several proposed
reductions be measured.

By reducing it in one case to 1000, in another to 700, the
saving in expence would be far less than in proportion to the
number. Why? Because there would be so many parts—so
many masses of brick or iron or wood that in dimensions
would require to be nearly the same in all three cases.

Identifier: | JB/117/369/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	369	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f10
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2110, vol. 8	ID Number	38986
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