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Letter 3d
XVII Improved Prisons whole of South Britain would have been £10,275,250
Do upon the proposed Panopticon plan & scale £2,357,000
Waste being the amount of the difference}
waste though altogether blameless & unpreventible} £7,918,250
Two thousand to a house was the number
upon the Panopticon plan and scale : two
hundred in round numbers upon the Suffolk
scale : but upon Mr Pitt's plan they would have
been of all manner of smaller sizes . The eg eight
million — the amount of the waste upon that
single article — would have been frugality , in
comparison of the waste aimed at by Mr Pitt. —
This upon main buildings alone .
total of the estimated part of the expence}
upon this plan , Main buildings , Airing} £
grounds , and Official establishment} 22,459,561
together — Annual amount of official establishments}
(to match with the other}
expences) reduced to capital viz at 20 years}
purchase — — — — — — —}
Deduct expence of do on the Panopticon}
scale and plan — — — — — —} 6,022,000
Remains for the amount of waste on this
part of the aggregate of expence upon this
plan , frugal as it would have been in } 16,437,561
comparison of Mr Pitt's — — —
In round numbers sixteen millions and a half
out of two and twenty millions and a half the
waste by having ten establishments instead of one . Wasteful
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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john herbert koe |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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