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-->Panopt July 1798
Country Convicts
Number say 400
Profit per head
say XII
—
4400
+ 1/2 year 2200
—
6600
Labour of do
400
Labour of the
320 unemployed
on board
the hulks
Say 700 x 22}
for the 1 1/2 Year } 15,400
at £15 a year }
Deduct the first }
On year 5,133
Remains - say 10,000
Add as above 6,600
—
6,600
—
Real profit —
6,600
Add to the above
Saving by the imposition
of the establishment
of both
Hulks at Woolwich
Do of 1 do at Portsmouth.
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ToThe Officers
Passage there
either twoone
Flights of life in
the middle, the
being antwo one on each
each side underneath,
or two
flights of steps
one on each side
the Prisoners being
in the middle.
The latter will be
the plan, if females
are admitted.
Points to be ascertained.
1. Highest High-
water Mark
2. Lowest Low-
water Mark
This with a view
to the level of the
Frigidarium &
Tepidarium
Barge building
might be carried
on at the Charlton
spot. Barges for
conveying the brick,
while the Bricks
were making.
The reversed Bed-
stages will make
good ironing dressers.
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p>Bulky articles
for the lower half
-floor may be introduced
at the
lower whole
If there be any
Craning work
the Crane should
if possible be at
top of the House
and moveable from
division to division.
Bed-pan for the
Sick on Count
Rumford's principle
the cover
to put one on the
Bed, before the pan
is taken out.
In the Temporary
Panopticon cheaper
to multiply Guards
than expensive physical
securities
Strong wire network
might perhaps
do every
where with only
Bars enough for
the support of it
How to manage
the entrance so
that the Convicts
shall have a
different passage
from the< Officers,
Visitors &c - leaving
room at the
same time for the
Staircase?
Answer. -The
may
have a different
level, viz: the
lowest, at that of the
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Dress
Characters to be
distinguished by
Dresses - to enforce
Separation
1. Thorough-bred
Town Thieves -
Habitual Depredators.
2
2. Casual Depredators
- Town.
3. Casual Depredators.
Country
4. Enterprising
by violence
5. Enterprising by
fraud.
6. Quiet and
resigned.
7. Already mixed
with the mass
of the Hulks
8. Unmixed with
the mass in the
Hulks.
9. Cleanly.
10. Filthy.
As dying might
be expensive, let
the distinction be
constituted by the
colours of the shreds
of cloth comprizing
the identification
numbers.
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Lowest floor - which
the officer &c may
enter the building
by the level
of the next floor
above.
The Officers entrance
overlooking
and commanding
the Prisoners do
The Prisoners do
narrow being a
continuation of the
intermediate .
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Temporary Panopt. Iron Bars on the outside to only the lowest floor and 1/2 floor. to the other stories, horizontal laths projecting horizontally, to prevent the prisoners from hanging by their hands in order to drop down, So on the inside man high - above per sufficient - the Barricado Hulks The post principally to be fortified is the Lodge. with the Store underneath. This being impregnable no matter for their getting into the intermediate Areas. And there the surface being less extensive other expence will be less. The Intermediate Area might have a concentric palisade of running all to separate the Prisoners part from the other - or of netting - It might be at the distance of the Guttery rail all round. Plan for the admission of long Timbers for sawing and planing. THis can only be at the Ground floor. This must be by a sort of iron gate-flapping up or down - or in folding doors, with iron plates - with in them to be let down
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