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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 destination
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 scourges — (both of them the result work
of official wickedness and folly) one circumstance is curious enough
In this chaos 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 , 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 wretches because earlier victims

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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