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(1842) [MARC] Author: Oscar I Translator: Alfred May
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Total amount of the above mentioned prisoners:

In 1834 . . . . 2959.
— 1838 . . . . 3665 + 706, or 5,95 p.c. annualy.

If this number of 3665 be added to the 2016
prisoners in the county- and town-jails on the 1
January 1839, we have a sum of 5681, or 1 in 546
inhabitants. (When the population is calculated
at 3,100,439).

The expenses have increased in proportion to
the increase of prisoners.

The expenses were,

in 1824 . . . 153,934 R:dr B:co.

— 1829 . . . 270,390 —

— 1837 . . . 464,478 —

Besides this the expenses for the prison discipline
in Stockholm amounted,

in 1834 . . . . . to 6,769 R:dr B:co.

— 1838 . . . . . . . 11,364 —

— 1839 the first half year 9,485 —

These sums include neither what is taken from
the grant for public buildings, nor those sums given
by the third and fourth heads, under the name of
work-money, nor do they take up the separate
sums paid by the towns for prisoners confined in
their jails.

If we add to these expenses the value of the
number of days’ labour which are lost, amounting,
only within the houses of correction, in 1838 to,
110,000 although opportunities for labour on a

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