Note 59 — Chapter V · None of Mr. Scudamore’s Financial Forecasts Were Realized
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Number of messages.
18696,500,000 (estimated)
1870-719,850,000
1871-7212,474,000
1874-7519,253,000
1879-8026,547,000
1884-8533,278,000
1889-9062,403,000
1894-9571,589,000
1899-190090,415,000
1905-190689,478,000
In 1869 Mr. Scudamore revised his estimate of the number of messages in 1870-71, reducing it to 8,815,400. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, July 5, 1869, p. 1,219, the Marquis of Hartington, Postmaster General.