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kinds and amounts of food are given in detail in Table 85 of the 

 Appendix. 



The following' table siininiarizes the results showino- the quantities of 

 nutrients and energy per man per day in the food eaten and rejected: 



Table 16. — Xuirients and energy in food eaten and wasted in dielanj study No. 376. 



[Quantities per man per day.] 



The results, it will be noted, are very similar to those in the pre- 

 ceding study with patients of a similar class as regards activity, the 

 food consumption being small and the amounts rejected relatively 

 large. The (juantity of protein in the food consumed was practically 

 the same in both studies, but the quantity of energy was larger in the 

 present case. 



The large proportions of food wasted were probabl}" owing in part 

 to the fact that the rejection of food is likel}^ to be larger with patients 

 of this class than with some others in better mental condition. It 

 would hardl}^ seem, however, that the unavoida])le waste need be as 

 large as in the present study, in which 31 per cent of the food provided 

 was rejected, as shown in Table 35 of the Appendix. The high per- 

 centage in the case of such a large number of different articles suggests 

 that the amounts provided were much larger than needed. Very little 

 food was returned to the kitchen during this study, and it would seem 

 that the amount rejected might have been materially diminished by 

 noting caref ullv the average consumption and making the supply agree 

 more closel}- with it. 



DIETARY STTTDY NO. 377— CHRONIC MALE PATIENTS. 



This study was made with 42 chronic male patients, in a dining room 

 of Dawes second ward, which, like the wards inchided in the two pre- 

 ceding studies, was supplied from the general kitchen. A considerable 

 number of the men in this ward did light work. 



