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Takino- all the studies at the Government hospital together, both 

 those with patients and those with emplo3'ees, the food consumed 

 furnished on an average 92 grams of protein and 2,783 calories of 

 energy per man per day. This is, it should be remembered, an aver- 

 age of studies almost entirelv with men. There were some women 

 among the attendants with whom studies were made, but their food 

 consumption has been computed as equivalent to eight-tenths as 

 nmch as that of the same number of men similarly employed, and 

 accordingly the results are all given per man per day. There was 

 not time to complete studies in all the wards of the institution, and as 

 the female patients comprised only a little over a fifth of the total 

 number, it was believed to be more important to make as many studies 

 as possible with the male patients. Consequently nothing is known 

 by actual study concerning the food consumption of the women 

 patients. Their diet was in general the same in kind as that for the 

 men. and so far as could be estimated the amounts supplied were 

 about three-fourths as large as for the same number of men; but 

 whether the amounts eaten were in the same proportion could not be 

 ascertained without actual investigations. 



Whether the average just stated would be a fair representation of 

 the food consumption of men in the whole institution it is impos- 

 sible to state with certainty, because there were a number of wards in 

 which no studies were made with either patients or emplo3'ees. How- 

 ever, from observations made in some of these wards, it was believed 

 that in respect to both their physiological needs and their actual food 

 consumption the persons not included in the studies did not differ 

 materially from those studied. Inasmuch as the number of persons 

 included in the studies was more than half of the total population of 

 the hospital, and represented most, if not all, the different classes of 

 employees and male patients, and furthermore since the proportion of 

 employees to patients in the groups studied was below rather than 

 above that of the whole institution, it seems reasonable to consider 

 that the average of 92 grams of protein and 2,783 calories of energy 

 per man per da}' would not be larger than the food consumption of 

 at least the male population of the hospital, which, as mentioned above, 

 conqirised about three-fourths of the whole. A similar average for 

 studies in the New York hospitals, including the 26 with male patients 

 and 6 with employees, was 90 grams of protein and 2,698 calories of 

 energy. 



Considering both patients and employees it thus appears that as a 

 whole the population of the Government hospital consumed almost 

 exactly the same amounts as the average for similar groups in the New 

 York State hospitals. From such a comparison, and judged by the 

 commonly accepted dietary standards for men with similar amounts of 

 muscular activity, it is evident that the population of the Government 



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