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DIETARY STUDY NO. 365— ATTENDANTS AND KITCHEN 



EMPLOYEES. 



This study was made with 58 persons, cliietly male attendants, but 

 including- 14 kitchen employees, 3 of whom were women. The 

 greatei- number of the kitchen help were negroes. The food, which 

 was the same for all, was supplied from the "detached kitchen." As 

 a rule it was cooked separately from that for the patients, though 

 sometimes breakfast foods and meats were cooked together for ])oth 

 patients and attendants. The cooking- for the attendants Avas done b}^ 

 a special cook and her helper, and particular care was taken to have 

 the food wholesome, palatable, and attractive. Considerable attention 

 was also paid to variety in the diet. It is believed that the fare com- 

 pared very favorably with that of attendants in other institutions. 

 The dining room (PI. II), which is neat, attractive, and cheerful, is 

 situated on the second floor of the detached kitchen ])uilding-. 



This study began with breakfast, October 12, liM)2, after prelimi- 

 nary observations of 1 da}^ and continued 7 daj^s, with 21 meals. The 

 total number of persons present at diflerent meals w^as very variable, 

 owing to leave of absence granted to attendants. The total number 

 of meals eaten during the study, estimating 1 meal for a woman as 

 equivalent to 0.8 meal for a man, was equivalent to 1,227, or equiva- 

 lent to 1 man for 409 days. 



The following- menu was served during this study: 



Sunday, October 12, 1902. 



Breakfast. — Wheat breakfast food, baked beans, fried potatoes, fried ham, biscuit, 

 coffee. 



Dinner. — Baked pork with gravy, mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, canned peas, 

 apple sauce, baked custard, bread, tea. 



Supper. — Fried eggs, potato cakes, grapes, jelly cake, bread, tea. 



Monday, October 1.3, 1902. 



Breakfast. — Oatmeal, pork sausage, corn bread, bread, coffee. 



Dinner. — Boiled cabbage, boiled potatoes, pork shoulders, canned corn, cottage 

 j)udding with sauce, bread, grapes, tea. 

 Supper. — Cinnamon bread, hashed i:)otatoes, dried beef, apple sauce, hreaii, tea. 



Tuesday, October 14, 1902. 



Breakfast. — Wheat breakfast food, liver and bacon, fried potatoes, rolls, coffee. 

 Dinner. — Vegetable soup, meat pie, boiled rice, boiled beets, chocolate pudding 

 with sauce, 1)read, soda crackers, tea. 

 Supper. — Stewed pears, cold shoulder, creamed potatoes, bread, tea, quick biscuit. 



Wednesday, October 15, 1902. 



Breakfast. — Wheat breakfast food, beefsteak and onion gravy, biscuit, coffee. 

 Dinner. — -Corned beef, cabbage, boiled pi)tat.o:-s, lemon ice, bread, tea. 

 Supper. — Bologna sausage, apple sauce, gingerbread, potato cakes, l)read, tea. 



