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DIETARY STUDY NO. 379— DISTURBED MALE PATIENTS. 



This study, which is very siinihir in detail to the precediiio-, was 

 made with male patients of a disturbed class, hut in fair physical 

 health, occupving- A\'iiite xVsh ward. Some of them ate in the dining 

 room and some in the ward. At the beginning of the study there 

 were 40 men in the group, but during the latter part of it 10 were 

 transferred to another ward. Only 4 of these patients did any 

 work, the amount in every case being very small. 



The study began with breakfast, March 17, 1903, and continued 7 

 days, with 21 meals. The total number of meals taken was 802, equiv- 

 alent to 1 man for 267 days. 



The menu served was the same as in the previous study. The 

 detailed statistics of the kinds and amounts of food are given in Table 

 3.5 of the Appendix. The quantities of nutrients and energy per man 

 per day in the food eaten and rejected are shown in Table 19 below. 

 Some difficulty was experienced in separating the difl'erent kinds of 

 foods in the material rejected, but the data obtained are believed to 

 be reliable. 



Table 19. 



■Nutrients and energy In food eaten and wasted in dietary study No. 379. 

 [Quantities per man per day.] 



The average quantity of protein, 104 grams, and of energy, 2,877 

 calories, per man per day in the food consumed l)y this group is larger 

 than that of the previously mentioned standard for a man in health 

 with little or no muscular work, but perhaps no larger than was to be 

 expected when it is remembered that the men were generally more or 

 less nervous and disturbed. It is noticeably higher than the average 

 observed in some of the studies immediately preceding, which may 

 perhaps be accounted for by the differences in physical condition and 

 muscular exertion, which for some of the patients in the present study 

 was perhaps considerable during their violent periods. 



