(U 



Table 35 of t\w Appendix show tlmt 35 per cent of the ])oiled beef, 36 

 per cent of the hominy, 45 per cent of the rice, and similarly large 

 proportions of a number of other materials were returned. 



DIETARY STUDY NO. 382— MALE PATIENTS, YOUNG, QUIET, AND 



ORDERLY. 



Sycamore ward, in which this study was made, acconunodates about 

 30 patients; during the study the number varied from 26 to 33. They 

 were chiefly young men, many of them parole patients, cpiiet and 

 orderly, some of whom would doubtless be cured. Seven of them were 

 workers. 



The study was carried on simultaneously with No. 381 and the menu 

 served was the same. The total numl)er of meals taken was 617, 

 equivalent to 1 man for 206 days. 



The statistics of kinds and amounts of food are given in detail in 

 Table 35 of the Appendix. The following table shows the quantities 

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



Taiu.k 22. — Xutrinits rnul rnrrrji/ in food eaten and vxided la dietary study No. S8'3. 



[Quantities per man per day.] 



The food consumption, averaging 98 grams protein and 2,834 calo- 

 ries of energy per man per day, was somewhat smaller than that 

 observed for similar patients in the preceding study, the difference 

 being doubtless partly due to the smaller proportion of working 

 patients in the present group. The food appeared to be entirely sat- 

 isfactory, the quantities left on the plates were small, and the indica- 

 tions were that the patients ate all they needed. If such had not been 

 the case the amounts sent to the dining room were large enough to 

 have provided much more than they at(\ In this study, as in the pre- 

 ceding, nuich care was ttiken to return all unserved food to the kitchen. 



