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The detailed data for the total amounts of food returned, eaten, and 

 rejected during this study are shown in Table 35 of the Appendix. 

 The calculated amounts of nutrients and energy per man per day in 

 the food eaten and rejected are shown in Table 24. 



Table 24. — Nutrients and aiergy hi food t'dtcu and n-astcd in dtctarij study No. 384- 



[Quantities per man per day.] 



In respect to the food consumption, 7*J grams of protein and 2,511 

 calories of energy per man per day, the results of this study are very 

 similar to Nos. 377 and 378, on preceding pages, which were made 

 with patients of about the same general age, activity, and degree of 

 ph3^sical health. As was explained in the discussion of the preceding 

 studies, the indications were that the patients ate enough to meet 

 their bodil}' needs. 



The amount of food rejected was larger in proportion to the total 

 amount served than was the case in some of the studies immediately 

 preceding this, but was much smaller than in several of the other 

 studies included in the present report. As shown by the data in 

 Table 35 of the Appendix, the waste was not confined to any given 

 articles but varied considerabl}^ in kind and amount from day to day. 

 The proportion of rejected food (10 per cent) is more marked if consid- 

 ered in terms of nutrients and energy rather than in terms of total 

 food. 



DIETARY STUDY NO. 385— MALE PATIENTS, aUIET, CHRONIC. 



This study was made with about 30 quiet, chronic, male patients, 

 more or less untidy in their habits, who occupied the ward known as 

 "Garfield first." It was made simultaneously with No. 384, and the 

 menu was the same as in that study. The total nuinber of meals taken 

 was 633, equivalent to 1 man for 211 days. 



