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provided. Temporary fire-places of stone were built, 
and the oatmeal was we// cooked and served out in 
pannikins. Three thousand men were employed 
working double time, and no case of sickness occurred, 
while it is said the men much appreciated this form 
of extra diet. 
In making the recent extension of railways in 
Sicily the progress was retarded by the slack work 
done by the Sicilian navvies compared with the Eng- 
lish gangs. The former took scarcely any meat, 
preferring to save wages their comrades expended in 
that way. The idea occurred to the contractor of 
paying the men partly in money and partly in 
meat; and the result was a marked increase in the 
amount of work executed, which was brought up 
nearly to the British average—(See Eucly. Brit. oth 
ed.) 
Note to p. 22. Tables of Outgoings and Intakes. 
In most works on foods and diet it is usual to give 
the chemical composition of the human frame, the 
average selected being for 5 ft. 8 in. high, 11 stone 
weight, and about 30 years of age. Such an analysis 
is printed below, the figures being taken from the 
‘Handbook of the Bethnal Green Museum Food 
Collection,’ as revised by Professor Church. 
It is here purposely kept far apart from the daily 
outgoings and intakes mentioned on p. 22 to prevent 
confusion in the minds of those who have not pre- 
viously studied the subject, between the continuous 
needs of the body for work internal as well as ex- 
ternal (see p. 37), and the “balance” between these 
outgoings and intakes. 
