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(7) Statement showing the relation between wages and food 

 (extracted from " MulhaU's Dictionary of Statistics''). 



Shillings per week- 



Wages. 



Food. 



Ratio of food 



expenses to wages 



earned. 



Great Britain 



France 



Germany 



Belgium 



Italy 



Spain 



United States 



Australia 



PER CENT. 



45 

 57 

 63 

 60 

 60 

 62 

 33 

 27 



(8) Statement showing the scale of diet prescribed in Jails in the 

 Madras Presidency {Jail Code). 



(a) — The daily diet scale for European and Bast Indian long-term 

 prisoners is as follows : — 



On Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays, vegetables and dholl meal 

 are not given and rice is reduced to 4 oz. in the case of labouring 

 prisoners and increased to 6 oz. in the case of non-labouring 

 prisoners. On these days meat is increased to 7 oz. in the case of 

 the first and to 4 oz. in the case of the second. On Saturdays instead 

 of potatoes three additional ounces of rice are given, and ^ oz. of curry- 

 powder is substituted for mint, parsley and pepper. The allowance of 

 firewood is 2 lb. per diem. 



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