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provided. Temporary fire-places of stone were built, 

 and the oatmeal was well 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 Encly. Brit. 9th 

 ed.) 



Note top. 352. 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, 1 1 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. 352 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. 367), and the "balance" between these 

 outgoings and intakes. 



