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APPENDIX II. 



Weight of various Articles of Food required to sustain Respi- 

 ration and Circulation in the Body of an average Man 

 during 24 'hours.*' 



These results are in many instances fully borne 

 out by experience. The food of the agricultural 

 labourers in Lancashire contains a large proportion 

 of fat. Besides the very fat bacon which constitutes 

 their animal food proper, they consume large quan- 

 tities of so-called apple dumplings, the chief portion 

 of which consists of paste in which dripping and 

 suet are large ingredients ; in fact these dumplings 

 frequently contain no fruit at all. Egg and bacon 



* P. 162. On Helmholtz and Fisk's supposition, actual 

 energy required equals 160,012 metrekilograms for internal 

 work for twenty-four hours, and by page 172 one gram ( = 15-43 

 grs.) of different substances give in natural condition so many 

 metrekilograms of force. 



