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the text of the resolution of the Conference as to the relative nutritive value, &c., of the grains to 

 be issued — The principal forms into which the Conference dietary may be resolved — The diet 

 scales framed in accordance with the seven principal food-grains of the country — The nutritive 

 value of the rice and the wheat forms of the Conference diet compared with the dietary approved 

 by the Committee of 1864 — The Conference diet contrasted with the "adapted" English local 

 prison scales — The mean nutritive value of the purely vegetable forms of the Conference dietary 

 should, on the local prison standard, suffice for prisoners weighing 119 to 120 lbs.— The curtail- 

 ment of the fat by the Conference a disadvantage — The proposals of the Conference as to diet have 

 not been extensively adopted — The forms of the Conference dietary adopted in the Bengal jails — 

 The difference between the nutritive value of the adopted Conference scales and the previous 

 dietary : the scale for Bengalis — The scales for Beharis — The Conference scales discontinued owing 

 to the unfavourable character of health returns — Present dietary for labouring prisoners in Bengal 

 — The nutritive value of the present labouring diets in Bengal is, in most instances, higher than 

 that of the maximum scales sanctioned for English oonvict and local prisons — Labouring dietaries 

 in force in Assam and in British Burma — Nutritive value of the Assam scales of diet — The dietaries 

 of labouring prisoners in Burma, the lowest ; and the health statistics, the most favourable — The 

 value of such experience in estimating the actual food-requirements of native prisoners — Dietary 

 of labouring prisoners in the Punjab — Higher than is sanctioned in either the convict or local 

 jails of England — No apparent connection between the high mortality and the diet — Dietary of 

 labouring prisoners in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh — Rations actually issued to 

 prisoners in these provinces during 1880 —The jails which received the highest dietary were not 

 the healthiest — The former and the present diet scales of the Central Provinces — -The " reduced " 

 scale more liberal than the maximum scale of English prisoners — The nutritive value of the 

 "Conference" diet adopted in the Hj'derabad assigned districts — Nearly equal to the maximum 

 scales allowed to labouring prisoners in England — Conference scale set aside owing to the occur- 

 rence of " scurvy " in two jails some nine to twelve months after the diet had been in use — New 

 scale adopted in March 1881 — Bombay dietaries for labouring prisoners — The maximum diet of 

 the Bombay Mofussil jails compared with the maximum diet of English local prisons— Madras 

 dietaries for labouring prisoners — The labouring diet scales of the Mysore and Coorg jails — The 

 dietaries of convicts at the Andamans .... . 655 — 679 



Chapter V. — Summary and Conclusions. — The bearing of modern research on the construction of 

 labouring dietaries — The influence of Liebig's doctrines still felt in the tendency there is to ignore 

 the fact that energy is stored up in the carbonaceous rather than in nitrogenous elements of food — 

 Standard diets which have been proposed as a result chiefly of specially devised experiments on 

 Europeans, not quite applicable to people of more vegetarian habits — The diet scales of English 

 prisons very favourably reported on by Royal Commissions — The dietaries of English local prisons 

 contain a large proportion of vegetable food and appear suitable as standard for Indian require- 

 ments — Weight of individuals as a basis for computing the amount of food required for maintenance 

 in health — A tabiilar statement of the nutritive values of existing Indian diets and of the body- 

 weight for which each scale is computed to be sufficient — The addition of an undue proportion of 

 pulses to the diet not an unmixed advantage — Great discrepancies in the nutritive value of the 

 maximum scales — Recent and present dietaries in the Bengal jails — The desirability of more 

 closely ascertaining the comparative nutritive value of Indian food-grains and pulses before 

 attempting to frame unif(n'm diets — The evidence as to the sufficiency of the labouring diets of 

 Indian jails — Conclusion 680 — 689 



Tabular Statements 690—708 



