PART IV.] Summary of Details given in the Larger Table. 



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to be noted that in grouping wheat, rice and barley under one and the same heading, 

 the Conference did not sufficiently consider the great importance, from a dietetic point 

 of view, of the varying proportion of albuminates which these cereals contain. Rice, 

 for example, with its average of 7 or 8 per cent, of nitrogenous substance, and wheat-flour, 

 with a percentage of 13, cannot be taken as interchangeable measure for measure in any 

 scheme of dietary. 



38. Some of the principal forms into which the dietary suggested may be resolved 

 are given in Table II of the Appendix, it being taken for granted that the phrase " sifted 

 flour" (or attah) should be considered as implying not only wheaten flour, but also 

 the flour of the other cereals which form staple articles of food all over India. The 

 animal food form of the diet has been framed in this table on the scale approved 

 by the Jail Committee of 1864, namely, at the rate of lib. per week of meat, fish, 

 or milk in its various forms, being issued according to the requirements of different 

 nationalities. The Conference does not mention the quantity of milk which they 

 would recommend in lieu of meat or fish, consequently no computation of the nutritive 

 value of this form of diet could be undertaken. 



The following statement will serve as a summary of the details given in the larger 

 table. The aggregate ingredients of the several diets are also reduced to their chief 

 proximate alimentary principles : — 



The chief Proximate Alimentary Constituents of the principal forms of the diet pro- 

 posed for labouring prisoners by the Indian Jail Conference of 1877. 



