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confined in Bengal jails, was also modified. A detailed statement of the altered diet- 

 aries will be found given in Table III of the Appendix, a summary of which is 

 furnished in the following statement : — 



The Chief Proximate Alimentary Constituents of the Dietaries adopted in Lower 

 Bengal for Labouring Prisoners from March 1879 to March 1880, together 

 with their Nutritive Values in grains of Nitrogen and Carbon. 



The animal food forms of the above scales were, however, not to be given as an ordi- 

 nary prison dietary, except in those districts where the inhabitants are meat or fish- 

 eaters, or when specially considered necessary. When meat or fish was given, 4 oz. was 

 to be issued three times a week in lieu of an equal weight of grain. It is not clear 

 to what extent advantage was taken of these clauses in the instructions issued to 

 Superintendents of Jails, nor to what extent maize and millet were used in combination 

 with rice in the Behari dietary. No mention is made of these two cereals in the diet 

 scales proposed by Dr. Mouat — a mixture of wheat and rice being the only grains 

 cited. 



46. In order satisfactorily to understand the precise difference between the new 

 dietary and the old, it will be advantageous to have the several ingredients of each 

 dietary brought together, as well as a statement of the chief proximate principles into 

 which each dietary may be resolved. This has been effectecj in the subjoined table; 

 the rice and the rice-and-wheat dietaries for Bengalis and Beharis, which were in force 

 from March 1879 to March 1880, being contrasted with those previously in force in 

 Bengal. It will be observed that by the introduction of the new dietary the Bengali 



