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Dietaries of Labouring Prisoners in Indian Jails, [part iv. 



cereal in the dietary of the latter consists of a mixture of rice and wheaten flour, or 

 of a mixture of rice and maize. 



The nutritive values of the diet scales for labouring priso^iers adopted in 

 Lower Bengal in July 1881. 



(1) The morning meal consisting of gram. (2) The morning meal consisting of riee. 



50. The foregoing brief account will suffice to show that there is no lack of variety 

 In this dietary, and the above table will serve to indicate the nutritive value of the 

 several scales. Taken as a whole, the nutritive value of this dietary not only exceeds, 

 under every heading, the "adapted" scale, which has been prepared from English 

 Local Prison scales, but in most cases the amount of food actually issued is more than 

 is given as a maximum dietary in either the Convict or the Local Prisons in Eng- 

 land and Wales. The daily value of the diets for Bengalis ranges from 230 to 281 

 grains of nitrogen, and the carbon from 5,533 to nearly 6,000 grains. The value of 

 the diet scales for Beharis and natives of Upper India generally ranges from 262 t 

 322 grains of nitrogen per diem, and the carbon from 5,533 to 6,312 grains. The fatty 

 matters in the several diets range from a little under an ounce to a little over an ounce and 

 three quarters, the diets in which maize forms a part being ricjier in fats than the others. 



