PART IV.] Summary of Diet Scales in N.-W. Provinces and Oudh. 671 



58. The diet scales in force in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh jails are 

 given in detail in Table VI of the appendix, and a summary of their nutritive values 

 is given in the subjoined statement : — 



The nutritive values of the several diet scales for labouring -prisoners in force in the 

 North-Western Provinces and Oudh jails ; and the average daily value 

 contrasted with the English Local Prison scales. 



As will be seen from the above table, four cereals constitute the principal ingredient 

 in these diets, wheat being considerably the best, and jowar the worst, in point of 

 nutritive value. Animal food (except the fatty matter specially issued) forms no part 

 of the diet scales of these provinces, so that we are here furnished with the experience 

 of feeding an average daily population of some 30,000 prisoners on a strictly vege- 

 table diet. The inhabitants of these provinces are on the average taller and heavier 

 men than those of Lower Bengal, Assam, and Burma ; but the average weight of 

 prisoners of even the North-Western Provinces and of Oudh is below the standard of 

 110 lbs., which was adopted in a previous paragraph (para. 25) in computing the 

 proportion of the English Local Prison dietary which should suffice for native prisoners 

 in this country. It will be observed that the adapted English scales, which for 

 facility of comparison have been inserted in the table, are, under every heading, con- 



