672 



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siderably smaller than tlie average nutritive value of the North-Western Provinces' 

 dietaries ; the latter may, indeed, be said to be practically identical with the actual 

 English scales. So that if weight have any influence on the food-requirements 

 of the body, it may be assumed that the labouring prisoners in these provinces 

 are, weight for weight, considerably better fed than labouring prisoners in 

 England. 



59. In a former paragraph it was mentioned that, although the several recognised 

 labouring diet scales in India did not exceed 86 or so, nevertheless that the 

 scales actually adopted in practice greatly exceeded this number, the nutritive 

 values of 151 being computed in the tables attached to this memorandum. This 

 number would doubtless require to be materially augmented were information gene- 

 rally available as to the kind and quantity of food grains actually issued to the 

 prisoners in the several jails, A statement of this kind has been kindly furnished by 

 Dr. Walker, the Inspector General of Jails for the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 

 and from this statement Tables VII and VIII in the appendix have been prepared. 

 Six of the larger district and six of central jails were taken at random. The aggre- 

 gate of the amount of the several cereals issued in each jail during 1880 was 

 divided by 366 so as to obtain a daily average based on a whole year's expenditure. 

 The amount of the nitrogen and carbon in the several ingredients was then computed, 

 as also the fatty matter in the aggregate of each diet. An epitome of the result will 

 be found in the subjoined statement : — 



A Summary of Tables VII and VIII giving the daily nutritive values of the diets 

 which were actually issued to labouring prisoners during 1880, in six District 

 and in six Central mils of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. 



