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Dietaries of Labouring Pidsoners in Indian Jails. [part iv. 



62. The reduced scale of the " six months and under " class of prisoners contains 

 29 grains less of nitrogen and 697 grains less of carbon ; and the scale of the " over 

 six months " class, 30 grains of nitrogen and nearly 700 of carbon less than the old 

 standard scale. But even this reduced scale is, under almost every heading, more 

 liberal than the maximum diet supplied to prisoners in either Convict or I^ocal 

 prisons in England. The " under six months " reduced scale of the Central Provinces 

 contains 60 grains of nitrogen more than is supplied to labouring prisoners of less 

 than four months' imprisonment in English Local prisons, and 5 grains more than is 

 contained in the maximum scale allowed in England. The carbon in the reduced 

 scale of the " under six months " class in the Central Provinces exceeds the amount 

 in the English scale by 555 grains, but the scale for the " over six months " class 

 contains 255 grains less than the maximum English scale. This is the only heading 

 under which the Central Provinces' " reduced " scale does not, and generally to a 

 considerable extent, exceed the English dietary in nutritive value. Weight for weight, 

 therefore, a Central Provinces' prisoner even on the " reduced " scale receives much 

 more food than any hard-labouring prisoner in England. 



63. As has already been stated a scale of dietary based on the recommendations 

 of the Indian Jail Conference was adopted in the jails of the Hyderabad Assigned 

 Districts. The staple cereal in this new diet consisted of a mixture of wheat and 

 jowar, as was also the case in the diet which it replaced. In the new scale, however, 

 the proportions in which the cereals were issued were, to a certain extent, reversed, 

 the weekly amount of wheat being reduced from 79 ounces to 66, and the jowar 

 increased from 66 to 96 ounces. The fatty matter issued was also reduced. The 

 other changes, which are of a minor character, can be ascertained by referring to 

 Table XI in the appendix, where full details are given. This table is epitomised in 

 the statement given below, which also gives the proximate aliments into which the 

 food-stuffs of the diets may be resolved : — 



The, nutritive values of the former and of the present scales of diet for labouring 

 prisoners in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts. 



DIETS IN FOBOB TILL TOWARDS THE 

 END OF 1879. 



Under 3 Months. 



Ounces. 



Grains. 



9 to 



5^ 



20-51 il-19 353 



5,585 



Oteb 3 Months. 



Ounces. 



Grains. 







21-22 



1-20 



5,738 



DIETS IN FORCE PROM END OF 1879 

 TILL MAROH 1881. 



Under 3 Months. 



Ounces. 







0-91 



Grains. 



OvKK 3 Months. 



Ounces. 



Grains. 



a <^ 



3-53 19-15 



1-04 



244 '4,902 



PRESENT MAXIMUM 

 DIET. 



Ounces. 





4-05 20 22 



Grains. 



5,328 



