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



67. As will be seen from Table XV in the appendix, the jail in the city of Bombay 

 has a dietary differing somewhat from the dietaries in force in the other jails of the 

 Presidency. The staple cereals of the former diet consist of a mixture of wheat and 

 rice, whereas in the mofussil jails the staple cereal consists either of wheat, bajra, or 

 jowar. The subjoined statement gives a summary of the nutritive values of the several 

 scales, from which it will be seen that the labouring prisoners in the Bombay City 

 Jail receive a dietary containing 209 grains of nitrogen and 4,011 of carbon. It is a 

 purely vegetable diet, but animal food may be given if ordered by the Medical Officer. 



Nutritive value of diets for labouring prisoners of the Bombay City Jail, and of 



other jails in the Presidency. 



* No distinction made between medium and hard labour. 



In the other jails of the Presidency a distinction is made between medium and 

 hard labour, and the diet scales adapted accordingly ; moreover, animal food appears 

 to be issued in lieu of pulse at the discretion of the local officials. The substitution 

 of animal food for pulse, however, reduces the value of the diet considerably, when 

 the value is judged by the proportion of nitrogenous and carbonaceous substances which 

 it contains. The wheat-diet scale, for example, with pulse contains 260 grains of 



