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



Presidency, it will be advisable to take the mean of the three scales for each 

 of the two classes of diets. The subjoined statement gives the nutritive value of 

 each scale for the central and for the district jails separately ; as also the daily 

 average value as ahments of the combined scales of each class of prisons. 



Nutritive value of the diets in force for labouring prisoners in the 



Madras Presidency. 



It will be observed that these diets are richer in fatty substances than jail 

 dietaries ordinarily are, each scale containing from 1| to 2 ounces. The central 

 jail labouring diet contains an average of 235 grains of nitrogen and 5,113 of 

 carbon. The " over four months " diet of the district jails is almost of the same 

 value ; and the " under four months " scale contains an average of 204 grains of 

 nitrogen and 4,381 of carbon. 



Taken altogether, these dietaries are considerably higher than the standard of 

 the adapted English Local Prison scale, but the average value of the maximum 

 Madras scale contains 35 grains less nitrogen and 91 less carbon than the maximum 

 actual Local Prison diet. It will be recollected that the maximum Bombay scale 

 exceeded the maximum of English Local Prisons. 



70. The dietaries in force in the jails of Mysore and Coorg do not call for special 

 remark. The ingredients entering into the labouring diet scales will be found cited 

 in Table XII of the appendix, together with nutritive values in terms of nitrogen 

 and carbon ; and a summary of this statement is given below. From this it will 

 be seen, that the nitrogen contained in the three scales ranges from 211 to 245 

 grains, and is to the carbon about as 1 to 21 or 22. The fatty matter ranges from 

 about 1^ to 1^ oz. 



