PART IV.] Value of Diets in Mysore, Coorg, and Andaman Islands. 679 



The nutritive value of the diets for labouring 'prisoners in the Jails of 



Mysore and Coorg. 



71. Table XIV in the appendix details the ingredients, and gives the nutritive 

 value of the dietaries in force for. Third-class and Chain-gang convicts at the penal 

 settlement in the Andaman Islands. The ordinary dietary consists of two scales : in 

 one rice forms the staple cereal, and wheat in the other. Fish forms a part of each 

 diet to the extent of 1;^ lb. per week. When fish is not procurable, which was the 

 case on 100 days during 1880, an extra allowance of rice is issued in lieu of it. There 

 are consequently four scales of diet in force. 



The subjoined statement gives the nutritive value of each of these scales. 



The nutritive value of the dietaries for Third-class and Chain-gang convicts at 

 the Andaman Islands Penal Settlement. 



The convicts are permitted to select either the rice or the wheat form as the 

 rations are passed round. The average daily nutritive value of the two scales of the 

 ordinary dietary is equivalent to 282 grains of nitrogen and 5,575 grains of carbon, so 

 that it is better than the maximum diet issued to convicts in England by 19 grains 

 of the former and 562 of the latter ; or, when fish is not available, the increase equals 

 11 grains of nitrogen and 1,262 grains of carbon. 



