280 Public Establishment for 



1000 persons, at the trifling expense of fourpence half- 

 penny for fuel; and that, too, where the cord, five feet 

 eight inches and nine tenths long, five feet eight inches 

 and nine-tenths high, and five feet three inches and 

 two tenths wide, English measure, of pine-wood, of the 

 most indifferent quality, costs above seven shillings ; 

 and where the cord of hard wood, such as beech and 

 oak, of equal dimensions, costs more than twice that 

 sum, — may appear incredible ; yet I will venture to assert, 

 and I hereby pledge myself with the public to prove 

 that in the kitchen of the Military Academy at Munich, 

 and especially in a kitchen lately built under my direc- 

 tion at Verona, in the Hospital of La Pieta, I have 

 carried the economy of fuel still further. 



To prevent frauds in the kitchen of the institution 

 for the poor at Munich, the ingredients are delivered 

 each day by the store -keeper to the chief cook ; and a 

 person of confidence, not belonging to the kitchen, at- 

 tends at the proper hour to see that they are actually 

 used. Some one of the inspectors, or other chief officer 

 of the establishment, also attends at the hour of dinner, 

 to see that the victuals furnished to the poor are good, 

 well dressed, and properly served up. 



As the dining-hall is not large enough to accommo- 

 date all the poor at once, they dine in companies of 

 as many as can be seated together (about 150); those 

 who work in the house being served first, and then 

 those who come from the town. 



Though most of those who work in their own lodg- 

 ings send for their dinners, yet there are many others, 

 and particularly such as from great age or other bodily 

 infirmities are not able to work, who come from the 

 town every day to the public hall to dine ; and as these 



