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fruits (six kinds), rire fruits (thirteen kinds), with sweetmeats, pawn, and 
tobacco, states that the average health is good, and the people are well 
nourished. The jail dietary varies with labour and duration of imprison- 
ment, The sameness of food and the small quantity of animal food and phos- 
phates lead to phthisis, and the lowest and poorest classes think life scarcely 
worth possessing in the absence of pawn and tobacco. (Diets Nos. 5, 6, 7, 
and 10. 
16. Br. R. Prrvete, Cuttack, states that among the coolies and the lowest 
class, rice, with watercresses and the small crabs found in tanks and jheels, 
is almost the sole food. The quantity of rice is 3 seer (= 79 tolahs), two- 
thirds eaten at the morning and one-third at the evening meal. The natives 
generally add 1 chit. of dal and perhaps 2 chit. of vegetables to the evening 
meal. When wood is dear, the evening meal is the only hot one. The 
natives are almost exclusively Hindoos, and eat very little animal food. On the 
sea-coast fish constitutes half the diet, whilst inland they consume an increased 
quantity of vegetables, rice, and dal; and in the independent States, at a dis- 
tance from rivers and cultivation, rice is almost the sole food. The inhabitants 
of the coast are in the best health. Only the lowest class of Hindoos take 
opium and spirits. Mussulmen are well fed, since, in addition to the food of 
the Hindoo, they take from 2 to 3 chit. of flesh daily. The jail dietary varies 
with labour and duration of sentence, and is the best on Sundays. The diet 
is sufficient. (Diets Nos. 5, 6, and 7.) 
17. H. Corus, Esq., Darjeelung, states that in the hills there are four 
distinct races, viz., Lepehas (natives of Sikkim), Bootias (natives of Bootan), 
Nepaulese, and Plains-men of all castes. The Lepehas, Bootias, and Nepaulese 
eat twice in the day, the two former 11 ozs., the last 12 ozs. to 16 ozs. of 
rice; the two former 8 ozs. of meat, chiefly pork, with a small quantity 
of salt, 2 to 4 ozs. of vegetables, and 13 pint of a fermented liquor (murrua), 
whilst the latter, in addition to the rice, take 6 ozs. to 8 ozs. of dal and a small 
quantity of salt and vegetables, chiefly potatoes. The last also sometimes 
eat goat’s meat, mutton, pigeons and fowls, and bread made of wheat, millet, 
or Indian corn. The two former take tea instead of murrua in the morning, 
if they can afford it. The higher castes of Nepaulese do not eat meat after 
their marriage, and never drink fermented liquors; whilst the lower castes 
indulge in both, when they can procure them. The Lepehas and Bootias, 
and particularly the former, are remarkably healthy, and have well-developed 
leg-muscles, but have not great powers of endurance. The Nepaulese are 
short, active, and wiry, with little muscular development, but great powers of 
endurance. They are moderately healthy, but liable to disease of the lungs 
and bowels, the latter due to the farinaceous food, and the former to insuffi- 
cient clothing. The Lepehas and Bootias wear woollen clothing. The jail 
dietary varies with labour, duration of sentence, and day of the week, and is 
insufficient to maintain health and weight, especially for the Lepehas and 
Bootias. (Diets Nos. 5 and 11.) 
18. Dr. S. C. Amszspury, Dinagepore, states that rice, vegetables, fruit, 
massalahs, fish rarely, and meat occasionally, constitute the dietary. The 
daily quantity is, rice 24 ozs., and vegetables, including dal 3 a pice worth. 
There are three meals a day, the first consisting of the food left from the 
former meal. The respectable classes, with food of good quality and well 
cooked, are in good health, whilst the poorer, having the opposite conditions, 
are liable to scurvy, diarrhcea, and general debility. The jail dietary is suffi- 
cient, as the prisoners gain weight. He agrees with Dr. Mouat that fresh 
vegetables are better food than dal. The dietary varies with labour, and 
