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corn, &c., and is ground between stones. Dal is used daily, but rice is not 
-much appreciated. The weight of food is 2 lbs. at the principal meal, 
but the daily quantity is not given. The jail dietary is composed of barley, 
ground gram, flour, rice, dal, vegetables, oil, and salt; and parched gram is 
given at noon, instead of prepared food. The health of the convicts is better 
than that of free labourers. 
52. Dr. W. R. Hoover, Azimghur, states that rice is dear and but little used. 
Wheat is dear, but is eaten more largely than rice; whilst barley is the staple 
food, as rice isin Bengal. Dals, curries, molasses, fish, and fruits are extensively 
and largely eaten. Animal food is not obtained by the poor, but is exten- 
sively consumed by the higher classes. Beef is eaten only by Mahomedans; 
mutton and goat’s flesh only by the better classes ; whilst pigs are kept in 
large numbers, and eaten by the labouring classes. Arrack is consumed in 
very large quantities, except by high-caste Hindoos. The poor, as a rule, 
take only one substantial meal daily, and that in the evening; others take 
two meals. The daily weight of food is 2 lbs. The jail dietary varies with 
labour and day of the week. The prisoners enjoy very good health. (Diet 
No. 21. 
53. A. J. Datz, Jounpore, informs us that there is much variation in 
the statements of the quantities of food eaten. About 14 Ib. (23 Ibs. to 22 lbs.) 
of cereals, dal, and vegetables is eaten daily, and meat, fish, and fowl occasion-= 
ally. The jail dietary varies with the day of the week. (Diet No. 21, B.) 
54. Dr. A. Garprn, Ghazeepore, describes at great length the various articles 
of food, with their price, in use there. The dietary is chiefly vegetables, from 
want of means, or inclination, and from religious prejudices. Two classes and 
eastes only abstain from meat entirely, viz. Brahmins and Bhugguls; but 
they take milk, Mussulmen, Kaeths, Chuwmars, Domes, and all very low-caste 
Hindoos eat meat whenever they can get it, whilst Boonhars,.Chuttrees, and 
Aggur-wallahis eat it only occasionally. High- and middle-caste Hindoos eat 
only mutton and goat’s flesh; whilst mutton, beef, buffalo-flesh, goat’s flesh, 
and fowls are eaten by the Mahomedans. The quality of meat varies much ; 
and if the animals die naturally, some eat the flesh. Milk of the cow, buffalo, 
and goat is the most important and largely consumed animal food by all 
classes. Ghee and oil are eaten largely by the well-to-do classes, but the 
poor obtain but little. Wheat and barley, with Indian corn, are the 
staple cereals; dals, gram, vegetables, and spices are eaten largely and uni- 
versally ; salt is eaten by all; sugar is largely eaten; pickles are luxuries ; 
spirits are largely consumed by some, and detested by others; tobacco is 
much more used than bhang or opium. There are two meals daily, except 
by the very poor, who have one in the evening, and take suttoo and water 
and parched grain at other parts of the day. The amount is very imperfectly 
Stated. Diseases of low type abound among the worst-fed. The jail dietary 
varies with labour and day of the week. (Diet No. 21.) 
55. Dr. J. A. Jackson, Allahabad, gives the jail dietary, which varies with 
ee and day of the week. The prisoners enjoy excellent health. (Diet 
o. 21.) 
56. T. T. Sxertock, Esq., Futtehpore, states the kinds of food in use, with 
the quantity of meat which is consumed by an adult prisoner, but does not 
give the daily dietary. 
57. Dr. J. Jones, Cawnpore, states that the foods in general use are wheat, 
barley, maize, &c. among the cereals, pulses, dals, and spices. Rice is rarely 
used, Ghee is eaten by the well-to-do classes; fish is eaten by all classes. 
