192 REPORT—1863. 
Mahomedans refuse pork, and think beef indigestible. Hindoos, except those 
who believe in transmigration, eat fish and kid. The daily quantity eaten . 
by a labourer is 2 lbs. of attah, 4 ozs. of dal, and 8 ozs. of vegetables. When 
ghee is used, 2 ozs. suffices. The health is sustained on these quantities if 
the foods are properly prepared. Diarrhcea and cholera prevail in the melon- 
season. The jail diet consists of 20 ozs. of wheat attah, 4 ozs. of dal, 4 ozs. 
of parched corn, and 674 grains of salt; 90 grains of oil and 8 ozs. of vege- 
tables are given twice a week. The prisoners enjoy average health, but 
suffer from emaciation, impaired assimilation, and sloughing of the cornea, as 
the result of a deficient supply of oil; also boils and skin-diseases from defi- 
ciency of fresh vegetables. 
58. Dr. G. Grant, Futtehgurh, states that vegetable food is the staple 
dietary, and that animal food is rarely consumed. The dietary contains 
cereals, legumes, fresh vegetables, fruits, milk, with its preparation of ghee, 
dhy, rubree, and sugar; the two latter are not obtained by the very poorest. 
Fish are not eaten, except when they can be readily caught, as during the 
rains. The daily quantity of food for an outdoor labourer is 24 to 32 ozs. 
of attah (flour from the cereals) and legumes, 4 ozs. of pulse, and 8 to 
12 ozs. of vegetables: artisans and indoor labourers eat less. There are two 
meals daily, at about noon and sunset. The flour is made into unleavened 
cakes or into porridge. Parched unground grain is eaten when travelling, or 
when unable to cook. The dals are split, and then boiled, and eaten with 
ghee or garlic, &c.; vegetables are stewed with water, ghee, or oil, salt, and 
condiments ; meat is boiled with salt and condiments; fish is fried with oil, 
salt, and condiments; curds are produced by curdling warm milk; ghee is 
obtained by constantly agitating curdled milk; rubree is produced by evapo- 
rating milk. Wheat is regarded as wholesome and nutritious ; dals as heating ; 
potatoes as hot and very digestible ; onions and garlic as hot and stimulating, 
and purifying the blood; carrots, turnips, &c. as cold and strengthening, but 
not of easy digestion; melons as hot, and increasing appetite ; milk and its 
preparations as heating, nutritious, and constipating ; animal food as heating, 
nutritious, and digestible; and fish as more heating than meat. The jail 
diet resembles the free labourers’ diet, and varies with labour and day of the 
week ; the effect upon health and strength is good. (Diet No. 21.) 
59. Dr. G. Bernarp, Mynpoorie, quotes the kinds of food which are eaten, 
and the average quantity, but does not give a daily dietary. The Mussul- 
man population is in good health. The very poor are liable to scurvy, bowel- 
complaints, and skin-disease. The jail diet varies with labour and day of 
the week, and the prisoners keep in health and strength. (Diet No. 21.) 
60. Dr. J. Saerrz, Etawah, states that about 2 lbs. of wheat-flour is eaten 
daily, except by the very poor, who eat grains inferior to wheat in gluten, as 
jowar and bajra, and then fall into ill-health, as shown by the coarse and 
scaly epidermis, pale conjunctiva, large abdomen, and deficient muscular 
development. The jail dietary varies with sex and labour. (Diet No. 21.) 
61. Dr. H. 8. Sarru, Goruckpore, states that the neighbourhood is very 
fertile, and produces all tropical and European vegetables. The natives eat 
two meals daily, at noon and at eight or nine p.m., the former consisting of 
parched corn or young maize, and the latter of rice, jowar, or chapattees, made 
from wheat- and barley-flour, with dal, mustard-oil, or eurry-powder, fish, 
ghee, and milk. Fish is very abundant, and yet is often eaten when putrid, ~ 
also raw vegetables (Cucurbitaceze), causing epidemics. 8 ozs. of Indian corn 
is eaten at the morning meal; and 24 ozs. of rice, wheat, or barley is enough 
