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handsome, active, enduring, and braye; they regard the agricultural class 
with contempt. The agricultural class are also a fine race and healthy. The 
Chhura or Sweeper class are very healthy and robust. The jail dietary varies 
with sex, labour, and day of the week; it is sufficient, although less than 
that to which they are accustomed. The chief diseases are those of the 
bowels and lungs. (Diet No, 23.) 
90. Dr. W. A. Gruen, Leia, states that the food of the labouring and in- 
dustrial classes is chiefly farinaceous, and a never-changing sort of meal. 
Animal food is a dainty luxury, eaten only on special days. Wheat, maize, 
barley, jowar, and sirwar are usually made into cakes. The quantity of 
grains or pulses eaten is 2 lbs. to 3 lbs. daily. Dals are seldom or never used: 
by these classes. Turnip is the favourite vegetable, and vegetables and fruits 
are largely eaten. Milk, butter, and buttermilk are very extensively used ; 
the latter is regarded as indispensable, and they prefer it to a meal. Those 
living on the Thull (the sandy and unproductive districts) live solely upon 
milk, especially camel’s milk, which is brackish, has but little fat, and is drunk 
diluted with water. It is laxative to those unaccustomed to its use. The 
people are hearty and vigorous, sturdy and robust. The sameness of food has 
no bad effect. In jails the diet is too little and too limited, leaving out the 
indispensable buttermilk (which is antiscorbutic) and fruits, and forcing upon 
the prisoner the dals to which he is not accustomed. Want of free exercise 
is also another cause of evil. It is a great misfortune that the daily quan- 
tity of food is not given, seeing that the dietary is peculiar. 
91. Dr. T. M¢Suany, Dera Ismail Khan, gives a table showing the kinds 
of food in use, and the daily quantity of each which is eaten; but as all are 
not eaten on the same day, the daily dietary cannot be inferred from it. The 
daily ration of rice is 2 lbs., but itis seldom eaten; of the usual grains 22 lbs.; 
of meat 1 to 2 lbs., but only eaten very occasionally ; of buttermilk 10 lbs., 
used as drink; of milk 2 lbs.; of ghee 4 ozs. ; and of various vegetables from 
2 to 4 lbs. Onions are seldom eaten. The jail dietary varies with sex, 
labour, and day of the week. (Diet No. 23.) 
92. Dr. S. A. Homan, Tallunder, states the nature of the diet of the dif- 
ferent classes in hot and cold weather, with the quantity of each eaten daily, 
the mode of preparation, and the frequency of their use ; and supplies the daily 
dietary of the different classes. The higher-class Hindoos at all seasons take 
16 ozs. of attah of wheat, or 12 ozs. of khichree, with 4 ozs. of dal and 2 ozs. 
of ghee, daily; also 12 ozs. of rice and 8 ozs. of vegetables now and then; 
and a few eat occasionally 8 ozs. of meat. The lower-class Hindoos take in 
cold weather 2 lbs. of Indian corn or other grain for making rotee, 4 ozs. of 
dal (or 8 ozs. of vegetables now and then), 1 oz. of ghee, and some of them 
24 ozs. of attah of wheat, if procurable. In hot weather, 2 lbs. of attah of bar- 
ley, &c. is substituted for Indian corn, &c. The higher-class Mussulmen eat, 
in both hot and cold weather, 16 ozs. of attah of wheat in chapattees, 8 ozs. of 
rice, 8 ozs. of meat (for boiling), 8 ozs. of vegetables, 4 ozs. of various dals, 
and the ghee used in frying the food. The lower class in cold weather eat 
2 Ibs. of Indian-corn attah or other grain, or 24 ozs. of attah of wheat, with 
4 ozs. of various dals, 8 ozs. of vegetables and some ghee, with 8 ozs. of meat. 
now and then. In hot weather 2 lbs. of attah of barley, or Baisnee rotee, is 
substituted for other grain. The jail dietary varies with labour and day of 
the week ; it consists of 20 ozs. of attah of wheat for making chapattees, or 
12 ozs. of rice, 4 ozs. of dal, or 8 ozs. of vegetables twice a week, 1 oz. of 
ghee, 80 grains of salt, and 2 massalahs of chillies. his is a very valuable 
report. (Diet No. 23 nearly.) F ; 
