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ON THE FOOD OF MAN. 



[1854. 



EXAMPLES OP DIETARIES AS SHOWN IN THE DIAGRAMS. 



REMARKS 



Dietaries of Soldiers and Sailors. 

 English Soldier.. 



Ditto in India , 



English Sailor (Fresh Meat) 



Ditto (Salt Meat) 



Dutch Soldier, in War.... 



Ditto in Peace 



French Soldier 



Bavarian ditto 



Hessian ditto 



Dietaries of the Young. 



Christ's Hospital, Hertford 



Ditto ... London 



Chelsea Hospital, Boys School 



Greenwich Hospital, ditto 



Dietaries of the Aoed. 



Greenwich Pensioners 



Chelsea ditto 



Gillespie Hospital, Edinburgh. 

 Trinity Hospital, 



ditto 



Old Pauper Dietaries. 



Class 1. . 

 " 2 

 „ 3. 



„ 4. 

 „ 5., 

 „ 6. 



Average of all English Counties in 1851 . 



St. Cuthbert's Edinburgh 



City Workhouse, ditto 



English Prison Dietaries. 



Class 2. Males 



„ 3. ditto 



„ 4, 8 and 9. ditto 



„ 5. ditto 



„ 6. and 7. ditto 



Bengal Prison Dietaries. 



Non-Labouring Convicts 



Working Convicts 



Contractor's insufficient Diet 



Bombay Prison Dietaries. 

 All Classes of Prisoners not on Hard Labour.... 

 Hard Labour 



Arctic and other Dietaries. 



Esquimaux. 

 Yacut 



Bosj esinen 



Hottentot 



Agricultural Labourer, England.. 

 Ditto ... ditto 

 Ditto ... India 



Weight 



in 

 Ounces 



per 

 Week. 



378 



261 

 302 

 290 

 198 

 383 

 347 

 242 

 423 



216 

 242 

 245 

 231 



269 

 332 

 156 

 192 



175 



107 



206} 



276 



229 



326 



271* 



224 

 296 

 167* 



182 

 224 



163.6 

 114.6 

 218.0 



Nitrogenous 

 Ingredients. 



36.15 

 34.15 

 34,82 

 40.83 

 35.21 

 24.52 

 33 24 

 2L08 

 23.0 



17.16 

 17.27 

 12.89 

 18.43 



24.46 

 29.95 

 21.02 

 19.63 



20.21 



14.90 



15.78 



19.22 



15.49 



14.67 



22.0 



14.80 



13.30 



15.28 

 18.26 

 20.97 

 20.29 

 20.97 



18.43 

 28.16 

 12.70 



28.00 

 35,63 



250.0 

 999.0 

 574.0 

 424-0 

 26.64 

 20.39 

 14.02 



Substances 

 free from 

 Nitrogen. 



127.18 

 103.19 

 102.89 

 132.20 

 102.08 

 106.80 

 127.76 

 102.10 

 136.0 



61.27 

 76.82 

 93.28 

 86.73 



122,21 



1 12^64 



92.32 



97.34 



88.61 

 89.59 

 99.88 

 116.84 

 96.51 

 88.03 

 99.0 

 89.37 

 49.99 



111.85 

 123.60 

 159,98 

 130,57 

 125.98 



163.16 

 191.12 

 135,95 



101.50 

 128.S0 



1280.0 

 640.0 

 368.0 

 400.0 

 106.57 

 72.46 

 138.27 



Mineral 

 Matter. 



Carbon. 



4.92 

 2,39 

 3.17 

 6.03 

 1.85 

 4.15 

 4.62 

 3.32 



2.47 

 2.84 

 5.93 

 2.62 



3.54 

 4.65 

 2.35 

 3.33 



3.27 

 2.89 

 3.91 

 3.96 

 3,58 

 2.84 



3!31 

 1.74 



3.46 

 4.05 

 5.03 

 4.23 

 5.03 



2.08 

 2.97 

 1.30 



2.03 

 2.45 



1.10 

 1.18 

 2.41 



71.68 

 66.32 

 70.55 

 87.40 

 74.08 

 70.77 

 85,25 

 62.45 

 77.0 



39,18 

 46.95 

 57.67 

 52.87 



72.43 

 78.03 

 71.39 

 57.30 



54.30 



51.10 



55.43 



67.87 



54.72 



49.57 



58.0 



46.98 



31.48 



59.23 

 67.53 

 69.88 

 73.31 

 69.88 



76.35 

 91.07 

 61.33 



68.81 

 87.22 



1125.0p 

 966. Op 

 555.0p 

 604.0p 

 74.70 5 

 51.72& 

 61.54r 



Proportion between 



Flesh- 

 Formers. 



a Public Dietaries. 6 Mulder. c Special return obtaiued. 



d Likbeo. e Special Returns obtained, / Special returns obtained. 



g The Six Dietaries recommended as equivalent by the Poor Law Commissioners. 



li Specially reduced from all the Unions of 1851. i Special returns. 



j Convicted Prisoners exceeding 7 days, but not exceeding 21 days. 



7c Convicted Prisoners, Hard Labour, exceeding 21 days but not more than 6 weeks. 



I Convicted Prisoners, Hard Labour, above 6 weeks and not more than 4 months 



m Convicted Prisoners, Hard Labour, for terms exceeding 4 months. 



n Solitary Confinement. 



o From information supplied from the India House. 



p These probably represent Extreme cases, mentioned by the following autho- 

 rities : — Ross, 1S35, p. 44S. Parry, 1823, p. 413. Cochrane, p. 255. Saritcheff. Barrow, 

 pp. 152, 258. Richardson, vide Agric. Cyc. article Diet. 



q Gloucestershire and Dorsetshire. See Agric. Cyclopaedia. 



r Dharwar, Bombay — Return in Bombay Prison Dietaries. 



