No. 12. -1860-1.] 



ON HEALTH AND DIET. 



439 



diet, are allowed, except by the order of the Medical 

 attendant, and then nothing more is given than he prescribes. 



A Dietary was laid down for the Institution by the late 

 Dr. Rowe, who was Principal Medical Officer in Ceylon, 

 about ten years ago. A few trifling alterations have been 

 made since then, and the subjoined table shews the manner 

 in which the food of the boys is now regulated. 



No extraordinary pains are taken to preserve the boys 

 from exposure to the sun — indeed we are obliged, from the 

 situation of the Asylum, to march them a distance of about 

 a furlong at 8, 10, and 11 A.M., and again at 2 P.M. Their 

 unusual health and strength is, I believe, under God's bless- 

 ing, to be ascribed wholly to the judicious system that has 

 been laid down for their management, and to the strictness 

 with which that system has been adhered to. 



If the publication of these remarks should have the effect 

 of leading fond mothers to desist from the mistaken practice 

 of pampering and over-feeding their children, and to adopt 

 a regular and judicious system of feeding them, I entertain 

 no doubt that the result will be the prevention of much 

 of that suffering consequent upon the early breaking 

 up of families, which, in too many instances, are never 

 reunited on earth, and the members of which can scarcely 

 ever acquire afterwards that domestic intimacy with each 

 other, which is the result of early habitude. 



Dietary. 



7 a.m. Coffee, bread. 



10 a.m. Coffee, bread, every morning. Eggs, jelly, butter, 



plantains, in rotation. 

 H P.M. Rice and beef -curry every day, occasionally roast 

 beef and vegetables. 

 A bread pudding every Sunday. 

 5 P.M. Coffee and bread 



