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carbohydrates, 93, 689 ’0 ; and from that estimate the diet per 
day per man is found to be : — 
Proteids 
Fats . 
Carbohydrates 
Calories 
104*1 grms. 
103*7 „ 
512-3 I 
3497 
The cost of the diet for six months was £ 7 , 12s. Id. ; the 
■equivalent cost per man per week was 5s. 10d., or lOd. per day. 
Considered in the light of the older standards, the diet is here 
a very liberal one, while in the light of Chittenden’s observations 
it may be considered as still excessive. 
The diet of this man’s wife and children for the period of six 
months included the following, quantities being expressed as kilo- 
grammes : — Flour, 126; butter, 23*1; 236 eggs; sugar, 27*1; 
potatoes, 144; milk, 204; lentils, 10; bacon, 9 -5; and smaller 
quantities of bread, lard, cheese, onions, peas, turnips, cabbages, 
carrots, rhubarb, radishes, tea, coffee, cocoa, oranges, lemons, 
tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, bananas, plums, currants, monkey 
nuts, quaker oats, cake, biscuits, jam, sweets, peel, corn-flour, 
nut butter, meat, ham, sausages, sardines, and tinned salmon. 
The food principles in the six months’ rations amount to : proteid, 
35,324-6 ; fat, 34,568 9 ; carbohydrates, 172,506*0. Using Atwater’s 
estimate of the proportional requirements of a man, and of women 
and children, we estimate that the requirements of his wife and 
family, three children, aged six, four, and two, would amount to 
2 - l times that of a man. On that basis we estimate that the diet 
submitted is equivalent to a diet per man per diem : — 
Proteids . . . .65*7 grms. 
Fats .... 90-2 ,, 
Carbohydrates . . . 444*1 ,, 
Calories . . . .2929 
The cost of the diet was for the six months £12, 19s. lOd. ; this 
is equal to a cost of 4s. 9d. per man per week, or 8Td. per day. 
It is a diet, largely vegetarian, which meets the requirements 
laid down by Chittenden, but which by an older standard would 
be considered deficient in proteid and in energy. 
