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actual food with the standard requirements is found in Dr Craufurd 
Dunlop’s Report on Dieting of Pauper Lunatics in Scotland and in 
his Report on Prison Dietaries. 
The diet of the working classes in Edinburgh was studied by 
Drs Noel Patou, Dunlop, and Inglis.* This work was carried out 
under the auspices of the Town Council of Edinburgh, on the 
recommendation of the Committee of Public Health. Fifteen 
families (ninety-five individuals) were studied. These varied from 
the well-to-do working-class household to those whose total income 
was less than 20s., and who were not in permanent employ- 
ment. The average result was a daily amount of 107 *7 grammes 
of proteid, 88*4 grammes of fat, and 479*4 grammes of carbohydrate 
(Calories, 3224) per man. One old woman subsisted on the meagre 
allowance of 46'1 grammes of proteid, 33'7 of fat, and 151 *3 
grammes of carbohydrate (Calories, 1124), expressed per man 
per day. 
Rowntreef carried ont an investigation into the social condition 
of the working classes in York. He discusses the general 
conditions under which these people live. A special study was 
made of their food. As a result of his work, he drew up a 
poverty scale — a table of the minimal amount per week on 
which “merely physical efficiency” could be maintained. His 
allowance per man per week for food on this scale is 3s. Of 
the families studied in York, the daily amount per man was 
89 grammes of proteid, 79*9 of fat, and 385 5 of carbohydrate 
(Calories, 2685). 
These York dietaries were compared with Atwater’s standard, 
and 29 per cent, were deficient in proteid, while there was 23 
per cent, deficiency in fuel value. 
Unfortunately, there is an error in Rown tree’s work. The 
percentage of carbohydrate in flour is entered at 57*1 per cent, 
instead of 75*1 per cent., and as flour enters largely into the food, 
the total error is considerable. 
Lumsden made an inquiry into the food-supply of the employees 
of Messrs Guinness in Dublin. His results are published in hook 
* A Study of the Diet of the Labouring Classes in Edinburgh. Otto 
Schulze & Co. 
t Poverty : A Study of Town Life. London, 1901. 
