144 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 
as shown by these two studies, are on the whole somewhat 
larger than the average amounts per person per day eaten by 
a much larger number of people in New York hospitals whose 
dietaries were studied. While this fact has less significance 
than it would have if the studies at the Connecticut Hospital 
were more numerous, it implies, so far as it goes, that the 
patients in our institution were liberally fed. The same infer- 
ence may, I think, be drawn from comparisons with the results 
of other dietary studies and with dietary standards. : 
In conclusion, I may say that in my judgment a careful and 
extensive study of this general subject in the public and chari- 
table institutions of Connecticut is much to be desired. 
No. 253. DIETARY AT MIDDLE BUILDING OF THE CONNEC. 
TICUT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. 
The study began with. breakfast, November 3, 1898, and continued 7 
days. It was carried on in the part of the Hospital known as the ‘‘ Middle 
Building,’” which accommodates about 400 patients. Most of the patients took 
their meals in the main dining room. A few, however, who for some reason 
were not able or were not allowed to eat with these, were served in small 
dining rooms in the wards.. The study shows the amount of food consumed by 
the patients and the attendants. The patients were of the ‘ quiet demented ”’ 
sort, who were considered hopelessly insane; but few, if any, of them were 
violent. The number of persons included in this study is as follows: 


Men. Women. Total. 
Patients,” - = : : - - 184 205 389 
Attendants and employés, - Z eels 20 33 
Dota inc - - - - she hile 225 422 
The total number of meals served was thus 8,862, equivalent to 2,954 per- 
sons for one day. But little is as yet known concerning the relative amounts 
of food required by men and women of the insane class, consequently no 
attempt has been made to calculate the equivalent.number of men for one day, 
the final results being given per person per day. 

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