Physiological and pathological researches / being a reprint of the principal scientific writings of the late T. R. Lewis ... Arranged and edited by Sir William Aitken ... G. E. Dobson ... and A. E. Brown.

Timothy Richards Lewis

Date:: 1888

Credit: Physiological and pathological researches / being a reprint of the principal scientific writings of the late T. R. Lewis ... Arranged and edited by Sir William Aitken ... G. E. Dobson ... and A. E. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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$confined in Bengal jails, was also modified. A detailed statement of the altered diet- aries will be found given in Table III of the Appendix, a summary of which is furnished in the following statement:— The Chief Proximate Alimentary Constituents of the Dietaries adojjted in Lower Bengal fw Labouring Prisoners from March 1879 to March 1880, together with their Nutritive Values in grains of Nitrogen and Carbon. tStapki Cereal uf each Diet. (a) Diets consisting solely of VEGETABLE AND l ATTY SUBSTANCES. DIETS CONTAINING ANIMAL FOOD-OPTIONAL. (b) Meat thbee times weekly. (c) Fish three tlmes weeklv. Ounces. Grains. Ounces. Grains. Ounces. Grains. < to 6S ■~ 5 S u 5> S 0-50 9 bo 1 c 0 .? S 0 ^« CO • <s> 0 -ti •g 2 13 g° 0 .? 0 3 to S -p 0 >. to S p 0 3 For Bkngalis :— I. Rice 2-78 20-56 192 4,814 2-91 19-21 0-63 201 4,628 2-94 19-25 0-53 203 4,607 For Beharis :— I. Rice and Wheat flour ... II. Rice and Maize flour ... III. Rice and Millet flour ... 3-39 3-26 316 19- 62 20- 51 21- 00 0- 62 1- 24 1-03 234 225 218 4,814 5,171 5,171 3-52 3-39 3-30 18- 27 19- 16 19-64 0- 75 1- 37 l-]6 243 234 228 4,628 4,985 4,985 3-55 3-42 3-33 18- 29 19- 18 19-66 0- 66 1-28 1-07 245 236 230 4,607 4,964 4,964 Average value of diets ) _ fm- Beharis. \ 8-27 20-37 0-96 226 5,052 3-40 19-02 1-09 235 4,866 3-43 19-04 1-00 237 4,845 The animal food forms of the above scales were, however, not to be given as an ordi- nary prison dietary, except in those districts where the inhabitants are meat or fish- eaters, or when specially considered necessary. When meat or fish was given, 4 oz. was to be issued three times a week in lieu of an equal weight of grain. It is not clear to what extent advantage was taken of these clauses in the instructions issued to Superintendents of Jails, nor to what extent maize and millet were used in combination with rice in the Behari dietary. No mention is made of these two cereals in the diet scales proposed by Dr. Mouat—a mixture of wheat and rice being the only grains cited. 46. In order satisfactorily to understand the precise difference between the new dietary and the old, it will be advantageous to have the several ingredients of each dietary brought together, as well as a statement of the chief proximate principles into which each dietary may be resolved. This has been effected in the subjoined table; the rice and the rice-and-wheat dietaries for Bengalis and Beharis, which were in force from March 1879 to March 1880, being contrasted with those previously in force in Bengal. It will be observed that by the introduction of the new dietary the Bengali$