The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1878.
- Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Charminster, England)
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The annual report of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums, Charminster and Forston, for the year 1878. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BREAKFAST . DIETARY. SUPPER DINNER ( Males—Gozs. bread, 1 quart gruel. ) ^ ( Females—5ozs. bread, 1^ pint gruel. ) Males—8ozs. bread, 2ozs cheee, or foz. butter; beer, § pint; or, 1 pint tea, or coffee. Females—6ozs. bread. 2ozs. cbeese, or §oz. butter; 1 pint tea or coffee. Sunday—16 to 18ozs. suet pudding, ’with treacle sauce, and the addition of fruit in summer, and dried fruit in winter—Males and Females. Monday—3ozs. meat, vegetables not less than lib.— Males and Females. Tuesday—5ozs. meat, vegetables as on Monday. **'* I Wednesday—2 pints soup 2ozs. meat, 5ozs. bread— Mates ; ]§ pint soup. 4ozs. bread— Females. Thursday —Meat pie, 12ozs.—Males ; 1 Oozs.—Females. Vegetables as on Monday. Friday—oozs. meat, vegetables as on Monday. Saturday—As on Monday. Half-pint of ale daily for dinner, except on Wednesday, both Males and Females. Women working in laundry have tea and bread and butter twice a day extra on three washing days, and once a day on three ironing days ; also bread and cheese and § pint of ale for lunch. Women scrubbing in wards have bread and cheese daily for lunch, with §-pint of ale. Men the same. Men working in the shops or on the farm have ^-pint ale extra at eleven and four o’clock. Sick Diet as considered necessary by the Medical Superintendent. Tobacco and Snuff distributed as directed. Attendants and Nurses are all allowed 7lbs. bread, |lb. butter, 2J ozs. tea, and 8ozs. sugar—in addition they dine in the Servants’ Hall, without restriction as to quantity of meat, vegetables, &c.; and for supper bread and cheese ad libitum. Males—2 pints ale. Females—1 pint daily. N.B—U All meat is weighed after being cooked, and free from bone The Milk Gruel is made with best oatmeal and milk. Meat Pic contains 3ozs. of meat without hone. Soup is made from liquor of boiled meat, thickened with Pearl Barley, Rice, Pea Meal, to which are added Vegetable?, Herbs, &c. Pish for Dinuer once a-fortnight.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3030684x_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
