The cheapest and most nutritious food for charitable institutions and the poor : being the result of an inquiry, made by desire, on the food supplied to the Hill Street Female Refuge / by C.H.F. Routh.

  • Routh, C. H. F. (Charles Henry Felix), 1822-1909
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The cheapest and most nutritious food for charitable institutions and the poor : being the result of an inquiry, made by desire, on the food supplied to the Hill Street Female Refuge / by C.H.F. Routh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    than 7 ])ints of milk daily if restricted to this article alone. The ordinary milk diet of hospitals does not exceed 2 pints of milk daily, and 12 oz. of bread, besides a little rice or gruel, &c. The absolute value of the food or the 7 pints of milk daily would be 5.91 oz. of nitro- genous and 12 oz. non-nitrogenous. Two lbs. of lean flesh, or 2 lbs. of bread, would contain—the former, 6*20 nitrogenous matter,—the latter, 6 nitrogenous to 22 non-nitrogenous matter. Speaking practically how- ever, if we consider that all butcher’s meat contains more or less felt, it may be said that 2 lbs. of good wheaten bread, and 2 lbs. of meat or 7 pints of milk are almost equivalent quantities. The following table gives the amount of food allowed per week in ounces, the age and occupation in several educational establishments, prisons, and hospitals:— [See Table, next page.] Which reduced to Nitrogenous and non-Nitrogenous as regards the amount gives Nitro- Non-nitro- 1 Nitro- Place. genous. genous. genous . to non-ni- oz. oz. trogenous Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea 33-3 104*2 oz. 3*1 Royal Navigation School, Greenwich 28-7 110*9 3 Christ’s Hospital, London 30-4 113*7 3*7 Ralston Refuge 36-9 124*4 2*1 London Orphan Asylum 31-5 1021 3*2 Foundling Hospital, No. 1. 26-4 74*6 2*8 No. 2. 27-6 84*3 3* Merchant Seamen’s Orphan Asylum 31-7 108*1 34 Hill Street Refuge 24-6 71*3 2*8 Mean (exclusive of latter) 30*8 102*5 3*3 Workhouses. No. 1. .. 16-7 60*2 3*6 No. 2. .. 17*5 74*7 4*2 No. 3. .. 21-7 87-3 4*0 No. 4. .. 17-6 83*5 4*7 No. 5. 18-4 84*2 45 No.6. .. 16.5 77*1 4*6 Hackney 19-3 98*1 5*