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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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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    cattle and sheep in Australia for tallow, the meat, or fibrinous portion remains at the bottom, as a hard, almost leathery substance in strings. This fibrinous substance is usually thrown away, sometimes however pigs are fed upon it, and this is the best proof that it contains much nutritious matter in it. They fatten, I am informed, very quickly upon it. The only disadvan- tage is that it is found to give their flesh rather a strong flavour. This flavour however is readily removed by feeding them for two or three weeks, when they have become fat, on grain, when experience has proved, the disagreeable taste is entirely removed and they be- come very delicate eating. The amount of this waste is very great. From a state- ment before me, I find that Mr. Fleming, of the Bremor boiling Establishment in Australia, boiled down from j January 31, to July 18, 1853, 5551 head of cattle, and 3808 sheep, the yield of tallow being respectively i; 999,900 and 198,745 lbs. Now assumine: the weight i: of an ox at 400 lbs. and of a sheep at 40 lbs. this would 1; leave for flesh, bones, &c. 1,220,500 from the cattle, and li] 153,575 lbs. from the sheep, of matters left behind. One half of this w^ould be flesh, i. e. 010,250 from the i cattle, and 70,788 from the sheep, i. e. 087000 lbs. in round numbers, w'hich might be employed for the food of man from one establishment only. Now if I am correctly informed, that the whole amount of cattle boiled down annually in Australia is 187,030, and ) of sheep 96,000, the actual waste of /food for man i amounts to 26,185,300 from cattle, and 1,680,000 from sheep, equal to 27,865,000 lbs. which might be made | useful to man. The above numbers are calculated on < the average amount of tallow from cattle being 180 lbs. i from sheep, 22f lbs. and deducting half of the remainder for bone, &c. The flesh which remains is chiefly fibrine, and may