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
Catalogue details

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.

    58/64 (page 54)
    pared with the nitrogenous in the Institution. Potatoes ' therefore do not seem to be called for, but if required at all in winter, certainly Mr. Masson’s dried specimens would be preferable. 3. I have ordered 15 oz. of Indian corn to be given as > a weekly ration. Indian corn is comparatively the ; richest of cheap grains ; 12‘3 nitrogenous to 88 non- nitrogenous ingredient. It is also rich in salts, and i and in that important one, phosphoric acid, equally so with wheat. It is far superior to rice which yields I only 6.4 nitrogenous to 80 non-nitrogenous aliment. ; For the same reason that the potatoes have been omit- t ted, I have thought that rice, for the time at least. should be omitted also. Those who feed on it ex- i clusively are commonly very scrofulous. Singly il|l^ cannot support life as before seen. Indeed all food f unduly poor in nitrogenous and disproportionately rich t: in non-nitrogenous element develope scrofula. j: 4. Peas and beans are of all v?getable aliments the li richest in gluten. In price moreover they are generally;,!: l-3rd cheaper. They contain fully l-3rd more gluten than wheat. There is then an actual gain in their em-'ls ployment of 2-3rds. When soaked over night, and [ then boiled, with a little butter, they form an excellent],*! dish of vegetables, and by many are considered as faii^i as the taste is concerned an excellent substitute for h potatoes; and they certainly are more nutritious. Theji; caution before given in relation to their deficiency in |; bone earth should however be attended to and remedied ! in the way suggested. ; 5. On one day in the week I have recommended greens,] t and by this term I would be understood to allude gen- ( erally to the more watery vegetables, such as cabbage,!* sorrel, spinnage, dandelion, lettuce, &c. There are times when these can be got in London at a very cheap r