Interim report of the Prison Diets Committee.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Dākhilīyah. Prisons Department. Prison Diets Committee.
Date:
1917
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Credit: Interim report of the Prison Diets Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TaBLe I].—Table showing approximately Constituents and Energy Value expressed’ in Calories of certain Diets. The calories = amount of heat necessary to raise one litre of water 1° centigrade :— 1 gramme of Proteid on burning produces 4°1 calories. 1 re of Fat mn a ae - 1 “i of Starch - 4°] 5 Weights stated in grammes. No allowance made for non absorption of food which is greater in vegetable than mixed diet, consequently Egyptian diets appear better than they should, compared with Egyptian Army diets,. eg. butter from animal source (except in case of hard labour diet), meat. So also in European prison diets, but not so much as in case of Egyptian prison diets. caer a oe Value Proteid. Fats. Starches. ime Galortan: ; Prisoners. Bread diet... ... ... 39 Lh Ay 8390 “1,861 | Non labour ef, i.ieezeene be eees 79 33 506 2,702 Leypt... (lig bour “Lt o> a oe eae tee 92 43 572 3,122 | Fiurd lehour- cc. tg sae maou tnc|| 3 be 48 572 3,230 Army inpeace time ...° ... %.. 116°6* 39°35 512°05 2,491 Standard extracted, Male prisoners unemployed aie 90) 30 440 2,400 from Dunlop report) ,._- ‘ ss if ff : t ; fonvicts less active le Ce anphtas 20 50 . 3,2 on prison dietaries. Convicts less active labour : 12 ) 550 3,200 Scotch. ' Convicts more active labour — ... 150 65 5d0 3, 500° Male light labour, Seoteh ... ... 153°98 50°62 536° 08 3,300: : Male light labour, English... ... 141°47 59°25 546°68 3,373 Actual diets Se atch 165-44 bord P | 5 ee Coen ¢: bo D6 * 5 66 3,029 Male hard labour ... : : leet ‘ / English... 177°46 86°08 641°56 4,159 English soldier in peace time receives (1) free issue of 12 oz. meat and 1 Ib. bread, calori value 1515.\ | tA. Typical diets supplied for (2) In addition 3d. a day which is posted. (3) What (1) and (2) at Aldershot. 2,909 he likes to spend from his pocket in food. But at cot (| , B. CeIn Thai a eign price on for service and in India (1) the meat is {| +77 “re *ME AMG... ee eee wee 3,116 increased to 1 lb., making the value of (1) up to 1636/ | ¢¢, |. “ biker f 3,090 calories. Values of other prison dietaries ...0 00.0 40.0 wee one = _ — — French ... iN cre NR a PR ets ET el Ate Se 104 * || = — 2.00 4 ‘oe j Bengal ordinary, SealeI ... ... 100 ¥ 24 651 3,302 engal Jatis ... ‘ = Aone = )} Bengal ordinary, SealeIT ... ...) 113 ** 25 695 3,544 Behor ordinary, Scale I-6> 4.0.00... wee eee eee ee | From ld | From 27 | From 666.| From 3,452: to 128 to 46 to 739 to 3,970 * Qasr el SAini, “ Report on Diets,’ 1902. + A.—Breakfast: fried liver 6 0z., bread 6 0z., tea and sugar. 2) Dinner: beef 53 o0z., pease soup 73 0z., potatoes 16 oz., bread 5 oz. Tea: bread 4 0z., dripping 1 oz. Supper: porridge 2 oz., sugar. t B.—Breakfast : fried bacon 3 0z., bread 7 oz., tea and sugar. N i il » di Dinner: meat 5 oz., or Irish stew, including haricot beans and lentils 14 0z., Note that all these diets con-- potatoes 10 oz., bread 5 oz. tain a considerable quantity of ; ? { food delivered from animal Tea: bread 4 0z., jam, tea, sugar. Supper: fish and potato pie, 8 oz. § C.—Breakfast: bacon 3 0z., eggs 2, bread 4 oz., tea and sugar. Dinner: beef 53 o0z., Yorkshire pudding 4 0z., potatoes 8 oz., bread 4 oz. Tea: currant cake 5 oz., tea and sugar. | Supper: curried fish 4 0z., bread 3 oz. || This is the value of the diet without canteen allowance, riz. 14 lbs. of bread to two meals a day; morning meal, vege- table soup; evening meal, plate of vegetables. Meat given on Sundays and féte days, and on Thursdays in case of long’ sentence prisoners. A supplement of bread of special quality is served with the soup. From the canteen he can purchase 1} lbs. of bread daily, and a portion of potatoes, cheese, butter, milk, salad, fruits, beef. He must not buy more than 20 centimes’ worth of bread nor 15 centimes’ worth of the other articles, and by these allowances the diet is made ample. By the extra alone the proteids can be brought up to 170 grammes and ‘the energy value in calories to 4000. The French prisoner is paid for his work. 4 The average weight of the Bengal and Behor prisoners in about 50 kilos., that of the Egyptian prisoner a little over 60 kilos. Besides these diets, there are also a number of permission diets. ** Apart from these energy values, ete., these and the other prison diets are much more varied than are the Egyptian prison diets, a matter of importance in the case of long term prisoners. N.B.—These are the theoretical values; the actual yalues can only be obtained by finding out and substracting the loss. from non-absoption. Hence a diet with a higher theoretical value may actually, owing to loss by non-absorption, be- of much less value than one which is of lower (theoretical) caloric value. sources.