Interim report of the Prison Diets Committee.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Dākhilīyah. Prisons Department. Prison Diets Committee.
Date:
1917
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Interim report of the Prison Diets Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    28/78 (page 18)
    TAS Ten Food Value of Diets (the two Cases). A B Sate Protein. Ha | at ae Protein. | Fat. cs. Whoeate * -gaiei Stet sree 25 3° 6 149 AIT BES ak eid i 286 DUG aks: . Jat eae: a antes: 16°2 So 115 — ion — — Maat. (02. eh emcee ne AQ) 2 co — AO 8 1°5 — BEMRA oan eh eam ee 10 _ 10 10 — ; 10 — Suet acy ait kaos ee 10 = 8 — 20 — 16 Hows cst cap ie rede e 20 2°6 1°8 — — — — _ Vegoetables..70 <a. eve twee] Bee 0°5 — LO rae 1 — 3 Bread... co eh ev akan be ee A8°7 (fags. 375 500 aa i 250 Teer ee cen 38 9°5 — 21°6 38 O75 — 21°6 61 gram. Oil 2 “4 3 me 3 ed 3 ue Fal Baangeigs Hie one 65 16 1 36°83 65 16 1 36°8 acer Ke Wei nies pees Sed zag) 2 Nh = ii) Bee 10 a Haldia “etre UR ee ee 12 — — 12 12 — — 12 112°8 53°5 | 609°4 TOTAL 3.3 ).0-euleo D2 led. LO 9 Ayailable Protein Carbohydrate and} 97°8 50 675°S 90 ole Da F579 Fat. Heat: valag ics. Ag rennet 465 2,702 378 478 2,316 TOERSE eye tre 3.000 5 Pa lye If the man is assumed to consume one-sixth of the total cereals as bread at his evening meal and to eat ta‘mia every other day instead of each day (salad being often eaten instead), the figures are :— A. Protein 89°1. Fat 47°5. Carbohydrate 628. B: arias, he aor rae A 520. Total heat value: A. 3,328; B. 2,870. The latter estimates appear to me to be the more probable. It has to be remembered that of the family of three, two consume only the cereals purchased monthly and live more largely on bread than the men who eat only one meal (supper) at home. In another case of a man oF fifty-five doing the work of a farrash in my laboratory, seven kélas of wheat are purchased monthly. This is divided among the man who takes all his bread from the home supply, and five other persons who may be regarded as adults, besides two small children. This allows 610 grammes of wheat to be made into bread for each adult. The available nutrient contents of which will be: protein 57°1; fat 9°2; carbohydrate 514. The meat purchased is five rotls monthly for the family of five. I was unable to obtain the other details with sufficient accuracy to make out a diet sheet, and I am inclined to think that the estimated amount of wheat is perhaps in excess of the truth. It may be noted in the Diet A that bread supplied 71 % of the protein ; 36 % of the fat; 89 % of the carbohydrate. If the diet in the last case contained other substances in the same proportion, its composition. would be: protein 80; carbohydrate 566 ; with approximately-40 of fat. W. H. Witson. * A: Biological value of protein 48°4, of which animal protein 9°8. ’ B ” ” 47 ” ” ” 8.