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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    ah” Bigml APPENDIX. V. COMPARATIVE PRICES AND FOOD VALUES. Sir, I beg to submit the following tables constructed upon the basis of the contract prices at Tira for food commodities supplied to the Prisons Department and from the information given in the February issue of the Statistical Department’s publication. Table I shows the price per kilogramme and the available quantities of proximate nutritive prin- ciples present as well as the available heat value, “ available’? meaning the amount of the nutritive substances after deducting the percentage which is known to pass through the intestine unabsorbed. In the case of meat one-third is deducted for bone. The letter “‘ T”’ opposite a commodity indicates. that the figures represent the prison contract price (Tura). The deductions for non-absorption are :— Carbohydrates: five per cent in all cases except milk. Protein of milk, two per cent; of meat, five per cent. Protein of cereals, twenty per cent; bread, nineteen per cent; pulse, thirty per cent. The chemical compositions are mainly from tables in Hutchiyon’s “Food and the Principles of Dietetics.” Note.—Table I, II, and III have been corrected on the basis of tables showing the composition and food value of different food materials given in the Lehrbuch der Hygiene of Rubner, Gruber and Ficher. (See Table I, page 54, Appendix VI.)- Comparative tables have been added showing the corresponding figures for October 1915. Taste [.—Price and Food Value per Kilogramme.' AVAILABLE Priceper | dp : Kilogramme. | ee 3 ern at one | Milliemes. Sai Wheat. scostaaeie Orie 8°26 96 LZ 675 3,253 ER se ise dee ts te CCR Pea EE MT 8°21 78 o-+4 bO9 3,443 (T) Millets. ovis mic, cece eee 8°24 65 42 665 3i5B29e (13: Rice vis ls ee ee MRT eee 65 4 760 3,425. (T) Lentil 225... 6, Shay en Tere 193 20 548 3,240: (T) Beans. .:. {sane vay. dimurtda: wont 2 el OPC isan ter 20 540 8,175: Fal sedani(orndey™.: Weed, ae 190 450 168 5,620: (T) Beef (with bone)... as. see scr cee. oss| 85°65 127 27 a 178- (T) Matton (with boney.2 if. saa, tee ast 65° 1 ry 33°4 — 796. (T) Milk: (gamuos) S44 aliees ato este oe 59 16 40 1,107 (T) Bread Cyheaten jer ess a ee ee 9°28 50 bgt gs AT5 2,295 (TE) Oil —* ivheotvieo Dive tecnege eam earn 33°74 — 1,000 — 9,200 Nore.—Basis of estimate for millet and fa] suddni: millet weighs 135 kilogrammes to the ardeb, fal sudani 75 kilo- grammes per ardeb. Of this 75 kilogrammes the husks weigh twenty per cent. The components do not include the husks,. i.e. composition is that of shelled nuts. Table II shows the amount of the above commodities which may be purchased for one piastre, with: the corresponding available nutritive and heat values. (Food prices, February 1914.) * Numerous analyses of the flour and bread used in Egypt tend to show that the figure for fat, 1°5 per cent, is much in excess of the normal content. The true content would be from 0°5-1 per cent in bread made from better grade flour. The figure 15 per cent is from analyses made some years ago of bread made mainly from Egyptian flour comparable to- whole-meal flour.