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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    a A table is attached, which I have deduced from Mr. Craig’s figures, showing the total amount of work in kilogramme-metres and foot-tons (for reference to other standards) and the corresponding expen- diture of chemical energy on the supposition that the external work represents one-third of the energy made use of in its production. The estimation of the daily energy requirements is based on the mean daily amount of work and not on the work done on any one day, there being five and a half working days in the week. This method is justified by its employment by the British War Office Commission appointed to investigate the food requirements of the English soldier on active service. The energy value (available) it is proposed to place at 3,200 calories, giving an excess of 1,050 over. . and above the resting basis adopted, this excess representing 148,400 kilogramme-metres of work. TABLE I, This table gives the estimated amount of work done in kilogrammé-metres and foot-tons, with the energy expenditure involved, in different forms of third class labour (see Sub-Appendix III), as deduced from Mr. Craig’s calculations from the details obtained at Abu Za‘bal convict establishment. Included in the figures is the work done in walking four kilometres (2.e. to and from prison). Chass or LABouR. hee taaide Foot-tons. Pe Pan tee 2, Carrying stone from quarry to surface ... ... 0... se 117,100 378 843 Drab torioy Uv Dora )ee ti bee Oe CEI Bi Si) ACEI 189VT4B 450 1,005 RN COGN ee ic hee as Ne ete eek Spee’ gan) aah 144,413 486 1,041 4. Carrying stone to machines... pes mi amore ote Bi 80,413 240 578 5. Carrying stones from machines to trucks... ... ... Gatto 313 — 675 Comparison :— Work done by fellah*at shadif. ie io a Oe 110,000 355 792 Hnglish convict (treadmill). ce ee ee, Bis 166,000 536 LD PR TTIBPICAIE CORVICLS Att) weed a ee ae kag Re Og: ht 18 192,000 620 1,399 Maximum Possible Work. * A. B. C. ir), Draueh.- work (trolley yj. .c-4: cee bieacls hde’ Gee cae ceed]. (re L65800 1,008 2,192) HO) SWEKING Up AN INCHING - ice arek diycvntstéerl ase) Ver aaaf) 002,000 975 Z log eerreyr yi ration (re iene ane ee ie Cea Pe 1182000 910 2,000 Mee LTOREA ae ah co seu e hee, Vee Sey stk tied aos); cesed | URDU 836 1 wah ree MY TINTING apt yi; 7... fies vceeeatee tar. See ea ieee ienelg> onal 207 5000 668 1,919 Ly Ura ere ne OR As. 173,000 555 1,632 J Columns B and C are estimates I have made from Tigerstedt’s figures in column A. a, b, ¢, d, energy expenditure estimated at three times the work ; e, f, being chiefly done with arms and upper part of body, at four times the work. . * Tigerstedt, Joc. cit., page 545. + From figures given by Gariel, Zraité de Physique Biologique, I, page 1004 (1901). Blix, Skand. Arch. f. Physivlogie, Vol. 15, page 122, 1903.