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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    GENERAL REMARKS. In presenting the suggested diets the object has been to provide a regime which could be adopted at once. It is, however, hoped that the necessary information regarding other food materials such as soya bean meal, the residues of arachis oil factories and oatmeal may be obtainable. Sufficient has been said in regard to the addition of the first substance to the diet in the section of the report dealing with the bread ration. The possibility of introducing a purely vegetarian diet has been considered, the basis of which would be soya meal (ten per cent) wheat flour bread. Diet No. III would contain 1,000 grammes of this bread. > No. I] 3 99 800 > ” »> 9 » No. I » ”» 600 29 > > bP the remainder of the dietary being made up of the present components with a possible addition of oat- meal or oatmeal and millet flour mixed and served boiled as “ stirabout”’ or porridge with the early morning meal. In regard to the above the following details regarding oatmeal should have been added to the table of food values :— OK, Jonlinblel wBlaloFical Absorbability| Factor for Available 2 “ Rae - Fat. Carbo- Egat . Frise of Gross | Biological Protein, Value. hydrate. | Value, | in Milliemes. Protein. Value, 100 grammes oatmeal... 12 4°8 7 64 277 1° 78 1 (2d. per Ib.) 3-5 The soya meal bread loaves might be made of such a size that each would weigh 200 grammes ; this would considerably facilitate distribution. Assuming that twenty-five grammes of oatmeal with or without an equal quantity of millet or maize meal were given as a morning meal, the diet on a vegetarian basis would be cheaper than the dietary suggested. This would very probably also prove to be the case, even though occasional meat meals were given in addition. The morning porridge could replace the cheese and nuts suggested, in view of the high nitrogen value of the soya meal bread. I shall be glad to co-operate in the construction of such a dietary if the Committee decide for experimental purposes to get the necessary information and order a sufficiency of the materials. I give here a table showing the composition of a Diet No, Il drawn up on the vegetarian basis. Experimental No. II Diet. Soya Meal Bread and Oatmeal. Available | Biological Carbo- COMPONENTS. Quantity. | tein Value Fat hydrate, Heat Value. Cost. Grammes. Milliemes, Ten per cent soya meal bread... | 800 53°6 24 ted 356 1,794°4 | 5°356 Qn Re ee re 25 — — 25 — 230 0°844 Ricewiihony, heandonstisd) aks 50 3°25 3 0°4 38 165 0°5606 Lentils Si Neils ike eee Se teu 75 145 8°03 15 40°4 240 0° 834 Beans ...c ecb ton en to ee 75 14°15 7°75 Sah 40°4 239 0°698 Qatméal? S* | CR eae 25 “3 1*2 1°75 16 94. 0°375 Onion: JA%s 3 eee eee 125 — — — — — 0°0425. Vegetableg sss Sc eae aU 1 5 — 3 16°53.) -0°322 DGGE, ORS cede vee eaeea 2 GUY e: — — — 0° 022- Salt <5) Veg tie oe 13°95 _ — — — — 0°02 S| || | | ———_s ——— — 89°5 44°48 | 41°95 | 493°8 |- 2,778 9°0339