Food : some account of its sources, constituents and uses / by A. H. Church.

  • Arthur Herbert Church
Date:
1876
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Credit: Food : some account of its sources, constituents and uses / by A. H. Church. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PUBLIC DIP TAP IPS. § 2.—Public Dietaries. The experience of governments and local authorities in the supply of food to persons depending upon dietaries furnished at the public cost, has led to very conclusive results as to the nature and amount of nutrients requisite for varying amounts of work and for various conditions of bodily health. The dietaries of the army and navy, as well as of hospitals, prisons, and workhouses, will generally be found to correspond with the amount and character of the work demanded from the persons concerned. In the former “ Inventory of the Food Collection ” the following figures are given as representing the nitrogenous, or flesh-forming nutrients, and the carbon in the daily diet of soldiers, sailors, pensioners, and other persons subsisting on public or ascertainable dietaries. Case 126. 1. The English soldier requires, both in this country and in India, about 5 oz. of flesh-formers in his daily food; he must receive likewise 10 oz. of carbon. 2. The English sailor receives 5 oz. of flesh-formers and 10 oz. of carbon. 3. The English sailor, in his salt-meat dietary, receives nearly 6 oz. of flesh-formers daily, and 12 oz. of carbon. These larger amounts may be necessary owing to the less digestible nature of his food. 4. The Dutch soldier, in war, receives daily 3 oz. of flesh- formers with io]4, oz. of carbon. 5. The Dutch soldier, in peace, or in garrison, has a lower diet, containing only 3^ oz. of flesh-formers and 10 oz. of carbon. With this diet he is below fighting condition. 6. The French soldier, although his diet is made up with articles of food very different from those eaten by the English soldier, receives nearly the same amount of flesh-formers—4^ oz., with 12 oz. of carbon. The French soldier is thus always kept in fighting condition.