Volume 1
Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury].
- Great Britain. Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![bo ~] bo 18. DROITWICH. DIETARY, BREAKFAST- - Bread and Milk; Men a quart, Women a pint (containing 8 oz. of Bread for the Men, and 6 oz. for the Women). Dinner Sunday, 8 oz. of boiled Mutton, 1 pound of Pota- toes, and Beer. Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, Tuesday, 1]b. of Suet, Pudding for the Men, and three-quarters of a pound for the Women, with Beer. Soup, a quart, with 8 oz; of Bread. Wednesday | might ounces of boiled Beef, and 1 Ib. of Prday, Potatoes, with Beer. SUPPER - = - Bread and Cheese and Beer, 8 oz. of Bread and 1 oz. of Cheese. If ill, the Patient’s Diet is regulated by the Medical Officer. 19. | GATE HELMSLEY, NEAR YORK. BREAKFAST - - Milk and Oatmeal, 14 pint, with Bread without limit.—Patients who are old, or in delicate health, are allowed Tea. SUPPER - ~ - The same. - Five days Meat (twice boiled, and three times roasted), the roasted Meat is not weighed, but something short of 4lb. is given to each Patient.—No Bread is allowed with the Meat (except to old or Invalid Patients), but Suet Pudding is DINNER - =](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33289621_0001_0280.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
