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Diet for 3rd Class Chinese Patients in Government Hospitals.
FULL DIET.
Breakfast:-7.30 a.m.
Fish, Fresh with oz. Ground Nut Oil (or 1 Salt Egg, alternately)
Pork, Fresh (with 1 Salt Egg, or 3 Water Chestnuts, alternately) Rice
Tea (Chinese)
Vegetables, Fresh
Tiffin:-12.30 p.m.
Beef Congee (2 oz. Beef, 1 oz. Rice)
Egg, Salt
Supper-4 p.m.
Fish, Fresh, with oz. Ground Nut Oil (or 2 oz. Pork with 4 oz.
Acidulated Vegetables, alternately)
Rice
Vegetables, Fresh
2 oz.
2 2 2
12
4
pt.
1
2 oz.
12
4
147. The ordinary working man has two meals a day, morning and evening, with a cup of tea and a few cakes at midday, costing about five cents. These meals consist chiefly of the following:
(a) If made at home: 4-6 bowls of rice, a little pork or beef, 2 or 3
cents vegetables, salt fish, tea.
Cost 18-20 cents.
(b) If bought at stall: rice, noodles, or macaroni, or congee at about two cents a bowl, with little roast meat or duck, salt fish or beancurd.
Cost: 15 cents.
148. Another analysis of monthly living costs is:-
Food: $5.40 to $6.00.
Rent: $3.00 for a bedspace (sleeps in street when income is small).
:
Clothing $1.00 (6 cotton suits at $1.40 each, 4 cotton singlets at 40 cents each, and a few shorts every year, with a woollen jacket which lasts several years).
Other items : $2.00.
Minimum cost per month: $9 without bedspace.
$12 with bedspace.
149. It would appear that, largely owing to the recent high increase in the cost of firewood, due to hostilities in China, it is cheaper to purchase cooked food at a stall than to cook it at home. The monthly cost of food for an adult male is between five and six dollars, in both tables.
150. The Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children which keeps a record of family incomes calculated per head of persons in family, does not, unless there are exceptional circumstances, give assistance if the family income exceeds
$4.00 per head per month.
* The average cost of rations for a Chinese prisoner is at present approximately $4.35 a month.