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Questions.
XXI. What are shortly the rules as to diet?
Answers.
With the exception of debtors and first class misde- meanauts and prisoners on remand or committed for trial, all prisoners are placed on penul diet of bread (or rico) and water on two days of cach week (Saturday and Sunday) for the first six months of their imprison-
ment.
At other times, except when under punishment for Prison offences, the diet of cach prisoner is as follows:-
DIETARY FOR EUROPEAN PRISONERS.
SUPPER,
DISSEE.
BREAKFAST.
Bread,... Gruel,..
Brend, Cocoa..
FULL DIET.
..6 oz. ..I pint
.1 ...6 oz.
..1 pint
[
Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday.
Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Bread, Potatoes, Ment,
..4 oz. .10 oz. ....G oz.
Soup.
.1 piut
Brend,......
Soup,...
..1 pint
Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
Snet Pudding, ........1 th.
Rice, (Common),..8 oz.
4 oz.
4
Sunday.
Fish,
| Carry Stuff,
12 oz. ....71⁄2 drs.
Brest,
Daily.
Gruel, ...............................
1 pint
It is understood these measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made up articles of diet; and ment is understood to be without bone.
NOTE.—Any prisoner sentenerd to more than five days Penl Diet, to have one pint of Gruel at Break- fast and Supper.
DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.
Broil....
I lb. 4
UZ.
Bets, Mutton or Pork, without bone (6 days )
५
OZ.
a week),
1
Fresh Fish (once a work),
07.
Beef for Soup,
8
0%.
Potatoes (3 days a week)................
8 0%.
Vegetables (3 days a week),
OZ.
White Rice (1 duy),
R
0Z.
Snet Pudding (once a week),
1 ib.
Oatmeal for Gruel (ouce a week),
2 0%.
Ten,
1
0+
Sugar,
2
02.
Salt,
1 oz.
Curry Stuff (once a week),
7drs.
Soup, Suct Pudding, and Curry Stuff to be inade as in receipt for other l'risoners, except that Beef, 8 oz.
is allowed in this class.