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XXI. What are shortly the rules as to diet?
With the exception of debtors and first-class misdemeanants and prisoners on remand or committed for trial, all prisoners are placed on penal diet of bread (or rice) and water on two days of each week (Saturday and Sunday) for the first six months of their imprisonment.
At other times, except when under punishment for Prison offences, the diet of each prisoner is as follows:—
| Day | Bread | Gruel/Bread/Cocoa Brond | Potatoes | Meat | Soup | Suet Pudding | Rice/Fish/Curry Stuff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday | 6 oz. | 1 pint (Gruel), 6 oz. (Bread), 1 pint (Cocoa Brond) | 10 oz. | ||||
| Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | 4 oz. | 1 pint (Gruel) | 6 oz. | 1 pint | |||
| Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | 4 oz. | 1 pint | 1 lb. | ||||
| Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday | 6 oz. | 1 pint (Gruel) | 8 oz. (Rice), 12 oz. (Fish), 7½ drs. (Curry Stuff) | ||||
| Sunday |
These measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made-up articles of diet; and meat means boiled meat.
Soup.—Each pint to contain 4 oz. meat without bone, 1 oz. onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greens, yams, sweet potatoes or turo, with pepper and salt.
Gruel. Each pint to contain 2 oz. oatmeal, 1 oz. molasses, and sufficient salt.
Cocoa. Each pint to contain ¾ oz. flaked cocoa or nibs, 1 oz. molasses or sugar.
Suet Pudding.—To every pound ¼ oz. suet, ¾ oz. flour, 8 oz. water.
Curry Stuff.—Chillies 3¾ drs., pepper 1¼ drs., turmeric ¼ dr., coriander seed ¼ dr., cummin seed ¼ dr., and oil ½ oz.
Tea. Each pint to contain ¼ oz. tea, ½ oz. sugar.
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Bread | 1 lb. 4 oz. |
| Beef, Mutton or Pork, without bone (6 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| Fresh Fish (once a week) | 14 oz. |
| Beef for Soup | 8 oz. |
| Potatoes (3 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| Vegetables (3 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| White Rice (1 day) | 8 oz. |
| Suet Pudding (once a week) | 1 lb. 2 oz. |
| Oatmeal for Gruel (once a week) | 2 oz. |
| Tea | ¼ oz. |
| Sugar | 7½ drs. |
| Salt (fine) | ... |
| Curry Stuff (once a week) | ½ oz. |
Soup, suet pudding, and curry stuff to be made as in recipe for other prisoners, except that beef, 8 oz., is allowed in this class.
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Questions.
XXI. What are shortly the rules as to dict?
BREAKFAST.
DINNER.
Answers.
With the exception of debtors and first-class misde- mennants and prisoners on remand or committed for trial, all prisoners are placed on penal diet of bread (or rice) and water on two days of each week (Saturday and Snuday) for the first six months of their imprison-
ment.
At other times, except when under punishment for Prison offences, the diet of each prisoner is as follows :— DIETARY FOR EUROPEAN PRISONERS.
FULL DIET.
Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday.
Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday.
Bread,.......... ......6 oz.
Gruel, Bread,...
Cocon Brond,.
.1 pint ....6 oz. ......1 pint
....4 oz.
Potatoos,
10 oz.
Monday, Wednesday,
Meat,
Soup, .....
..6 oz. ...1 piut
Bread,....
Soup,
..4 oz. ..1 pint
Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
and Friday.
UPPER
Suet Pudding,....1 lb.
Broad,......... 4 oz.
Rico, (Common),..8 oz. Fish, ...... .12 oz.
Curry Stuff,.....74 drs. Bread,......
Gruel,........
....6 oz.
1 pint
Sunday.
Daily.
These measures nro for uncooked provisions, excopt in the ease of mado up articles of diot; and meat means boued meat.
Sour.—Ench piut to contain 4 oz. meat without bone, 1 oz. onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greens, yams, sweet potatoon or turo, with pepper and salt. GRUEL. Each pint to contain 2 oz. oatmeal, 1 oz.
molasses, and sufficient salt.
Cocoa. Each pint to contain oz. finkę cocon or
uibs, 1 oz. molassos or sugar.
Scet Pudding.—To every pound 14 oz. suot, 64 oz.
flour, 8 oz. water.
CURRY STUFF.-Chillica 34 dra., popper 14 drs., tur- merie 4 dr., coriander sced ‡ dr., cummin sood 4 dr., and oil 0%.
TEA. Each pint to contain oz. ten, ‡ oz. sugar.
DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.
Brend...................
Boof, Mutton or l'ork, without bono (6 days) 8
a week),
Fresh Fish (once a wook),
Beof for Soup,
Potatoes (3 days a week),......
Vegetables (8 days a week),
1 lb. 4 oz.
0%.
.........14 oz.
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7fdrs.
Whito Rico (1 day),
Suot Pudding (once a week),
Oatmeal for Gruel (once a wook), Tea,
Sugar,....
Salt (fine),
Curry Stuff (onco a week),
R
Soup, suet pudding, and curry stuff to be made as
in recipe for other prisoners, excopt that beof, 8 oz., is allowed in this class.
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