XXI. What are, shortly, the rules as to diet?
BREAKFAST.
DINNER.
SUPPER
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:
| Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday | Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday | Sunday | Daily | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bread | 6 oz. | 6 oz. | 4 oz. | 4 oz. | |
| Gruel | 1 pint | 1 pint | |||
| Bread, Cocoa | 1 pint | ||||
| Bread | 4 oz. | ||||
| Potatoes | 10 oz. | ||||
| Meat | 6 oz. | ||||
| Soup | 1 pint | ||||
| Bread | 4 oz. | ||||
| Soup | 1 pint | ||||
| Suet Pudding | 1 lb. | ||||
| Bread | 6 oz. | ||||
| Rice (common) | 8 oz. | ||||
| Fish | 12 oz. | ||||
| Curry Stuff | 7 drs. | ||||
| Bread | 6 oz. | ||||
| Tea | 1 pint |
Those measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made up articles of diet; and most meat boned meat.
Soup.—Each pint to contain 4 oz. meat without bone, 1 oz. onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greens, yams, sweet potatoes or taro, with pepper and salt.
Gruel.—Each pint to contain 2 oz. oatmeal, 1 oz. molasses, and sufficient salt.
Cocoa.—Each pint to contain 4 oz. flake cocoa or nibs, 1 oz. molasses or sugar.
Suet Pudding.—To every pound 14 oz. suet, 6½ oz. flour, 8 oz. water.
Curry Stuff.—Chillies 33 drs., pepper 14 drs., turmeric 1 dr., coriander seed 4 drs., cummin seed 1 dr., and oil 1 oz.
Tea.—Each pint to contain ½ oz. tea, 1 oz. sugar.
| Article | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Bread | 1 lb. 4 oz. |
| Beef, Mutton or Pork, without bone (6 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| Fresh Fish (once a week) | 8 oz. |
| Beef for Soup | 8 oz. |
| Vegetables (3 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| Potatoes (3 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| White Rice (1 day) | 8 oz. |
| Suet Pudding (once a week) | 1 lb. |
| Oatmeal for Gruel (once a week) | 2 oz. |
| Tea | 1 oz. |
| Sugar | 2 oz. |
| Salt (fine) | ½ oz. |
| Curry Stuff (once a week) | 7 drs. |
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, thọ tulos as to diet?
BREAKFAST.
DINNER.
SUPPER
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 oach week (Saturday and Sunday) for the first six mouths of their imprison-
inent.
At other times, except when under punishment for Prison offences, the diet of each prisoner is as follows:- DIETARY FOR EUROPEAN PRISONERS.
FULL DIET.
.....6 oz. | Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs-
..1 pint f day, and Saturday. ..6 oz. | Mouday, Wednesday,
Bread,..
Gruel,.
Brend, Cocon....
..1 piut
Brend,..
...4 oz.
Potatoes,
10 oz.
Ment,
.......6 oz.
Soup,
Bread,
Soup,
.....1 pint
...4 oz. ....1 pint
Suct Pudding,....1 b.
Bread,...............4 oz. Rice, (common),...8 oz. Fish, ...... .12 oz. Curry Stuff, ......74drs. Bread,......... .....6 oz.
..1 pint
and Friday.
Monday, Wednosday,
and Friday.
Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
Sunday.
Daily.
Those measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made up articles of diet; and moat meaus boned meat.
Sour.—Each piut to contain 4 oz, meut without bone, 1 oz. onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greons, yains, sweet potatoes or taro, with pepper and salt. GRUEL-Each pint to contain. 2 oz. oatmeal, 1 oz.
molasses, and sufficient salt.
Cocoa-Ench pint to contain 4 oz. flake cocon or
nibs, l ́oz. molasses or sugar.
SUET PUDDING.-To every pound 14 oz. snot, 61⁄2 oz.
flour, 8 oz. water.
CURRY STUFF.-Chillies 33 drs., pepper 14 drs, tur- meric dr., coriander seed 4 dr., cummin seed
dr., and oil oz.
TEA.-Each pint to contain oz. tea, ż oz, sugar.
DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANTS.
Brend,......
Beef, Mutton or Pork, without bone (6 days }
a week),
Fresh Fish (once a week),
1 lb. 4 oz.
8 oz.
.14 oz.
8
Oz.
Beef for Soup,
Vegetables (3 days a week),
Potatoes (3 days n week),.............
8
OZ.
8
02.
White Rice (1 dny),
Suet Pudding (once a week),
8 oz. 1 Ib.
Ontment for Gruel (once a week),
2 oz.
1 0%.
Ten,
2 oz.
Sugar,
Salt (fine),
foz.
Curry Stuff (once a weok),
7 dre.
Soup, suct 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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