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Questions.
XXI. What are, shortly, the rules as to diot ?
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 ou penal diet of bread (or rice) and water on two days of each 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 each prisoner is as follows:- DIETARY FOR EUROPEAN PRISONERS.
FULL DIET.
.6 oz. | Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs- .1 pint !
day, and Saturday. Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday.
and Friday.
Bread,..
Gruel,.
Bread,
...6 oz.
Cocon,..
.1 pint
Bread,.
4 oz.
Potatoes,
10 oz.
Monday, Wednesday,
Ment,
Soup,
..6 oz. .....1 pint)
Brend,.........
Soup,
4 07. .I pint
Suet Pudding, ........1 ìb.
Tuesday, Thursday, aud
Saturday.
Brend, ........4 07. Ricc, (common),...8 oz. Fish,
Sunday,
.12 07.
Brend,.
Daily.
Curry Stuff,.....74drs.
Gruel,..............1 pint
These measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made up articles of dict; and meat means boned meat.
Sour. Each pint to contain 4 oz. ment without bone, 1 oz. onious, 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.
Coco. Each pint to contain 4 oz. flake cocon or
nibs, 1 oz. molusses or sugar.
SUET PUDDING.—To every pound 14 oz. snei, 61⁄2 oz.
Hour, 8 oz. water,
CERRY STUFF.—Chillies 3} dra., pepper 14 drs, tur- meric dr., coriander seed ‡ dr., cunmin sced 4 dr., and oil 3 oz.
TEA.-Each pint to contain foz, ten, 4 oz, sugar.
DAILY RATION FOR EACII EUROPEAN DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANTS.
Brend,......
1 lb. 4 oz.
}
8 OZ.
Beef, Mutton or Pork, without bone (6 days
a week),
Fresh Fish (oneo a week),
.14 oz. 8 OZ.
Beef for Soup,
Potatoes (3 days a week),.
8 oz.
Vegetables (3 days a week),
8 07.
White Rice (1 day),
Oz.
Suet Pudding (once a week),
1 Ib.
Oatmeal for Grne! (onco a week),
2
Oz.
0%.
Tel.......
2
OZ.
Sugar,
Sult (fine),
07.
7 drs.
Curry Stuff (once a week),
Soup, suet pudding, aud curry stuff to be mule as
in recipe for other prisoners, except that beef, 8 oz.,
is allowed in this class.