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lumps or dry flour left in it. To show what I mean, 500 statute adults, at 12 ozs. flour each, require 375 lbs. four, out of which I have had 12,600 chuppatties made, which I distribute as follows:
"40 sirdars, bandharries, topazes, hospital attendants, and all others doing extra work
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variation, and of which I can say that the people have thriven well upon it, and that there has been little bowel complaint among them.
WEEKLY DIET SCALE for each Adult, Ship “Hereford.” Voyage from Calcutta to Fiji, 1888.
Breakfast.
Dinner.
*Condiments, &e.
at 30 cach
1,200
Day.
289 men
-
at 28
27
8,092
133 women -
-
at 22
I
2,926
UZ.
39 boys
-
at
156
Sunday
事事
Nugar Biscuit
2
Rice
- 10
Dal urhur
OZ. 14
Cumin anul fenu-
greek, euch
#
33 girls
-
at
4
132
Vegetables
"
Mutton, fresh and
Mustard and cori-
ander seed, and
preserved
garlic, ench
Total
12,506
Chillies and black
papper, ench
1
Turmeric
ani
12,600 12,506
green giriger,cach 2 Tamarind
Salt and cher, each 1oz.
As above.
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Variety of diet.
Balance 94 and broken ones, and those for patients
in hospital, &c., to be divided among chuppattie wallahs."
I quote this from an actual issue now before me. Chuppattie making commenced at 6 a.m., and they were all baked and ready for issue at 2 p.m. The "chuppattie-wallahs" are—
1st. Men to knead the dough as above described, and to throw pieces, say about the size of the last joint of the thumb, to the women to roll out.
2nd. Women to roll out the dough in thin cakes, dusting a little dry flour on them to keep them from sticking. They nre provided with rolling pins and hard wood boards, but I have used empty beer bottles and the bottoms of their plates; and they sit round a piece of canvas spread on the deck, and should be of sufficient number to supply chup- patties as fast as the bandharries can bake them.
3rd. Men or boys to carry the chuppatties to the galley, either on the rice sieves or small plattens of tin.
4th. Men to rub the chuppatties over with ghee when delivered by the bandharries; and,
As before stated, one sirdar to check the number delivered to, and another the number delivered by, the bandharries.
I give the chuppattic-wallahs tin checks, on delivery of which they get the balance of the chuppatties remaining at the end of the issue, besides their own proper allowance, divided among them.
The next point of importance in connection with diet is, to give as great variety as possible; and here I venture to give a Diet Table which I have used for years with little
Monday
Kitcherrie.
Ricu
Da mussoor
Ghou
OnIOILE
Flour
patties)
Pepper and salt, quant Mutton.
(chup
12
Dal gramu.
14
Vegetables
pre-
what served
2
Tuesday
·
Curry and rice
४
Rice
Dal urhur
Vegetables
Fish, dried
2
6 มม
As above, also
Lime juice
Sugar
- 12
Wednesday-
Rice
A
Flour {chu
As on Sunday.
Raw onions
2
patties)
12
Salt
Dál urbur Vegetables
Thursday..
Kitcherrie.
Mutton,
nire.
Berved
2
Rice
R
Rice
14
As on Sunday.
Ghee
Dal Moong
Onions
21
Dal urhur
+3
Vegetables
Mutton, fresh and
Pepper and salt, quant.
preserved
2
பேர்.
Friday -
(Rice
8
Raw onions
2
Flour (chuy
patties)
As on Sunday.
- 12
Balt
31
or
Vegetables
Curry and rice,
Mutton,
pre-
served
2
Saturday
Biscuit
8
Rice
14
As on Tuesday', niso
Dal mussoor Ghee
21
Dál urhur
Mutton,
pre-
present Increased.
afterwards
served
*
Dál urhur.
Vegetables
31 Soap, 1751bs. for all at
On Wednesday and Saturday tobacco will be issued, viz. :—
Prepared tobacco, 1 oz. 5 drs. Leaf tobacco, 14 dra, to each adult.
Curry stuffs under this head are given according to the scala on p. 95 of the new Rules (Act XXI. of 1883). In this ship, with 5004 statuto adults, I issued:- Turmeric, lbs; garlic, black pepper, and coriander seed, each 1. ginger, 1 lb.; mustard seed and chillies, each 8 oz.; and cumin and fenugrock, each soz.; which the people, after trying different quantities, liked best, and was less than the quantity allowed in each ingredient.
A great deal has been said and written about flour and rice eaters, but the gentlemen, who insist so much upon the tastes of each being consulted, seem to forget that though
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