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shall be kept isolated from the other prisoners and shall not perform work outside the gaol.

3. For a period of three months subsequent to their selection they shall receive the ordinary prison rations, but with parboiled rice in place of Rangoon

rice.

4. On the expiration of that period, and provided no case of beri-beri has occurred among them, they shall be divided into four groups, hereinafter referred to as Parties A, B, C, and D, and shall be constantly under our supervision.

5. The members of Party A shall receive the following diet:-

Siamese rice

Dried salt fish

Onions

Potatoes

Tahils.

16

3}

14

11

27

and in terms of carbon and nitrogen contains:-

Carbon Nitrogen

302:34

15

10. As our analyses of beef and the various forms of fresh fish have not yet been complete, in calculating the composition of the diets for members of Parties C and I) I have allowed for lean beef and salt fish; the latter crrs on the side of generosity to the diet. The results so obtained for members of Party Care:-

Proteids Fats

Carbohydrates Salts

Grma.

95.75

40.345

615.04

41.625

352-17

15:4

Coconut oil

Coconut

Tea Salt

40

6. The members of Party B shall receive a similar diet, but with parboile rice in place of Siamese rice.

7. The members of Party C shall receive a diet similar to that consumed by the inmates of the Lunatic Asylum, Kuala Lumpur, and consisting of:-

:

Siamese rice

Fresh beef

Tahils. 21

3 Four times a week.

4 Twice a week.

4 Once a week.

2

Fresh fish

Salt fish

Coconut

Coconut oil Vegetables Salt

Curry stuff

I consisting of—

Chillies

Coriander

Cumin seed (mixed) Garlic

Onions

Pepper, black

Tamarind

Tumeric Coconut

22

Chi. 21

21

and in terms of carbon and nitrogen contains:-

Carbon Nitrogen.

On a similar basis the diet for the members of Party D consists of:-

Proteids Fats

Carbohydrates Salts

and in terms of carbon and nitrogen contains:-

Carbon Nitrogen

98.46

43.13

606'42

43.285

352'97

15'8

11. The present ordinary diet of Chinese prisoners has been similarly con- sidered, but, as already stated, our analyses of the various forms of fresh fish, beef, and pork are not yet completed. I have allowed for salt fish, erring as before on the side of generosity to the diet, lean beef, and fat pork. The results obtained

are:-

Proteids Fats

Salts

Carbohydrates

and in terms of carbon and nitrogen contains:-

Carbon Nitrogen

Grms.

98.297

30:35

500 191

26.498

296:37

15'8

On a similar basis the ordinary diet of Malay prisoners consists of:-

Proteids

Fats

1 tahils.

8. The members of Party D shall receive a similar diet, but with parboiled rice in place of Siamese rice.

9. Based on analyses conducted in this Institute, the diet for the members of Party A has been calculated to consist of:-

Proteids Fats

Carbohydrates

Salts

and in terms of carbon and nitrogen contains:-

Grme.

91'451

43.708

499 165

23:064

303.75

14.8

The diet for the members of Party B has been calculated to consist of:—

Carbon Nitrogen

Proteids

Fats

Carbohydrates Salts

93.565

45.882

492-540

24'335

Carbohydrates Salts

...

and in terms of carbon and nitrogen contains:-

Carbon Nitrogen

103-896

14.571

500-191

27.873

Grms.

287-332 16.727

12. The usual mode of determining dietetic requirements is to ascertain statistically what the customs and habits are as regards food of the people under consideration. Physiological investigations have shown the quantities of the various food constituents necessary for the maintenance of health. Based on this knowledge diet scales have been claborated.

13. The bulk of the work in this connection deals with European standards, and these, while in a general way applicable to the amounts of the essential con- stituents of food, are not strictly applicable to the relative proportion of the various articles of food required by Oriental peoples.

14. From the scientific standpoint diets are valued :—

(1) By the amount of proteids, fats, carbohydrates, and salts which they

contain;

(2) By the amount of carbon and nitrogen which they contain.

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