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Questions.

XXI. What are shortly the rules ns to diet?

BREAKFAST.

.Answers.

With the exception of debtors and first class misde- meanants 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 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.

Brend,....... Gruel,........

...6 oz.

.....1 pint

Bread,..

...6 oz.

Cocoa.......

...1 pint

Brend,...... ...4 oz.

Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs-

day, and Saturday.

Monday, Wednesday,

and Friday.

Potatoes, ....................... 10 oz.. (Monday, Wednesday,

SUPPER.

DINNER

Meat,

Soup,

...6 oz.

..1 pint

and Friday.

Bread,..........

.4 oz.

Soup,

1 pint

Tuesday, Thursday, and

Saturday.

Suet Pudding,....lib.

Bread,.

Rice, (Common),..8 oz.

Fish,

.....4 oz.

Sunday.

12 oz.

Curry Stuff,.....7 drs.

Bread................6 oz.

Daily.

Gruel,.........................................1 pint

These measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made up articles of dict; and meat means boned meat.

SOUP.-Each pint to contain 4 oz. meat without bone, 1 oz. onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greens, yama, 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 2 oz. flake cocos or

nibs, l ́oz. molasses or sugar.

SOET PUDDING.-To every pound 14 oz. suet, 64 oz.

flour, 8 oz. water.

CURRY STUFF.—Chillies 34 drs., pepper 14 drs., tur- meric dr., coriander sced dr., cummin seed 4 dr., and oil oz.

TEA.-Each pint to contain oz, tea, † oz. sugar.

DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN DEBTORS AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANTS.

Bread,.

Beef, Mutton or Pork, without bone (6 days }

a week), ...............

Fresh Fish (once a week),

Beef for Soup, ........................

Potatoes (3 days a week),.

Vegetables (8 days a week),

White Rice (1 day),

I lb. 4 oz.

8 oz.

.......14 Oz.

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1 lb.

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oz.

7fdrs.

Suet Pudding (once a week),

Oatmeal for Gruel (once a week), Tca,.

Sugar,...

Salt (fine),

Curry Stuff (once a week),

Soup, suct pudding, and curry staff to be made as

in recipe for other prisoners, except that beef, 8 oz.,

is allowed in this class.