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XXI. What are shortly the rules as to diet?
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:-
| Meal | Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| BREAKFAST | Bread, 6 oz.<br>Cocoa, 1 pint | Bread, 6 oz.<br>Gruel, 1 pint | Bread, 4 oz.<br>Potatoes, 10 oz.<br>Meat, Soup, 1 pint |
| DINNER | Bread, 4 oz.<br>Soup, 1 pint | Suet Pudding, 1 lb.<br>Rice (Common), 8 oz.<br>Fish, 12 oz.<br>Curry Stuff, 7½ drs. | Bread, 6 oz.<br>Gruel, 1 pint |
| SUPPER | Daily |
These measures are for uncooked provisions, except in the case of made-up articles of diet; and meat means 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 3½ drs., pepper 1¼ drs., turmeric ¾ dr., coriander seed ¼ dr., cumin seed ¼ dr., and oil ½ oz.
TEA: Each pint to contain ¼ oz. tea, ¾ oz. sugar.
| Item | 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. |
| Potatoes (3 days a week) | 14 oz. |
| Vegetables (3 days a week) | 8 oz. |
| Sugar | 2 oz. |
| Curry Stuff (once a week) | 1 oz. |
| White Rice (1 day) | 8 oz. |
| Suet Pudding (once a week) | 1 lb. |
| Oatmeal for Gruel (once a week) | 2 oz. |
| Tea | ¼ oz. |
| Salt (fine) | 4 oz. |
Soup, suet pudding, and curry stuff to be made as in recipe for other prisoners, except that beef is allowed in this class.
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Questions.
XXI. What are shortly the rules as to diet ?
Answers.
With the exception of debtors and first-class misde- meanauts and prisoners on remaud or committed for trial, all prisoners are placed on penal diet of brend (or rice) and water on two days of each week (Saturday and Sunday) for the first six months of their imprison-
ment.
At other thines, except when under punishment for Prison offences, the diet of each prisoner is as follows:- DIETARY FOR EUROPEAN PRISONERS.
FULL DIET.
BIKAKFAST.
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SUPPER,
day, and Saturday.
and Friday.
Brond,. Gruel,...................
......6 oz.
Sunday, Tuesday Thurs-
..1 pint
Bread, Cocon...
.....6 oz.
Monday, Wednesday,
.I pint
Brend,... Potatoos,
.4 oz. 10 oz.
Mout, Soup,
1
pint
Bread,
Soup,
.......4 oz.
Monday, Wednosday,
and Friday.
... pint Tuesday, Thursday, and
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Suet Pudding,....1 lb.
Rice, (Common),..8 oz. Fish, ...................................12 oz. Curry Stuff, ......74 drs. Brond,.....
Gruel,...............I pint
Saturday.
Sunday.
Daily.
These measures are for uncookel provisions, oxcept in the case of mado up articles of diet ; and meat means boned meat.
Sour.-Ench pint to contain 4 oz. meat without bone, 1 oz, onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greons, yums, sweet potatoes or turo, with pepper and sult. GRUEL-Ench pint to contain 2 oz. oatmeal, 1 oz.
molasses, and sufficient salt.
Cocoa.—Ench pint to contain 4 oz. flako cocon or
nibs, 1 oz. molasses or sugar.
Suet Pudding,—To every pound 14 oz. suet, 6} uz.
Hour, 8 oz. water,
CURRY STUFF.-Chillios 34 dra., poppor 14 drs., tur- moric dr., coriander sced 4 dr., eimmin soed
dr., and oil
oz.
TEA.-Eucla pint to contain † oz. ton, 7 oz. sugar.
DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.
Bread....
1 lb. 4 uz.
Beef, Minton or Pork, without bono (6 days)
n wcok),
Fresh Fish (once a wook),
8 02.
Beef for Soup,
Potatoes (3 days a week),.
Vogotables (8 days a weok),
14 07.
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Sugar,.
Curry Stuff (once a week),
Whito Rico (1 day),
Suot Pudding (onico n woek),
Oatmeal for Gruel (once a week),
Ten,.......
Salt (fino),
8 oz.
1 lb.
2
OZ.
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07.
2 07.
4 oz.
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7 dr.
Soup, suct pudding, and curry stuff to be male as in recipe for other prisoners, except that beef, is allowed in this class.
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