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Questions.

XXI. What are, shortly, the rules as to diet?

BREAKFAST.

Answers.

With the exception of debtors and first-class misile- meanants and prisoners on remand or committal for trial, all prisoners are placed on penal diet of bread (or rice) and water on two days of ench 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.

DINNER

FULL DIET.

.6 oz. | Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs- ..1 pint į day, and Saturday.

Monday, Wednesday,

.1 pint j

.40%.

10 oz.

and Friday.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Bread.....

Gruel,.

Bread..

...6 oz.

Cocoa..

Brend,

Potatoes,

Meat,

Soup,

.......6 oz.

.1 pint

Brend,

4 oz.

Soup,

1 pint

Tuesday, Thursday, and

Saturday,

Suet Pudding, ..........1 lb.

SUFFER.

Brend,

4 oz.

Riec, (Common),.8 oz.

Sunday.

Fish,

12.0%.

| Curry Stuff,

.7A drs.

Brend,..

.6 oz.

Daily.

1 pint

Gruel,

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

Sorr.-Each pint to contain 4 oz, meat without bone, 1 oz. onions, 1 oz. barley, 4 oz. greens, yætns, 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 oz. flake coena or

nibs, Poz. molasses or sugar.

SUET PUDDING.-To every pound 14 oz. suet, 61 oz,

flour, 8 oz. water.

CURRY STUFF.—Chillies 31⁄2 drs.. pepper 14 dis., tur- merie 3 dr., coriander seed ? dr., emmin seed

dr., and oil oz.

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

DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.

1 b. d

Bread.............

07..

a week),

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

Fresh Fish (onco a week),

8

uz.

14

OZ.

Beef for Soup,

N

0%.

Potatoes (3 days a week),......

8

OZ.

Vegetables (3 days a week),

४

OZ.

White Rice (1 day),

*

07.

Suet Pudding (once a week),

1

Oatmeal for Gruel (once a werk),

→

IVZ.

Oz.

Tea,.

*

Sugar,

Dz.

Salt (fine),

A oz.

Curry Stuff (once a week),

*drs.

Soup, suet pudding, and curry stuff to be made as

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

is allowed in this class.