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HOSPITAL SUPPLIES.
[SECT. XII.
TABLE OF DIETS FOR HOSPITALS OF EUROPEAN TROOPS.
Articles comprising the different heads of Diet for a day.
Avoirdupois Weight.
Spoon.
Tea.
Beef-t ea.
Low Milk.
Sago
...... 2 oz. Bread ...... 8 oz. Bread ...... 1 lb. Arrowroot
3 oz.
Tea
...... ½ „ Tea
......
¾ , , Tea
......
½ oz. Milk
...... 1½ pint,
Sugar ...... 2¼ „ Sugar ...... 3 „ Sugar ...... 1½ „
with 6 oz. for Tea.
Milk
......
6 „ Milk
...... 9 ,, Milk ...... 6 „ Sugar
...... 3 oz.,
For
conjee-
water
For
conjee-
water
Beef ...... 12 „ including ¾ oz. for Tea.
Rice 2 oz.
Rice 2 oz.
Salt
...... 6 drs. Tea
. . . . . ½ oz.
Salt 2 drs.
Salt 2 drs.
Sago may be used in
lieu of arrowroot in
the proportion of 2
oz. sago to one of ar-
rowroot.
Arrowroot
4 oz.
Chicken ...... 8 oz.
Bread
...... 4 ,,
Salt
...... 6 drs.
Milk.
Chicken.
Low, with Pudding.
Low.
Bread ...... 12 oz. Fowl made into soup Mutton in broth 8 oz. Mutton in broth 8 oz.
Rice
...... 3
, ,
or boiled* 8 oz. Bread
...... 12 „ Bread
...... 1 lb.
including 1 oz. for
conjee water.
Bread ...... 12 ,, Tea
. . . . . . ½ ,, Tea
...... ½ oz.
Tea
...... ½ „ Sugar
...... 1½ ,, Sugar
...... 1½ „
Milk ...... 2 pints, Sugar ...... 1½ „ Milk
...... 6 „ Milk
. . . . . . 6 ,,
and 6 oz. for Tea Milk
...... 6 „ Butter
...... ½„ Butter
...... 1 , ,
Butter ...... ½ oz. Butter ...... 1 ,, Onions
...... 1 ,, Onions ...... 1 , ,
Sugar ...... 2¼ „ Salt
..... 6 drs. Barley
...... ½ „ Barley ......
½ , ,
including ¾ oz. for Barley ...... ½ oz. Flour
...... ½ „ Flour
...... ½ „
Tea
Onions ...... 1 ,, Salt
..... 6 drs. Salt
...... 6 drs .
Tea
...... ½ oz. Flour ......
½ , , For rice pudding
Salt
...... 2 drs. For custard pudding Rice
...... 2 oz.
Soojie
...... 4 oz. Milk
...... 1 pint Milk
...... ¾ pt.
in lieu of rice at the
discretion of Medi-
cal Officer.
Sugar ...... 1 oz. Sugar
...... ¾ oz.
Eggs ...... 2
Eggs
...... 2
Half.
Fish.
Full.
Infant.
Mutton† ...... 10 oz.
‡ F i s h
. . . . . . 8 oz, Meat § either Beef Milk
...... 1½ pint.
Bread ...... 1 lb. Bread ..... 1 lb.
or Mutton 12 oz. Sugar ...... 1½ oz.
Potatoes ...... 8 oz. Potatoes ...... 8 oz. Bread ...... 1 lb. Arrowroot... 2 „
Tea
. . . . . .
½ , , Tea
...... ½ „ Potatoes ... 12 oz. or Sago ...... 4 „
Sugar ...... 1½ „ Sugar ...... 1½ „ Tea
......
½ , ,
Milk
. . . . . .
6 , ,
Milk
...... 6 „ Sugar ...... 1½ „
Butter
. . . . . .
1 ,, Butter ...... 2 „ Milk
...... 6 „
O n i o n s
. . . . . .
1 ,, Salt
..... 6 drs. Butter ..... 1 „
Barley ...... ½ ,,
Onions ...... 1 „
Flour ...... ½ „
Barley ......
Flour
. . . . . . .
½ „
½ , ,
Salt
...... 6 drs.
Salt
...... 6 drs.
* The fowl may be roasted or grilled; in such cases the requisite quantity of ghee
may be used, and the barley, onions, and flour excluded.
† The mutton may be roasted or grilled ; in such cases the requisite quantity of
ghee may be used, and the barley, onions, and flour excluded.
‡ The quantity of fish is to be exclusive of the head and back bone, when the
latter is taken, one ounce more in weight is to be allowed.
§ In this diet, the meat may be roasted, fried, or broiled ; in such cases the diet to
be marked " Full varied," and butter or ghee one ounce to be allowed, and onions,
barley, and flour to be excluded.