The cheapest and most nutritious food for charitable institutions and the poor : being the result of an inquiry, made by desire, on the food supplied to the Hill Street Female Refuge / by C.H.F. Routh.

  • Routh, C. H. F. (Charles Henry Felix), 1822-1909
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The cheapest and most nutritious food for charitable institutions and the poor : being the result of an inquiry, made by desire, on the food supplied to the Hill Street Female Refuge / by C.H.F. Routh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    APPENDIX. The Diet List has been calculated on the following values : Substance. Nitrogenous aliment Non-nitrogenous 100 parts of reckoned as gluten. aliment reckoned as starch. Rice 64 80- Indian Corn 12-3 88- Peas 28- 67- Lentils 30- 40* Potatoe 1-41 19- Wheat flour 16- 71- Bran 19*3 8. Rye flour 11-9 60*9 Buck wheat 6- 68- Scotch oats 13-7 64* Barley 15-6 57-5 Bread (Refuge) 11-8 53T Bread (ordinary) 13-8 44* Meat 19* 6* Cheese 29- 60* Milk 4-5 . 11*7 Cocoa 19* 119* Coffee 20* 29* Tea 40* 20* Treacle — 77 9 Flours for Bread. Assuming bread at 16 nitrogenous and 71 non-nitro- genous per cent. Nitrogenous. Non-nitrogenous. No. 1. 50 Lentils 15-2 20- 50 Hice 3-2 43* 11 Starch — IP No. 2. 55-6 Peas 15* 36 3 45- Rice 2 8 36- No, 3. 33 Indian Corn 41 32* 67 Peas 18 7 44-8 No. 4. 33 Barley 5-2 33* 33 Indian Corn 4T 29* 34 Peas 9 3 22* No. 5. 25 Buck wheat 15 17- 25 Indian Corn 3* 22* 50 Peas 14- 33-
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