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Credit: Metropolitan workhouses and their inmates. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![the following tables, showing a comparison of the diet of the Pentonville Prison with that of a Country Union approved by the Poor Law Com¬ missioners ; and it is said there are other dietaries in which the difference would he still more striking. Allowance per Week. Convicts. Paupers. Bread - 140 oz. 105 oz. Meat 28 10 Suet pudding — 54 Cheese and butter — 10 Vegetables 112 54 Solid food 280 oz. 233 oz. Porridge or gruel 7 pints - 10^- pints. Soup 3* - — Cocoa - - - Liquid food 15£ pints ] 0^ pints. This is but one amongst many instances which prove that at present there is more thought and more favour bestowed upon criminals in Prison than upon the poor in Workhouses.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30563471_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
