Prisons (rules for convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Prison Act, 1898, with regard to the dietary of convicts : presented in pursuance of Act 61 & 62 Vic., cap. 41, s. 2(2) / Chas. T. Ritchie.

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Date:
1901
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Credit: Prisons (rules for convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Prison Act, 1898, with regard to the dietary of convicts : presented in pursuance of Act 61 & 62 Vic., cap. 41, s. 2(2) / Chas. T. Ritchie. 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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    (2.) The for Bread ... Porridge Milk Porridge ... Gruel T ea ... ... Cocoa Milk Butter or Mar- garine. Suet Pudding ... Pea Soup for Male Convicts. Vegetable Soup Meat Liquor ... Ditto ... ... Cooked Meat, preserved by heat. Beans Cooked Beef, without bone. Potatoes Fresh Vegetables agoing diets shall be prepared as follows :— To be made with whole-meal flour, consisting of all the products of the wheaten grain, with the exception of 12 per cent, of coarse bran and coarse pollards. This may be varied for female convicts at the discretion of the Governor and Medical Officer. To every pint 3 oz. coarse Scotch oatmeal, with salt. To every pint 3 oz. coarse Scotch oatmeal, | pint milk, with salt. To every pint 2 oz. coarse Scotch oatmeal, £ oz. sugar. To every pint ^ oz. tea, 2 oz. milk, ^ oz. sugar. To every pint £ oz. Admiralty cocoa, 2 oz. milk, f oz. sugar. To be fresh unskimmed milk. To be of approved brands of best quality. To every lb. 2 oz. beef suet, 8 oz. white or whole-meal flour. To every pint 4 oz. salt pork, 4 oz. split peas, 1 oz. onions, ^ oz. vinegar, pepper and salt. To every pint, clod or shoulder, leg or shin of beef in the proportion of 8 oz. for male convicts on E diet, and 6 oz. for male and female convicts on D diet; and, in addition, the soup to contain 1 oz. pearl barley, 2 oz. fresh vegetables, 1 oz. onions, -J- oz. flour, with pepper and salt. The allowance of cooked mutton to be served with its own liquor, flavoured with £ oz. onions, and thickened with t oz. flour, with pepper and salt. The allowance of cooked beef to be served with its own liquor, flavoured and thickened as above. Colonial or American beef or mutton of approved brands and of best quality. This meat should not be cooked or heated in any way. It ought to be served cold as it leaves the tin. Haricot beans, or broad or Windsor beans, dried in the green state and decorticated. Substitutes. Colonial or American beef or mutton, preserved by heat, may, if necessity arises, be substituted for cooked English beef or mutton, weight for weight. Cooked fresh fish 8 oz., or cooked salt fish 12 oz., may occasion- ally be substituted for 4 oz. cooked English beef or mutton, and in like proportion for other quantities. Fresh vegetables or rice may be substituted for potatoes, weight for weight after cooking. Rice, however, should be sparingly used as a substitute for potatoes, and, when so used, should, if possible, be combined with fresh vegetables in equal proportions. In the event of fresh vegetables not being procurable, j oz. preserved mixed vegetables may be used in lieu of 1 oz. fresh vegetables for ordinary prison diets.