Report on the diets of the Royal Infirmary / (approved of by the managers on the 24th April 1843).

  • Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Date:
1843
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    REPORT ON THE DIETS OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY. (Approved of by the Managers on the 24th April 1843.) Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, April 4. 1843. The Committee, consisting of the Medical Managers and Medical Officers of the Infirmary, appointed by the Ordinary Managers to consider in what way the diet of the patients may be altered, so as to combine fitness, simplicity, and eco- nomy, have held several meetings on the subject, and now beg to recommend the following Scheme of Diet. At the present time there are Four Stated Diets in the In- firmary Diet-Table. But these really constitute Eight staple varieties, because in each the patient has his choice of Por- ridge or Bread for breakfast and supper. In the proposed Scheme there are Nine Fixed Diets ; but four of these are merely such varieties as those constituted in the present system by the liberty of choice now exercised between Porridge and Bread. It has been thought better, however, to separate them into distinct kinds with special names, for facility in prescribing, and in keeping the Accompt-Book of Diets. By means of the annexed Table, the Committee are satis- fied that the dietetic treatment of a very large proportion of the multifarious cases of disease in the Hospital may be ap- propriately regulated, without the necessity of prescribing any extra articles of food, as is too generally practised at present, for great pains have been taken to supply, in the dif- ferent rates, combinations of articles in such variety as to suit