Dietary Of The Roosevelt Hospital, New York

The ward diet of the Roosevelt Hospital, New York city, is classified as follows:

Full Diet

Daily

Meat, dressed, eight ounces; potatoes, eight ounces; bread, twelve ounces; butter, one ounce; sugar, two ounces and a half; milk, half a pint; coffee, half an ounce; tea, an eighth of an ounce. On Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, other vegetables in addition to potatoes, two ounces; bread, rice, or tapioca pudding. On Mondays and Wednesdays, soup, one pint. On Fridays, fish.

Breakfast

Coffee with sugar and milk, bread and butter, porridge of oatmeal, wheaten grits, or samp.

Dinner

Sunday: Roast beef, potatoes, tomatoes, or other vegetable, bread, and bread pudding. Monday: Soup, boiled mutton, potatoes, and bread. Tuesday: Corned beef, twelve ounces; cabbage or turnips, potatoes, and bread. Wednesday: Soup, roast beef, potatoes, and bread. Thursday: Soup, boiled beef, potatoes, onions, tapioca, sago, or farina pudding, and bread. Friday: Fish, boiled or roast beef, potatoes, bread, boiled rice sweetened with sugar and milk, and raisins. Saturday: Stew of mutton, potatoes, and bread.

Supper

Tea with sugar and milk, bread and butter, baked apples, or stewed pears, or prunes, or green or dried apple sauce, and, , on Sundays, gingerbread varied, alternate weeks, with currant buns.

Half Diet

Daily

Meat, dressed, four ounces; potatoes, four ounces; bread, six ounces; of other articles, the same as in full diet.

Milk Diet

Daily

Milk, two pints; bread, twelve ounces; rice or samp, two ounces; butter, one ounce.

Extras

In addition to the above, the following extras may be ordered by the visiting physicians and surgeons: Beefsteak, chicken soup, gruel, beef tea, oysters or clams, cornstarch, mutton chops, milk, rice, chicken, eggs.

Dietary Of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

At the Johns Hopkins Hospital the Free Ward Diet is liberal, but no attempt is made to classify the food qualitatively as served to the wards. A sample Sunday menu given there is the following. It is expensive, owing to the excess of animal food:

Breakfast

Corned-beef hash, oatmeal, toast, eggs, bread and butter, coffee or tea, and milk.

Dinner

Soup, roast beef, potatoes, rice, turnips, toast, pudding and milk, bread and butter.

Supper

Cold roast beef or pressed corned beef, bread and butter, coffee or tea, and milk.