Average Daily Dietary For Adult Women Patients, 1901, Not Including Milk, Eggs, Or Beef Tea For Special Cases

Flour, meal, rice, or beans, uncooked.................. ½ ounce.

Bread.............................................. 8 ounces.

Butter and fat...................................... 2¼ "

Sugar.............................................. 2 "

Breakfast cereals, uncooked.......................... 1 ounce.

Meat or fish, dressed but uncooked.................... 8 ounces.

Potatoes, dressed but uncooked....................... 5 to 6

Fresh or canned vegetables, cooked................... 4 to 5

Stewed or fresh fruit, prepared or cooked............... 3 to 4

Soup.........................................½ pint or 8 "

Milk......................................... I " " 16 "

Coffee........................................½ " " 8 "

Tea or cocoa..................................½ " " 8 "

Eggs, one every other day...................... ½ ounce.

New York State Hospital - Proposed Dietary

Austin Flint recommends the following dietary and food supply for the New York State Hospital:

" The table is intended for patients not upon extra diet and attendants only, and I have suggested that 25 per cent in the rations of meat, flour, and potatoes be added for workers".

Daily Ration

Meat, with bone, including salted meats, fresh and salted fish, and poultry...................................... 12 ounces.

Flour, to be used in making bread and in cooking (may in part be substituted by cornmeal and macaroni).......... 12 "

Potatoes............................................... 12 "

Milk.................................................. 16

One egg............................................... 2 "

Sugar................................................. 2

Butter................................................. 2 "

Cheese........................................... .... 1 ounce.

Rice, hominy, or oatmeal................................ 1½ "

Beans or peas (dried).................................... 1½ "

Coffee (in the berry and roasted).......................... 5/6 "

Tea (black)........................................... 1/8 "

Supplies For One Hundred Persons For Thirty Days

Meat, with bone, including salted meat, fresh and salted fish, and poultry, total.............................. 2,250 pounds.

Flour (may be in part substituted by cornmeal and macaroni) 2,250 "

Potatoes............................................ 2,250 "

Milk............................................... 1,500 quarts.

Eggs............................................... 250 dozen.

Sugar.............................................. 490 pounds.

Butter............................................. 430

Cheese............................................. 215 "

Rice............................................... 108

Hominy........................................... 108 "

Oatmeal............................................ 108 "

Coffee.............................................. 180 "

Tea................................................ 26 "

"Flour should be interchangeable, on this basis, with potatoes, rice, hominy, and oatmeal. Butter and cheese may be interchangeable in the proportion of one pound of butter to two pounds of cheese; and eggs and milk, in the proportion of two eggs to one pint of milk. There are occasions when eggs may be substituted with advantage for meat. This may be done on the basis of eight eggs for one pound of meat. When fruits, fresh and dried, are used in abundance, a reduction may be made in eggs, butter, cheese, and milk".