The attention of those who visit the poor is requested to the following. (See also Appendix, "On Bread Diet and Typhus Fever.")

There is considerable difficulty in selecting diets, for the very poor, in a form which the stomach will tolerate, combining cheapness and simplicity with the essential chemical composition. But the two following will be found to fulfil all these conditions, so far as it is possible to do so without the introduction of meat; and in one of them bread is given in the largest quantity consistent with health: -

No. 12.

Allowance for twenty-four hours: Bread, 25 oz.; cheese, 2 oz.; butter, suet, or dripping, 2 oz. These yield to analysis: plastic material, 3.1 oz.; fat, 2.3 oz.; saccharine material, 11.4 oz.

No. 13.

Allowance for twenty-four hours: oatmeal, 16 oz.; milk, 1/2 pint; butter, suet, or dripping, 1 oz. These yield to analysis: plastic material, 3.0 oz.; fat, 2.3 oz.; saccharine, 9.0 oz.

To each of these diets must be added limejuice or some land vegetable, salt, and a free supply of pure water. (See Potash Vegetables and Fruits)