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Quantity of Food. Carbon- aceous Nitro- genous. Breakfast and Supper—Tea, Bread, and Butter. oz. oz. 10 oz. Bread 5½ ¾ ½ oz. Butter ½ — ½ oz. Sugar ½ — ⅛ pint Milk less than ¼ — Dinner—Meat and Potatoes. 4 oz. Meat (cooked) 1 1 8 oz. Potatoes 1¼ ¼ 2 oz. Bread 1 ¼ Total 10½ 2¼

Here we see that the total allowance comes only to 10½oz. of carbonaceous food and 2¼oz. of nitrogenous food, against the estimated quantity of 16oz. carbonaceous and 4oz. nitrogenous, which is the necessary allowance for ordinary people, and against the 25oz. carbonaceous and 5oz. nitrogenous, which is the regulation diet of the Royal Engineers during peace. It is true that these old folk do not need so much food, for their bodies have ceased to grow and develop, and in aged persons the wear of the frame does not require such replenishment as is the case with young and middle-aged people; but even with this partial diet we find that the cost of maintaining each of these old people is, for food alone, 3s.11d. per head per week.