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Therefore we may conclude that the amount of nitrogenous metabolism from
a diet composed of—
| Burma rice | 13.34 | ozs. | for each prisoner per day | |||||
| Wheat ata | 10.00 | „ | ||||||
| Dals | 6.00 | „ | ||||||
| Vegetables | 6. 00 | „ |
and equivalent to an intake of 16.75 grms. of nitrogen daily is, under ordinary
circumstances, 52.36 per cent. of the nitrogen of the diet or 8.76 grms. of nitrogen
per man daily.
(3) Batch IV had to be excluded from this average, for the amount of Burma
rice consumed by the batch was much below the average consumption
of rice by the other three batches and, as will be evident from these investiga-
tions, a decrease in the amount of rice from the ordinary jail quantity always
leads to a greater absolute and relative absorption of the nitrogen of the food.
In Batch IV—
Nitrogen of intake is 404.84 grms., of which 100.28 grms. is from rice. The
amount of nitrogenous metabolism=231.75 grms.
=57.24 per cent. of the nitrogen of the diet,
or 9.26 grms. of nitrogen per man daily.
By contrasting the nitrogenous metabolism (average) of batches I, II and III
with batch IV, it is evident that a reduction in the quantity of rice from 13.34 ozs.
to 11.40 ozs. per man daily is at once accompanied by an increase in the relative
and actual amount of nitrogen absorbed, i.e., from 52.36 per cent. to 57.24 per
cent., and from 8.76 grms. to 9.26 grms. of nitrogen per man daily.
On the whole the average nitrogenous metabolism in Buxar jail was on a low
level, due probably to many causes. At the time these observations were carried
out the health of Buxar jail was bad, owing to an epidemic of dysentery and much
diarrhœa. Another factor was probably the poor condition of the dals used in
these observations. The change for the better that took place in later experi-
ments when mung dal was given in place of the other dals was very marked.
(4) This investigation on picked healthy men on hard labour further shows
that the prisoners are quite unable to consume the full quantity of Burma rice
sanctioned for their diet.
Each prisoner is allowed 16 ozs. of rice daily along with the other constituents
of the diet scale.
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