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Puri Jail.
1. The effects of a sudden decrease in the amount of salt in the diet. The unit
worked with was five prisoners; the urine and fæces were collected and pooled.
TABLE XXIII.
Five Ooriya prisoners observed for fifteen consecutive days.
| Batch A. | Total quantity of urine. |
Chlorides of urine. |
Chlorides of fæces. |
Weight of pris. |
R.B.C. average count. |
Salt intake. |
Chlorides of sweat=differ- ence of total intake and output in urine and fæces. |
| c.c. | grms. | grms. | lbs. | grms. | Average per man daily. |
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| Five prisoners, Ooriyas. |
8,500 | 85.00 | 2.80 | 98.6 | Average of 13 counts on two prisoners =4,790,000 |
99.71 | =2.37 grms. |
| 9,940 | 86.97 | 2.60 | 99.0 | 99.71 | |||
| 10,000 | 71.00 | 2.65 | 97.8 | 99.71 | |||
| 10,150 | 06.34 | 1.10 | 96.8 | 99.71 | |||
| 7,800 | 80.38 | 1.83 | 97.5 | 99.71 | |||
| 9,080 | 77.18 | 1.96 | 96.7 | 99.71 | |||
| 9,100 | 86.40 | 3.48 | 97.1 | 99.71 | |||
| 9,930 | 99.60 | 2.35 | 96.3 | 99.71 | |||
| 8,700 | 87.00 | 1.92 | 96.4 | 99.71 | |||
| 8,820 | 85.55 | 2.29 | 96.9 | 99.71 | |||
| 8,490 | 72.38 | 2.20 | 96.4 | 32.80 | Transition day. |
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| Do. | 7,420 | 31.16 | 2.20 | 95.8 | 4,734,000 | 32.80 | =.19 grms. |
| 5,790 | 35.89 | 2.44 | 95.8 | 32.80 | |||
| 7,350 | 30.12 | 1.89 | 95.4 | 32.80 | |||
| 7,460 | 29.16 | 2.12 | 95.1 | 32.80 |
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