Dietary Scale for Industrial School




CHICAGO INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DIETARY SCALE.

Quantity Item Notes
One pint. Milk. Children above one year and during three years. Daily.
Six ounces. Bread.
Six ounces. Meat free from bone, made into half-a-pint of beef tea.*
One ounce. Sugar.

| Half a pint. | Milk. | Children above three years and under eight years. Breakfast and supper. |
| Ten ounces, or six ounces of Oatmeal. | Bread. | |
| One ounce. | Sugar. | |
| Eighth of an ounce. | Tea. | |
| Four ounces. | Meat cooked & free from bone. | Dinner on six days. |
| Eight ounces. | Potatoes. | |
| Six ounces. | Flour. | Dinner on Fridays. |
| Three-quarters of an ounce. | Suet. | |
| Three-quarters of an ounce. | Raisins. | |
| Three-quarters of an ounce. | Currants. | |
| Three-quarters of an ounce. | Sugar. | |
| Sixteen ounces, or nine ounces of Oatmeal. | Bread. | |
| Quarter of an ounce. | Tea. | Breakfast & supper. |
| Quarter of a pint. | Milk. | |
| One ounce and a half. | Sugar. | |

| Four ounces. | Meat. | Children above eight years. |
| Six ounces. | Potatoes. | To be issued twice a week with salt and pepper. |
| Two ounces. | Mixed Vegetables. | |
| One ounce. | Barley. | |
| Eight ounces. | Flour. | |
| One ounce. | Suet. | |
| One ounce. | Raisins. | |
| One ounce. | Currants. | |
| Three-quarters of an ounce. | Sugar. | |
| Six ounces, baked and boiled alternately. | Meat cooked and free from bone. | Dinner on alternate days. |
| Ten ounces. | Potatoes. | |

*Beef tea to be made by placing the meat, previously minced into sausage meat, into a jar to half the quantity, and then strained. Every child to be allowed daily half an ounce. Weakly—four ounces of yeast for every hundred children.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1869, No 600





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