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per cent. of the total proteid intake re-appeared in the stools, never having been
assimilated and therefore can only be looked on as so much waste. The diet of
No. 2 also largely consisted of rice and dhall.

       The second set of investigations was carried out on prisoners. In order to
facilitate the work and to obtain some idea of the constitution and nature of the
different scales of diet laid down for prisoners a table was prepared showing the
quantities of the several proximate principles of the diets in grammes.

       This is reproduced in Table XII.

       As will be at once evident, these diet scales are exceedingly liberal com-
pared with those we have discussed so far.

       The proteid element in some instances almost reaches Voit's standard and
is far superior in quantity to the proteid element in the average diet of the great
majority of the population of the province.