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Broadly speaking, hospital patients are dieted according to whether they are
capable of partaking of an ordinary diet or a medium or light diet. The dietaries
which have now been approved are shown below :—
Meal. Ordinary diet. Diet no. 1. Medium diet. Diet no. 2. Light diet.
Diet no. 3.
Breakfast Tea, bread, butter, with extras such as egg, bacon, sausage, etc., porridge,
jam or marmalade. Tea, bread, butter Tea, bread, butter.
Lunch Milk or cocoa Milk Milk.
Dinner Meat, bread, two vegetables, pudding.
Fish (4 days) or chicken, rabbit or tripe (remaining day) bread, vegetable, milk pudding.
Mutton broth or beef
tea, bread, milk pudding.
Tea Tea, bread, butter, jam or marmalade or cake. As for ordinary diet no. 1. As for ordinary diet no. 1.
Supper Soup or beef tea and bread; or milk or cocoa and bread and butter or cheese; or bun or rock cake; or biscuits.
As for ordinary diet no. 1 (no cheese).
As for ordinary diet no. 1 (no cheese).
An average daily allowance of 1½ pints of milk is provided per patient throughout
the hospital.
The children's dietaries are substantially the same as for adults, except in the
matter of quantities. Suggested scales of dietary for children under three years of
age have also been prescribed as a guide to medical officers. These dietaries were
set out in the annual report for 1931, and have remained unaltered.
The needs of chronic sick and mental patients, which include a number of aged
and infirm inmates, practically bed-ridden, are not normally as great as those of
the patients in the appropriated general hospitals. The standard dietary scales for
this class of patient are not, therefore, quite so full and varied as those for the
"acute sick," which include many young and convalescent persons who require
"feeding up." The medical officer may at all times supplement the dietary of a
chronic sick or mental patient by medical extras at his discretion.
The dietary scales for chronic sick and mental patients in non-appropriated
institutions are as follow :—
Meal.
Diet no. 1.
Diet no. 2.
Diet no. 3.
Breakfast
Tea or cocoa ; bread, butter, jam, marmalade or syrup; or porridge with sugar and milk; or on one day a week brawn, corned beef or sausage.
Tea or cocoa; bread; butter, jam, marmalade or syrup.
As for diet no. 2.
Lunch Cocoa Milk Milk.
Dinner* Meat, bread, two vegetables ; pudding.
Fish, bread, potatoes; milk pudding.
Mutton broth or beef tea, bread; milk pudding.
Tea ... Tea, bread, butter, jam or marmalade or syrup or cake.
As for diet no. 1
As for diet no. 1.
Supper ... Soup and bread ; or tea, coffee or cocoa, with bun or rock cake, or biscuits or bread and butter or bread and cheese.
As for diet no. 1
As for diet no. 1.
* A cup of tea may be issued after dinner.