Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North Riding of Yorkshire : presented at the epiphany quarter sessions for the riding, 1865 together with the superintendent's nineteenth annual report, presented at the Easter sessions, 1866 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1865 / North Riding Lunatic Asylum.

  • North Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the North Riding of Yorkshire : presented at the epiphany quarter sessions for the riding, 1865 together with the superintendent's nineteenth annual report, presented at the Easter sessions, 1866 and an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year, 1865 / North Riding Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    North and East Ridings of Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum. Dietary Scale. Days. Breakfast. Dinner. Supper. * Monday Tuesday .. Friday .. .. Sunday.... Wednesday Saturday ., Thursday ,, Gruel, made with milk, thickened with oatmeal, 1J pint, with 6 oz. of bread. Pease soup, IJ pints, with 6 oz. of bread and 3 oz. of meat for each patient. Cooked meat, free from bone, 5 oz. ; bread, 6 oz. for males and 4 oz. for females, with vegetables and pint of beer. Meat pie, with vegetables, and \ pint of beer, 3oz. meat. Irish stew, l^- pint, with 4 oz. of bread, 3 oz. meat. 6 oz. of bread, with butter and tea. N. B. For those who cannot take gruel, 67 oz. tea, 124 oz. coifee, 30 lbs. sugar, are weekly given out. Butter is also given for each patient. Great additions are made to the above table; as for example, those patients who do not eat pease soup and irish stew, on Mondays and Thursdays, are allowed rice and suet pud^ng, and all epileptic, palsied, aged and weekly patients, are allowed extra diet, consisting, according to circumstances, of beef-tea, mutton broth, egg pudding, bread, rice, sago, and airow-root puddings, mutton chops, minced meat pie, porter, port and sherry wine. The idiotic classes arc allowed a pint of good meat broth, with bread and vegetables, every morning at half-past ten o’clock, together with the fireman, bakers, house cleaners, &e. * On Thursday, two ounces of cheese are substituted for the male patients, in lieu of butter for supper. Indulgencies consist of tobacco, beer, tea, &c., and may be said to be enjoyed by nearly all the patients ; since but few are, at any time, unemployed. The pease soup and irish stew are made with legs of beef and necks of mutton, Scotch barley, vegetables, herbs, &c. Owing to the scarcity of milk from the loss of cattle by rinderpest, coffee and tea have been substituted for milk gruel for breakfast. J, SOTHERAN, EOOKSELLER, YORK.