Appendix. PRICE LIST of ARTICLES supplied to STEEVENS'S HOSPITAL, per or otherwise, for the Year ending 31st March, 1901.

No. 6.

Price Lists.

Contract

Bread, 4 oz.
Tea, pint.

Bread, 4 oz.

Dinner.

New Milk, pint.

On Friday-Bread, 4 oz.; New
Milk, pint; Gruel, pint.
Bread, 6 oz., or Potatoes, 1 lb.
Mutton Chop,broiled or fried,8 oz.
On Friday-Bread, 6 oz.; Gruel,
pint, instead of Mutton.
Bread, 6 oz., or Potatoes, 1 lb.
Beef, boiled, 8 oz., with broth,
pint.

On Friday-Bread, 8 oz.; Gruel,

pint, instead of Potatoes, Beef, &c.

Extras, if prescribed.

Supper.

Bread, 4 oz.
Tea, & pint.
Whey, pint.

Bread, 4 oz.
Tea, & pint.

Bread, 4 oz.
Tea, pint.

Each Adult Patient to get on day of Admission, Dinner, Bread,

8 oz.; Supper, Bread, 4 oz.

EXTRAS ALLOWED (if specially prescribed) wITH THE UNDERMENTIONED DIETS.
Low Diet.-One Egg; Beef Tea, pint, or New Milk, pint, or Arrowroot, pint, or Rice
Milk, pint. Wine, or Whiskey, or Gin, as specially prescribed.

Middle Diet.-Bread, 4 oz.; 1 Egg; New Milk, pint, or Porter, pint, or Gin or Wine, not exceeding (except in an urgent case) 4 oz.

Full Diet.-New Milk, pint, or Porter, pint.

Children's Dist.--Bread, 4 oz.: New Milk, pint; Arrowroot or Sago, 1 oz. Sugar with A. or S., oz.; or Beef Tea, i pint.

Breakfast at Nine o'clock, A.M., Dinner at Two o'clock, P.M., Supper at Seven o'clock, P.M.

Extras as ordered by the Medical Officers.

Quantities per diem allowed to each Patient according to above Table.

Beef Tea, Chops, Chickens, Milk, Eggs, Fish, Jellies, Puddings, Cocoa, Coffee,
Porridge, and Stimulants, as ordered by Physicians and Surgeons.

COOMBE LYING-IN HOSPITAL.

No Extras allowed unless ordered each day and initialled by one of the Medical Oficers.

Appendix.

No. 7. Dietaries.

Breakfast, 7.30 A.M.; Luncheon, 11 A.M.; Dinner, 1 P.M.; Tea, 5 and 6 P.M.; Supper, 8.30 P.M.

EXTRAS AND STIMULANTS AS ORDERED IN ALL DIETS.

Tea, lb.; sugar, 1 lb.; milk, 2 pints-supplies 15 patients for 24 hours.

Bread, 2 lbs. loaf-6 lbs. supplies 8 patients for 24 hours.

Ox-head broth-ox-head for broth, thickened with barley and dried vegetables, for 10 patients.

White Fish, 10 oz., Potatoes.

Stewed Beef, 6 oz., Soup, 1 pint, Potatoes.

Tea, 1 pint, Bread, and Butter, 6 oz., or Oatmeal Porridge, 16 oz., and
New Milk, 1 pint.

New Milk, 1 pint.

Milk, Beef Tea, &c., as ordered by Physician.

The Medical Attendant may order, when necessary, Beef Tea, Milk, Eggs, Chop, Fish Fowl, Puddings, Fruit, Stimulants, &c.; but they will be given only when signed for by

Breakfast at Half-past Eight o'clock, Dinner at Half-past One o'clock, Supper at Six o'clock.

Breakfast at 8 o'clock, A.M.; dinner at 1.30 o'clock, P.M.; supper at 5.30 o'clock, P.M.

Eggs and extra Milk, Beef Tea, &c., supplied when necessary, if the patient is debilitated, or too old or too young for the ordinary diet.

The system of preparing a set diet for each patient was abandoned some years ago as it was found to result in a good deal of waste. Now each patient gets as much as he or she cares to eat, and there is practically no waste at meals.