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| Folios 313-315. Letter from Charles Hart, Clerk to the Liverpool Select Vestry, to the Poor Law Board, acknowledging receipt of circular letter dated 22 April 1856, on the subject of 'the Dietary for Children in Workhouses.' Hart says that the vestry has considered the matter with its medical officers and has expressed a preference for the dietary already approved by the Board, a copy of which he encloses. Dietary Table for sick inmates at Liverpool Workhouse providing information regarding the quantities of different foodstuffs to be provided at each meal for six diet types, described as low, milk, house, full, chop and bedridden infirm cases. The food is mainly bread, gruel, cereal, rice and potatoes with occasional meat. The diet for infants should be ordered by a physician. Dietary Table for healthy inmates at Liverpool Workhouse providing information regarding the quantities of different foodstuffs to be provided at each meal for each day of the week. Quantities vary between able-bodied men and women, aged and infirm men and women, children aged 2 to 7 and 7 to 15, and infants. The food is mainly soup, bread, porridge, meat, potatoes and rice. On Tuesdays, all except the infants have scouse. Annotated: reserve. Paper number: 23837/1856. Poor Law Union Number 220. Counties: Lancashire. |
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