Excerpt from Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences
In a paper read at the recent meeting of the British Association at Bath, Dr. Smith, after some introductory remarks adverted to the fact that out of 700 poor-law dietaries of paupers in workhouses, not two were alike. The condition of the dietary in the army and navy was until recent years most deplorable. At the latter part of the last and early part of the present century scurvy, due to ill-selected food - biscuits which could not be broken, and salt meat that could not be cut - was rife even in our national navy, and inquiries made by Dr. Budd some twenty years ago, and by Dr. Barnes this year, had shown that this disease was still not infrequent in the fore-cabins of our merchant navy, but it was not found in the master's cabin, nor amongst the well-fed officers, but amongst the ill-fed seamen. The state of the dietary in our prison population was not only less satisfactory than that of our army and navy, but. was very unsatisfactory. Dr. Smith referred to several instances in which it had been found requisite to diminish the allowance of food to convicts, and to others in which it had been increased - changes, made under the mere influence of public opinion by medical gentlemen on grounds which were illogical, and without making use of the only plan by which the fitness of the change could be proved - that of scientific inquiry into the condition in which the dietary was to be used; and he suggested that a Government officer should be appointed to make the necessary scientific inquiries.
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