“The ward diet of the Roosevelt Hospital, New York, is classified as follows:
FULL DIET.
“Daily.—Meat dressed, eight ounces; potatoes, eight ounces; bread, twelve ounces; butter, one ounce; sugar, two ounces and a half; milk, half-pint; coffee, half an ounce; tea, an eighth of an ounce.
“On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays other vegetables in addition to potatoes, two ounces; bread, rice or tapioca pudding.
“On Mondays and Wednesdays, soup, one pint.
“On Fridays, fish.
“Breakfast.—Coffee with sugar and milk, bread and butter, porridge of oatmeal, wheaten grits or samp.
“Dinner.—Sunday: Roast beef, tomatoes, potatoes or other vegetables, bread and bread pudding. Monday: Soup, boiled mutton, potatoes and bread. Tuesday: Corned beef, twelve ounces; cabbage or turnips, potatoes and bread. Wednesday: Soup, roast beef, potatoes and bread. Thursday: Soup, boiled beef, potatoes, onions, tapioca, sago, or farina pudding and bread. Friday: Fish, boiled or roast beef, potatoes, bread, boiled rice sweetened with sugar and milk and raisins. Saturday: Stew of mutton, potatoes and bread.
“Supper.—Tea with sugar and milk, bread and butter, baked apples or stewed pears or prunes or green or dried apple sauce, and on Sundays gingerbread varied alternate weeks with currant buns.
HALF DIET.