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<p n="1039">Continued Wednesday 30th. April 1783.</p>
<p n="1040">The Constant Breakfast allotted the Patients throughout<lb></lb>
the Year is Water gucel with Bread Butler & Salt. They<lb></lb>
have Meat for Dinner three Days in the Week. Beef<lb></lb>
is the Sundays fare, Mutton is their Tuesdays Dinner, and<lb></lb>
they have Deal on Fridays but the latter only from Lady<lb></lb>
Day to Michaelmas during the Winter Months, Mutton<lb></lb>
or Pork is substituted in its Place they have also a<lb></lb>
sufficient Quantity of Broth and that every Indulgence which<lb></lb>
aconomy Permits may be allowed he Poor Patients on the<lb></lb>
Meat Days one Gallery is always gratified with roast<lb></lb>
Meat The Quantity of food besides Vegetables and a<lb></lb>
Pint of small Been allotted to each Individual is eight<lb></lb>
Ounces of Solid Meat on the Days in which they have<lb></lb>
no Meat and which are called banyan Days they have<lb></lb>
Milk Pottage or rice Milk with Bread & Cheese Their<lb></lb>
constant Supper is Bread & Cheese with a Pint of small<lb></lb>
Beer and twelve out of each Gallery in their turn have<lb></lb>
butler if they Prefer it.</p>
<p n="1041">The Cells are Visited early every Morning by the<lb></lb>
Servants of the House these make their Report to the<lb></lb>
Apothecary who goes round about Eight O'Clock to Inspect<lb></lb>
them himself and to give such Orders and Directions as<lb></lb>
may be Necessary. The Physician Visits the Hospital<lb></lb>
three Days a Week There are certain Days fixed for the<lb></lb>
proper Medical Operations and the Cold or hot Bath is<lb></lb>
used in those Cases where it is Judged to be Salutary<lb></lb>
Every Patient is indulged with that Degree of Liberty<lb></lb>
which is found Consistent with his own & the general safety</p>
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