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ARTICLE 10.-To each of the classes specified in 5 FEB. 1849. Article 9 shall be assigned by the Board of Guardians the apartments and yard best fitted for the reception of such class; and where the number of inmates and the accommodation of the workhouse or additional workhouses admit thereof, the said classes may be further subdivided with the approval of the Commissioners.

ARTICLE 11.-Each class or subdivision of a class shall, respectively, remain in the apartment assigned to them, without communication with any other class or subdivision of a class; subject, nevertheless, to such arrangements as exist with reference to the probationary wards and infirmary, and also to the following five exceptions:

EXCEPTION 1.-Any paupers of the third class, and any paupers of a proper age in the fourth class, may be employed, constantly or occasionally, as assistants to the nurses in any of the sick wards, or in the care of infants, or as assistants in the household work; provided that the said paupers, when employed in the household work, be so employed without communication with the paupers of the first and second classes.

EXCEPTION 2.-Any aged pauper of the third class, whom the Master may deem fit to perform any of the duties of a nurse or assistant to the Matron, may be so employed in the sick wards, or those of the second, third, fourth, or fifth classes; and any pauper of the first class, who may by the Master be deemed fit, may be placed in the ward of the second class, to aid in the management and superintend the behaviour of the paupers of such class.

EXCEPTION 3.-The boys and girls under 15 years of age may be permitted to meet in the same school for the purpose of instruction, subject to the consent and approval of the Commissioners first had and obtained.

EXCEPTION 4.-All paupers of class 5 whose mothers are inmates of the workhouse, shall be allowed to remain with their mothers, if the mothers so desire; and all paupers of classes 2 and 4 who are between the ages of 2 and 7 years, shall, when not attending school, be placed in some apartment specially provided for them; and the mothers of such last-named children shall be permitted to have access to them at all reasonable times.

EXCEPTION 5.-The Master of the workhouse (subject to any regulations to be made by the Board of Guardians

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and approved of by the Commissioners) shall allow the WORKHOUSE
father or mother of any child in the workhouse who
may be desirous of seeing such child, to have an inter-
view with such child at some time in each day, in
some room in the workhouse to be appointed for that
purpose.

ARTICLE 12.-Provided that if it shall be made to appear to the Commissioners that it is expedient to deviate from the classification hereinbefore prescribed, and the Commissioners shall signify their consent to such deviation, it shall be lawful for the Board of Guardians to depart from the classification, so far and subject to such conditions as the Commissioners may prescribe.

RULES FOR FRAMING DIETARIES.

ARTICLE 13.-The dietary of the workhouse shall be framed in accordance with the following rules :

No. 1. The healthy inmates shall be divided, for the purposes of diet, into seven classes:

I. Able-bodied working males.

II. Able-bodied working females.

III. Aged and infirm persons, of either sex, and adult
persons, of either sex, above fifteen years of age,
but not working.a

IV. Boys and girls above nine and under fifteen
years of age.

V. Children above five and under nine years of
age.

VI. Children above two and under five years of

age.

VII. Infants under two years of age.

No. 2. To classes I., II., III., not less than two meals a day shall be allowed; and to classes IV., V., and VI., not less than three meals a day.

No. 3. Where two meals only are allowed to classes I., II., and III., one meal shall consist of not less than

For class I.-Eight ounces of Indian meal and half-pint
of new milk.

For class II.-Seven ounces of Indian meal and half-pint
of new milk.

For class III.-Six ounces of Indian meal and half-pint
of new milk.

■ See Commissioners' Circular Letter of 31st March, 1849, at end of this Order (p. 790), as to change of diet for infirm persons and delicate children.

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The other meal shall consist of not less than

For class I.-Fourteen ounces of brown bread and two pints of soup.

For class II.-Twelve ounces of brown bread and one pint and a half of soup.

For class III.-Ten ounces of brown bread and one pint and a half of soup.

And where three meals are allowed to classes I., II., and III., the amount of nutriment shall be at least equal to that contained in the two meals as above set forth.

No. 4. Of the three meals allowed to classes IV., V., and VI., one meal shall consist of not less than—

For class IV.-Five ounces of Indian meal and half-pint of new milk.

For class V.-Four ounces of Indian meal and half-pint of new milk.

For class VI. Three ounces of Indian meal and half-pint of new milk.

Another meal shall consist of not less than

For class IV.-Eight ounces of brown bread and a pint

of soup.

For class V.-Six ounces of brown bread and a pint of

soup.

For class VI.-Five ounces of brown bread and three

fourths of a pint of soup.

And the third meal shall consist of not less than, for each of the classes IV., V., and VI.—

No. 5. Class VII., consisting of infants under two years of age, shall be allowed not less than eight ounces of white bread and a pint of new milk daily.

No. 6. The soup shall be made of peas-meal or oatmeal, or of both, in the proportion of eight ounces of meal to one gallon of water, well seasoned with onions, pepper, and salt; and thickened at all convenient seasons with turnips, parsnips, and carrots, or such other vegetables as the Medical Officer shall approve.

Instead of the articles above named, the following articles may be substituted in framing the dietary :—

No. 7. Instead of Indian meal,-oatmeal, rye-meal, and rice may be used, provided that rice be not used except in conjunction with meal, and then only in the proportion of two ounces of rice to six ounces of meal.

No. 8. Instead of new milk,-buttermilk may be used if the Medical Officer shall approve of it; and the equivalents shall be, for half-pint of new milk one pint of buttermilk, provided that buttermilk shall not be substituted for new milk for either of the classes VI. and VII.

No. 9. Instead of brown bread, that is to say, bread made of the whole-meal of wheat,-rye bread may be used, or rye

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and barley bread, or potatoes; and the equivalents shall be, WORKHOUSE for fourteen ounces of brown bread sixteen ounces of rye 5 FEB. 1849. bread, or rye and barley bread, or three and a half pounds of potatoes weighed raw; and in like proportion, as nearly as may be, for other quantities.

No. 10. The Board of Guardians may, under the advice of the Medical Officer, use other articles instead of any of the above, and the same or other articles in other proportions than the above, whenever the scarcity of any article, the season of the year, or any circumstance affecting the sanitary condition of the inmates shall be deemed to justify such changes or departures from the authorized articles and quantities; such changes and departures being subject at all times, both as to their adoption and continuance, to the approval of the Commissioners.

No. 11. The sick inmates shall, for the purpose of diet, be divided into five classes, as follows:

I. Adult persons of either sex above fifteen years of

age.

II. Boys and girls above nine and under fifteen years of

age.

III. Children above five and under nine years of age.
IV. Children above two and under five years of age.
V. Infants under two years of age.

No. 12. The dietaries for patients in the workhouse infir-
mary and fever hospital shall be at all times such as the
Board of Guardians, under the advice of the Medical Officer or
Medical Officers, shall adopt, subject to the approval of the
Commissioners.

No. 13. The following shall be deemed to be the authorized or standard dietaries for patients in the infirmary and fever hospital, any departure from which by the Board of Guardians in framing the sick dietaries shall be notified to the Commissioners for their approval.

For each of the patients in class I. the dietary shall be such one of the following dietaries as the Medical Officer shall select, or some approved equivalent:

LOW DIETS.

No. 1, or Fever admission diet.

Four ounces of bread and three pints of whey daily.

No. 14. The soup is to be made as described in No. 6 of this Article; and the tea is to be made with half a pound of tea and two pounds of sugar to eight gallons of water, and two quarts of new milk.

No. 15. For the patients in class II. the allowance shall be three-fourths of the allowance to those in class I.

No. 16. For the patients in class III. the allowance shall be two-thirds of the allowance to those in class I.

No. 17. For patients in class IV. the allowance shall be half the allowance to those in class I.

No. 18. For the patients in class V. the dietary shall be such as the Medical Officer shall specially prescribe in each

case.

DISCIPLINE OF PAUPERS.

ARTICLE 14.-All the paupers in the workhouse, except those disabled by sickness or infirmity, persons of unsound mind, and children, shall rise, be set to work, leave off work, and go to bed, at such times, and shall be allowed such intervals for their meals, as the Board of Guardians shall, by any regulation approved by the Commissioners, direct; and these several times shall be notified by the ringing of a bell.

ARTICLE 15.-Half an hour after the bell shall have been rung for rising, the names of the paupers shall be called over by the Master, Schoolmaster, Matron, Schoolmistress, or other officer duly authorized, respectively, in the several wards; when every pauper belonging to each ward must be present, to answer his name, and to be inspected; and a list of the persons in each ward, arranged