Diet ofthe City Prison.
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To the Editor Of The Tribune


Tn the q Commercial :" of last evening notice
correspondence between MIR. Ostrander, Chairman
of the Commissioners of the Aims House, and Mr.
Fallon Keeper Of the City Prison, in relation to tie
diet of the prisoners. From this it appears, /. that
nothing is ordered for the prisoners except upon hr.
FalIon's requiston, and he states that he always
has made rcquisition for such articles as he, IN htS
judsnlent, thought proper y. As to the quahhca-
tons of this individual for such an office, know
nothing except from his own letter, and hesitate
not TO say that he who could write the letter above
referred to is unfit for any station where humanity
and kindness arc demanded. "PoTAToEs, he re-
marks, are almost universally rejected by the
prisoners and have proved to be but waste OF pro-
perty actich might be appropriated TO honest ana
more deserving reciyients" Why so, ask, itthey
are a,,irerSaliY rejected? The "honest and more
deserving would not thank Mr.. Fallon for an artl-
Gle of food which every body rejects unit to eat


To show what is the Dietary of the City Prison,
| quote from an able article in the Newly ork Jour-
nal Of Medicine for September, 1915


FOR DINNER.


T4esday-Bsei with bread. sai,raayFresh beef Sb1ead
4 4h1e1sdagggFfssh saHeSaeg beef s bread ~


BREAKFAST.


Coffee with Nlolasses boiled IN II, and bread


..No other meat than beef is furnished, and this
consists of hooks and the parts. II IS es-
mated that one-half the weight of the beet consists
of bone On the days, therefore, or winch meat IS
allowed, sufficient quantity is purchased TO allow
one pound, exclusive OF waste, TO each prisonerT
ITere are but ttco meals day, the first at A. NJ.
Dinner at half past , p M:-tno supper Ihe
sSss half and half nga, Sqs knS ShfoRfs Of ou
good deal like Graham bread, ana is baked al me
Aims H9qss No peet9ss other o areS n!
TO October and the soup is made during the "hple
of this time from beef alone, with oceaslonsiSl ~,
crumbs OF bread boiled iii it, The author oil the
article adds: "1'he diet of this establishments IS
disgrace TO our City reform is loudly called Tor,
and we hope will not long be delayed, &c. What
is called SOUP in the dietary of the City Prison is
nothing but the water in which the beef is boiled,
and it contains less than per cent OF solid matter.
In all British Poor Houses and Prisons three meals
day allowed, and variety Of food, always in
GLIDING potatoes and generally beans. After ex
| amiung the Repor, Of the Inspectors of British
Prisons for i843 affirm that there is institu
ton in the Kingdom where the quantity and quality
of the food do not exceed that of our City Prison.
~ Syivanin Association.,1of No 25
chss1frliy given The Constitution given. iSlot