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294 {| class="_cols_table _dborder _p294_table" ! Pauper ! Diet ! Soldier
 * 3$1⁄4$ oz.
 * Meat
 * 12 oz.
 * 15$1⁄2$ oz.
 * Bread
 * 24 oz.
 * 6 oz.
 * Vegetables
 * 8 oz.
 * }
 * Vegetables
 * 8 oz.
 * }

The adult male pauper gets meat (outside of soup) but once a week, and the paupers "have nearly all that pallid, pasty complexion which is the sure mark of starvation."

Here is a table, comparing the workhouse pauper's weekly allowance with the workhouse officer's weekly allowance:—

And as the same writer remarks: "The officer's diet is still more liberal than the pauper's; but evidently it is not considered liberal enough, for a footnote is added to the officer's table saying that 'a