. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . kin to the sweet potato; mongo is a speciesof pea. The coffee ration was cut in half and half an ounce of ginger rootwas issued. The use of Filipino No. 2 rice continued until June, 1911. Since June, 1911, the ration in use has been the following: fresh beef,twelve ounces; flour, eight ounces; baking powder, one-third ounce; unpolishedrice, twenty ounces; potatoes, eight ounces; coffee, roasted and ground, oneounce; sugar, two ounces; vinegar, eight one-hundredths gill; salt, two-thirdsounce; black pepper, one-fiftieth ounce. At times in place of fresh beef eig
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . kin to the sweet potato; mongo is a speciesof pea. The coffee ration was cut in half and half an ounce of ginger rootwas issued. The use of Filipino No. 2 rice continued until June, 1911. Since June, 1911, the ration in use has been the following: fresh beef,twelve ounces; flour, eight ounces; baking powder, one-third ounce; unpolishedrice, twenty ounces; potatoes, eight ounces; coffee, roasted and ground, oneounce; sugar, two ounces; vinegar, eight one-hundredths gill; salt, two-thirdsounce; black pepper, one-fiftieth ounce. At times in place of fresh beef eight ounces of bacon or eight ounces ofcanned meat, or twelve ounces of fish, fresh or canned, was used; in place ofthe flour, eight ounces of bread; in place of potatoes, eight ounces of onionswere used. While twenty ounces of unpolished rice was the allowance, the authoritiesinsisted that not over sixteen ounces be drawn, but that some other vegetablefood be substituted. For instance, in place of four ounces of the rice they ad-. Virginia Health Bulletin. Fig. 76.—A Good Type of Dry Earth raised to show bucket. 174 BERIBERI vised sixteen ounces of beans. They required that as much use as possible bemade of such native products as camotes, mongos, and squash. The essential difference between the diet under which the men got beri-beri and that under which they escaped it was in the rice. The difference wasnot so much in the amount of rice eaten nor in the proportion of rice to theother foods in the different diets. The difference was in the quality of therice. The men developed beriberi when they ate high grade polished rice. Theydid not get it when they ate undermilled or unpolished rice. The Filipino rice evidently contained a good deal of rice mills. Major Chamberlain of the United States Army, who was in charge ofthe beriberi work among the scouts when this change was being effected, says: Filipino No. 2 rice was unsightly and consequently aroused opposition
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