(1) 6 ounces soup

or

3 ounces beef juice.

Note: Soup may be made of chicken, beef or mutton.

(2) Stale bread may be added to the above.

FOURTH MEAL--AFTERNOON.

Milk or toasted bread and milk.

EVENING MEAL.

(1) 4 ounces thick gruel mixed with 4 ounces top half milk.

Taken with zwieback.

Note: Gruel may be made of oatmeal, farina, barley, hominy, wheatena, or rice.

(2) Apple sauce

or

Prune jelly.

Total milk in 24 hours, 1 to 1 quarts.

Note: 8 ounces is equal to a half pint.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK

DIET FOR CHILD FROM 18TH TO 24TH MONTH

BREAKFAST.

(1) Juice of one sweet orange

or

Pulp of six stewed prunes

or

Pineapple juice (fresh or bottled) 1 ounce.

(2) A cereal such as cream of wheat, oatmeal, farina, or hominy preparations with top milk (top 16 ounces) sweetened or salted. A gla.s.s of milk, bread and b.u.t.ter.

Note: If constipated give the fruit hour before breakfast with water; if not, they may be given during the forenoon.

Raw fruit juice must be given either hour before or hour after milk.

FORENOON.

A gla.s.s of milk with two toasted biscuits or zwieback or graham crackers.

DINNER.

(1) Broth or soup made of beef, mutton, or chicken, and thickened with peas, farina, sago or rice

or

Beef juice with stale bread crumbs; or clear vegetable soup with yolk of egg

or

Egg soft boiled, with bread crumbs, or the egg poached, with a gla.s.s of milk.

(2) Dessert: apple sauce, prune pulp, with stale lady-fingers or graham wafers

or

Plain puddings: rice, bread, tapioca, blanc-mange, junket or baked custard.

SUPPER.

Gla.s.s of milk, warm or cold; zwieback and custard or stewed fruit.

Total milk in 24 hours, 1 quarts.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

CITY OF NEW YORK

DIET FOR CHILD FROM TWO TO THREE YEARS

BREAKFAST.

(1) Juice of 1 sweet orange

or

Pulp of 6 stewed prunes

or