• HOME
• THE LANGUAGE OF MADNESS
• THE ASYLUM
• • Asylum Design
  • Patient Buildings
• SOCIETY
• • Urban & Rural Life
  • Class & Gender
  • The Hysterical Female
  • The Evils of "Self-Abuse"
  • Family
  • Visitors
• LEGISLATION
• • Legislative Influence
  • Origins of Legislation and the Criminality of Insanity
  • Teenaged Years: Marked Custody Transition
  • Turn of the Century: Voluntary Admissions
  • Updated Act: The Mental Hospital Act
• SUPERINTENDANTS
• STAFF
• • Working at the LAI
  • Hiring Practices
  • Rules for Employees
  • Employee Roles in Moral Therapy
  • Doctors at LAI
  • Doctor Connections to UWO
  • Training School for Nurses
  • Attendants
  • General Staff
• PATIENT PERSPECTIVES
• • Introduction
  • Patient Art
  • Patient Letters
  • Their Voice
• MEDICAL TREATMENTS
• • Medical Treatment Introduction
  • Use of Restraints
  • Drug and Alcohol
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Female Surgeries
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Shock Therapy
  • Lobotomies
• MORAL THERAPY
• • Moral Therapy Introduction
  • Labour
  • Amusements
  • Diet
  • Religion
• THE WORLD WARS
• • Before the First World War
  • During the First World War
  • After the First World War
  • The First World War and the LAI
  • First World War Veterans at the LAI
  • The Second World War
• MEMORIES OF RMHCL
• • Introduction
  • Their Memories

Typical Meal of 1912

Breakfast:

	Day		Meal
	Sunday - Saturday		cereal, milk, sugar, bread and butter, tea or coffee

Dinner:

	Day		Meal
	Sunday		stew, potatoes, apples
	Monday		beef, roasted or boiled potatoes, vegetable
	Tuesday		soup with peas, beans, meat pie, potatoes, pickled beets
	Wednesday		beef stew, potatoes, apples
	Thursday		soup with vegetables, potatoes, suet pudding
	Friday		baked fish, roast beef, potatoes, vegetable or pickle
	Saturday		soup with peas, potatoes, boiled rice with raisons

Supper:

	Day		Meal
	Sunday		bread, butter, tea
	Monday		cornmeal with syrup, bread and butter, tea
	Tuesday		apple sauce, bread, butter, tea
	Wednesday		stewed tomatoes with onions and broken soda crackers, bread and butter, tea
	Thursday		bruised liver for men; baked apples for women; bread and butter, tea
	Friday		gingerbread, bread and butter, tea
	Saturday		pork and beans, bread and butter, tea

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Typical Meal of 1877