“The attending physician or surgeon shall specify on the occasion of his first visit to a patient which diet shall be furnished. This duty may not be delegated to the house physician, except that on the admission of a patient to a ward it shall be his duty to give instruction on the subject to the nurse in charge, and such instruction shall be followed until the first visit of the attending physician or surgeon. “The wards shall be supplied with blanks called diet lists. The head nurse shall carry one of these with her regularly when accompanying the attending physician or surgeon on his visits, and shall note down carefully all his instructions as to diet; he shall sign these lists before leaving the ward. “Milk diet or restricted diet may not be ordered in addition to the regular house diet, but only as a substitute therefor, but the attending physician or surgeon may order items of special diet in particular cases. “Lists defining the different classes of diet shall be furnished each attending physician and surgeon. “Cards appropriately inscribed shall be placed at the head of each bed, which shall designate the class of diet and also the amount of stimulant which is furnished each patient. “A diet kitchen is established under the direction and control of the directress of nurses, wherein articles of special diet shall be prepared and served as ordered. DAILY HOUSE DIET. “_Breakfast._—Oatmeal or hominy; tea or coffee, with milk and sugar; bread and butter. “_Dinner._—Potatoes; bread and butter; one or more of the following vegetables: Turnips, sweet potatoes, beets, spinach, squash. “_Supper._—Tea with milk and sugar; bread and butter; stewed or fresh fruit. “In addition on Sunday: Breakfast—Eggs. Dinner—Roast beef and cornstarch pudding. Monday: Breakfast—Baked potatoes. Dinner—Stock soup, stewed beef or mutton, rice pudding. Tuesday: Breakfast—Mutton chops. Dinner—Pea soup, roast mutton, bread pudding. Wednesday: Breakfast—Fried or stewed potatoes. Dinner—Roast beef, cornstarch pudding. Thursday: Breakfast—Eggs. Dinner—Stock soup, stewed beef or mutton, tapioca pudding. Friday: Breakfast—Salt mackerel or codfish. Dinner—Bean soup, baked fish, beans, rice pudding. Saturday: Breakfast—Beefsteak. Dinner—Corned beef, cabbage, bread pudding. RESTRICTED DIET. “_Breakfast._—Tea or coffee (with milk and sugar), farinaceous food (with milk), eggs. “_Dinner._—Soup; either of the following: Raw oysters, roast beef, steak, chicken with vegetables, pudding (bread, rice, tapioca or cornstarch). “_Supper._—Tea (with milk and sugar), bread (with butter), fruit, fresh or dried. MILK DIET. “Six pints of milk daily. ARTICLES OF SPECIAL DIET. “Milk, eggs, beef tea, oysters, cornstarch, chops, steak, chicken, chicken soup, rice, broth, farina, ice creams, as ordered by the attending physician or surgeon. “Salt fish, jellies, custards, gruels.” _Dietary of the Roosevelt Hospital, New York._