_s._ _d._ Meat and liver 8 5 Potatoes and vegetables 2 3½ Fish 0 9 Bacon, eggs, and cheese 3 6¼ Suet 1 0 Butter and dripping 2 9 Bread 8 9¼ Flour 4 1½ Rice 0 6 Fruit, jam, and sugar 8 4¼ Milk 3 2 Tea and coffee 3 6 Pepper and salt 0 2½ --------------- £2 7 4¼ Average for one week 9 5½ Or man, wife, two boys, and a girl: £ _s._ _d._ Food and drink for three weeks 2 0 7¼ Average for one week 0 13 6½ The study of the diet of this family reveals a deficiency of 25% in the protein and 7% in fuel value.[28] Household books for one week--seven in family, nineteen servants: £ Butcher 16[29] Baker 5 Poulterer 12 Dairy 9 Fruit, flowers, vegetables 16 Fishmonger 9 Grocer 5 --- £72 (Two dinner parties were given during the week.) The household of an “unemployed man,” living in ---- Square, S.W., four in family and fourteen servants: £ _s._ _d._ Butcher 15 2 7 Greengrocer 10 10 0 Ice merchant 1 18 0 Fishmonger 7 10 0 Grocer 5 5 0 Milkman 4 10 0 Poulterer 12 0 0 Baker 3 17 0 -------------- £60 12 7 In addition, three hundred eggs were sent up from the country, as well as fruit, vegetables, and a little poultry. One or two guests were entertained at luncheon, but the family dined out one night of the week. The laundry bill in this house averages £38 a month. The cost of coal in one household for the year, £800. Other examples: Household books: four in family, twelve servants--one week, £49. Household books: five in family, fourteen servants--one week, £63. A single meal: