Posted with permission of the transcriber, 'Ann'. Geo. SICKNESS & POVERTY IN Nineteenth Century Whitehaven. # 42. WIGTON POOR LAW UNION _____ We have had another Dietary Table sent us for publication, and if we may be allowed to form our judgment by comparison, we need not hesitate to say that the paupers' bill of fare, as here represented, is by far the best we have yet seen. In Caldbeck Workhouse the provisions are not only good, wholesome, and substantial; but, what is almost as beneficial to the pauper, he is not stinted, it appears, as in oher Unions. There is here an ample allowance of bread, and no doling out of provisions by ounces and half ounces - no soup by the pint and milk by the gill, as we have noticed to be the case elsewhere. The sick, too, are allowed to be dieted as directed by the medical officer. We present the table as follows, and feel assured that the reader will observe a pleasing contrast between it and others we have lately published: DIETARY FOR CALBECK WORKHOUSE IN THE WIGTON UNION. Table is a graphic. I have deleted it for this Rootsweb message but you should be able to see it on the SmartGroup Trivvies copy. Geo.