Table 38—-DIET SAMPLING SURVEYS CONDUCTED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
1. PHILLIPINE ISLANDS (J. A. Scharffenberg, M. D., Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition
for National Defense)

Food (Samples pooled and remilked)
Collection
dates, 1957

Origin

2/12—2/14
2/19—2/20
2/25—2/26
2/28

Ft. Wm. McKinley
Nichols Air Base

7.1
8.2

=0.4
=0.4

Ordnance Maintenance Co.,

9.7

=0.4
=0.6

Camp Ord. Tarlac
82nd P. C. Co., Jolo

5.4

=0.4

84th P. C. Co., Jolo

8.3

Ordnance Co. TI MA, Cebu City

6.4

=0.7
=0.4

3/4-—3/5

3/4—3/5
3/9, 3/11,
3/12
3/20, 3/21
3/20, 3/21
3/25, 3/26
3/25, 3/26

Ca in Ash, %

2nd ECB, Nueva Ecjia

5.4

Signal Service Bn. Diliman QC

4,8

Medical Detatchment Q.C.,
Vv. Lana Gen.
Medical Detatchment Q.C.,
V. Luna Gen.

6.3

Sr°°/g Ca, uye
<3
=3
<4

=0.4
0.8 + 0.6
0.8

6.6

Signal Service Bn. Diliman QC

Dis /min

11+8

4.8

Urine (Samples, pooled and remilked)
at|

No. of

Area
Ft. McKinley, Manila, V. Luna

Hospital, Constabrilaz HQ.

composited
specimens

volume,
liters

70

2.1

Laur, Cabanatuan, Munez, Tarlac,

104

Jolo, Cagazan de Oro, Cebu City,
Bacold, Tadoban

130

Pampanga (C. Luzon)

Nichol’s Field, Cavite Naval Base,
Camp Diliman, Laguna Dinalupihan

Total
Sr*?
Dis/min/s

dis/min/liter

3.421.0

0.47 + 0.14

1.86
00.

120

1.7
1,53

2. LIBYA (Arnold E. Schaefer, Executive Director, Interdepartmental Committee of
Nutrition for National Defense)

Food (Composition of the ration consumed by the Libyan armed forces and provincial police)
Collection
date, 1957

Man’s

Area

daily intake, %

7/3

Tripoli, Tripolitania
Zaria, Tripolitania

20

1/22
7/24

Bengazi, Cyrenaica
Bengazi, Cyrenaica
Sussa, Cyrenaica
Sebha, Fezzan*

8/9

Total wet
weight, g

Total Ca, ¢

781

648

=0.10
=0.10

513

20
20

662
664

£0.15
=0.10
=0.10

20
20

788
820

=0.10

20 (of two mandays rations)

=0.10

Dis/min/s
1.30
6.52
4.50
3.00
1.09

+
+
+
+
+

1.46 + 0.63
2.15 + 0.33

*Fezzan samples obtained from troops ~600—700 miles south of the Mediterranean. The remaining
samples represent a fairly narrow band of area along the Mediterranean.

92

0.62
0.48
0.44
0.43
0.41

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