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SCHOOL DIETARY.
University Club, 10th September 1853. Sue—The subject to which you have directed attention in a paragraph in your (this day's) paper, demands the care of all parents who send their boys abroad for education, namely, " the deficiency of the dietary." Having only just returned from Switzerland, where I met accidentally with a youth who attends the Cantonal School at Zurich, I am enabled positively to state that the diet of the house he boards at is likely to prove very detrimental to his constitution ; consisting as it does of broths and vegetables mostly, and the meat such as is allowed being totally unlike any- thing we call either beef or mutton. I met alsc a gentleman who was at a school at Wisbaden, and who told me the effect was such as he is positive he never shall recover. The dietary produced, in himself and brother, cold night sweats which continued with most weakening effects during the whole period of their resi- dence abroad. There are, doubtless, many advantages to be derived from sending youths abroad for instruction, especially in languages ; but these, it seems to me, may be procured at too great an expense, if the health and strength of the boy be permanently injured by bad or deficient feeding. I am, your obedient servant,
M. MITCHELL, H. M.'s Inspector of Schools.
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