METHODOLOGY
Selection of Subjects
White and Bantu male and female volunteers were employed
in the present project. These subjects were subdivided
as follows:
A. Mental Patients from Weskoppies Hospital
1. Experimental division. This group consisted or 9
Bantu males, divided into 2 groups of 5 and 4 subjects.
These groups were put on a fruit diet separately and at
different times of the year. Their ages ranged from 20 to
54 years. The mental disease diagnosed in all these cases
was that of schizophrenia. At the time when the fruit
project was commenced, the Bantu patients had already
been in hospital for about 3 months, during which time
they were on the standard hospital diet. All these patients
were in remission when they volunteered to participate in
the project. They were still on tranquillizers in accordance
with modern psychiatric practice. This medication continued
for 24 weeks after which the patients were due to
be discharged from hospital.