(
3
)
Rs. 39-0-11 in cash, and also manufactured goods and raw materials of the value of Rs. 82-8-4.
This is shown in column 5 of Statement XI.
Grinding corn.
10. The whole of the corn used in the asylum during 1880 was ground by the
lunatics, with the exception of a small quantity in
January.
Food.
11. Nothing new.
Garden produce.
12. Nothing new.
Drinking water.
13. Nothing new.
Health.
14. The number of deaths has been 17, or 6.8 per cent., which is less than in any previous
year. Post-mortem examinations have been regularly
made of those who have died. There has been no
epidemic, and the year, having been a dry one, has been correspondingly healthy.
A large pair of scales has been procured for weighing the inmates, and all of them are
now weighed every month at the rate of about 10 persons per diem. Each particular ten
have their weighing day, so that a monthly record is kept of each lunatic's weight at regular
intervals of about 30 days.
Establishment.
15. As I am about to leave Lahore, and this is the last report of the asylum that I
shall have the opportunity of writing, I desire to record
the high sense I entertain of the services rendered by the
establishment, with whose help the institution has been immensely improved during the last
ten years. First of these deservedly comes. Assistant Surgeon Abdul Hamid, who has been
Deputy Superintendent for the last four years. Next to him Assistant Surgeon Tabu Singh,
who held the appointment for two years before Abdul Hamid, and for three months in 1879,
when Abdul Hamid was on leave. The improvements in the asylum, recorded in my
previous reports, and the present one, have been mainly due to the energy and zeal of these
two gentlemen.
Next in order comes Babu Javand Lal, who perhaps has had the most difficult task of
all, viz., that of reducing to order the confused pile of books and papers that existed before
he came, as previously there was nobody here competent to keep an accurate account of any
thing. I am now able to report the office in thorough order, which is mainly due to Javand
Lal's diligence and attention to his work.
The matron, Mrs. Sinnott, has been in her present post for 13 years, and has carefully
attended to the well-being of the female inmates. The Deputy Superintendent has been ably
assisted, for the last 8 years, by Hospital Assistant Syad Ahmed Shah, who has always been
most assiduous in his attendance on the sick, and in supervising the diet and sanitation of the
asylum.
Not less to be commended are the jemadar, the compounder, and the jamadarni. The
jemadar, Mirza Hussam Ali, has been here 13 years. He thoroughly understands the work of
the institution, and we should have had great difficulty in carrying on the work without him.
The compounder is also a most useful servant of Government, whom I have just recommended
for an increase of pay. The jemadarni, Bassee, is the oldest servant in the institution,
having served since the days of Ranjit Singh. She is now getting a little feeble, but her
services are still too valuable to be dispensed with.
Besides these, I must record my appreciation of the persevering labours of the three daf-
fadars—Shamshere Khan, Sheikh Rumzan, Ram Sarn; and six lambardars—Karram Khan,
Rahim Baksh, Dukhehoor, Nakehed, Kalle Khan, Ganga Ram ; and of many of the warders
who have been long in our service.
Through God's blessing and the active and willing assistance of the whole establishment
I am now enabled to bid them farewell in the midst of more than usual health and prosperity,
and to commend them, and the institution to which they belong, to the continued favour and
consideration of Government.