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Employment.
20. Gardening is the one chief occupation. There are three or four rooms for weaving
common cloth, but all attempt to increase labor in this direction in-
volves too much loss to Government. The barracks and grounds are
so extensive, the amount of " leeping," and sweeping, and conservancy so constantly carried on,
that all who can work are obliged to help. The women spin cotton.
Money credited to Gov-
ernment.
21. There was a sum of Rs. 202-15-10 credited to Government on account of the value
of vegetables consumed by the lunatics, and there was a further sum
of Rs. 30 on account of a paying patient.
Manufacture.
22. There has been a very slight increase in the profit, viz.,
Rs. 50, entirely from the few looms, and a little moonj, string-making
and spinning.
Establishment.
23. No change has taken place in the establishment during the
year in the strength, but I have weeded out a number of useless, idle
warders.
Jamadár Mirza Hassan Ali (brother of the late most respected Native Doctor, Mirza
Kudrat Ali, who was well known to me) has given me great satisfaction both in his ordinary
duties and the troublesome one of removing the lunatics into camp during the epidemic of
cholera.
Native Doctor Syad Ahmed Shah is very kind to the lunatics, sick or well; he also had
a very hard time of it during cholera.
Health of the institution.
24. All went well till the end of August. There were only 16 deaths up to that time.
and it seemed as if we were to escape even ague. On the 1st of
September, like a sudden clap of thunder, a case of unmistakable
cholera occurred in the Asylum.
Cholera.
Total number and time of
occurrence.
25. How cholera reached Lahore is as follows :—
Cholera occurred in the city and district of Lahore during the months of August,
September and October; and according to the return furnished by
the Police Department, attacked 555 persons, of whom 279 died and
276 recovered.
I believe it came from the direction of
Amritsar.
The disease commenced in Amritsar on the 25th July, and on the 30th arrangements
were made in Lahore in anticipation of cholera coming.
The old female penitentiary was to be made a temporary
hospital, the contagious wards of the Mayo Hospital were
to be utilized, both the Railway Stations of the Punjab Northern and of the Delhi Railways,
and Assistant Surgeons stationed to watch the travellers, medicines distributed, &c., &c.
First suspicious case in city.
On the 1st of August 1875 the first suspicious case came under my notice, and occurred
within city walls. I regarded it as doubtful, as the man
had had fever a day or two before his sudden death after
diarrhœa.
First suspicious case in district.
On the same date a case is said to have occurred at
Putli, out in the district.
First genuine case.
The first unmistakable case which I saw was on the 3rd of August, in the mohalla
of Muchee in the city—a young Brahmin, a water-carrier,
a strong, well-built lad, who had partaken the previous
evening of dhál and chapattís, which had been given to him by different people whom he supplied
with water. He slept outside a shop on a charpoy placed on a chabútra over a drain in the
open bazár, and vomiting and purging occurred during the night, and in the morning he was
in a state of collapse; body cold; pulse almost imperceptible; sunken eyelids. He recovered,
having received the closest attention from Assistant Surgeon Brij Lál Ghose, who acted as
Deputy Health Officer. On enquiry we found that a bridal party had on the previous day
arrived in the mohalla, where the friends of the young man lived, and in the house of one
of his masters was a large family who had travelled from Amritsar in an ekka, Whether any