( 3 )
Money credited to Government.
6. The following sums have been paid into the
treasury :—
Garden Produce.
Vegetables ...
Tobacco ...
Oranges ...
Green wheat ...
Green charri ...
Sweet lemons ...
Surface earth for manure ...
Manufactures ...
Received for support of a patient ...
...
Rs.
72
9
9
15
12
1
1
100
20
240
As.
11
3
0
3
0
6
0
0
0
8
P.
11
3
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
5
Paying patients.
We have two patients who are supposed to pay, but it is very difficult to realize the money :
only Rs. 20 have actually been received out of Rs. 147-1-9
due. Efforts have been made to recover the amount.
Employment of lunatics in ordinary
work.
8. The object in view in this Asylum is to have as much as possible of the work done by
the lunatics; but there is much that they cannot be trusted
to do. Now the ordinary work of the Asylum (setting
aside that of the Deputy Superintendent and Matron, the
Native Doctor, the Jamadar and Jamadarni, and the superintendence of the lunatics) consists
of leeping, sweeping, water-carrying, gardening, cooking, distributing food and clothing, mend-
ing clothes, carrying away and burying offal, bringing in fresh earth, breaking bricks, and
mending roads in the Asylum.
The first of these, leeping, is done entirely by the lunatics ; it is constantly required. The
wards are filthy in the morning. Lunatics will get up in the night and pass their urine and
fœsces on the ground, and every spot so soiled has to be cleansed and leeped afresh. Much of
the open ground in the centre of the enclosure too is leeped, and it requires very frequent re-
newal. This employs 31 men and 4 women.
The sweeping is of course a very important part of the Asylum work, including the clean-
ing of necessaries. For this we have 8 sweepers assisted by 32 lunatics.
Water carrying applies first to drinking water; and secondly, to water for leeping, bathing,
road-making and road watering, washing drains, &c. For the drinking water we have 4
bhisties, who bring water from a well outside the Asylum, and keep the filters constantly replen-
ished. The water is afterwards distributed in suraies to the patients. The supplying of pure
drinking water is so important that much of this is not entrusted to the lunatics. The water
carrying for other purposes is all done by lunatics under supervision; 20 of them are usually
thus employed.
Gardening and other cultivation is carried on by 2 gardeners and 9 lunatics; although 1877
was a bad year, this brought in Rs. 119-8-5.
Cooking. This is done by two paid cooks, assisted by 4 lunatics.
The distribution of food and clothing is the work of the lambardars, who are assisted by
the lunatics.
The mending of clothes is done by a paid tailor, with the aid of 4 lunatics.
The carrying away of offal and burying it is the regular duty of the 8 paid sweepers of
the Asylum, who are assisted by 9 lunatics.
The bringing in of fresh dry earth for the necessaries and for leeping is entirely done by
the lunatics, 28 of them being employed in this way every day.
Gathering old bricks and breaking them occupies 7 lunatics daily, and many of them
are also employed in mending the roads and pathways within the Asylum.
Manufactures.
9. Besides the above necessary work, a small number are employed in manufactures
which have never been very profitable in this Asylum
for reasons stated in previous reports. The exceptionally
small profits of 1875 and 1876, however, were doubtless due to the cholera of the former
year, During 1877 we have succeeded somewhat better. The following articles have been
made:—188 blankets, 276¼ yards garrah cloth, 16 darrees, 7 seers 1 chattak newar, 54 reed
chicks, 113 kilchee as kets, a maund 7 seers cotton thread, 17 yards doossuttee cloth, 8 moonj
pardahs and 38 seers 3 chattaks munj ropes and twine. A considerable part of these fabrics
has been sold, and Rs. 534-3-11 has been realized.* A portion also remains in store, valued
at Rs. 48-6-11. Having found manufactures at a very low ebb when 1 returned in December
1876, 1 endeavoured, in concert with the Deputy Superintendent, to employ in skilled labour
all whom we could manage to teach; but we have succeeded, up to the present time, only with
14 men and 6 women, the latter having been employed in spinning cotton. This 1 hope is
only the commencement of what will next year have a much further development. The
* The profit as shown in column 13 of Form 11 is Rs.166-15-9.