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Diet. The diet of the lunatics has been of excellent quality, and sufficient in quantity.
The atta is made into hand-cakes and baked in the asylum ovens, and rice is given in lieu
of atta to those who prefer it. Mutton is issued twice a week in summer, and in winter three
or four times a week, and made into curry with the vegetables of the season. Dhal and
vegetables are given alternately when mutton is not issued. The food is divided into two
meals, given at 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. The hospital diet is 4 ozs. less in quantity for each person,
but extras are given, such as milk, soojee, rice, sugar, and mutton for broth. Rum is given as
a stimulant to weakly cases only.
The following is the Diet Table:—
Days.
Sunday ...
Monday ...
Tuesday...
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday ...
Saturday...
Atta, wheat.
Chts.
per
man
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
Dhall, moong.
Chts.
per
man
3
...
...
3
...
...
...
Ghee.
Chts.
per
man
...
1/5
...
...
...
1/5
...
Mutton.
Chts.
per
man
...
4
...
...
...
4
...
Vegetables.
Chts.
per
man
...
6
8
...
8
6
8
Salt.
Chts.
per
man
1/5
1/5
1/5
1/5
1/5
1/5
1/ 5
Sugar.
Chts.
per
man
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
Soojee.
Chts.
per
man
½
½
½
½
½
½
½
Rice.
Chts.
per
man
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
Milk.
Chts.
per
man
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
Condiments.
Chts.
per
man
1/12
1/12
1/12
1/ 12
1/12
1/12
1/12
Mustard oil
for vegetable
curry.
Chts.
per
man
...
...
1/5
...
1/5
...
1/5
Firewood.
Chts.
per
man
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
Remarks.
Fruits,
pickles,
sweetmeats
are given
when they
are cheap,
as anti-scor-
butics per
man.
Bedding and Clothing. 1st,—The bedding and clothing for winter consists of two doo-
sootee cloth cases stuffed with rice straw, two country blankets, two blanket coats, two blanket
caps, two doosootee jungeahs,—one suit being worn, and one being washed.
The female lunatics have the same, only pyjamahs in place of jungeahs, and two doosootee
chudders.
The bedding and clothing for summer consists of two taut tupprees, two doosootee
jackets, two caps, and two jungeahs. The women have the same, only pyjamahs in lieu of
jungeahs and two chudders. The sick and weakly lunatics are allowed extra bedding and
clothing.
2nd,—The bedding and clothing are kept in good order in store-rooms with shelves
made for that purpose.
Employment. Out of the whole daily average of 227 lunatics during the year, 149,
including women, have been employed in daily work, both indoor and outdoor. The
indoor work consists of weaving doosootee and gharra cloth, tauts, spinning cotton into thread
(by the women only), making seercunda (reed) chiks, twisting sunn and moonj into cords,
making wicker baskets and brooms, and assisting the warders and sweepers to leep the wall
and floors.
The outdoor work consists of digging and fetching fresh earth from the fields, sweeping
the roads, assisting the gardeners and bheestees, driving the bullocks in the cart for water,
keeping and feeding the bullocks, carrying out the sweepings, &c., of the asylum, emptying and
washing out drains, &c., under the supervision of the warders.
Gardens.1st,—The ornamental flower gardens, both in the male and female depart-
ments, are regularly sown with flower-seeds in their seasons, and furnished with various
flowering plants. A summer-house of lattice-work has been made in the garden square of
the female ward from the Savings Fund, and adds greatly to the comfort of the inmates.
2nd,—The vegetable garden affords plenty of vegetables, also tobacco for smoking, and
onions and chillies for culinary purposes. The produce is sold and the proceeds credited to
the Savings Fund, and used for improving and ornamenting the gardens, purchasing seeds,
plants, fruit and forests trees, for building bridges and water-courses, and for repairing the roads
&c.
Profits. 1st,—The estimated value of the labor of the lunatics has been Rs. 1,744 during
the year 1870, as detailed in the annual return submitted.
2nd,—The net profits by manufactory and garden have been Rs. 373-15-6, of which
Rs. 100 have been remitted to the Lahore Treasury to the credit of Government, according
to G. O. P. No. 806, dated 22nd June 1866, leaving a balance in hand of Rs. 273-15-6, on the
1st January 1871.