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ing away and burying offal, bringing in fresh earth, breaking bricks and mending roads in the
Asylum. The value of lunatics' labour, calculated at one anna a day per man, has been
Rs. 3,061-14-0. This therefore is the estimated saving to Government effected by employing
the inmates of the Asylum instead of hired servants.
Skilled labour.
9. During 1878, 20.9 men and 13.4 women, on an average, have been employed in
skilled labour. The women's work has been spinning.
We have twelve spinning wheels, by means of which
4 maunds 3 seers 9¼ chittaks of raw cotton has been spun, and 3 maunds 27 seers 10 chittaks
of thread has been the result. Of this 1 maund 9 seers 6 chittaks has been woven into various
fabrics by the male lunatics, 1 maund 30 seers has been sold, and the rest, 28 seers 4 chittaks,
remains in store.
The men have been employed in making the things mentioned in the following table,
which also shows the quantities of these articles manufactured, and the account to which they
have been turned :
These
things are
from the
cotton spun
by the
woman.
ARTICLES.
Blankets
...
Gárha cloth ...
Dosúti cloth ...
Lúngi cloth ...
Dotahi cloth ...
Newár ...
Canvas (pieces) ...
Múnj rope ...
Twine ...
Pilchi baskets ...
Reed chicks ...
Broken charcoal for filters ...
Manufactured.
305
270 yards.
25 yards.
4 sheets.
4 sheets.
7 seers 10 chs.
4
10 mds. 28 seers 8 chs.
1 md. 17 seers 15 chs.
72
17
1 md. 32 seers 12 chs.
Used in Asylum.
305
270 yards.
...
...
...
...
4
25 seers 15 chs.
1 md. 3 seers 1 ch.
72
17
1 md. 8 seers.
Sold.
...
...
25 yards.
4 sheets.
1 sheet.
...
...
2 mds. 29 seers.
...
...
...
24 seers.
Our attention is principally directed to making blankets, gárha cloth, pilchi baskets
and twine, as these things can be for the most part applied to the Asylum use.
The sum of Rs. 789-11-11 has been realised by sale of the manufactured articles, the net
profit being Rs. 301-11-4, a portion of them also remains in store valued at Rs. 53-8-2.
Grinding corn.
10. We have now 18 millstones, worked by 36 men, who grind on an average 5 seers
each per diem, Sundays excepted. This, however, has
not been done during the whole of the past year, as, at its
commencement, all the millstones were not ready. The men grind from 7 A. M. to 2 P. M. This
is hard work for lunatics, who are quite unable to do the same amount as healthy persons, but
they grind all the corn consumed in the Asylum during the six working days of the week.
Food.
11. The lunatics have been well fed. The food has been much more expensive than the
jail food, as meat is supplied in small quantity every work-
ing day. We calculated some months ago that if the meat
were cut out the food would cost nearly the same as the jail food.
Garden produce.
12. A fair amount of vegetables has been supplied
from the Asylum garden.
Drinking water.
13. As before.
Health.
14. The mortality has been 13.8 per cent. of strength. This is less by 1 than in 1877,
although 1877 was an exceptionally healthly year and 1878
an exceptionally bad one. Moreover, it is less than in
any previous year of the present institution with the exception of 1870 and 1874. One of the
deaths was a case of suicide. An examination has been lately made with a view to discover
the number of lunatics suffering from enlarged spleen in order that they might be put at
once under treatment. The number found was 41. It will be observed that only two deaths
have occurred from the prevailing malady of the year, malarious fever.
Establishment.
15. The permanent establishment has not been altered. Extra hands were required, as
mentioned in paragraph 2, when the wall was in building
also one man to supply the place of a warder who had his
arm broken by a lunatic ; and a Native Doctor was employed for two months in place of Syad
Ahmed Shah, who was ill from a dissection wound produced in the execution of his duty at a
post mortem examination. The establishment have on the whole done their work satisfacto-
rily, but there have been a few breaches of discipline, in consequence of which some heavy lines
and summary dismissals have been necessary. Assistant Surgeon Abdul Hámid, the Deputy
Superintendent, has worked very hard, and I think, successfully, in the management of the
institution, as the small mortality, the increased employment of lunatics, and the larger sums
of money credited to Government, sufficiently testify.
* During the present year, 1879, we hope that by improved arrangement the corn for Sundays will also be ground
in the Asylum.