Remained in hospital on ist January
Admitted during the year
Total
Discharged
Died
Remaining 01131st December...
Total ...
...
1900.
2
186
188
1 01.
12
157
...
188
I69
...
160
159
...
16
5
...
12
5
169
Year.
Admission!.
Deaths.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female. 1 Total.
I902
igoi
1900
Average of
ten
years 1890 to 1899
67-39
130*02
143-43
55-82
43-07
I37-54
182-09
64-55
63-04
13I-57
15175
58-25
5-97
4 # 22
1455
9-90
3*91
4-04
11-38
xt'07
5-60
4-19
1386
io'o6
,9o;-
8. Sickness and mortality t <—
5
?2 The marginal table shows the
95
~ total number treated in hospital
8
_f_ and the results of the treat-
— ment for the last three years.
9. The percentages of
admissions to hospital
and of deaths to average
strength were as shown in
the marginal statement.
Year.
Male.
Female.
Total.
I902
1901
1900
Average of ten years
to 1899
1890
7-52
564
8-45
4'46
2-73
2-46
3'00
2*40
10*25
810
11-45
6-86
10. This little inset shows the daily
average of sick for the past three years
and the preceding ten years, 1890—99.
11. The chief diseases from which the lunatics suffered and were admitted to
hospital were malarial fever, dysentery, diarrhoea, anaemia, and phthisis.
12. The total mortality during the triennium under review was 30, against 24
during the previous triennium. Of these 30 deaths, 17 occurred in 1900, 5 in 1901, and
8 in 1902. Out of the total 30 deaths, 8 died of phthisis, 5 of diarrhoea, 5 of dysentery,
4 of kdld-dzdr, 1 of softening of the brain, 1 of apoplexy, 1 of general paralysis, 1 of
anaemia, 1 of malarial fever, 1 of chorea, 1 suicide by hanging, and 1 patient was
murdered by another lunatic. Out of the 8 patients who died in 1902, one had been
in confinement for 25 years, one for 4, and one for 3 years : the others were more
recently admitted.
13. Prophylactic medicines were issued, as in former years, during the unhealthy
season, vis., from May to November, and all the lunatics were treated except some
violent ones, who refused to take medicine.
14. Expenditure and cost per inmate.—The total expenditure during the triennium
under review was Rs. 42,160-10-5, against Rs. 37,287-3-6 during the previous trien-
nium, and the average cost per inmate was Rs. 109-9-8, against Rs. 101-7-n during
the previous three years. The excess was mainly due to the dearness of food-grains.
15. Employment of inmates.—The male patients who were quiet were employed
in gardening, cooking, repairing houses, cultivating, brick-moulding, etc., and the
females in spinning, weaving, surki-grinding, and paddy-husking.
16. Accommodation^ and sanitary and hospital arrangements.—The accommoda-
tion for male patients is bad and insufficient, 126 males being confined in buildings
intended for 90 only. A separate and special report on the necessity of providing more
accommodation for males generally, and increasing the number of isolation cells for
violent cases, has been submitted for orders. Overcrowding, however, has been to some
extent relieved by converting the male workshop into a sleeping barrack and erecting
bamboo side walls and bamboo machans.
17. The sanitary arrangements of the Asylum are good. The drinking-water 1
drawn from a pucca well outside the stockade. The water was examined by
Chemical Examiner, and reported to be good.
18. The number of sweepers was at times insufficient, but one additional sweep
was appointed in November last, and the staff now suffices for present requirements.
19. The hospital arrangements for males are very poor, but a pucca hospita
been sanctioned at a cost of Rs. 8,ooo, and is now under construction. An exce
hospital for females was erected in 1901 at a cost of Rs. 569.