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It will be seen that the air space is rather limited, and that the patients do not get
in all cases as much room as has been fixed as the minimum limit in jails, although
every effort towards a proper distribution of the patients in the wards is made.
4. Clothing and bedding.— We now make our own summer clothing, i.e., we no
longer buy summer clothing from the Tezpur Jail, as was the practice in former years.
It is of the same material, i.e., cotton, but our Asylum cloth is dosnti, whereas the jail
cloth supplied was partly eksuti. Our Asylum-made clothes are better put together
than those heretofore in use, being double sewn. We buy the cotton, spin and weave
it ourselves by female patients, to whom it gives occupation under cover, and in this way
we get it cheaper than we could buy it from the jail.
Blanket and blanket kurtas were supplied from Bhagalpur jail as in former years.
We supplied mattresses and pillows stuffed with straw instead of the usual tat bedding.
The result is increased warmth and greater comfort. Fourreen new wooden cots were
made during the year to replace old and unserviceable cane-bottomed bamboo charpoys.
5. Drainage.—The Asylum drainage is excellent, the site being surrounded by
low ground. However, as the drains got wide, deep, and unsightly by consian f . sweeping
for many years, we have just filled in most of them, with a view to recutting them later
on, on better lines. The grass and weeds taken out of them was for years thrown on
their edges, and the result was that they were becoming inefficient.
6. Hospital accommodation.—No change. The hospital accommodation is not as
good as it might be. The building is less cheerful than the general sleeping wards, and
there is not sufficient separation of cases, even as remotely infectious as phthisis or
kala-azar. We require such a building as the present office building, but with substan-
tial brick walls instead of plastered ekra. If the cost of the materials for a new hospital
was sanctioned, we could build it ourselves.
7. Water supply.—No change since last report was submitted. The Asylum well
gives a good and constant supply, and all that is required is a good pump. There is a
tilter with a cistern attached to the well, but the primitive rope and bucket is still in use
for raising the water.
8. Conservancy.—No change. We use dry earth freely. There is only one paid
sweeper; a second is needed.
9. Admissions and discharges.—The following table gives particulars of the
admissions and discharges for the past two years and the average of the preceding
ten years :
1836.
1895.
Average of previous ten years.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
.Remained
89
22
in
83
22
105
70-80
22'6o
93"4o
Admitted
34
8
42
32
5
37
27-90
8-oo
35"9o
Re-admitted
...
...
...
2
...
2
2*70
o*6o
3*3o
Total
123
30
153
117
27
144
101*40
31-20
132*60
Average population...
9T49
24* S8
116*37
85-41
20-69
106*10
73*77
23*70
97'47
Discharged cured ...
n
3
14
18
3
21
9-90
2*30
I2'20
,,
improved
2
...
2
5
...
5
4-40
1-70
6" 10
,,
not improved
I
...
1
...
...
...
2-30
0-30
2* 60
„
otherwise
I
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
Died
7
...
7
5
2
7
8*40
3*30
»i*70
Escaped
2
...
2
...
...
...
1*70
0*40
2*10
Remaining
...
99
27
126
89
22
in
74-70
23*20
97*90
One patient shown as " discharged otherwise" was transferred to Lucknow Asylum
at the urgent request of his friends and with the approval of the Local Governments
concerned.