TRIENNIAL REPORT
ON THE
TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM
FOR THE YEARS
1900, 1901, and 1902.
INTRODUCTORY.—-Major E. A. W. Hall, M.B., CM., I.M.S., was in charge of the
Asylum from ist January to 20th April 1900, Assistant Surgeon Narayan Chandra Basu
from 21st April to 5th June 1900, Captain Asher Leventon, I.M.S., from 6th June to
23rd September 1900, and Lieutenant-Colonel Macnamara from 24th September 1900
to the end of the year 1902. First-grade Hospital Assistant Girish Chandra Das was
insubordinate charge, both medical and executive, for the whole period.
2. Admissions and discharges.—The total of admissions during the triennium was
105, excluding 3 re-admissions, against 75 in the previous triennium, excluding 3 re-
admissions. During the years under review, there were 43 discharges, against 61 during
the previous three years ; of these 43 discharges, 34 were discharged as cured, 2 were
made over to their friends as mentally improved, and 7 escaped from the Asylum, none
of whom were recovered.
3. Admissions classified.—One of the total of the 108 admissions during the trien-
mum was received from the Rangoon Asylum viz., in the year 1902. Out of the re-
maining 107 (including the re-admissions), 37 were received from Darrang district, which
is the highest number from any district. Sibsagar comes next with 26, then comes La-
khimpur with 20, Kamrup, Nowgong, and the Khasi and Jaintia Hills each sent 5.
The Garo Hills, Naga Hills, and Goalpara gave us 2, 3, and 4 respectively.
4. Criminal and non-criminal lunatics.—Out of the 108 admissions during the
uiennium, 35 were criminal, including 1 re-admission, and 73 were non-criminals,
against 22 criminals and 56 non-criminals during the previous three years.
5- Nationality, religion, sex, and residence.—Out of the total admissions during
tne last three years, 50 were natives of the province, 34 imported tea-garden coolies,
and 24 free immigrants, against 37, 31, and 10, respectively, during the previous three
years. Eighty-seven were Hindus, 4 Muhamrnadans, 1 Native Christian, and 16 were
pother castes, against 63, 8, 1, and 6, respectively, during the previous triennium. Of
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# total admissions, 92 were males and 16 females, against 61 and 17, respectively,
P rir Jg the previous three years; finally, of these patients 50 belong to various
, ls tncts in Assam, and 58 to districts beyond the province, against 39 and 39, respect-
^e l y, during the previous three years.
6. Previous occupation.—The previous occupations of the inmates were as follow,
, 8 -t 4° cultivators, 44 tea coolies, 1 cook, 1 chaprasi, 4 sepoys, 3 shop-keepers, 5
anT^a rS) ! c^er^> l priest, 3 servants, 1 schoolmaster, 1 pandit, 1 student, 1 boatman,
rina I unknown,
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Causes of insanity.—Of the total 108 admissions during the triennium under
0 pj' ew » tn e insanity in 10 cases was believed to be due to ganja-smokxug, in 1 to
epil m " eatni £> 1 to spirit-drinking, 5 to fever, 1 to dysentery, 7 were connected with
wlf ,P s yj 7 were due to hereditary causes, 1 to pneumonia, a to deaths of children, 2 to
c aue
S mis conduct, 1 each to syphilis, injury to head, and separation from wife. The
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,nsam^y of the remaining 68 patients were unknown, and could not be ascer?
6(1 on enquiry.