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NOTE
ON THE
LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BURMA
FOR THE YEAR 1916
RANGOON
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING, BURMA
1917
LIST OF AGENTS
FOR THE
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.
IN INDIA:
THACKER, SPINK & Co., Calcutta and Simla.
W. NEWMAN & Co., Calcutta.
THACKER & Co., Ltd., Bombay.
HIGGINBOTHAM & Co., Madras.
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, Rangoon.
* D. B. TARAPOREVALA SONS & Co., Bombay.
BUTTERWORTH & Co. (India), Ltd., Calcutta.
IN ENGLAND:
HENRY S. KING & Co., 65, Cornhill, E.C.
A. CONSTABLE & Co., 10, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & Co., Ltd., 68—74. Carter Lane, E.C.,
and 25, Museum Street, W.C.
BERNARD QUARITCH, 11, Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W.
P. S. KING & SON, 2 & 4, Great Smith Street, Westminster, S.W.
GRINDLAY & Co., 54, Parliament Street, S.W.
T. FISHER UNWIN, Ltd., 1, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.
W. TRACKER & Co., 2, Creed Lane, Ludgate Hill, E.C.
LUZAC & Co., 46, Great Russell Street, W.C.
WILLIAM WESLEY & SON, 28, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.
OLIVER & BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh.
E. PONSONBY, Limited, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin.
B. H. BLACKWELL, 50 & 51, Broad Street, Oxford
DEIGHTON, BELL & Co., Ltd., Trinity Street, Cambridge.
ON THE CONTINENT :
ERNEST LEROUX, 23, Rue Bonaparte, Paris, France.
MARTINUS NIJHOFF, The Hague, Holland.
* For the sale of official publications excluding those of the Legisiative Department of the Government
of Burma.
[The maximum limit of the Note is two pages.]
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PARA.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
NOTE ON THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BURMA FOR THE YEAR 1916
Accommodation and Buildings
...
...
...
...
...
...
Water-supply ... ... ... ... ... ...
Sickness and Mortality ... ... ... ... ... ...
Escapes and Injuries
...
...
...
...
...
...
Dite
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Nursing arrangements ... ... ... ... ... ...
Garden and dairy ... ... ... ... ... ...
Finance ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Manufacture accounts ... ... ... ... ... ...
Staff
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
PAGE
1
ib.
ib.
ib.
2
ib.
ib.
ib.
ib.
ib.
APPENDICES.
STATEMENT
I.—Showing the admissions, discharges, etc., of lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums in
Burma during the year 1916 and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT
II.—Return of Criminal Lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums in Burma for the year
1916 and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT III.—Return showing the religion, sex and residence of patients admitted into the
Lunatic Asylums in Burma during the year 1916 and provincial totals for
two previous years.
STATEMENT IV.—Return showing the previous occupation of patients admitted into the Lunatic
Asylums in Burma during the year 1916 and two previous years.
STATEMENT V.—Return showing the ages of patients admitted into the Lunatic Asylums in
Burma during the year 1910 and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT VI.—Showing the types of insanity of the lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums in Burma
during the year 1916.
STATEMENT VII.—Showing ætiological factors and associated conditions in the patients admitted
during the year 1916.
STATEMENT VIII.—Showing the cash account of the Lunatic Asylums in Burma for the year 1916
and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT IX.—Showing the sanctioned establishment of the Lunatic Asylums in Burma as it
stood on the 31st December 1916.
STATEMENT X.—Showing receipts and expenditure on account of manufactures in the Lunatic
Asylums in Burma during the year 1916 and provincial totals for two previous
years.
PAGE
4
ib.
6
ib.
7
8
12
13
14
15
4
APPENDICES.
STATEMENT No. I.—Showing the Admissions, Discharges, etc., of Lunatics in
previous years
1
Years.
Rangoon
...
...
...
Minbu
...
... ...
Total
...
1916 ...
1915 ...
1914 ...
2
Remained on 1st
January.
M.
397
132
529
479
452
F.
112
...
112
108
110
T.
509
132
641
587
562
3
Admitted.
M.
160
22
182
190
119
F.
52
...
52
49
28
T.
212
22
234
239
147
4
Re-admitted.
M.
20
...
20
11
4
F.
4
...
4
1
3
T.
24
...
24
12
7
5
Total population.
M.
577
154
781
680
575
F.
168
...
168
158
141
T.
745
154
*
899
838
716
A.
Cured.
M.
51
6
57
50
46
F.
18
...
18
22
18
T.
69
6
75
72
64
1
Years.
Rangoon ... ... ...
Minbu ... ... ...
Total
...
1916 ...
1915 ...
1914 ...
7
Died.
M.
28
2
30
40
30
F.
14
...
14
13
5
T.
42
2
44
53
35
8
Remaining on 31st
December.
M.
444
135
579
529
479
F.
127
...
127
112
108
T.
571
135
706
641
587
9
Daily average strength.
M.
443.63
132.83
576.46
508.56
468.33
F.
126.08
...
126.08
114.62
107.45
T.
569.71
132.83
702.64
623.18
575.78
10
Daily
average sick.
M.
174.08
1.02
175.10
140.29
89.59
F.
61.96
...
61.96
44.46
22.69
T.
236.04
1.02
237.06
184.77
112.28
NOTE.—The capacity of the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum is at 42.81 superficial feet per patient,
The maximum number of lunatics confined on any
NOTE.—The capacity of the Minbu Lunatic Asylum is at 86 superficial feet per patient, 132 for
The maximum number of lunatics confined on any
* Includes 33
STATEMENT No. II.—Return of Criminal Lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums
1
Years.
Rangoon... ...
...
Minbu ... ... ...
Total ...
1916 ...
1915 ...
1914 ...
2
Remaining on 1st
January.
M.
138
132
270
252
245
F.
23
...
23
19
17
T.
161
132
293
271
262
3
Admitted.
M.
49
13
62
73
34
F.
3
...
3
7
2
T.
52
13
65
80
36
4
Re-admitted.
M.
3
...
8
6
4
F.
2
...
2
...
1
T.
10
...
10
0
5
5
Total.
M.
195
145
340
331
283
F.
28
...
28
26
20
T.
223
145
868
357
303
The figures in this statement
APPENDICES.
5
the Lunatic Asylums in Burma during the year 1916 and provincial totals for two
(Paragraphs 1 & 3).
6
DISCHARGED.
B.
Transferred to friends.
Improved.
M.
28
1
29
22
12
F.
9
...
9
11
9
T.
37
1
38
33
21
Not improved.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
C.
Otherwise.
M.
26
10
36
39
8
F.
...
...
...
...
1
T.
26
10
36
39
9
D.
Total.
M.
105
17
122
111
66
F.
27
...
27
33
28
T.
132
17
149
144
94
11
PERCENTAGE TO
Daily average strength.
A.
Cured.
M.
11.50
4.51
9.89
9.88
9.82
F.
14.28
...
14.28
19.19
16.75
T.
12.11
4.51
10.68
11.55
11.12
B.
Died.
M.
6.31
1.50
5.20
7.87
6.41
F.
11.10
...
11.10
11.34
4.65
T.
7.37
1.60
6.26
8.50
6.08
Admissions.
C.
Cured.
M.
18.89
...
18.89
22.88
37.40
F.
23.21
...
23.21
38.00
58.06
T.
19.91
...
19.91
25.89
41.56
D.
Died.
M.
7.22
...
7.22
5.97
21.39
F.
7.14
...
7.14
10.00
16.13
T.
7.20
...
7.20
6.77
21.73
406 for males, 86 for females, and hospital accommodation for 24 males and 4 females at 70 superficial feet per patient. Total 520.
one night was 451 males, 126 females. Total 580.
males, nil for females, and hospital accommodation for 3 males at 72 superficial feet per patient. Total 136.
one night was 133 males, nil females. Total 133.
observation cases.
in Burma for the year 1916 and provincial totals for two previous years.
6
Discharged, transferred, etc.
M.
33
9
42
50
19
F.
3
...
3
3
1
T.
36
9
45
53
20
7
Died.
M.
8
2
10
11
12
F.
1
...
1
...
...
T.
9
2
11
11
12
8
Remaining on 31st December.
M.
154
134
288
270
252
F.
24
...
4
23
19
T.
178
134
302
293
271
9
Daily average strength.
M.
150.24
132.38
282.62
266.41
249.04
F.
23.97
...
23.97
17.48
17.20
T.
174.21
138.38
306.59
283.89
266.24
exclude observation cases.
2
APPENDICES.
13
STATEMENT NO. VIII.—Showing the Cash Account of the Lunatic Asylums in Burma
for the year 1916 and provincial totals for two previous years (Paragraph 8).
Name of Asylum.
1
Rangoon
... ... ...
Minbu ... ... ...
Total for 1916 ...
Total for 1915 ...
Total for 1914 ...
Receipts.
Received from the trea-
sury.
2
Rs.
1,10,623
15,636
1,26,260
1,84,794
1,29,881
A.
9
13
7
15
10
P.
8
10
6
6
3
Received from paying-
patients.
3
Rs.
29,911
A.
9
P.
11
...
29,941
32,893
28,383
9
10
5
11
0
1
Value of stores received
from
Manufacturing
Department, less cost
of raw materials.
4
Rs.
13,354
127
13,481
17,957
16,003
A.
5
6
11
9
0
P.
1
8
9
7
8
Book receipts, i.e., the
total
of expenditure
entered in columns 19,
20 and 21.
5(a)
Rs.
6,079
1,516
8,195
16,441
15,019
A.
8
4
12
1
13
P.
10
0
10
7
0
Miscellaneous receipts.
6
Rs.
1,299
1,195
2,494
3,020
3,950
A.
8
11
15
6
5
P.
8
6
2
5
2
Total.
7
Rs.
1,61,898
18,476
1,80,374
2,05,107
1,93,238
A.
5
4
9
11
2
P.
2
0
2
2
2
Charges.
Establishment.
Establishment
proper.
8
Rs.
41,522
5,480
47,109
49,794
49,778
A.
8
9
13
5
5
P.
10
11
9
4
8
Superintendence.
9
Rs.
17,952
1,200
19,152
19,462
15,828
A.
8
0
8
0
12
P.
0
0
0
0
6
Name of Asylum.
1
Rangoon
... ... ...
Minbu ... ... ...
Total for 1916 ...
Total for 1915 ...
Total for 1914 ...
Charges—continued.
Diet.
10
Rs.
39,090
6,668
45,758
48,972
43,623
A.
0
10
11
1
13
P.
7
7
2
1
2
Clothing and bedding.
11
Rs.
1,052
125
1,177
3,986
4,416
A.
13
0
13
12
4
P.
2
0
2
1
4
Bazaar medicines.
12
Rs.
95
29
125
231
209
A.
15
4
4
4
4
P.
10
6
4
11
1
Contingencies.
Contingencies
proper.
13
Rs.
12,421
2,082
14,504
15,835
15,977
A.
13
10
8
7
12
P.
10
10
8
7
6
Repairs and main-
tenance.
14
Rs. A. P.
...
0
0
4
4
0
0
...
2 0 0
Rates and taxes.
15
Rs.
525
50
575
50
50
A.
8
6
14
6
6
P.
0
0
0
0
0
Remitted to treasury on
account of
paying-
patients, etc.
16
Rs.
31,240
1,195
32,436
35,914
32,333
A.
13
11
9
0
10
P.
7
6
1
6
8
Miscellaneous items.
17
Rs. A. P.
...
...
...
...
...
Name of Asylum.
1
Rangoon
...
...
...
Minbu
... ...
Total for 1916 ...
Total for 1915 ...
Total for 1914
...
Charges—concluded.
Total of columns 8 to 17.
18
Rs.
1,44,008
16,832
1,60,841
1,73,746
1,62,215
A.
12
9
6
14
4
P.
10
4
2
6
6
Book charges.
Charges
on
account of work
done by Public
Works
Depart-
ment.
19
Rs.
5,842
1,370
7,213
15,092
10,398
A.
14
3
1
0
7
P.
10
0
10
11
3
Cost of printed
forms
and
stationery.
20
Rs. A. P.
...
...
...
...
...
Cost of English
medicines
and
stores.
21(b)
Rs.
12,046
273
12,320
16,268
20,624
A.
9
7
1
11
6
P.
6
3
2
9
5
Total of columns 18 to 21.
22
Rs.
1,61,898
18,476
1,80,374
2,05,107
1,93,238
A.
5
4
9
11
2
P.
2
0
2
2
2
Remarks.
[Give details for the figures
shown in colums 6 and 16.]
23
Col. 6.
Milk sold ...
Vegetables sold ...
Cloth sold ...
Labour and
Miscellaneous
Rs.
544
1,565
335
49
2,494
A.
7
10
8
5
15
P.
6
2 3
6
2
Col. 16—Totals of Colms. 5
& 6.
( a) Column 5 excludes value of stores received from the Manufacturing Department already credited in column 4
(b) Column 21 includes the sum of Rs. 11,337-6-3, the value of manufactured articles made over to Asylums excluding cost of
raw materials.
14
APPENDICES.
STATEMENT NO. IX.—Showing the sanctioned establishment of the Lunatic Asylums in
Burma as it stood on the 31st December 1916.
1
Particulars of establishment.
One Superintendent ... ... ...
Deputy Superintendent ... ...
Sub-Assistant Surgeons ... ...
Overseer ... ... ...
Head Clerk ... ... ...
Second Clerk ... ... ...
Steward and Store-keeper ... ... ...
European Attendants ... ...
Matron ... ... ...
Head Nurse ... ... ...
Nurses
...
...
...
Head-keepers ... ... ...
Keepers ... ... ...
Keepers
...
...
...
Keepers
...
...
...
Gardeners
... ... ...
Tailor ... ... ...
Carpenter
...
...
...
...
Cow-keeper
...
...
...
...
Barber
...
...
...
Cooks
...
...
...
Compounder
...
...
...
Ward servants
... ... ...
Peon
...
... ...
Total ...
Daily average number of
Proportion of
Males ...
Females ...
Overseers to males ...
Matron to females ...
European Attendants, Head-keepers
and Male keepers to males.
Nurses and Female keepers to females ...
2
Rangoon.
Number.
(a) 1
(b) 1
(c)2
1
1
(d) 1
(c) 1
(e) 3
(f) 1
(g) 1
(g) 2
2
(h) 9
(i) 20
(j) 37
(k)
2
(k) 1
(k) 1
(k) 1
(k) 1
(k) 3
(l) 1
(k) 2
(k) 1
96
443.63
126.08
443.63
126.08
7.39
9.01
Monthly
wages.
Rs.
1,150
71.14*
260
240
100
80
44
100
214
160
92
140
57
180
360
592
31
20
25
15
16
52
20
30
12
4,061-14
...
...
...
...
...
3
Minbu.
Number.
1
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
4
10
...
...
...
...
1
1
...
...
...
21
132.83
...
132.83
...
8.30
...
Monthly
wages.
Rs.
100
90
60
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
35
20
72
160
...
...
...
...
12
15
...
...
...
554
...
...
...
...
...
....
* Exchange compensation allowance.
(a) Is entitled to a house allowance of Rs. 300 per mensem.
(b) Draws also a remunerative local allowance of Rs. 75 per mensem.
(c) One Sub-Assistant Surgeon draws also a house allowance of Rs. 30 per mensem,
(d) Draws also a house allowance of Rs. 20 per mensem.
(e) Draws also a house allowance of Rs. 40 per mensem.
(f) Draws also a house allowance of Rs. 40 and uniform allowance of Rs. 3-12-0 per
mensem (Board allowance of Rs. 60 per mensem is also admissible if
European),
(g) Draws also a house allowance of Rs. 30 and uniform allowance of Rs. 2-8-0 each
per mensem.
(h) One of these is a female keeper and draws also a house allowance of Rs. 5 per
mensem.
(i) Five of these are female keepers and draw also a house allowance of Rs. 5 each
per mensem.
(j) Five of these are female keepers and one of them draws a house allowance
of Rs. 5 per mensem. Sixteen male keepers draw also a house allowance of
Rs. 4 each per mensem.
(k) Draw also a house allowance of Rs. 4 each per mensem.
(l) Draws also a house allowance of Rs. 10 per mensem.
NOTE.—This statement includes observation cases also.
APPENDICES.
15
STATEMENT No. X.—Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in
the Lunatic Asylums in Burma during the year 1916, and provincial totals for
two previous years (Paragraph 9).
1
Name of Asylum.
Rangoon ...
Minbu ...
Total for 1916...
Total for 1915 ...
Total for 1914 ...
2
Mean population.
Mal es .
441.79
132.38
574.17
508.11
468.33
Fe ma l
e s .
125.62
...
125.62
114.62
107.45
Total.
*
567.41
132.38
699.79
622.73
575.78
3
4
5
6
7
Credits.
Cash paid into the Trea-
sury during the year
for articles sold.
Rs.
1,299
1,195
2,494
3,020
3,950
A.
3
11
15
6
5
P.
8
6
2
6
2
Value of manufactured
goods made over to the
asylum for asylum
purposes.
Rs.
20,290
1,406
21,696
20,723
17,504
A.
4
10
14
5
11
P.
3
5
8
4
5
Value of raw materials
in store at the end of
the year.
Rs.
476
214
691
350
203
A.
11
7
2
10
8
P.
6
0
6
6
6
Value of manufactured
goods in store at the
end of the year.
Rs.
91
95
187
432
120
A.
12
15
11
10
5
P.
4
1
5
0
4
Value of plant and ma-
chinery in store at the
end of the year.
Rs.
3,171
4,172
7,343
7,599
7,705
A.
5
1
6
6
1
P.
8
0
8
8
8
1
Name of Asylum.
Rangoon ...
Minbu ...
Total for 1916 ...
Total for 1915 ...
Total for 1914 ...
2
Mean population.
Males.
441.79
132.38
574.17
508.11
468.33
Females.
125.62
...
125.62
114.62
107.45
Total.
*
567.41
*
132.38
699.79
622.73
575.78
8
Credits—
concluded.
Total credits.
Rs.
25,329
7,084
32,414
32,126
29,484
A.
5
13
2
7
0
P.
5
0
5
0
1
9
10 11
12
Debits.
Value of manu-
factured goods
in store on 1st
January.
Rs.
248
183
432
120
265
A.
11
14
10
5
1
P.
6
6
0
4
9
Value of raw ma-
terials in store
on 1st January.
Rs.
237
113
350
203
354
A.
0
10
10
8
10
P.
6
0
6
6
9
Value of plant
and machinery
in store on 1st
January.
Rs.
3,439
4,160
7,599
7,705
7,423
A.
5
1
6
1
6
P.
8
0
8
8
8
Raw materials
purchased.
Rs.
1,678
527
2,205
2,068
937
A.
7
0
8
10
5
P.
6
9
3
9
6
1
Name of Asylum.
Rangoon
Minbu
Total for 1916
Total for 1915 ...
Total for 1914...
2
Mean population. !
Males.
441.79
132.38
574.17
508.11
468.33
Females.
125.62
...
125.62
114.62
I07.45
Total.
*
567.41
132.38
699.79
622.73
575.78
13
14
15
Debits—concluded.
Contingencies of
manufacture.
Rs.
612
397
1,010
1,063
1,125
A.
11
7
2
2
5
P.
3
0
3
0
10
All other charges.
Rs.
4,346
144
4,491
4,449
5,489
A.
4
15
3
12
3
p.
10
0
10
11
2
Total debits.
Rs.
10,562
5,527
16,089
15,610
15,595
A.
9
0
9
9
1
P.
3
3
6
2
8
16
Excess of credits or
profit.
Rs.
14,766
1,557
16,324
16,515
13,888
A.
12
12
8
13
14
P.
2
9
11
10
3
17
Excess of debit or loss.
Rs.
...
...
...
...
...
18
Remarks.
* Figures in this statement exclude observation cases.
G.B.C.P.O.—No. 130(a), I.-G. of C. H., 13(a), 30-4-1917—260.
REPORT
ON THE
LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BURMA
FOR THE TRIENNIUM 1915-17
RANGOON
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING, BURMA
1918
[Price —Re. 1 or 1S. 6d. ]
REPORT
ON THE
LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BURMA
FOR THE TRIENNIUM 1915—17
RANGOON
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING, BURMA
1918
LIST OF AGENTS
FOR THE
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.
IN INDIA:
THACKER, SPINK & Co., Calcutta and Simla.
W. NEWMAN & Co., Calcutta.
THACKER & Co., Ltd., Bombay.
HIGGINBOTHAM & Co., Madras.
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, Rangoon.
* D.B.TARAPOREVALA, SONS & Co., Bombay.
BUTTERWORTH & Co. (India), Ltd., Calcutta.
IN ENGLAND:
HENRY S. KING & Co., 65, Cornhill, E.C.
A. CONSTABLE & Co., 10, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUENER & Co., Ltd., 68—74, Carter Lane,
E.C., and 25, Museum Street, W.C.
BERNARD QUARITCH, 11, Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W.
P. S. KING & SON, 2 & 4, Great Smith Street, Westminster, S.W.
GRINDLAY & Co., 54, Parliament Street, S.W.
T. FISHER UNWIN, Ltd., 1, Adelphi Terrace. W.C.
W. THACKER & Co., 2, Creed Lane, Ludgate Hill, B.C.
LUZAC & Co., 46, Great Russell Street, W.C.
WILLIAM WESLEY & Son, 28, Essex Street, Strand, W.C
OLIVER & BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh.
E. PONSONEY, Ltd., 116, Grafton Street, Dublin.
B. H. BLACKWELL, 50 & 51, Broad Street, Oxford.
DEIGHTON, BELL ft Co., Ltd., Trinity Street, Cambridge.
ON THE CONTINENT:
ERNEST LEROUX, 28, Rue Bonaparte, Paris, France.
MARTINUS NIJHOFF, The Hague, Holland.
* For the sale of official publications excluding those of the-
Legislative Department of the Government of Burma.
[The maximum limit of the body of the Report is five pages.]
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
REPORT ON THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BURMA FOR THE TRIENNIUM 1915-17.
PARA.
1. Correction of figures for the first two years of the triennium
...
...
2. Accommodation and population ... ... ... ... ...
3. Buildings and construction
... ... ... ... ... ...
4. Admissions and discharges ... ... ... ... ... ...
5. Water-supply ... ... ... ... ... ...
6. Sanitation and conservancy ... ... ... ... ... ...
7. Diets
...
...
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...
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8. Health and Mortality ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
9. Employment and treatment
...
...
...
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10. Injuries and escapes
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...
... ... ... ...
11. Amusements and recreation
... ... ... ... ... ...
12. Finance
...
...
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...
...
...
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13. Garden, dairy and manufactures ... ... ... ... ... ...
14. Committees
...
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15. Staff
..
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PAGE
1
ib.
2
ib.
ib.
ib.
ib.
3
ib.
ib.
ib.
ib.
4
5
ib.
APPENDICES.
STATEMENT
I—Showing the Admissions, Discharges, etc., of Lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums in
Burma during the year 1917 and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT
II.—Return of Criminal Lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums in Burma for the year
1917 and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT III.— Return showing the religion, sex and residence of patients admitted into the
Lunatic Asylums in Burma during the year 1917 and provincial totals for
two previous years.
STATEMENT IV.—Return showing the previous occupation of patients admitted into the Lunatic
Asylums in Burma during the year 1917 and two previous years.
STATEMENT
V.—Return showing the ages of patients admitted into the Lunatic Asylums in
Burma during the year 1917 and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT
VI—Showing the types of insanity of the lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums in Burma
during the year 1917.
STATEMEMT VII—Showing ætiological factors and associated conditions in the patients admitted
during the year 1917.
STATEMENT VIII—Showing the cash account of the Lunatic Asylums in Burma for the year 1917
and provincial totals for two previous years.
STATEMENT
IX—Showing the sanctioned establishment of the Lunatic Asylums in Burma as it
stood on the 31st December 1917.
STATEMENT
X—Showing receipts and expenditure on account of manufactures in the Lunatic
Asylums in Burma during the year 1917 and provincial totals for two previous
years.
PAGE
7
ib.
ib.
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10
14
15
16
17
RESOLUTION
ON THE
REPORT ON THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BURMA
FOR THE TRIENNIUM 1915—1917.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Government of Burma,—No. K.-21,
dated the 23rd May 1918.
READ—
The Report on the Lunatic Asylums in Burma for the Triennium 1915—17.
In the Resolution on the Report on Lunatic Asylums in Burma for the
triennium 1912—14, although the number of inmates in the two Asylums at Rangoon
and Minbu approached the amount of accommodation provided, it was possible to
state that there was no overcrowding. The large increase in the numbers of
inmates during the present triennium, from 587 to 786, has produced a certain
degree of overcrowding. Plans and estimates for a new asylum at Kokaing have
been prepared, but the estimated cost of 35 lakhs renders the scheme prohibitive in
the present financial circumstances. A special Committee under the Chairmanship
of the Hon'ble Mr. H. Thompson, C.S.I., Financial Commissioner, is at present
considering the question of constructing the new asylum at a more moderate cost.
Meantime extra accommodation is being provided on the existing site at Rangoon
to house the increasing number of inmates, and improvements in the lighting, water-
supply, sanitation and establishment of the present Rangoon Asylum are being
effected in order to improve the standard of accommodation provided until the
new asylum shall be built. When once the revised plans of the new asylum have
been worked out and sanctioned, it is intended to construct it in sections so as to
provide for the early relief of the present Rangoon Asylum by the transfer of
certain classes of its inmates at the first possible date. An alternative scheme of
temporary relief is the utilization of the buildings of the Kindat Jail, now being
relinquished by the Prison Department. Enquiries are at present being made as to
their suitability for this purpose. These buildings would provide accommodation
for about 60 inmates, and if they prove to be suitable they will afford some much-
needed temporary relief till the new asylum can be erected.
2. No light is thrown by the report upon the causes of the large increase in
admissions of civil lunatics, namely whether it is due to an increase in insanity, or
to a greater resort to the Lunacy Act by relatives of persons mentally afflicted.
The statistics both of causes of insanity and of the types of insanity, as well as the
information regarding the previous occupations of the inmates, leave a great deal
to be desired. But the Lieutenant-Governor recognizes that much improvement
cannot be expected until the services of a whole-time alienist for the charge of the
Asylum become available.
3. It is satisfactory to note that despite the increasing pressure on the
accommodation the abnormal figures for the death-rate reached in 1912 and
1913 have not recurred. The percentages of deaths were 8.51, 6.48 and 6.78 for
the years 1915, 1916 and 1917 respectively. These rates compare favourably with
the corresponding figures for the inmates of asylums in other provinces, and