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ears from
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5. In the
females 2,
harged as
1 Lakhim*
unda from
nformation
le escapes
;ct, as all
same time
\s long as
be better
ers. This
r and seem
:ricts from
ma Valley
Total.
imale.
Total.
9
10
II
I
2
6
7
2
1
1
3»
of Sibsagar
Lakhimpur.
d from the
•d with 6. I
lewhere,' but
; is near at
n, prior to
st two years,
Total.
Female.
Total'
The number of garden coolies imported under agreement has risen to 15, against 7 in
the preceding year. The remaining 4 were foreigners free from agreement.
Of the 809 inmates admitted into the Asylum since its establishment in 1876,
362 were natives of Assam, 428 were foreigners, and of 19 the birth place was unknown.
At the end of the year under review there remained the following:
•
Male.
Female.
Total.
1
2
3
4
Natives of Assam
.
...
48
13
60
Imported coolies
...
• •
...
28
13
4*
Free immigrants
•••
i.
«•»
...
13
...
13
Unknown
•••
...
...
...
...
...
Total
...
..
...
...
89
25
114
II. Criminal lunatics.—(a) The following table shows the crimes committed
by the criminal lunatics who remained under treatment at the close of the year;
Male.
Female.
Total.
I
2
3
4
Grievous hurt
. ••
...
•••
3
3
Arson
...
...
...
5
...
5
Murder
...
...
...
12
2
14
Culpable homicide
...
...
...
1
1
2
Theft
...
...
...
1
...
1
Voluntarily causing hurt...
...
...
...
6
...
6
Assault
...
...
...
1
...
1
Lurking house-trespass ...
...
...
...
1
...
1
Attempting to wreck a train
...
...
...
1
...
I
Total
3»
3
34
(b) The 34 criminal lunatics classified are distributed as follows :
Male.
Female.
Total.
I
2
3
4
la
13 I
8
6
3 1 1
22
I
8-30 38-80 I
iylum c
Drevious
luring!
year. ■
Those who have been tried and acquitted on the ground of
msanity
..
...
Those who have been found to be incapable of makingtheir
defence
Ihose who being already in jail became insane there and
were removed to the Asvlum
Total
...
3'
34
12. Nationality, etc.—Statement No. Ill shows the religion, sex, and residence
01 the patients admitted into the Asylum during the year. The number of Hindus,
Muhammadans, and other castes, respectively, were 23, 1, and 7, against 18, 3, and 1 of
tn e preceding year.
13. Previous occupation.—Statement No. IV gives the previous occupation of the
patients admitted during the year. The figures since the opening of the Asylum are-
Agriculturists
Coolies
Beggars
Sepoys
Servants
Cook
Masalchi
Contractor
Trader
Other occupations
Not known
Total
• ••
272
306
3i
3*
26
1
1
1
1
138
1
809
14. Type of insanity.—See Statement No. VI. The admissions are classified as
follows :
Mania
Melancholia
Dementia
Not yet diagnosed
• ■•
14
1
1
Total
3i
15. Alleged causes 0/insanity.—See Statement No. VII. Of the total 31 admis-
sions, 11 were ascribed to physical causes, 2 to moral causes, and in the case of the
remaining 18, the causes were unknown.
The causes assigned are distributed as follows :
Physical.
6^»/tf-smoking ...
Fever
Epilepsy
Hereditary
Total
... 2
... 3
... 3
... 3
... 11
Moral.
Death of child
Wife's misconduct
Total
In the case of only 13 inmates, out of 31 admissions, the causes of insanity were
ascertained. If a more careful enquiry was made by the responsible officials before
sending patients to the Asylum, the causes of insanity in the majority of cases could
have been ascertained.
16. Sickness and mortality.—See Statement No. VIII. Out of a total population of
150, 106 were admitted to hospital during the year, of whom 84 were males and 22
females. Of these, 59 were admitted once, 26 twice, 13 thrice, 4 four times, and
4 five times. The percentages of admissions to hospital and deaths to average
strength were as follows:
Admissions.
Deaths.
Year.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
1500
...
tn
...
)899
Ml
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56-57
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11-38
7-85
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October
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Statement showing the result obtained from prophylactic treatment,
Prophylactic not in use.
Proph ylactic in use.
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...
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|
f Nineteen were due to influenza.
|
t Remittent fever.
|
J Including one suicide.
The daily average sick for the past two years is compared with the average of the
Past ten years in the following statement:
Year.
Male.
Female.
Total.
1
2
3
1
4
'Qoo
'899
A y erage of previous ten years, 18S9—98
••>
...
8-45
4'35
4*37
3-00
1-49
2-63
II*45
5*84
7*oo
The admissions into hospiral were 186 during the year under report, against 85
I*! the previous year. The increase in the average number of persons admitted into
be hospital was due to the general unhealthiness of the town.
. The administration of quinine, iron, and dilute sulphuric acid was continued
Urin g the unhealthy season of the year, i.e., from May to November, as in the
Jjcetijpg year. Sickness increased in these months. Whether prophylactic treatment
, mtle good, or but for this treatment sickness possibly would have been greater,
ere 18 no means of knowing.
17. Total mortality.—The total number of deaths was 17, or 13*86 per cent, of
average strength, as compared with 9, or 7*11 per cent, of 1899. The deaths are classi-
fied as under :
Dysentery ...
Kala-azar ...
Softening of the brain
Apoplexy ...
General paralysis
Phthisis
Diarrhoea
Suicide by hanging
Total
•••
•••
...
2
1
1
1
1
5
5
1
17
The number of deaths during the year is high, as compared with that of the
average of the last 5 years. In 1894 it was as high as 28. The numbers for 1891 and
1893 were 18 and 15, respectively.
Owing to the general unhealthiness of the year, sickness from diarrhoea and dysen-
tery was excessively high, and these diseases were mostly prevalent from May to
November. The unhealthiness of the Asylum was shared by the jail and by the
population of the district and town of Tezpur.
18. Finance.—Statement No. IX shows the cash account of the Asylum for the
year under report.
19. Abstract of cash account.—(a) An abstract of the cash account for the year
1899, as compared with the Asylums in Bengal, is given below, in compliance with
the instruction given in the Principal Medical Officer's letter No. 2605C, dated the 13th
September 1892 :
Name of Asylum.
Establishment,
Total cost.
Cost per head
of average
strength.
Diet.
Total cost.
Cost per head
of average
strength.
Clothing and bedding.
Total cost.
Cost per head
of average
strength.
Tezpur
Dullunda
Dacca
Patna
Cuttack
Berhampur
Rs. a. p.
4,527 2 7
6,835 3
8,117 11
8,391 4
2,159 o
7,797 «
Rs. a.
35 12
3» 12
36 J5
35 8
50 4
41 4
p-
9
8
2
2
4
8
Rs.
a.
5.705 13
IO,I47 II
IO.868 IO
8,304 I
2,111 12
5,548 9
p-
2
G
I
9
9
o
Ks. a. P-
45 I 10
47 3 2
49 7 5
35 2 3
49 2 8
29 6 1
Rs. a.
774 14
1,102 II
743 6
1,065 1
170 13 o
55S 6 o
Rs. a. p.
6 2 1
520
362
4 8 1
3 ^5 8
2 15 4
Name of Asylum.
Medicine.
Contingencies.
Total cost.
Cost per
head of
averace
•trench.
Total cost.
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
Miscellaneous.
Total cost.
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
10
Tezpur
Dullunda
Dacca
Patna
Cuttack
Berhampur
1 Rs.
183
440
212
184
19 13
177 12
v
2
3
3
o
6
Rs. a. p.
172
2 O
o IS
O 12
o 7
o 15
Rs.
724
3,254
2,432
1,327 14
43i 5
1,327 5
a.
2
2
8 8
6
3
11
Rs. a.
5 11
15 2
11
5
10
7
1 2
9 U
o 8
o 5
Grand total.
Total cost.
Co«t per head
of average
strength-
11
Rs. a. p
208 13 o
13
14
15
Rs. a. p.
I 10 5
Rs.
a. P'
12,124 O 0
21,779 15 3
22,374 8 7
19.272 10 9
4.S92 12 0
15,409 12 b
Rs. a. P-
95 13 10
101 4 9
101 13 4
81 8io
113 J 4 °
81 9 ?
20. IVeighments.—The inmates are weighed every month. Of those treate
dining the whole year, the aggregate weight was :
1st January 1900
31st December 1900
Gained weight
Lost weight
Remained the same
Greatest gain
Greatest loss
...
. <•
...
9,245 lbs.
8,768 „
20 inmates.
47
23
»»
12 lbs.
47 i»
8
hopeless cases when the Principal Medical Officer inspected in October. I attribute the
heavy death-rate to an unhealthy year, as proved by the district figures, but of course
there is a considerable element of chance in the case of an Asylum with a small
population.
Having been in charge only three months of the year, I am not in a position to
make any positive statements as to the exceptional mortality, but I am sure it was
not due to any avoidable cause, for Hospital Assistant Girish Chandra Das was unre-
mitting in his attention to every detail connected with the welfare of the Asylum
inmates. He has, moreover, during the year passed the examination held at Dibrugarh
for promotion to the first grade, and I understand his answering at that examination
was so good as to merit the special commendation of the examiners.
Tezpur,
The $\st January 1901,
J. W. U. MACNAMARA, M.D.,
Lieut.-Colonel> I.M.S.,
Superintendent, Tezpur Lunatic Asylum.
IO
Statement No. III.—Return showing the Religion^ Sex, and Residence of Patients admitted into
the Lunatic Asylum at Tezpur during the year 1900.
District.
Darrang
Kamrup
Sibsagar
Nowgong ...
Lakhimpur ...
Garo Hills ...
Khasi and Jaintia Hills
Sagar
Ganjam
Nepal
Bhutan
Bilashpur ...
Mirzapur
Burdwan
Purulia
Dumka
Hazaribag ...
Ranchi
Midnapur ...
Singbhum ...
Unknown ...
Total
Hindus.
Muhammad-
ans.
M. F. T.
1
...
1
I
...
I
I
I
2
"
I
I
I
I
M.
16
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
3
1
3
I
Christians.
Europeans
and
Eurasians.
M. F. T.
Natives.
Other Castes
M.
T. M
23
F. T.
Total.
M. F.
T.
3
1
1
2
I
2
I
I
I
I
I
I
23
31
Statement No. IV.—Reurn showing the previous Occupation of Patients admitted into the
Lunatic Asylum at Tespur during the year igoo.
Occupation of patients.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Tea coolie
Cultivator
Sepoy
Trader
Beggar
Maid servant
Total
•*•
9
11
2
23
15
II
2
I
I
I
31
Statement No. V.—Return showing the Ages of Patients admitted into the Lunatic Asylum at
Tespur during the year igoo.
I
2
3
4
5
G
Under 20.
20 to 40.
40 to 60.
Upwards of 60.
Total.
Name of Asylum.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
lezpur
...
1
1
>7
6
23
5
I
6
I
1
23
8 |
Total
...
1
1
17
6
23
5
I
6
•1
1
23
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I
/
■
1
■
4
5
6
1
S
9
10
136
Idiocy.
137
Mania, acute or chronic.
138
Melancholia, acute or chronic.
139
Dementia, including acquired.
140
Mental stupor.
141
General paralysis
of the insane.
Delusional
insanity.
Declared to
have recovered or
not yet diagnosed.
Total
Cases.
Epileptic.
Other forms.
Epileptic.
Other forms.
Epileptic.
Other forms.
M. 1 F. 1 T. M. F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F. | T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
Remaining on 31st December
Admitted
...
4
1
S
4
2
1
1
S
3
57
8
18
3
75
JI
1
1
1
30
10
40
4
3
34
13
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
95
33
34
8
119
3i
Total treated
4
1
s
6
2
8
65
21
86
1
1
2
7
47
...
... 1 ...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
118
32
4
3
150
Recovered
Improved
Died ...
3
2
I
...
1
6
1
9
3
3
9
1
12
1
1
1
4
I
2
4
1
2
E | E ... ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
10
2
14
14
s
17
Remaining on 31st December
2
1
3
3
a
S
48
15
63
1
...
33
7
40
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
89
35
"4
Annual Statement No. VII.—Showing the alleged Causes of Insanity among the Lunatics in the Asylum at Tezpur during the year 1900
11
IS
13
14
15
Physical causes.
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Statement No. VIII .-"Return of Sick in the Hospital of the Lunatic Asyl um at 5 Tezp\ wr for the year 1 900.
1
2
3
4
1
1
7
8
9
Results.
Diseases.
Remaining from
previous year-
Admitted during the
year.
Total.
No.
Discharged cured.
Discharged otherwise.
Died
Remaining sick.
M.
F.
Total.
M.
F.
Total.
M.
F.
Total.
M.
F.
Total.
M.
F.
Total.
M.
F.
Total.
M.
F. ! Total.
21
Dysentery
...
...
...
...
27
11
38
27
11
38
25
11
36
...
...
...
2
...
2
...
...
...
34a
Ague
...
...
...
...
42
7
49
42
7
49
42
6
48
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
I
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...
...'
...
...
...
...
3
...
3
3
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
2
...
2
30
Scrofula
...
...
...
1
...
1
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
«
...
.„
...
1
...
1
330
Hard chancre ...
...
...
...
...
...
1
I
...
1
1
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
59
Rheumatism
...
...
...
1
1
2
1
1
2
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
I
68
Anaemia
...
1
...
1
5
7
12
6
7
13
5
7
12
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
I
80
Old age
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
I
95
Softening of the brain
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
102
Apoplexy (serous)
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
118a
Epilepsy
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
I
141
General paralysis of insane
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
3i5a
Bronchitis
...
...
...
4
1
5
4
1
5
4
1
5
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
334(3o)
Phthisis
...
...
...
...
3
4
7
3
4
7
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
3
5
1
1
2
34o
Empyema
...
1
1
...
...
...
1
...
1
I
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
35o
Cancrum Oris
...
...
...
I
...
1
1
...
1
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
419
Dyspepsia
...
...
...
1
...
1
1
...
1
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
462
Diarrhoea
...
...
...
...
...
...
40
14
54
40
14
54
35
14
49
...
...
...
5
...
5
...
...
...
799
Abscess
...
...
2
1
3
2
1
3
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
2
845
Boil
...
...
2
...
2
2
2
2
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
967
1 Incised wound (cut-throat)
...
...
...
...
I
...
I
I
...
1
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
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...
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976
I Fracture of ribs
\ Tota\
...
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1
1
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1
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48
186
140
48
188
119
41
160
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to
X-tatenent A'o. /X.— S-howing the Cash A
cco„„t of the /Lunatic Asylum, at Tezpur. for the year 1900.
11
la
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50
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1
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per.
pro-
Repairs and main-
tenance.
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03
01
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IS
u
f
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0
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1 «
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count of paying patients, etc.
Miscellaneous items.
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w
o
0.
u
p
•a
*>
Total of columns 8—17.
Charges on account of
work <lone by the
Public VVors De-
partment.
Cost o f printed forms
and stationery.
a
Cost of
Fnelish
stores, medicines,
etc.
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w
33
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w
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p
0
0
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0
51
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Total of columns 18—21.
Received from treasury.
Received from paying patients.
Value of stores received from
the Manufacturing Depart,
orient.
Book receipts, I.e., the total of
expenditure entered in columns
ly, 20, and 21.
R
•5'
Miscellaneous receipt!.
Total.
establishment pro-
per.
Superintendence.
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Superintendent
Subordinate Medical Officer and Overseer
Compounder
Jemadar ...
Male-keepers
Female ,,
Chaukidars
Sweepers
Barber
10 a'. Rs. 10 each
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15 o o
100 o o
22
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36 O O
5OO
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females
Jemadars to males ...
Jemadarins to females
Proportion cf •{ Male-keepers to males
^Female-keepers to females
Caa.TAc.xver ...
Statement No. XI. Shewing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in the Lunatic Asylum at Tezpur during the year 1900.
10
11
13
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8
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o
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•8
Value of manufactured goods made over
to Asylum for asylum purposes.
*
:
Value of raw materials in store at the
end of the year.
M
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o
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7
Value of manufactured goods in store at
the end of the year.
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o
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Value of plant and machinery in store at
the end of the year.
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7
F
7
Total credits.
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Value of manufactured goods in store on
ist January.
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2!
<o
:
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January,
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8
o
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P
7
Value of plant and machinery in store on
ist January.
u
7
Raw material purchased.
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3
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p
7
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5
:
All other charges.
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10
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7
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in
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u
73
P
7
Excess of credits or profits.
50 n
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:
Excess ot debits or loss.
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2
Average number of lunatics employed in
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Si
SHILLONG
Printed and published by CONTNGHAM FRAKCIS, Press Superintendent, Assam, at the Secretariat
Printing Office—(Judl.) No. 527—165—16-4-1901,
Resolution on the Report on the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum for the year 1900.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of Assam in the General
Department, No. 1444.7., dated Shillong, the nth April 1901.
Read-
Report on the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum for the year 1900.
RESOLUTION.
The most important feature of the year's administration is the excessive
mortality of the inmates of the Asylum, of which no satisfactory explanation has been
furnished. There were 17 deaths during the year. The Chief Commissioner has no
sufficient reason for thinking that the year was an unusually unhealthy one either in
the Darrang district or in the town of Tezpur. The death-rate in this Asylum has
always been very heavy, and though there has been some improvement in late years,
the mortality during the past year, high as it is, is less than it was in 1891, and only
two more than it was in 1^93, when the total number of lunatics was somewhat
smaller. In 1894 there were no less than 28 deaths. The unhealthiness of the
Asylum during 1900 is, however, the more marked when it is remembered that the
mortality in the Assam jails taken together has been reduced during the year to only 24
per thousand. Having regard to the character c f the inmates, the death-rate in the
Asylum can never be assimilated to that in jails, but it is certainly capable of very
material reduction, and Mr, Cotton is disposed to think that if improved accommodation
were afforded, there would be a marked tendency in this direction. This has always
struck the Chief Commissioner as the weak point of the Asylum, and although something
has been done especially by the construction of a new female ward, it is no doubt very
necessary to build new male wards also, and he will endeavour, if possible, to allot funds
for the purpose.
By order of the Chief Commk^oner of Assam,
F. J. MONAHAN,
Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam.
A> S. P. 0. (Judl.) No. 175-175—15-4-1900.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM
FOR THE YEAR
1900.
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TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM
FOR THE YEAR
1901.
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FOR THE YEAR
1901.
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PRINTED BY CONYKGHAM BRANCIS, PRESS SUPERINTENDENT, ASSAM.
FROM
To
No. 434.
COLONEL C. W. CARR-CALTHROP, M.D., Ch.D., I.M.S.,
Principal Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner; Assam,
THE SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF ASSAM.
Shillong, the 5/Z1 February 1902.
SIR,
IN accordance with the instructions contained in Government of India; Home
Department, (Medical), letter No. 1296, dated the 5th September 1901, I have the
honor to submit herewith the Stat'stical Returns of the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum for the
year 190J.
I have the honor to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient Servant,
C. W. CARR-CALTHROP, M.D., Ch.D., Colonel, I.M.S.,
Principal Medical Officer and Saniiary Commissioner, Assam,
STATEMENTS I TO V:
2
Statement No. I.—Showing the Admissions^ Discharges, etc., of Lunatics in tht
Asylum
Discharged.
A
B
C
D
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n
•—>
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c
Year.
2
0
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0
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0
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0
0
M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M.
3
F. T. M. F. T.
1900
,,,
... 95 24 119 n 7 30
1
1 118
32 «5° 10 4 »4 2 ... 2 ... ...
...
3 «s 4 '9
1901
8P 25 114 31
2
33
1
...
1 121
27 «4S
8
2
10
... ... ...
•• ... ■•
3 ...
3 tl
a '3
■d
Q
M. F. T.
■4
3 17
4
1
S
The capacity of the Tezpur Asylum is at 50 superficial feet per patient, 90 for male*, 30 for females. 120 total,
The maximum
Statement No. If.—-Return of Criminal Lunatics in the Asylum at I Tezpur ft
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
189G
1897
189s
1899
1900
1901
Year.
Remaining on 1st
January.
M.
F.
T.
Admitted.
Re-admitted.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
28
2
30
7
...
7
1
26
2
28
3
...
3
...
22
2
24
3
1
4
1
20
3
23
6
...
G
...
IS
1
>9
5
...
5
...
22
1
23
9
...
9
...
28
...
28 \
4
2
G
1
28
2
30
7
1
8
...
33
3
30
G
I
7
...
33
4
37
7
...
7
...
3>
3
34
12
I
»3
1
Total.
M.
36
29
2G
2G
23
3i
33
35
39
4"
44
F.
38
3'
29
29
24
32
35
33
43
■II
Discharge
M.
5
7