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Idiocy.
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Mania, acute or chronic.
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Melancholia, acute or chronic.
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Dementia, including acquired.
140
Mental stupor.
141
General paralysis
of the insane.
142
Delusional
insanity.
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Statement No. VII.—Showing the alleged causes of Insanity among the Lunatics in the Asylum at Tezpur during the year 1899.
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Statement No. VIII.—Return of Sick in the Hospital of the Lunatic Asylum at T ezpur for the year 1899.
No.
Diseases.
21
Dysentery
...
...
24a
Ague ...
...
24a
Anaemia (due to ague)
...
30
Scrofula
...
646
Cancer of the stomach
...
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Bronchitis (acute)
...
322
Asthma
...
324
Haemoptysis
...
3266
Pneumonia
...
334(30)
Pthisis (Tuberculer)
...
340
Empjema
...
363
Gumboil
...
462
Diarrhoea
...
435
Hypertrophy of liver
...
799
Abscess
...
...
923
Contused wound of the scalp
1044
Simple fracture of the Tibia and Fibula
Total
Remaining from
previous year.
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F.
Total.
Admitted during
the year.
M.
F.
5
20
6
61
Total.
Total.
M.
F.
Total.
Results.
Discharged cured.
Discharged other-
wise.
11
6
6
12
25
20
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25
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Staiemint No. IX.-Showing the Cash Account of the Lunatic Asylum at tezfur for the year 1899,
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Statement No. X.—Showing the Sanctioned Establishment of the Lunatic Asylum at Tezpur as it stood on the 31st December 1899.
Establishment.
Superintendent
Subordinate Medical Officer and Overseer ...
Compounder
Jemadar
Male keepers
Female keepers
...
Chaukidars
Sweepers
Barber
Gardener
Number.
Monthly wages.
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12
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1 9
, 12 each
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Remarks.
Rs. a. p.
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32 o o
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36 o o
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females
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^Female keepers to females
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Stamen* V,. XS.—S*o~, : ng Xecefpts and ir xpenttiture
on account of Manujactures in the Lunat tC Asylum at Tezpur during the year ,899.
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to Asylum for asylum purposes.
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end of the year.
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the end of the year.
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Value of plant and machinery in stcre
at the end ot the year.
Total credits.
Value of manufactured goods in store on
ist January.
Value of raw material in store on i at
January.
Value of plant and machinery in store on
ist January.
Raw material purchased.
Contingencies of manufacture.
All other charges.
Total debits.
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Excess of debits or loss.
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ASSAM SECRETARIAT PRINTING OFFICE (JUDICIAL) NO. 585— 155 — 15-3-1900.
Resolution on the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum Report for 1899.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of Assam in the General
Department^ No. 1407^., dated Shillong, the 19th April 1900.
Read-
Report on the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum for the year iSgg.
RESOLUTION.
THE following statement gives statistics of the Asylum for the past two years:
1898.
1899.
Remained on ist January ...
Admitted and re-admitted ...
Total
...
...
Discharged, cured
,,
improved
Escaped
Died
not improved
...
118
125
...
29
22
...
147
'47
...
14
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2
...
1
...
5
9
...
22
28
...
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119
...
124
126
Total
Remaining on 31st December
Daily average strength
2. Of the 22 admissions, 7 were criminals, and at the close of the year there
were 37 criminal lunatics, compared with 36 at the close of the preceding year. This
proportion of non-criminal to criminal population compares unfavourably with that of
asylums in other Provinces, and in the Resolution on the Report for 1896, the attention
of District Magistrates was directed to the standing orders which require that ordinarily
only such non-criminal lunatics should be committed to asylums as are dangerous or in
the acute stage of insanity. The Chief Commissioner is afraid that these instructions
have been lost sight of, especially in the Lckhimpur and Darrang districts. About half of
the inmates of the Asylum are supplied from the tea gardens in the Province, Statement
No. VII in the Appendix gives details of the alleged causes of insanity among the
patients. The causes were known in only 45 cases of the 125 inmates in the Asylum
°n the ist January 1899, and they were ascertained in 11 of the 22 cases admitted.
For the whole of India, the proportion of known to unknown causes is about 9 to 10.
3. The percentage of admissions to hospital to average strength was 67*21, com-
pared with 70*17 in 1898 and an average of 54*35 for the previous ten years. The
Percentages of deaths to average strength for the same periods were 7*11, 4*03, and
,0 "5 2 - The Chief Commissioner is satisfied that the Asylum is healthier than it was,
an d observes that, prior to the appointment of a Hospital Assistant in 1895, only
serious cases of illness were admitted, a fact which accounts for the low percentage of
admissions in former years.
4. The expenditure for the year amounted to Rs. 12,413, compared with
SjJ' ! 3>273 in 1898, and the cost per head was Rs. 95-13-10, against Rs. 104-12-11.
the average cost per head in Lunatic Asylums throughout India in 1897 was ^s- J 34
Jjearly, but it must be borne in mind that only natives of India are admitted to the
T e ,
ezpur Asylum. The net profit from the manufacturing department
decrease, vis., from Rs. 1,593 to Rs. 1,482. The patients ea
3. 1,860-6, including Rs. 727 for ga
s . 166 for clothing worn by the inmates.
showed a slight
earned in addition
ft!' l-'?^, 0 "^'. including Rs. 727 for garden produce consume,! by themselves and
5. The Asylum was visited twice during the year by the Chief Commissioner and
once by the Principal Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner. The inspection
remarks of the Principal Medical Officer precede the report. On the occasion of his
first visit the Chief Commissioner desired that a plan of the Asylum grounds should
be prepared : this was subsequently done, and it was ascertained that the total area
extended over 55 acres. A new ward for females was added during the year, and the
Chief Commissioner has recently sanctioned the construction of a godown to stock
rations and supplies. A hospital for females is also a necessary requirement, but it
should be a small building, and not built on the expensive scale of the women's ward
which cost Rs. 8,500. Small isolated huts in which inmates of unclean habits can be
segregated should also be provided. The Asylum was in charge of Lieutenant-Colonel
Macnamara for the first three months of the year and of Major Hall during the remain-
ing nine months. Both officers managed the Asylum to the Chief Commissioner's
satisfaction. The Chief Commissioner is glad to notice the favourable remarks on the
work of Babu Giris Chandra Das, Hospital Assistant, with which Major Hall concludes
his report.
By order of the Chief Commissioner of Assam,
L. J. KERSHAW,
Offg. Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam.
A. S. P. 0. (Judl.) No. 585a--165- 20-4-1 yo 1.
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ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM
FOR THE YEAR
l899.
SHILLONG:
PRINTED AT THE ASSAM SECRETARIAT PRINTING OFFICE.
1900.
[Price One Shilling Six Pence.\
[Price One Rupee]
^!
n . •' m
.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM
FOR THE YEAR
1900.
lb
SHILLONG:
MINTED AT THE AS.SAM SECRETARIAT PRINTING OFFICE.
I9OI,
[Pri lce is. 6d.]
[Price One Rupee. \
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM
FOR THE YEAR
1900.
SHILLONG:
PRINTED AT THE ASSAM SECRETARIAT PRINTING OFFICE.
1901.
[Price is. 6d."]
[Price One Rupee. ]
Agents for the sale of Books published by the As»am Administration.
Agents in India,
(i) Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta.
1 (2) Messrs. \y. Newman & Co., Calcutta.
Agents in England,
(1) Mr. E. A. Arnold, 37, Bedford Street, Strand, W. C,
London.
(2) Messrs. Constable & Co., 2, Whitehall Gardens,
S. W., London.
(3) Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., St. Dunstan's
House, Fetter Lane, E. C„ London.
(4) Messrs. Luzac & Co., 46, Great Russell Street,
W. C.| London.
(5) Messrs, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tnibner & Co., Char-
ing Cross Road, W. C, London.
(6) Mr. B. Quaritch, 15, Piccadilly, W., London.
(7) Messrs. P. S. King & Son, 9, Bridge Street, We§fc.
minster, S. W., London.
(8) Messrs. Williams & Norgate, Oxford.
(9) Messrs. Deighton Bell & Co., Cambridge.
Agents on the Continent of Europe.
(1) MM. Friedlander & Sohn, 11, Carlstrasse, Berlin.
(a) M. Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig.
(3) M. Karl Hiersemann, Leipzig.
(4) M. Ernest Leroux, 28, Rue Bonaparte, Paris.
(5) Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague,
SKILLONO:
PRINTED BY CONYNGHAM FRANCIS, PRESS SUPERINTENDENT, ASSAM,
FROM
To
No. 841.
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 2nd March 1901*
SIR,
I HAVE the honor to submit the Annual Report and Returns of the Lunatic
Asylum, Tezpur, for the year 1900, and I beg to attach a copy of remarks which I
recorded after my visit to the Asylum on October 31st, 1900.
2. This Report was due to you on February 1st, but as some of the statements
had to be returned for correction, and as I did not myself get back from my last
inspection tour in the Naga Hills and Manipur until February 23rd, the delay, though
regrettable, was not to be avoided.
3. As my remarks foreshadowed, the death-rate has been very high, viz., 17, or
13:86 per cent., as against 9, or 7*11 per cent, last year, and the number of admissions
into hospital rose from 85 in 1899 to 186 in 1900, or from a daily average of 5*84 to
one of 11*45, that is, just about double. The increased sickness and mortality were
due chiefly to diarrhoea and dysentery, but there was also a general increase all round.
4. One death was due to kald-dzdr, but no other cases of fevers of unusual kind
were noted; 5 deaths were due to phthisis which could not be prevented, and in 5
cases and 2 cases, the mortality was due L o diarrhoea and dysentery respectively. In
fact, just one-half of the total sickness was due to these two diseases. The Superin-
tendent notes that the past year was a generally unhealchy one, and that the unhealthi-
jness of the Asylum was shared by the jail and the free population of the district and
town of Tezpur, in which diarrhoea and dysentery were very prevalent during the whole
of the summer, viz,, from May to November. I have no doubt that this explanation
[is virtually the correct one.
I have the honor to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient Servant,
C. W. CARR-CALTHROP, M.D., Ch.D. t
Colonel, /.M.S.,
Principal Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner', Assam>
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Copy of the REMARKS made by Colonel C. W. CARR-CALTHROP, I.M.S., Principal
Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner, Assam, in the visitors* book of the
Tezpur Lunatic Asylum, dated the $\st October 1900.
This morning I visited the Tezpur Asylum, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel
Macnamara, Superintendent, who has just lately returned from furlough. Major Hall
in charge up to April 20th, Assistant Surgeon N. C. Bose from April 21st to June was
5th, Captain Leventon from June 6th to September 23rd, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Macnamara since then ; there have thus been four changes during the year.
2. The new ward for women has, I think, justified its cost, and the small hospital for
women which has been sanctioned and will shortly be constructed will, I feel sure, be
of great use. Since my last visit a ration godown has been built; this was badly
wanted. I am sorry to see the estimate has been exceeded ; this should not have been
done, but we have got a building with kiln-burned bricks set in lime, i.e. {pucea),
instead of one with ekra walls; the value of rat-proof walls is worth the extra money.
One has only to look at the hole a female lunatic made a day or two ago in the wall of
the new ward to consider whether all walls ought not to be made pucca for six feet
high at least. A hospital for males is still required, and some means are really urgently
requisite to separate filthy inmates from others, whether criminal or non-criminal. This
will be provided for sooner or later, I doubt not.
3. The clothing and rations have been good during the whole year, but I regret to
observe that the general look of the inmates is not good : they appear depressed and not
nearly so healthy as at this time last year. The sickness and mortality rates have also
risen considerably.
There were 97 males and 28 females, total 125 lunatics, in confinement on the day
of my visit, including two under observation, classified thus :
Criminal
Non-criminal
Under observation
Total
Male.
Female.
Total
34
3
37
62
24
86
1
1
2
97
28
125
Up to date 22 males and 8 females have been admitted this year; their cases were
of the usual types.
4. No less than 13 deaths have occurred, 11 males and 2 females having suc-
cumbed to various affections, as shown below:
Phthisis
...
...
Diarrhoea
•••
Dysentery
...
Softening of the brain
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General paralysis
•••
Sunstroke
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Suicide (hanging)
•••
Total
Male.
Female.
Total.
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2
4
3
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3
2
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It is not a little remarkable that several of the deaths occurred amongst the oldest
r esidents—thus of these 13, 5 were reported as received in bad health, but the periods
they had been in confinement is shown below :
1 over
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18 years.
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Male.
Female.
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2
40
5
45
3
1
4
34
14
48
33
8
3i
3
3
6
4
7
11
9
3
12
118
4'
! 59
5. The sickness, as shown by admissions to hospital, was due as follows:
Boils
Ague
Bronchitis
Diarrhoea
Dysentery
Phthiais
Anaemia
Other complaints
Total
Dysentery and diarrhoea thus again keep up their evil reputation.
6. On the day of my visit I found as many as 25 sick ; and as the hut used as
a hospital has only accommodation for 8 patients, the rest have to be treated in their
barracks ; this is not desirable, but is inevitable until funds become available for the
construction of a proper hospital. The diseases from which the sick were suffering
were—
Phthisis
Anaemia
Epilepsy
ocroiuLct
MI
•••
1 # «
• • •
Dyspepsia
Dysentery
Diarrhoea
Ague
Wound (suicidal) ...
Syphilis
General debility
Male. Female. Total
1
1
2
4
4
8
1
1
1
...
1
1
1
1
1
4
...
4
4
...
4
1
...
1
1
1
1
1
Total
18
25
Three of these, vis., the two cases of phthisis and 1 of diarrhoea, are very bad and
will probably die before the end of the year.
The daily rate of sick up to date is said to have been 11*17 ; if so, the general
health has not only been bad, but is getting worse, and I can only trust that Lieutenant-
Colonel Macnamara will be able to improve it.
7. The lunatic who escaped in 1899 has not been secured; and this year one
criminal and two non-criminal lunatics have also absconded and not been found to
date.
8. A crop of cantor-seed was again sown, but the plants did not do well and were
a failure. It appears that the red earth, of which the garden is composed, is not suitable,
and the experiment need not be continued ; but I hear that planters in the neighbourhood
are growing castor-seed for the sake of the manure the cake affords, and, if this is true,
it would be well to get a common country oil press to afford occupation to some of the
more robust of the men.
9. The Kaghazi lime trees are doing well and more might be got, as there is a
practically unlimited demand for both the fruit and juice.
10. Hospital Assistant Giris Chandra Das has been in subordinate charge during
the whole year, and I am glad to see that he has passed his examination for promotion
to the first grade with great credit; and I trust he will be as careful as possible in dealing
with the people under his charge. He has always done well before, and I only wish^ to
emphasise the fact which the details given above clearly indicate, namely, that the vital
condition of the lunatics here confined is not satisfactory, and that there is cause for
anxiety.
11. The establishment as sanctioned is not complete : there are vacancies for two
female warders on Rs. 10 and one sweeper on Rs. 10, but no people can be got to take
up the work. Reference has been made to Berhampur (Murshidabad), but up to the
present the Superintendent has not been able to fill the posts. This is very provoking,
but I hope the difficulty may be shortly overcome.
Te*ur t
C. W. CARR-CALTHROP, M.D., Ch.D.,
Colonel, I.M.S.,
The $\st October 1900.
Principal Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner^ Assaffl>
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8. Admissions and discharges.—The average lunatic population of the year was
122, against 126 in the previous year, and an average of 111 during the ten years from
188 to 1898
(a) Admissions.—The number of admissions during the year was 30, against 22 in
the previous year, exclusive of 1 re-admission in 1900, against none in 1899. In the
case of male lunatics the increase in admissions was 7, and in that of females 2,
including 1 re-admission.
(b) Discharges.—During the year under review, 16 patients were discharged as
cured and improved, against 18 in the preceding year.
(c) Escapes.—One criminal lunatic named Lai Das Fakir received from Lakhim-
pur and two non-criminal lunatics, viz., Sarada from Lakhimpur and Lucas Munda from
Addabari tea estate, Darrang, escaped through the bamboo palisading. Information
was on each occasion given to the Police and the Magistrate as soon as the escapes
were discovered, and search was made by the Asylum servants but to no effect, as all
three are still at large. The bamboo palisading is not safe, and is at the same time
expensive, costing more than Rs. 500 a year to maintain it in good repair. As long as
we have a palisade only, we must expect escapes. My belief is that it would be better
to have a good hedge instead of the palisade and spend the Rs. 500 on keepers. This
arrangement would give us four more keepers, and the place would look better and seem
much less like a prison.
(d) Admissions classified.—The following statement shows the districts from
which the lunatics were received during the year. Lunatics from the Surma Valley
are sent to the Asylum at Dacca :
District.
Criminal.
Non.criminal.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
1
t
' 1 ' 5 6 7 8 9 10
Darrang
Nowgong
Kamrup
Lakhimpur
...
...
Sibsagar
Khasi and Jaintia Hills ...
Garo Hills
Naga Hills
I
I
I
2
2
...
I
I
I
2
2
7
4
3
I
I
3
I
I
I
2
10
I
I
5
5
1
1
8
I
5
5
2
1
1
3
I
I
I
2
II
I
2
6
7
2
1
1
Total
...
...
7
...
7
16
8
24
23
8
3>
I
Of the 7 criminal lunatics, 2 each were received from the districts of Sibsagar
and the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, and one each from Darrang, Kamrup, and Lakhimpur.
The largest number of lunatics from any one district was 11, received from the
district of Darrang, Sibsagar comes second with 7, and Lakhimpur third with 6. I
do not suppose there is any greater liability to insanity in Darrang than elsewhere, but
there is probably less hesitation in sending patients to the Asylum when it is near at
hand.
9. Duration of diseases.—The following table shows the duration, prior to
admission, of the mental diseases of the patients received during the past two years,
with the average of those admitted during the past ten years :
Years.
1900
Average of 10 years,
1889—98
Under six months.
Male.
Female.
9
6
16-50
Total.
Over six months.
Unknown.
Male.
Female.
Total. ■ Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
2
2
470
II
8
21'20
4
7
ir8o
3
1
2-80
10
II
7
8
14.' 60
10
3
2-20
3
3
080
13
6
3-00
23
16
30*50
Total.
Female.
la
8
6
8-30
Total'
3>
22
3 8-8o
10. Nationality of inmates.—Out of 31 persons admitted into the Asylum during
the year 1900, 12 were natives of the province, the same number as in the previous ye