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Discharges and Cures.
14. Of the total treated, an average of 140 males and 22 females were
cured during the triennium as compared with 111 males and 19 females in
1909—1911. The mean ratio of cures for 1912—1914 was 15.3 males and
9.2 females against 14.1 males and 9.1 females for 1909—1911.
15. Of the insanes returned as "transferred to friends " the average
number shown as "improved" for 1912—1914 was 73 and "not improved"
was 28 as compared with 77 and 26 for 1909—1911.
Sickness.
16. The daily average number of sick treated in Hospital in 1914 was
30.4 against 52.1 in 1913 and 39.8 in 1912, the mean of the triennium being 40.8
against 28.8 of the previous triennium. This increase is due to the large
number of admissions into Hospital at Yeravda Asylum owing to depressed and
refractory patients and those refusing food being treated as hospital cases.
The percentage of sickness to the daily average strength was 2.7 against 3.8 in
both 1912 and 1913, the average ratio for the triennium being 3.4 against 2.8
for the period 1909—1911. The general health of the insanes was on the whole
satisfactory.
Mortality.
17. The number of deaths fell from 160 in 1912 to 106 in 1913 and 92
in 1914, the average mortality for the triennium being 119 against 115 for the
three years 1909—1911. The ratio per cent. of deaths to the daily average
strength was 8.3 as compared with 9.6 in 1913 and 15.3 in 1914. The mean
death-rate to the daily average strength during the years 1912—1914 was 10.1
against 11.5 in 1909—1911.
18. The following table shows the ratio per cent. of (deaths to the daily
average strength at the several asylums during 1909—1911 and 1912—1914,
respectively:—
Colaba
...
...
Poona
...
...
Central
Lunatic
Asylum, Yeravda.
Naupada, Thána
Ratnágiri
...
Dhárwár ...
Ahmedabad ...
Hyderabad ...
E.
I.
E.
I.
...
...
...
...
...
1914.
Males.
...
...
...
13.8
10.1
6.9
4.8
16.4
5.6
5.5
Females.
...
...
...
...
2.4
10.3
14.7
33.1
7.7
5.6
Total.
...
...
...
7.7
8.0
7.5
6.9
20.9
6.0
5.5
1913.
Males.
...
2.6
6.7
13.8
7.1
17.1
7.3
3.9
5.1
9.9
Females.
...
4.8
...
6.0
1.4
11.8
3.3
3.3
4.5
13.4
Total.
...
3.4
5.5
10.4
5.6
16.
6.4
3.7
5.0
10.7
1912.
Males.
14.9
14.9
21.2
...
...
24.6
6.0
1.5
7.3
13.9
Females.
7.4
6.8
4.0
...
...
54.7
4.0
16.0
...
8.1
Total.
11.0
12.0
17.8
...
...
30.4
5.6
5.4
6.2
13.4
Mean of 1912-1914.
Males.
E 14.1
I 10.2
16.4
5.7
6.9
6.0
9.6
Females.
...
3.1
28.0
7.3
18.1
4.4
12.3
Total.
10.8
8.3
18.5
6.1
10.0
5.7
9.8
Mean of 1909-1911.
Males.
4.5
10.7
25.6
2.5
4.4
5.8
11.3
Females.
...
14.6
34.4
3.8
...
5.3
...
Total.
3.0
12.0
27.4
2.8
3.3
5.7
10.5
19. In 1912—1914 the average number of deaths among the European
inmates was 4 in an average population of 36.9 while in 1908—1911 it was 1 in
an average population of 32.6. The death-rate at Yeravda (Indians) Naupada
and Hyderabad is lower than during the previous triennium. The numbers
were the same at Ahmedabad for the two triennial periods. The high death-rate
at Dhárwár was due to the fact that a number of deaths occurred among patients
who had been in the asylum a very long time and had reached an advanced age.
In Ratnágiri it was due to the bad state of health in which many of the patients
were admitted. Out of the 9 patients who died in 1914, 2 died of tubercle, 3 of
epilipsy, 1 of tetanus, 1 of cerebral hæmorrhage shortly after admission. In
all the asylums taken together the principal causes of death were dysentery,
diarrhoea and tuberculosis.