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Discharges and Cures.
6. Of the total number treated, 330 were cured against 231 in 1915.
One hundred and forty insanes were transferred to the care of friends as com-
pared with 90 in the previous year, and of the insanes returned under this head
90 had improved while under treatment and 50 had not.
7. Of the 10 insanes returned as discharged "otherwise", 4 escaped from
the Hyderabad Asylum, 5 were transferred from the Criminal to the Non-
criminal list and 1 was removed to another Asylum.
Sickness.
8. The daily average of sick in 1916 was 35.3 as compared with 39.5 in
1915. The general health of the insanes was on the whole satisfactory except
in Hyderabad Asylum where malaria was very prevalent causing 100 admissions
into hospital. There was no outbreak of epidemic disease at any of the Asylums
although there was a severe epidemic of cholera prevailing in the City of
Ahmedabad in August 1916.
Mortality.
9. There were 106 deaths against 85 in 1915. The ratio of deaths to the
daily average strength was 8.2 per cent, against 7.1 per cent, in 1915. Of the
total number of deaths in the Asylums, 20 or 18.86 per cent, were due to
tuberculosis. These were distributed as follows :—
Dharwar 6,
Yeravda 2, and
Ratnagiri and Hyderabad 4 each,
Ahmedabad 1.
Naupada 3,
Twenty-five deaths from all causes occurred at Naupada. Of these 5 were
among patients who were admitted in very bad bodily health and lived only 3,
3, 7, 25 and 33 days respectively after admission. There were 5 deaths from
dysentery in this Asylum. The mortality in Hyderabad Asylum was 32 against
17 last year. The causes of death were chronic malarial cachexia 9, epilepsy 5,
dysentery 4, tuberculosis 4, asthma 2, debility 2 and syphilis, pneumonia,
Bright's disease, diarrhœa, calculus (bladder) and drowning 1 each. Malaria
prevailed to an exceptional degree all over Sind during the year under review
and chronic malarial cachexia which is often fatal in persons already weakened
by insanity was largely responsible for the number of deaths at this Asylum.
The mortality at the other Asylums calls for no special remarks.
STATEMENT NO. II.
Criminal Insanes.
10. The number of criminal insanes remaining in confinement on the 1st
of January 1916 was 187, which, with 53 admissions during the year, gave a
total population of 240 as compared with 224 in 1915. The daily average
strength was 186.6 as compared with 172.3 in 1915.
STATEMENT NO.
III
Religion, Sex and Residence of the Insanes admitted.
11. Of the 666 insanes admitted during the year there were 53 Europeans
and Eurasians, 38 Indian Christians, 333 Hindus and 215 Mahomedans.
27 belonged to other races. This is an increase on the previous year of 60.6 per
cent ,among Europeans and Eurasians, 48.3 per cent, among Mahomedans, 27
per cent, among Indian Christians, 26 per cent, among Hindus and 17.4 per
cent, among other races. The large increase among Europeans and Mahome-
dans is due to the number of soldiers and military followers admitted.
STATEMENT No. IV.
Previous Occupations of the Insanes Admitted.
12. Military sepoys (71) and military employees, followers, etc. (44)
furnished 115 admissions. The other principal occupations admitted were