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Daily Average Strength.
9. The daily average strength was 1,194.0 (males 936.9 and females 257.1)
as compared with 1,112.3 (males 876.1 and females 236.2) in 1914. The ratio
between males and females remains fairly constant from year to year.
Discharges and Cures.
10. Of the total treated, 231 were cured against 220 in 1914, and 90
insanes were transferred to the care of friends against 93 in 1914. Of those
transferred under this head, 62 had improved and 28 had not improved while
under treatment.
11. Of the 14 insanes shown as discharged "otherwise," 5 were trans-
ferred to other asylums in the Presidency, 4 were sent back to the Military
Department, 3 escaped, 1 was removed to the non-criminal list and 1 was
transferred to a Leper Asylum.
Sickness.
12. The daily average sick in 1915 was 39.5 as compared with 30.4 in
1914. The increase was mainly due to a rise from 14.6 to 22.0 at the Central
Lunatic Asylum, Yerávda, where all new admissions and cases under observa-
tion were treated as hospital cases, which has not been the practice heretofore.
There was an increase in the prevalence of malarial fever at Naupáda, which
was ascribed to the later rains. The general health of the insanes was on the
whole satisfactory. There was no epidemic disease in any asylum.
Mortality.
13. The mortality was low as compared with the previous year. There
were 85 deaths against 92 in 1914. The ratio of deaths to the daily average
strength was 7.1 per cent. against 8.3 per cent, in 1914. Of the total number
of deaths in the asylums, 16 or 18.82 per cent. were due to tuberculosis. There
were only 9 deaths from diarrhœa and dysentery. There was a marked
decrease in the prevalence of these diseases at Naupáda where there was only
one death from dysentery during the year. This is attributed to the prophylactic
measures adopted at the commencement of the rains and to the regular treat-
ment of the drinking water with permanganate of potash. Of the 17 deaths
which occurred at Ahmedabad four were among patients who were admitted
in a very low condition and who lived only 2, 4,12 and 17 days respectively
after admission, and died from heart failure (2), tubercle of the lung (1) and
debility (1). Of the remaining 13, six died from debility, four from diarrhœa
and dysentery, one from pneumonia, one from asthma and 1 from ankylostomiasis.
The causes of mortality at Hyderabad were chronic malarial cachexia (5),
pneumonia (3), tuberculosis (3), epilepsy (2) and erysepelas, snake-bite,
dysentery and suicide one each. Chronic malarial cachexia in insanes is
commonly complicated by diarrhoea and is often fatal in persons already
weakened by insanity. The mortality at the other asylums calls for no
remarks.
STATEMENT No. II.
Criminal Insanes.
14. On 1st January 1915 the number of criminal insanes at the several
asylums was 174. During the year 48 criminal insanes were admitted and
two were re-admitted. The total population was 224 (207 males and 17 females)
against 229 (214 males and 15 females) in 1914. The daily average strength
was 172.3 as compared with 170.3 in 1914.
STATEMENT No. III.
Religion, Sex and Residence of the Insanes admitted.
15. Of the 490 insanes admitted during the year, there were 33 Europeans
and Eurasians, 26 Indian Christians, 263 Hindus and 145 Mahomedans.
Twenty-three belong to other races.