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Manufac-
tures.
15. Statement X.—The profits on the Asylum industries amounted to
only Rs. 4,761 as compared with Rs. 6,200 in 1910 and Rs. 6,559 in 1909. The
amount credited to Government in 1911 was Rs. 2,362, of which Bareilly
contributed Rs. 1,274, and Rs. 3,436 in 1910 and Rs. 4,384 in 1909. The total
credits and debits for the six years are—
Bareilly ...
Benares ...
Agra ...
Total ...
1906—1908.
Credits.
Rs.
56,693
8,759
12,284
77,736
Debits.
Rs.
54,841
4,541
8,187
67,569
1909—1911.
Credits.
Rs.
13,556
7,478
16,491
37,525
Debits.
Rs.
6,880
4,545
8,580
20,005
In the 1906—1908 figures are included the proceeds of the dairy farm at
Bareilly which was closed in November 1908. The Benares asylum makes its own
blankets which appear very good.
European
lunatics.
16. The following table shows the number of European and Eurasian
lunatics in the asylum during the period under report:—
Bareilly ...
Benares ...
Agra ...
Total
..
At commencement
of the triennium
in 1909.
Male.
6
1
15
22
Female.
1
3
12
16
Total.
7
4
27
38
Admitted.
Male.
1
1
11
13
Female.
1
...
12
13
Total.
2
1
23
26
Discharged.
Male.
...
1
4
5
Female.
...
...
10
10
Total
...
1
14
15
Transferred.
Male.
...
...
1
1
Female.
...
...
1
1
Total.
...
...
2
2
Died.
Male.
1
...
2
3
Female.
...
...
1
1
Total.
1
...
3
4
Remaining at the
close of the year
1911.
Male.
6
1
19
26
Female.
2
3
12
17
Total.
8
4
31
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Of the three deaths at Agra one (an old lady of 80 years) died from heat stroke
in June 1911, one from pneumonia in November 1910 and another from phthisis
in May 1911. At Bareilly two bungalows, one with four rooms and bathrooms
for males and the other with two rooms aud bathrooms for females are set apart
for these patients which at present number 8, but at Benares no suitable
accommodation is available which necessitates the accommodation of the present
three female patients in ordinary cells. They have been at Benares for many years.
The accommodation in this Asylum is not fit for the reception of European
lunatics and it has been consequently directed recently that European lunatics
should, whenever room is available, be sent only to the Agra and Bareilly asylums.
In 1910 when I inspected the Agra asylum I found a great absence of comfortable
equipment in the European wards, and as it was necessary that the lot of these
unfortunate patients should be made as easy as possible, the matter was brought
to the notice of Government with the result that a special grant of Rs. 1,200 was
sanctioned in order to replace the old and battered articles in the European section.
The European inmates at this asylum are provided with football and tennis for the
males and badminton for the females. A fair stock of books, periodicals and papers
is kept up and the female patients have a piano in their sitting room of which a good
deal of use is made.
The arrangements for the accommodation of Europeans at Agra are, however,
not only unsatisfactory in themselves but to allow of their having any accommoda-
tion necessitates various other encroachments being made which are undesirable,
such as the use of cells which really were intended for native criminal lunatics, and
an overflow into the native female barracks in order to allow of European females
being accommodated. When 1 visited the asylum in July 1911 I found
18 European males in buildings most of which are entirely unsuited to the