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Establishment.
Statement IX.
15. To meet the difficulty experienced in securing suitable candidates as
female warders, Government revised the scale of pay of these employees with effect
from the 1st March, 1916. In September of the same year it was ruled that the
entire service of head warders, including the service rendered by them as warders,
should be treated as superior for purposes of pension. At the same time sanction
was accorded to the classification of warders drawing more than Rs. 10 per mensem
as head warders, and to the re-classification of head warders in grades of Rs. 20,15
and 12 instead of the four old grades of Rs 20,15, 12 and 10. These concessions
will, it is hoped, induce a better class of candidates to accept asylum service.
Owing to the increased male population at the Agra Asylum the number of male
warders was increased in 1917 by 18.
When the Indian Subordinate Medical Department Officers who were
performing the duties of the Deputy Superintendent at the Agra and Bareilly
Asylums reverted to military duty they were succeeded by Civil Assistant Surgeon
Jyotish Chandra Roy Chaudhari at Agra and Civil Assistant Surgeon Nitya Nand
Joshi at Bareilly. The latter officer volunteered for military duty in 1917 and is
now a temporary Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. On the reversion to
military duty of Mr. Harman, the Deputy Superintendent of the Benares Asylum,
Mr. Bernard, who had been the Deputy Superintendent of the Agra Asylum for
many years and had retired some years on pension, was re-employed and posted
to Benares in March 1916. Khan Bahadur Hashmat Ali Khan on his retirement
from the Jail Department joined the Benares Asylum on the 6th July, 1916, as
Deputy Superintendent.
Manufactures.
Statement X.
16. The profits on the asylum industries amounted to Rs. 6,766 in 1917 as
compared with Rs. 6,715 in 1915 and Rs. 5,676 in 1916. The money credited to
Government in 1917 was Rs. 1,672 against Rs. 1,401 in 1916 and Rs. 2,295 in
1915.
The total credits and debits for the six years are—
Bareilly ...
Benares ...
Agra ...
Total ...
1912—14.
Credits.
13,063
6,455
19,566
39,084
Debits.
8,234
4,916
9,858
23,008
1915—17.
Credits.
10,920
4,465
19,399
34,784
Debits.
6,009
2,910
6,708
15,627
From the 1st April, 1915, the clothing grants for each inmate of the lunatic
asylums have been fixed at Rs. 6-13-6 per annum for Indians and Rs. 60 per
annum for Europeans and Anglo-Indians. The blanket clothing required for the
Agra Asylum is supplied by the Agra Central Jail and other clothing for that asylum
and all clothing for the Bareilly and Benares Asylums is manufactured by the
Fatehgarh Central Prison. Manufacturing jails charge the gross selling, or market
price, and not the value of raw materials, in all transactions with departments
other than jails.
Buildings and
works
17. The asylum buildings at Bareilly are all in good order and the sanitary
condition of the barracks, etc., is very satisfactory. Verandahs for the tuberculosis
wards were constructed in 1916 at a cost of Rs. 1,730, and wire fencing was erected
on the land outside the asylum for Rs. 197.
At Agra in addition to the construction of the three cell blocks of five cells
each at a cost of Rs. 7,617 and the construction of two tubercle barracks for
Rs. 7,728, additions were made to the quarters of the Deputy Superintendent and
a few other minor improvements were carried out. Four of the existing barracks
have " kachcha " floors (one in the European, one in the Indian female, one in the
criminal and one in the non-criminal section). I should like to see cement floors
substituted for these. They are urgently required. The hospital wards should
also be provided with proper grated windows and doors.
At Benares a clothing godown and the fixing of wire netting to trusses in the
wards were completed in 1915 costing Rs. 1,948 and Rs. 786, respectively, and the