Notes on the annual statistics relating to tlie Lunatic Asylums ill
the "tfnitea Provinces for tlie year 1916.
MAJOB O'MEAEA, I.M.S., Civil Surgeon of Agra, held charge of the
Agra Asylum as an additional charge. At Bareilly Lieutenant-Colonel Wood-
wright, I.M.S., also held charge throughout the year, but at Benares there
we*e three changes of Superintendents, viz. Lieutenant-Colonel Morwood, I.M.B.,
Lieutenant-Colonel Hulbert, I.M.S., and Lieutenant-Colonel Crawford, I.M.b.
2. At the oommenoement of the year 1,402 lunatics were on the rolls oi
the tee institutions against 1,326 on the 1st January, 1915. The admissions
during 1916 numbered the same as in the previous year, namely 431, but the
total number passing through the asylums increased from 1,757 to l,QDp. -Lna
number of admissions during 1915 and 1916 was the highest recorded .during
the last six years. The total population has steadily risen from 1467 in 1J11
to 1,833 in 1916. This increase, as Colonel Manifold remarked in last triennial
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Errata to the Report and Returns of the Lunatic Asylums in the "United
Provinces of Agra and Oudh for the year 1916.
Page iii, column 11-A under "Total" in line 3 from bottom, read "12*21"
|/or"12'18."
Page viii, column 145 (6) Epileptic, in line 9 from bottom, read " 8 " for " 1."
Page xvi, statement No. VIII, read " totals" for "total" in the heading.
Page xv, statement No. IX, in line 3 of the footnotes, read " 278*50" for
"278 c 05" against " Jamadars to males."
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pf the 34 patients who died at Benares 10 were in bad, 2 in very bad, 13 m
indifferent, 3 in fair and 6 in good health on admission. Two had been in the
asylum over twenty-five years, 1 over twenty years, 2 over fifteen years, 1 over ten
years and 4 over five years. Five were over sixty years of ag;e, 8 between forty and
sixty years and 20 between twenty and forty years. Seven died of dysentery, (p,
of Brights disease, 5 of debility and 4 each from epilepsy, mamaoal excitement
and pld age. One was a case pf suicide.
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Of the 35 lunatios who died at Agra 12 were in bad, 1 in very bad, 8 in
indifferent, 12 in fair and 2 in good health on admission. One had been in tne
apyium over fifteen years, 4 over ten years and 2 over five years. Six died of
plathisis, 6 of old age, 5 of epilepsy and 4 of debility.
There was no overorowdin& at Bareilly and Benares. At Agra there was
overcrowding both ou the male and female side but suitable arrangements were
made \o meet th,e excess.
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5. Tr^e number of criminal lunatics confined in the asylums at the com-
xnencemenf of the year was 269, or 4 more than on the 1st January, lJlo. JUM
admissions' during the year amounted to 85 as against 86 in 1915 and tne total
asylum population of this class was 354 against 351 in the previous year. UlfUl
number 62 were discharged and 10 died, the number remaining on the rolls at cue
close of the year being 282. The number pf deaths were 17 less than in tne
previous year.
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There were 64 European and Eurasian lunatios on the rolls at the commence-
ment of the year, of whom 44 were at Agra. The admissions during the year
amounted to 11 (all at Agra,). Five wore disohargod, ono was transferred, ana one
flied, the number regaining at the close of tl*o year being 58, of whom 49 were w