( 4 )
The chief causes of sickness during the triennium were—
Benares ...
Bareilly ...
Agra ...
Total ...
Phthisis.
2
67
101
170
Epilepsy.
43
16
41
100
Pneumonia.
4
22
18
44
Dysentery.
52
26
7
85
Diarrhoea.
9
33
1
43
Heart disease.
...
4
3
7
Malaria fever.
96
60
13
169
Heat stroke.
4
1
2
7
General
debility.
52
51
67
170
Influenza.
...
...
...
...
Anaemia.
37
5
69
111
Bright's
disease.
12
18
6
36
Cholera.
...
4
...
4
Total.
311
307
328
946
Criminal lunatics.
Statement II.
6. The number of criminal lunatics confined in the asylums on the 1st
January, 1917, was 282 or 13 more than on the corresponding date of the previous year.
The admissions during the year were 96 or 11 more than in 1916, and the total asylum
population of this class was 378 against 354 in the previous year and 351 in 1915.
Of the 378, 50 were discharged or transferred, 30 died and the number remaining
in confinement on the 31st December, 1917, was 298 against 282 in 1916 and 269
in 1915. The daily average strength was 287.19 as compared with 267 and 266
during the two previous years.
A comparison of the present triennium with that of the previous three years
gives the following figures :—
In confinement at commencement of triennium ...
Admissions ... ... ... ...
Total ...
Discharged and died ... ... ... ...
In confinement at close of triennium ... ...
1912—14.
214
209
423
158
265
1915—17.
265
267
532
234
298
The number of deaths during 1915—17 amounted to 67 against 46
during the previous three years.
Overseas military
insanes.
7. No overseas military insanes were admitted into the asylums during
1915, but a temporary Lieutenant in the I.M.S. was admitted into the Agra
Asylum from Lucknow in December 1915 for acute mania and was discharged in
May 1916. During 1916 and 1917, 89 overseas insanes were admitted, namely to
Agra 41, to Benares 20 and to Bareilly 28. Of these 32 were discharged and 57
were in confinement at the close of the triennium, namely at Agra 22, Benares 16
and Bareilly 19. The following table gives the details for each asylum :—
Agra ...
Benares ...
Bareilly ...
Total ...
At the com-
mencement of
the year.
1
1916.
...
...
...
...
1917.
3
...
...
3
Admitted.
2
1916.
5
...
8
13
1917.
36
20
20
76
Discharged.
3
1916.
2
...
1
3
1917.
17
4
8
29
Transferred.
4
1916.
...
...
...
...
1917.
...
...
...
...
Died.
5
1916.
...
...
...
...
1917.
...
...
...
...
Remaining at
the close of
the year.
6
1916.
3
...
7
10
1917.
19
16
12
47
Still under
treatment
at the
close of
triennium.
7
22
16
19
57
Religion, sex and
residence.
Statement III.
8. Of the 1,270 admissions during the triennium 978 were Hindus, 248
were Muhammadans, 30 were European and Eurasian Christians, 11 were Indian
Christians and 3 were of other castes. Of this number 1,095 were males and 175
females. The districts which supplied the highest number of patients during the
triennium were Benares, Agra, Gorakhpur, Muzaffarnagar, Allahabad and Ballia.
Previous
occupation
Statement IV.
9. Excluding the cases under observation the previous occupation of the
admissions during the last six years was—
1912—14 ...
1915—17 ...
Artisans.
57
49
Beggars.
191
146
Cultivators.
201
233
Domestic ser-
vants.
71
72
Landlords.
21
11
Labourers.
113
132
Priests.
13
14
Professionals.
70
57
Public
servants.
54
150
Prostitutes.
4
2
Shopkeepers.
74
75
Students.
18
18
Unknown.
283
311
Total.
1,170
1,270