Notes on the annual statistics relating to tlie Lunatic Asylums
in the United Provinces for the year 1913.
IN accordance with the orders of the G-overnment of India in their letter
No. 2225C, dated the 29th March 1913, column 150 (moral insanity) of statement
VI has been cancelled and column 144 (idiocy) has been sub-divided into (1)
idiocy and (2) moral (congenital) imbecility. The orders of the Government of
India that all forms of insanity attributed to the use of Indian hemp should be
shown in column 162 (insanity of Haschisch) have been noted.
2. The total admissions, including re-admissions, were 368 against 406
during the previous year. The admissions fell at the Agra and Bareilly Asylums
but rose from 84 to 101 at Benares. The total population increased from 1,591
to 1,613 and the daily average strength from 1,234 to 1,275.
3. The number discharged during the year was 231 against 228 in 1912.
It is satisfactory to note that although the total population rose by 22 the daily
average sick decreased from 171*56 to 156*29, the deaths from 118 to 104 ; and
that the cures rose from 155 to 160. This is particularly gratifying at Benares
where, with an increased population, the daily average sick was reduced from
84'28 to 54*54 and the number cured increased from 17 to 30. Although the
daily average aiok at Agra rose from 78*76 to 89'12 the increase in no way points
to a poor state of general health among the inmates for the health of the Asylum
as a whole was better than it has been for some time. The increase is due to
many cases of acute insanity and all G. P. I. (general paralysis of the insane) cases
being admitted to the hospital. There was no overcrowding in the Asylums.
4. The number of deaths (104) is, with only one exception, the lowest during
the last eight years. The average percentage of the death rate was 7*46 against
9*32 during the previous year. All three Asylums shared in the reduction. Of
1912. 1913.
the 104 patients, who died, 22 were admitted in
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year after admission and ten under two years.
5. The chief causes of sickness in the asylums were :—
Benares
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At Agra there were 31 patients during the year suffering from tubercle of
lungs. Of these 21 were new admissions and 10 of the previous year. Three
were discharged cured from the asylum, 13 died leaving 15 still under treatment.
Of the 13 deaths eight were under one year in the asylum. I trust funds will soon
be provided for the construction of the two tubercle sheds for which a project has
been recently finally sanctioned for Ks. 6,126.
Of the 20 cases at Baroilly seven died but of these seven three were among
admissions of less than a year who were admitted in a bad state of health. It is
proposed to convert the old hospital at the Benares asylum into a tuberculosis
ward.