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STATEMENT
Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in the Lunatic Asylums in the
1
Name of
Asylum.
RANCHI ...
PATNA ...
Total for
1920 ...
1919 ...
1918 ...
2
MEAN POPULATION.
Males.
...
205.77
205.77
222.74
252.13
Females.
...
44.63
44.63
44.42
47.15
Total.
...
250.40
250.40
267.16
299.23
3
4
5
6
7
8
CREDITS.
Cash paid into
Treasury
for articles sold.
Rs. a. p.
...
397
397
389
374
15
15
9
10
3
3
11
6
Value of
manufactured
goods made over
to Asylum for
Asylum purposes.
Rs. a. p.
...
7,323
7,323
9,246
7,782
11
11
11
5
4
4
3
0
Value of raw
materials in
store at
the and of
the year.
Rs.
a. p.
...
2,293
2,293
4,443
2,133
8
8
0
14
4
4
3
0
Value of
manufactured
goods in store
at the end
of the year.
Rs. a. p.
...
324
324
267
324
10
10
13
3
1
1
6
0
Value of
plant and
machinery in
store at the end
of the year.
Rs. a. p.
...
1,351
1,351
1,217
1,220
3
3
8
15
0
0
0
0
Total Credits.
Rs. a. p.
...
11,691
11,691
15,534
11,835
0
0
10
15
0
0
11
6
STATEMENT
Abstract of Cash Account of the Lunatic Asylums in the Province of Bihar and Orissa
Name
of Asylum
1
RANCHI ...
PATNA
...
Total for
1920
1919
1918
Establishment.
Total
cost.
2
Rs.
69,787
21,753
91,541
64,394
42,731
a.
14
12
10
8
7
p.
2
8
10
3
6
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
3
Rs.
426
86
513
383
255
a.
10
14
8
1
9
p.
5
0
6
8
8
Diet.
Total
cost.
4
Rs.
65,502
20,996
86,498
59,646
29,934
a.
9
4
14
5
8
p.
8
10
6
9
1
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
5
Rs.
401
83
484
304
157
a.
1
16
15
0
2
p.
5
7
0
1
5
Bedding and clothing.
Total
cost.
6
Rs.
52,898
1,609
54,507
18,456
11,699
a.
6
4
10
8
14
p.
9
0
9
0
0
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
7
Rs.
328
6
329
98
78
a.
4
6
11
2
7
p.
7
10
5
2
5
Medicines.
Total cost.
8
Rs.
3,993
2,439
6,432
4,224
4,769
a.
9
2
12
10
12
p.
9
9
6
0
0
Cost per
head
of average
strength.
9
Rs.
25
9
35
19
29
a.
12
11
8
5
12
p.
6
10
4
9
8
Contingencies.
Total cost.
10
Rs.
48,534
3,355
52,389
17,370
27,748
a.
0
9
9
7
9
p.
2
9
11
4
5
Cost per
bead of
average
strength,
11
Rs.
293
15
308
05
199
a.
6
6
12
8
0
p.
4
4
8
1
4
STATEMENT
Statement showing the number of paying patients treated in the Lunatic Asylums in. the Province
Name of Asylum.
1
RANCHI ...
PATNA ...
Total for
1920 ...
1919 ...
1918 ...
Remaining on the
1st January.
Males.
2
14
2
16
16
2
Females.
3
21
...
21
25
...
Total.
4
35
2
37
41
2
Admitted.
Males.
5
14
2
16
7
16
Females.
6
8
...
8
8
28
Total.
7
(a)22
2
24
15
44
Re-admitted.
Males.
8
...
...
...
1
...
Females.
9
1
...
1
...
...
Total.
10
1
...
1
1
...
Total treated.
Males.
11
28
4
32
24
18
Females.
12
30
...
30
33
28
Total.
13
58
4
62
57
48
(a) Inclusive of three patients transferred from the class of
(b) Inclusive of two patients who have been transferred to the
(c) Inclusive of patients paying less than the rates prescribed in the
(d) Inclusive of two patients in the Ranchi European Lunatic Asylum
33
No. X.
Province of Bihar and Orissa during the year 1920 and the Provincial totals for the two previous years.
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
DEBITS.
Value of
manufactured
goods in
store on 1st
January.
Rs. a. p.
...
267
267
324
289
13
13
3
14
6
6
0
9
Value of
raw materials
In store
on 1st
January.
Rs. a. p.
...
4,443
4,443
2,133
1,714
0
0
14
13
3
3
0
3
Value of
plant and
machinery in
store on 1st
January.
Rs. a. p.
...
1,217
1,217
1,220
1,274
8
8
15
11
0
0
0
0
Raw
materials
purchased.
Rs. a. p.
...
3,597
3,597
8,208
4,534
5
5
3
9
9
9
9
0
Contin-
gencies
of
manufac-
ture.
Rs. a. p.
...
17
17
28
26
9
9
15
0
3
3
6
9
All
other
charges.
Rs. a p.
...
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Total debits.
Rs. a. p.
...
9,513
9,513
11,916
7,840
4
4
3
0
9
9
3
9
16
17
RESULTS.
Excess
of credits or
profits.
Rs. a. p.
...
2,147
2,147
3,618
3,995
11
11
7
14
3
3
8
9
Excess
of
debits
or
loss.
...
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
18
REMARKS.
Average number
employed.
Males.
...
96.67
96.67
94.28
97.27
Females.
...
25.88
25.88
25.92
22.92
Total.
...
122.55
122.55
120.20
120.12
A.
for the year 1920 and the Provincial totals for the two previous years.
Grand Total.
Total cost.
12
Rs.
2,40,716
50,654
2,91,370
1,64,592
1,16,884
a.
3
2
10
7
3
p.
6
0
6
1
0
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
13
Rs.
1,470
202
1,672
855
720
a.
3
4
7
1
0
p.
3
7
10
0
6
Charges on account
of works done by
the Public Works
Department.
Total cost.
14
Rs.
20,759
1,849
22,608
21,723
20,483
a.
0
8
8
8
7
p.
0
0
0
0
0
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
15
Rs.
126
7
134
125
153
a.
12
6
2
11
9
p.
6
2
8
8
3
Rates and Taxes.
Total cost.
16
Rs. a. p.
...
1,180
1,180
688
484
10
10
6
8
0
0
0
0
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
17
Rs. a. p.
...
4
4
2
1
11
11
0
9
6
0
3
11
Cost of printing and
stationery.
Total cost.
18
Rs.
148
58
206
3:2
278
a.
0
12
12
5
2
p.
0
2
2
7
1
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
19
Rs.
0
0
1
1
1
a.
14
3
2
10
15
p.
7
9
4
9
1
Miscellaneous.
Total cost.
20
Rs. a. p.
...
61
61
0
0
0
0
...
2,584 15 0
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
21
Rs. a. p.
...
0
0
3
3
11
11
...
8 10 3
Total expenditure
including all
heads of
expenditure.
Total cost.
22
Rs.
2,61,623
53,904
3,15,427
1,67,308
1,40,715
a.
8
0
8
10
3
p.
6
2
8
8
1
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
23
Rs.
1,597
214
1.812
985
885
a.
14
13
12
1
13
p.
4
11
3
0
8
B.
of Bihar and Orissa during the year 1920 and the Provincial totals for the two previous years.
Discharged and
transferred.
Males.
14
5
1
6
5
2
Females.
15
9
...
9
(d) 7
...
Total.
16
(b) 14
1
15
12
2
Died.
Males.
17
1
...
1
3
...
Females.
18
2
...
2
5
3
Total.
19
3
...
3
8
3
Remaining on the
31st December.
Males.
20
22
3
25
16
16
Females.
21
19
...
19
21
25
Total.
22
(c)
41 3
44
37
41
Daily average
strength.
Males.
23
18.41
2.33
20.74
15.28
13.05
Females.
24
21.24
...
21.24
25.84
20.86
Total.
25
39.65
2.33
41.98
41.12
34.11
REMARKS.
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Pauper patients to that of paying patients.
class of pauper patients.
Bihar and Orissa Lunatic Asylums Manual.
who have been transferred to the class of pauper patients.
B. & O. G. P. (I. G. C. H.) No. 81—207—1-8-1921—E. P. R.
No. 4280-L.S.-G.
GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR AND ORISSA.
(MINISTRY OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT).
RESOLUTION.
Dated the 27th October 1921.
READ—
The Triennial Report on the European Lunatic Asylum at Ranchi and the Indian
Lunatic Asylum at Patna for the years 1918 and 1919 and 1920.
READ ALSO—
The Annual Returns of the European Lunatic Asylum at Ranchi and the Indian
Lunatic Asylum at Patna for the years 1918 and 1919.
1. Ranchi.—In response to strong outside pressure the European section
of the Asylum was opened in May 1918, though the equipment had not yet
been completed and such important features as the electric and permanent
water-supply installations were still only under investigation. Owing, more-
over, to the need for strict economy imposed by war conditions it was impossible
to provide at once a complete set of furniture of permanent quality and, in
consequence, many of the Superintendent's purchases were intended only for
temporary use, until they could be replaced, and supplemented by others
of a more suitable nature.
The defects inevitable in such conditions aroused criticism in the European
press on this side of India ; good progress has, however, since been, and is being,
made in removing them, though the Local Government have been handicapped
in regard to finance as a result of the Reforms Scheme, under which all expen-
diture is to be borne by the provinces which share in the Asylum, without assis-
tance from Central Revenues.
This section of the Asylum, under present arrangements, serves, in addi-
tion to Bihar and Orissa, the provinces of Bengal, the United Provinces, the
Punjab, the Central Province and Berar, Assam, the North-West Frontier
Province and British Baluchistan.
The Indian section is still under construction ; progress has been retarded
owing to the difficulty of obtaining coal, lime and other material, as a result of
the railway-wagon shortage.
2. The numbers of patients treated in the European section were 181 in
1918, 204 in 1919 and 221 in 1920. It is gratifying to note that there has been
a rapid increase in the number of capes ''discharged cured " from 6 in 1918,
(May to December), and 16 in 1919, to 32 in 1920.
The daily average number of patients treated for sickness at the hospital
rose from 4.14 in 1918 to 6.05 in 1919 and 6.84 in 1920, malaria being the
factor mainly responsible. The death-rate percentage, however, calculated on
the average number resident in the Asylum, fell in 1920 to 7.33, against 9.45
in 1919 and 8.36 in 1918.
The important subject of ocupational theraphy has received careful atten-
tion and, though it has not been possible to undertake any organized industry
constant endeavour is made to interest the patients ; the innovation of rewarding
work by a credit at the Asylum shop is reported to have proved a most success-
ful stimulus to industry.
2
3. Patna.—Pending completion of the Indian section at Ranchi, the Patna
Asylum continues to be the only institution in the province for Indian
patients. The total number of lunatics treated fell from 404 in 1918 to 379
in 1919 and 338 in 1920, owing to a gradual decline in the number of new
admissions, especially of military lunatics towards the end of the great War.
The average percentage of " cured '' on daily average strength was
14.22, against 11.15 in the previous triennium. The increase is attributed
mainly to rapid recoveries of military lunatics suffering from acute types of
insanity caused by the strain of field service.
In spite of the fall in population, the daily average of sick in the Asylum
rose from 24.32 in the previous triennium to 34.45 in 1918, 32.67 in 1919,
and 44.42 in 1920; for this regrettable increase influenza epidemics are
reported to be mainly responsible. The deaths, however, fell to 24 in 1920,
from 46 in 1919, and 35 in 1918. The admissions for dysentery, moreover,
declined from 39 in 1918 to 9 only in 1920, as a result, apparently, of the
segregation of patients and "carriers."
Though the Manufacture Department showed an increase in profit, viz.,
an average of Rs. 3,254 against Rs. 2,062 in the previous triennium, mainly
in the first two of the three years now under report, many of the patients, as in
previous years, refused to do any work.
4. There was no overcrowding at either Asylum.
5. In conclusion Government in the Ministry of Local Self-Government
desire to record their appreciation of the good work done by Lt.-Col. Sunder,
who had been in charge of the Patna Lunatic Asylum during the whole of
the period under review except from the 16th September to 20th October 1918,
and by the three Superintendents, Major M. Peebles, Captain Forsyth and
Major Berkeley-Hill, who successively held charge of the European Lunatic
Asylum at Ranchi.
By order of the Government of Bihar and Orissa,
(Ministry of Local Self-Government),
M. G. HALLETT,
Offg. Secretary to Government
ANNUAL RETURNS
OF THE
HOSPITALS FOR MENTAL DISEASES
IN
BIHAR AND ORISSA
WITH BRIEF NOTES
FOR THE YEAR
1921
PATNA:
SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING, BIHAR AND ORISSA.
1922.
Price Re. 1 annas 8.
AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE
SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING,
BIHAR AND ORISSA.
In India.
(1) MESSRS. THACKER, SPINK & Co., Calcutta.
(2) MESSRS. W. NEWMAN & Co., Calcutta.
(3) MESSRS. S. K. LAHIRI & Co., College Street,
Calcutta.
(4) MESSRS. R. CAMBRAY & Co., 6 and 8-2, Hastings
Street, Calcutta.
(5) MESSRS. THOMPSON & Co., Madras.
(6) MESSRS. D. B. TARAPOREVALA, SONS & Co., 103,
Meadow Street, Fort, Post Box No. 18,
Bombay.
(7) MESSRS. M. C. SIRCAR & SONS, 75, Harrison Road,
Calcutta,
(8) PROPRIETOR
OF THE NEWAL
KISHORE PRESS,
Lucknow.
(9) MESSRS. M. N. BURMAN & Co., Bankipur.
(10) BABU RAM DAYAL AGARWALA, 184, Katra Road,
Allahabad.
(11) STANDARD LITERATURE CO., LTD., 13/1, Old Court
House Street, Calcutta.
(12) MANAGER OF THE INDIAN SCHOOL SUPPLY DEPÔT,
309, Bow. Bazar Street, Calcutta.
(13) MESSRS. BUTTERWORTH & Co., LTD., 6, Hastings
Street, Calcutta.
(14) MESSRS. RAM KRISHNA & SONS, Anarkali Street,
Lahore.
In England.
(1) MESSRS. A. CONSTABLE & Co., LTD., 10, Orange
Street, Leicester Square, London, W. C.
(2) MESSRS. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH TRUBNER & Co., 68,
Carter Lane, London, E. C. (Oriental Depart-
ment), and 25, Museum Street, London, W. C.
(3) MR. B. QUARITCH, 11, Grafton Street, New Bond
Street, London, W. C.
(4) MESSRS. P. S. KING & SON, 2 and 4, Great Smith
Street, Westminster, London, S. W.
(5) MR. B. H. BLACKWELL, 50-51, Broad Street,
Oxford.
(6) MESSRS. DEIGHTON BELL & Co., LTD., Trinity
Street, Cambridge
(7) MESSRS. HENRY S. KING & Co., 65, Cornhill,
London, E. C.
(8) MESSRS. GRINDLAY & Co., 54, Parliament Street,
London, S. W.
(9) MESSRS. W. THACKER & Co., 2, Creed Lane,
Ludgate Hill, London, E. C.
(10) MESSRS. LUZAC Co., 46, Great Russell Street,
London, W. C.
(11) MESSRS. OLIVER AND BOYD, Tweeddale Court,
Edinburgh.
(12) MESSRS. E. PONSONBY, LTD., 116, Grafton Street,
Dublin.
(13) T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD., 1, Adelphi Terrace, London, W. C.
On the Continent.
(1) M. ERNEST LEROUX, 28, Rue Bonaparte, Paris,
France.
(2) MARTINUS NIJHOFF, The Hague, Holland.
(3) OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, LEIPZIG.
(4) FREDLANDER AND SOHN, Berlin.
No. 6777.
FROM
COLONEL H. AUSTEN-SMITH, C.I.F., M.B., I.M.S.,
INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF CIVIL HOSPITALS,
BIHAR AND ORISSA,
To
THE SECRETARY TO TH GOVERNMENT OF
BIHAR AND ORISSA, LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
Dated Patna, the 30th June 1922.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit for the information of Government the
statistical returns for 1921 of the Mental Hospitals, previously called lunatic
asylums, in Bihar and Orissa together with the following comments on the
working of these hospitals: —
THE EUROPEAN HOSPITAL FOR MENTAL DISEASES
AT RANCHI.
The Ranchi European Mental Hospital as before continues to receive
patients from the Provinces of Bengal, the United Provinces, the Punjab, Cen-
tral Provinces, Berar, Assam, North-West Frontier Province and British
Baluchistan in addition to those from Bihar and Orissa and provides accommo-
dation for 92 male and 88 female patients.
POPULATION.
The number of patients remaining from the previous year was 94 males
and 71 females. 29 males and 13 females, including 5 voluntary Boarders and
2 cases transferred from the Yeravda Asylum, were admitted and 6 (4 males and
2 females) were readmitted during the year under report. The total population
was 127 males and 86 females and the daily average strength was 84.94 males
and 67.58 females. The maximum number confined on any one night was 94
males and 73 females. There was according to the Superintendent no over-
crowding throughout the year.
The number of observation cases admitted during the year was 7. Of
these 3 were certified and admitted into the Mental Hospital as patients, 2
were released and 2 remained at the end of the year.
SICKNESS AND MORTALITY.
The total number of patients treated for diseases other than mental during
the year under report was 139 against 121 in the previous year. The increase
was due to readmissions in several cases. The proportion per cent. of sick persons
to daily average strength was 4.38 as compared with 7.84 in 1920 and the
health of the patients was on the whole good throughout the year. Except
assaults on two patients by certain members of the inferior staff none received
injuries worthy of notice. There was no case of epidemic disease during
the year under review.
There were 13 deaths during the year as compared with 12 in the previous
year. The principal cause of death was pneumonia which accounts for five
4
sion, the Deputy Commissioner, the Civil Surgeon and the Superintendent
of Police, Ranchi. It was also visited by numerous sympathisers, European
and Indian, of both sexes,
PATNA MENTAL HOSPITAL.
The Patna Mental Hospital is the only Institution for Indians in this Pro-
vince and it provides accommodation for 330 male and 66 female patients. The
proposed central asylum for Indians at Ranchi is still under construction.
POPULATION.
The number of patients at the commencement of the year was 254.
Forty-nine males and 6 females were admitted and 7 males including 3 cases
of re-capture were re-admitted. The daily average strength during the year
under report was 220.38 males and 48.10 females or total 268.48. The maxi-
mum number confined in one night was 225 males and 50 females. There
was no over-crowding during the year under review.
The total number of recoveries was 9 and the percentage of cure to daily
average strength was 3.35 as compared with 6.79 in the previous year. The
decrease is due to a small number of recoveries among the criminal lunatics,
and to fewer admissions of military patients who were cured shortly after
admission in the previous year.
SICKNESS AND MORTALITY.
416 patients consisting of 339 males and 77 females were treated during
the year for diseases other than mental. The daily average sick including
epileptic cases was 57.50 as compared with 44.42 in the previous year. The
increase is due to the inclusion of epileptic cases among hospital patients
and the outbreak of Cholera in epidemic form. The number of patients
admitted in bad or indifferent health was very high.
There were 28 deaths among the patients during the year under review
against 22 in the previous year. The percentage of deaths to daily average
strength was 10.42 as compared with 8.79 in 1920. The increase is due to 6
deaths from Cholera. The chief causes of death were Cholera, Tuberculosis,
Ankylostomiasis, exhaustion from acute Mania and Anæmia. Two of the
patients committed suicide by hanging.
This lowered mortality is due to the systematic treatment of Ankylostoma
infection with Chenopodium Oil or Thymol, given for 9 consecutive weeks,
after the last detection of Ova.
A perusal of the following facts regarding the rate of Ankylostoma infec-
tion of the population and death-rate is of interest :—
Year.
1
1914
...
...
...
...
...
1915
...
...
...
...
...
1916
...
...
...
...
...
1917 ... ... ... ... ...
1918 ... ... ... ... ...
1919
...
...
...
...
...
1920 ... ... ... ... ...
1921
...
...
...
...
...
Per
cent of
Ankylostoma
infection.
2
53.50
45.48
61.60
67.45
55.41
75.81
57.81
7.64
Death-rate to
daily average
strength.
3
40
41
35
35
35
46
24
28
5
Tubercular patients were, whenever possible, kept in an open ward.
Dysentry cases unless violent were segregated in a special ward, with the result
that the disease was practically confined to the 9 old patients of last year.
There were only 2 fresh cases this year. All patients were vaccinated or re-
vaccinated against small-pox immediately after admission. Prophylactic use
of quinine was successfully employed against Malaria. The wards were washed
with a weak solution of lime water twice a week and with Phenyle on other
days. This was found very useful in keeping off the flies and making the
wards sweet.
A criminal lunatic killed a keeper with a heavy padlock under the insane
delusion that the inferior staff were conspiring to murder him. A pension
of Rs. 8 per month for 12 years was awarded to the son of the murdered
keeper.
OBSERVATION CASES.
The number of observation cases was 13. Of these 7 were certified insane
and were admitted, 1 was certified but was released under section 14 of the
Lunacy Act, and 3 were discharged uncertifiable. 2 remained till the end of the
year.
CRIMINAL LUNATICS.
The year opened with 102 male and 15 female criminal lunatics and 17
male and 1 female criminal lunatics were admitted during the year. Three
criminal males including 1 case of recapture of an escaped lunatic were re-
admitted. The daily average strength of such lunatics was 101.96 males and
14.36 females against 105 males and 13.96 females in previous year.
RELIGION, SEX, AND RESIDENCE, ETC.
45 Hindu, 9 Muhammadan and 2 Indian Christian males and 2
each of Hindu, Muhammadan and Indian Christian females were admitted.
28 males and 3 females belonged to Bihar proper, 9 males and 2
females to Chota Nagpur, 3 males only to Orissa, 1 male only to Bengal,
1 female only to the United Provinces and 1 male only to Madras. The residence
of 14 males could not be ascertained.
PREVIOUS OCCUPATION.
Of those admitted 15 were cultivators, 9 were labourers, 4 beggars and 3
constables. In 13 cases the previous occupation was not known.
AGE.
Of the 62 admissions in the year 3 were aged less than 20, 39 between 20
to 40, 18 between 40 to 60, and 2 more than 60.
TYPES OF INSANITY.
The number of patients admitted under the four main types were errors of
development 2, disorders of functions 85, result of infective toxœmia and
other general conditions 5, and degenerations 49. Changes in type of insanity
of the patients admitted were shown during the year under report by discharg-
ing them from the head under which they were admitted previously and admit-
ting them under the new type which they exhibited.
ÆTIOLOGICAL FACTORS.
The history of patients particularly about ætiological factors and associat-
ed conditions leading to insanity continues to be defective. In 29 out of 56
males and 4 our of 6 females admitted nothing could be ascertained. In the
remaining 29 cases it was found that toxic causes were the chief ætiological
factors and associated conditions in producing insanity. Mental stress, sudden
or prolonged, came next.
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FINANCE.
The total expenditure exclusive of the amount received from paying
patients, was Rs. 57,117-8-0 against Rs. 53,860-12-11 in 1920. There was
increased expenditure under the head establishment owing to the revision of
pay of the staff and of the employment of six temporary Keepers. The
average cost per head exclusive of all Public Works Department charges was
Rs. 202-9-9, as compared with Rs. 207-7-9 in the previous year.
The total value of articles received from the manufacturing department
exclusive of the cost of raw material was Rs. 3,096-9-5 against Rs. 1,664-5-2
in 1920. The increase is due to better supervision and to the fact that raw
materials were purchased at a cheaper rate and so the profit was greater.
ESTABLISHMENT.
Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Sunder, I.M.S., was Superintendent of the
Patna Mental Hospital from the 1st January to the 31st March 1921. He
was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel B. R. Chatterton who remained in
charge till the end of the year.
I should like to place on record the excellent work of Lieutenant-
Colonel C. E. Sunder. He has always taken a great interest in the
comfort of his patients . and has done all he could for their welfare and
benefit. The work of Lieutenant-Colonel B. R. Chatterton too has been of the
highest order. He has done all he could for the benefit of his patients and he
is deserving of the greatest credit.
I am glad to state that the pay of the deserving staff has been revised
during the year. The conduct of the staff has been excellent throughout the
year.
GENERAL.
The patients were well looked after and well fed. They were provided
with extra clothing and diet when necessary. A sum of Rs. 95 was
spent in providing for the amusement of the patients and books, newspapers
and musical instruments were supplied for the patients in order to pass
the time more pleasantly. The average number of patients employed in the
manufacturing department was 129.69 and about 60 were employed in the
general work of the Mental Hospital. Well-behaved and hard-working
patients were rewarded with monthly stipends.
I have the honour to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient servant,
H. AUSTEN SMITH, C.I.E., M.B., COL., I.M.S.,
Inspector-General
of Civil Hospitals, Bihar and Orissa.
STATEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN HOSPITAL FOR MENTAL DISEASES AT
RANCHI.