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13. Excluding receipts for paying patients and miscellaneous receipts which are
credited to Government, the total expenditure for the up-keep of the Mental Hospital
amounted to Rs. 1,06,341-10-9 against Rs. 96,781-12-11 in 1925. The average cost
per head was Rs. 212-6-7 against Rs. 219-14-2 in the previous year. The increase
is due to greater expenditure on establishment, medical stores and public works, and
to a rise in the price of paddy. Excluding the public works department charges,
repairs and maintenance charges, rates and taxes, receipts from paying patients and
profits on manufactures, the average cost per inmate works out to Rs. 165-5-9 against
Rs. 167-5-0 in 1925.
The profits in the Manufactory Department were Rs. 14,209-6-8 against
Rs. 12,243-4-5 in 1925 or an average of Rs. 118-12-5 per head of inmates employed on
manufactures against bis. b8-12-10. The principal item of expenditure was the cost
of " Diet " which amounted to Rs. 49,592-14-6 against Rs. 48,343-9-2 in 1925. The
average cost per head was Rs. 113-0-9 against Rs. 109-13-8 in the previous year.
MISCELLANEOUS.
14. The male inmates are employed on cultivation of vegetables, sugarcane and
jute, the manufacture of gur, repairs to buildings and
mp oyment o inmates.
palisading, carpentry, tailoring, daily routine of systematic
cleaning and disinfection of buildings, clothing and cots, cooking of food, cleaning
of utensils, etc. The females are employed on paddy husking, preparation of spices,
grinding of pulse for cattle food, and ordinary routine duties such as cleaning and
disinfection of their clothing.
All inmates are encouraged as far as possible to play various games and those
who are literate are provided with books, newspapers and pictorial magazines.
15. There was no addition to the accommodation for inmates during the year.
The accommodation available for inmates including filthy
wards, cells, hospitals and tubercle wards was for 356
males and 85 females or a total of 411. The maximum number confined on any one
night during the year was 442.
16. Water-supply is very inadequate, even though it is supplemented with well
water. The food is good and sufficient. Extra allowance
Hospital and sanitary arrange- 0 f milk, dahi, rum, eggs, fruit and mustard oil are given
TDeut8,
to the inmates in poor health and to tubercular cases.
Great care is taken in the matter of personal cleanliness —inmates taking their bath
daily and their clothing being boiled and washed weekly. The cots of each barrack
are scalded weeklv.
Night-soil is regularly trenched in a selected site on hospital land outside the
stockade and infected stools are destroyed in an incinerator. Latrine parade in a spe-
cial trench continues.
ins eedon
ty ^e hospital was not inspected during the year.
18. Twelve meetings were held by the visitors during
the year.
19. Administrative approval to the revised project for reconstructing the Mental
Hospital was accorded at an estimated cost of Rs. 8,35,054
General remarks.
during ^ year ^^ hag a j ready CommenCe d on SOmC
of the female barracks and it is hoped to complete the reconstruction within 2or<j
years. The lay out of the site is excellent, every provision has been made for stall
anl menial quarters and for ample accommodation for inmates in up-to-date pucca
barracks, hospitals, cells, etc., with room for expansion if necessary. As the new con-
struction proceeds the overcrowding and many of the present difficulties will gradually
disappear and the jails will be relieved of many criminal and non-criminal lunatics
for whom no other accommodation is available at the present time.
The watei'-supply from the municipality is still extremely defective and quit 0
insufficient to fill the large reservoir, chiefly owing to the fact that the water main
tapped at a number of points over a considerable distance before its termination »
this hospital. It will be necessary to obtain expert advice at an early date to ensure
constant and adequate supply. Bathing water is provided from an old well.
The nuirber of criminal lunatics is steadily increasing, the daily average havi »
risen from 106-15 t) 212 12 during the last 3 years, and it is only possible to admit tfl
most serious and chronic casss among non-criminals. Hence the percentage °*
coveries to daily strength is diminishing year by year.
Meetings.