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FINANCE.
Excluding receipts from paying patients which were credited to Government, the
total expenditure was Us. 24,889-16-5 in 1912, Rs. 37,50?.
VrJS^A Vm ' IX ftn ? X ' u - n in 1913 »nd Rs. 76,119-6-8 in 1914, i.e., an average
hspenditure and cost per inmate.
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of Rs. 43,017-7-0, against Rs. 23,734-3-3 in the previous
triennium. The cost per head was Rs. 104-14-10 in 1912, Rs. 154-11-9 in 1913 and
Its. 270-11-11 in. 1914, against Rs. 111-12 6, Rs. 97-5-4 and Rs. 98-4-10 in 1909,1
1910 and 1911, respectively. Excluding the Public Works Department charges
repairs and maintenance, rates and taxes, receipts from paying patients and profitsi
on manufactures, the average cost per inmate works out to Rs 77*7-10 in 1912
Rs. 91-9-2 in 1913 and Rs. 111-2-4 in 1914, against Rs. 9J-2-1, Rs. 79-2-3 anil
Rs. 76-2-0 in 1909, 1910 and 1911 respectively.
The increase in the expenditure in 1914 was due to a variety of causes, the prin-
cipal being a Public Works Department charge of Rs. 37,030 for buildings, etc.
Amongst other causes may be mentioned—an increased rate of allowance to the
Superintendent, an increase in the pay of the Deputy Superintendent, the appoint-
ment of a separate Sub-Assistant Surgeon for the hospital, the revision of pay as well
as the strength of subordinate establishment and the increased expenditure under
diet, clothing and bedding, contingencies proper, Europe and .Bazar Medicines, etc.,
owing to an increase in the number of inmates, as also to the increased cost of food
supplies. The principal item of expenditure was the cost of diet which amounted
to Rs. 12,077-8-9 in 3912, Rs. 13,541-3-0 in 1913 and Rs. 18,733-3-3 in 1914
against Rs. 12,861-7-0, Rs. 11,950-6-3 and Rs. 11,839-15-9 in 1909, 1910 and 19111
respectively. The average cost per lunatic was Rs. 52, Rs. 55-12-6 and Rs. 66-10-1
against Rs. 58-7-3, Rs. 49-7-7 and Rs. 50-6-1 respectively.
The receipts from paying patients amounted to Rs. 281-4-9 in 1912, Rs. 586-6-21
in 1913 and Rs. 313-12-6 in 1914, against Rs. 225-12-0 in 1909, Rs. 61-14-0 in
1910 and Rs. 347-12-4 in 1911 respectively. The profits on manufacture in 1912,
1913 and 1914 were Rs. 5,746-13-0, Rs. 6,269-1-9 and Rs. 7,411-14-11 against'
Rs. 3,504-10-3, Rs. 3,873-6-6 and Rs. 4,878-11-0 in 1909, 1910 and 1911 respec-
tively. There has been a steady increase in profits every year.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tlie inmates are mainly employed on cultivation of paddy, jute, sugarcane
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manufacture of bricks and surki pounding. Healthy and
well behaved lunatics were employed by the Municipality for road making. Females
were generally employed in weaving cloth, steaming and husking paddy and surki
pounding.
During the triennium under report 2 temporary barracks each for 40 males
and 50 females were built to relieve overcrowding, and
four temporary wards for tubercular cases to accommodate
48 males and 8 females were also constructed. The present accommodation is for 245
males and 91 females.
Tho maximum number of lunatics confined on any one night during the triennium
was ?37 males and 56 females, i.e., a total of 293.
Night-soil is trenched on a selected site on asylum land outside the stockade, but
infectious stools are destroyed in an incinerator. The old
^Fanitary and Hospital arrange- maaonpy day-latrines have' been replaced by Donaldson's
pattern latrines-—12 for males and 4 for females.
Kerosene oil is used for destroying mosquito larvie in possible breeding places.
Two pucoa drains were constructed in 1914 at a cost of Rs. 1,700 —one 213 feet
long from the cookshed to the south-west hola and the other, the main drain, 532 / -C"
in length from the w oil outside the asylum front entrance to the same hola.
The water supply is good but not sufficient. This will be remedied with tho
introduction of the municipal water-supply scheme. The food is g*>d and Sufficient
and there is an ample supply of vegetables grown in the Asylum. Great care is taken
lie matter of personal cleanliness, the inmates bathe daily and their clothing i
iled and washed weekly. The blankets and bedding are exposed to the sun and
ted when necessary, and the supply IA adequate.
Accommodation.