Sickness and mortality : Statement
No. I.
Out of a total of 60 admissions (including re-admissions), 56 were Hindus, 5
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Muhammadans, 2 Native Christians and 3 were of other
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castes; 3i were natives of the province, 30 were trom
other provinces and the residences of the remaining 5 were
not known. Of the total admissions 51 wore males and 15 females.
As usual the largest number of insanes were cultivators and tea-garden coolies.
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Statement No. V shows that the largest number o f insane
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wcre between 20 and 40 years ol age.
The forms of these two statements have been revised by the Government of
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India, Home Department, Resolution Nos. 221-234, daed
I item^ntsNos^vTand VIL my the 2Gth March 1912, and the form of Statement VI has
been further amended by the Government of India, Home
Department, letter No. 2233C, dated the 29th March 1913. Of the 66 admissions
and re-admissions, 33 were for mania, 2t for melancholia, 1 for idiocy, 1 for delu-
sional insanity, 6 for insanity of Haschisch and 1 for senile dementia.
There is little or no improvement in the part of the Medical History sheet filled
in by the Police. The pre-disposing cause was not given in 64 out of a total of 66
cases and the exciting cause was not ascertained in 47- Heredity was the pro-disposing
cause in 2 cases. Gcwja, charas or bhang are reported to have been the exciting cause
in 6 cases, fever in 3, epilepsy in 5, previous attack in 2, and alcohol, senility and
valvular heart disease in 1 each.
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4. The number of admissions to hospital as well as daily average siok was greater,
being 202 and 21*76 against 149 and 14'27 respectively,
than in the previous year. Most of the admissions to
hospital were due to malarial fevers, dysentery, tubercle of
the lungs and intestines, diarrhoea, abscesses, ulcers, boils and anajmia. The number
of deaths was also greater, being 47 against 23 in 1911. The percentage of deaths to
daily average strength was 20'23 against 9*78 in the previous year. The chief causes
of death in tho Asylum during the year under report were tubercle of the lungs and
intestines (23), anaemia (10), dysentery (4), epilepsy (3), pneumonia (2), and old age
and general debility (2).
The heavy death-rate was due mainly to the increased mortality from tubercle of
the lungs and intestines which caused nearly half the number of deaths and also to the
fact that, of the 27 patients remaining in hospital from the previous year some of
whom were admitted as long ago as 1910, 19 died during the year under report.
Heaths from tubercle of the lungs and intestines in 1911 and 1910 were 10 and 12,
respectively. This is as remarked in last year's report, undoubtedly the result of over-
crowding and abi-eace of any means of segregation for infectious cases. In connection
with the heavy mortality from tubercular diseases the Superintendent of the Asylum
Major E. C. MacLeod, I.M.S., remarks, " The spread of tuberculosis, is a cause of
considerable anxiety and I trust that with the provision of ample air space and segre-
gation sheds the mortality from this cause will rapidly decrease ".
In September 1912 a thatched building to accommodate 17 tubercular patients
was erected outside the asylum and 13 such patients are now occupying this buildnig.
As ordered by the Hon'ble the Chief Commissioner at his inspection in the same
month two more temporary tubercle wards to provide accommodation for 10 males
and 8 females have been constructed and are occupied. These with the four temporary
barracks which are being constructed in view of the anticipated increase in the popu-
lation will relieve overcrowding. Of the four temporary wards two, one for males and
one for females, will be ready for occupation in a few days and tho remaining two
by the 1st June next.
The ratios of deaths percent, of average strength amongst the inmates of the
lunatic asylums in the different provinces of India in 1912 were as follows
1. Bengal
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7. Bombay
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