2
due to short rainfall, the well in the Asylum garden, from which drinking
water was usually obtained, ran dry and water was carted in casks from the
jail well. This supply was evidently not contaminated, as the prisoners in
the jail were being similarly supplied and no cases occurred among them.
In the Asylum, however, there was another water cart used for drawing water
from an adjacent tank for the garden, and it is believed the infection was
conveyed by this water cart either by some water from it having been emptied
into the drinking water cisterns, or more probably from a vessel contaminated
by this dirty water having been used to carry drinking water. The precautions
used to stop the epidemic were as follows :—The whole of the drinking and
bathing water for the lunatics was boiled, cisterns and water cart were filled
with a strong solution of permanganate of potash and left so for 12 hours; and
all the vessels used by the lunatics were boiled. These measures apparently
stopped the epidemic."
The total number of criminal insanes was 142 males and 20 females as
compared with 133 males and 19 females in 1904, and 117 males and 17 females
in 1903, the triennial period under report showing on an average an increase of
17 over the previous triennium (1900-02). The daily average strength averaged
119.8 against 112.2 in 1904 and 109.1 in 1903, the mean of these three years
being 113.7 as compared with 105.8 of the preceding ones (1900-02).
Of the total admissions during the two triennia, there were—
Hindus ...
Mahomedans ...
Europeans and Eurasians ...
Native Christians ...
Other Castes ...
Total ...
1905.
156
85
69
24
33
367
1904.
165
85
110
15
26
401
1903.
114
65
98
19
21
317
Average.
1903-05.
145
78
92
20
27
862
1900-02.
125
61
81
15
25
307
and the admissions according to age—
Under 20 ...
Between 20 and 40 ...
„
40 and 60 ...
Upwards of 60 ...
1905.
19
277
64
7
1904.
20
318
60
8
1903.
9
253
51
4
Average.
1903-05.
16
283
58
5
1900-02.
27
235
43
2
During the triennium under review as well as in that of the previous one,
soldiers furnished the largest number of admissions, followed by labourers, clerks,
domestic servants, and merchants and traders.
The total number of insanes treated for the various types of insanity and
and the results are summarized in the subjoined table :—
Idiocy
...
...
...
Mania, acute or chronic ...
Melancholia „
„ ...
Dementia, including ac-
quired
...
...
...
Mental stupor
...
...
General paralysis of the
insane
...
...
...
Delusional insanity ...
Declared to have recevered
or not yet diagnosed ...
Total ..
Total Treated.
1905.
60
645
280
153
...
2
63
...
1,203
1904.
53
628
280
110
3
3
67
...
1,163
1903.
51
605
210
156
1
1
51
...
1,114
Mean of triennium
1903-05.
55
626
270
153
1
2
60
...
11,167
Mean of triennium
1900-02.
58
554
243
180
1
1
38
2
1,086
Recovered.
1905.
2
98
16
3
...
...
6
...
125
1904.
1
95
19
3
...
...
9
...
127
1903.
1
71
9
1
1
...
10
...
93
Mean of triennium
1903-05.
1
88
15
2
...
...
9
...
115
M ean of trienniun
1900-02.
1
50
16
4
...
...
4
1
76
Improved.
1905.
...
22
19
4
...
...
3
...
48
1904.
1
41
53
8
2
...
25
...
133
1903.
3
53
61
10
...
...
15
...
142
Mean of triennium
1903-05.
1
40
45
7
1
...
14
...
108
M ean of triennium
1900-02.
3
42
44
13
...
...
12
...
114
Not Improved.
1905.
3
22
24
10
...
...
17
...
76
1904.
1
8
6
...
1
1
1
...
18
1902.
...
19
4
1
...
...
1
...
25
Mean of triennium
1903-05.
1
17
12
4
...
...
6
...
40
M ean of triennium
1900-02.
1
10
5
1
...
...
1
...
18
Died.
1905.
2
30
12
5
...
1
2
...
52
1904.
3
20
14
13
...
...
2
...
58
1903.
2
34
13
16
...
...
1
...
66
Mean of triennium
1903-05.
2
30
13
12
...
...
2
...
59
M ean of triennium
1900-02.
5
43
22
24
...
...
2
...
96