4
During the triennium under review, mendicants formed on an average
the largest number of admissions, followed by labourers, domestic servants,
soldiers, merchants and traders, artisans, cultivators and clerks. On an average
54 cases had no occupation and in 40 cases it could not be ascertained.
7. The total number of insanes treated for the various types of insanity
during the triennium under review, as compared with the mean of the previous
one, and the results attained, are summarized in the subjoined table :—
Idiocy ... ...
Mania, acute or chronic ...
Melancholia ... ...
Dementia including ac-
quired ... ...
Mental Stupor ...
General paralysis of the in-
sane
...
...
Delusional Insanity ...
Declared to have recover-
ed or not yet diagnosed .
Total treated.
1908.
71
669
358
159
6
4
53
6
1907.
68
731
312
161
5
1
53
6
1906.
65
678
311
165
2
2
62
2
Mean of Triennium
1906—08.
68
683
327
162
4
2
56
5
Mean of Triennium
1903-05.
55
626
270
153
1
2
60
...
Recovered.
1908.
1
97
39
6
1
...
7
2
1907.
1
101
25
6
1
...
6
...
1906.
2
84
15
5
...
...
8
...
Mean of Triennium
1906—08.
1
94
26
6
1
...
7
1
Mean of Triennium
1903-05.
1
88
15
2
...
...
9
...
Improved.
1908.
1
31
22
6
...
1
1
...
1907.
3
53
18
9
1
...
2
...
1906.
...
34
16
7
...
...
5
...
Mean of Triennium
1906—08.
1
40
19
7
...
...
3
...
Mean of Triennium
1903—05.
1
40
45
7
1
...
14
...
Not improved.
1908.
2
10
7
2
...
1
3
...
1907.
3
12
18
4
...
...
8
...
1906.
...
16
35
9
1
1
16
...
Mean of Triennium
1906—08.
2
13
20
5
...
1
9
...
Mean of Triennium
1903—05.
1
17
12
4
...
...
6
...
Died.
1908.
6
41
23
12
...
1
3
...
1907.
6
37
11
12
...
...
1
...
1906.
2
26
19
13
1
...
...
...
Mean of Triennium
1906-08.
5
35
18
12
...
...
1
...
Mean of Triennium
1903-05.
2
30
13
12
...
...
2
...
8. Specific causes were assigned in 719 cases, or 54.2 per cent. as compared
with 698 cases or 53.4 per cent. in 1907 and 706 cases or 54.9 per cent. in 1906.
The mean ratio thereof for these three years was 54.2 against 54.1 for the
previous three years (1903—1905). Of the known causes, there were :—
Average.
Physical ... ...
Moral ... ...
1908.
592
127
1907.
555
143
1906.
576
130
1906—08.
574
133
1903—05.
494
137
Of the physical causes, the use of intoxicating drugs and over-indulgence
in spirituous liquors, previous attacks, hereditary predisposition, fever, epilepsy
and mental trouble, accounted for most of the cases under confinement. The
causes of insanity were unknown in 607 cases as compared with 609 and 581
cases respectively in 1907 and 1906, the mean number for these three years
being 599 against 536 for the previous three years.
The following table shows the results of patients treated during the trien-
nium under review as compared with the previous triennial period :—
Total treated ...
Recovered ...
Improved
...
Not Improved
...
Died ...
Total known.
Physical.
1908.
592
70
29
8
46
1907.
555
53
37
20
24
1906.
576
57
35
36
29
Average of
1906—08
574
60
34
22
33
Average of
1903—05.
494
54
38
15
20
Moral.
1908.
127
12
7
4
5
1907.
143
15
13
7
7
1906.
130
11
6
2
3
Average of
1906-08.
133
13
9
4
5
Average of
1903-05.
137
18
18
5
4
Total unknown.
1908.
607
71
26
13
35
1907.
609
72
36
18
36
1906.
581
46
21
40
29
Average of
1906-08.
599
63
27
24
33
Average of
1903—05.
536
43
52
20
35
9. The receipts from paying patients rose from Rs. 22,336-0-2 in 1906 to
Rs. 25,540-11-0 in 1907 and Rs. 25,593-14-0 in 1908, the average receipts for
these three years being Rs. 24,490-3-1 as compared with Rs. 17,676-14-5 in the
previous triennium 1903—05.
10. The total expenditure amounted to Rs. 3,30,983-13-7 against
Rs. 2,28,833-2-10 in 1907 and Rs. 1,97,345-2-2 in 1906. If the sums received
from paying patients and from the sale of goods to the public, and those made