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a surgery and dispensing room. The old office has been taken into use as a
ward for special cases, contagious or otherwise. The latrine attached to the
Judicial Commissioner's Court has been converted into a dead-house; there never
has been a dead-house attached to the Asylum, and the want of one has often
been felt The old wheat grinding room in the female enclosure has been con-
verted into cells, as it was found that more accommodation was needed for re-
fractory and violent female lunatics. It has also been found that some private
accommodation for non-criminal paying patients was urgently needed, where
they could obtain the complete absence of home associations, and the necessary
freedom from household worries and the over-anxious attentions of friends and
relatives, all of which are so absolutely necessary for successful treatment in
many cases of acute mania, which are almost the only cases in whom the prog-
nosis may be said to be comparatively favourable; a separate cook-house for
these paying patients has also been provided. Accommodation for European
and Eurasian male and female lunatics has also been provided by small altera-
tions and additions to existing barracks (east and west bungalows). A small
shed for boiling the lunatics' clothes has also been erected. Ambajheri water
has been laid on for drinking purposes. "Pucca" drains have been constructed
in the enclosures to No. 2 ward. The walls of all the wards and cells have
been painted 4 feet high with a coating of coal tar. A large masonry tank,
20 feet in length, 3½ feet in breadth and 2½ feet in height, has been constructed near
the reservoir for bathing purposes, and a wall to screen the platform where the
females bathe. The annual repairs, whitewashing, &c., have been carried out.
A great many trees (lime, mango, teak, &c.) have been planted all over
the Asylum premises.
Surgeon-Major G. F. A. Harris held charge throughout the year.
First Class Hospital Assistant Abdul Majid Khan has held the office of De-
puty Superintendent throughout the year, and I cannot too strongly bring to
notice his conscientious devotion to duty and tactful management of the luna-
tics under his care. I have been completely satisfied with his work.
S. M. Santio, the clerk and compounder, has also worked well throughout the
year. In the month of May he was deputed to the Jubbulpore Lunatic Asylum,
with the permission and approval of the Administrative Medical Officer, to en-
quire into the working of the Asylum at Jubbulpore for purposes of com-
parison with the Nagpur Asylum ; and the knowledge and experience he gained,
I trust, will prove of benefit in the future for the Nagpur Asylum.
The usual monthly visitors' meetings were held, and the half-yearly
meetings on the 12th January and 13th July 1894. The Asylum was inspected
by the Chief Commissioner on the 13th November, by the Surgeon-General
with the Government of India on the 22nd November, and by the Administra-
tive Medical Officer, Central Provinces, on the 30th April, 10th July, 31st July
and 22nd November 1894.
NAGPUR :
The 16th January 1895.
G. F. A. HARRIS, M. R. C. P., LON.,
Surgeon-Major, I. M. S.,
Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum.