Report on the Jubbulpore Lunatic Asylum for the year 1892.
Additions and Alterations.
In addition to the usual annual repairs to the buildings which were done by the
Public Works Department, a few latrine for males and females was built for the use of the
warders and their families.
STATEMENT No. I.
The number of patients remaining of 1st January was 130 (104 males, 26 females),
this was a little below the average of the last ten years which was 134.3. The number of
admissions, was 34 (26 males, 8 females) the highest number since 1877. There was one
re-admissions, a criminal lunatic suffering from epileptic insanity. The total population was
165 (131 males, 34 females), of these 13 (11 males, 2 females) were discharged cured, 1 (male)
discharged improved, 2 (1 male, 1 female) discharged otherwise, and 8 (7 males, 1 female) died,
leaving 141 (111 males, 30 females) under treatment at the close of the year.
Of the 34 admissions 4 (3 males, 1 female) were criminal lunatics. Of the 13 dis-
charged cured, 9 were cases of mania, 2 of toxic insanity, and 2 of consecutive insanity
following fever, their residence in the asylum varying from 2½ months to 3 years and 11
months. One was discharged improved, a case of dementia which after a residence in the
asylum of more than 1½ years was made over to the care of his relatives on the usual
security being given.
Of the 2 discharged otherwise, one, a criminal lunatic, was sent to the Jail to undergo
his trial, the other, a female, escaped from the asylum.
The greatest number confined in any one night was 147 (116 males, 31 females), the
capacity of the asylum being for 163 (125 males, 38 females), so there was no over-crowding.
The daily average strength was 139.86 compared with 133.77 in the preceding year, this
was an increase of 6.09.
The percentage of cured to daily average strength was 9.30 against 8.97 in 1891. The
percentage of cured to admissions was 37.14 against 41.38 last year. The percentage of deaths
to daily average strength was 5.72 against 11.21 and to admissions 22.86 against 51.72 in the
preceding year.
STATEMENT No. II.
At the beginning of the year there were 31 criminal lunatics (27 males, 4 females) in the
asylum, 4 (3 males, 1 female) were admitted and one (male) was re-admitted making a total
treated of 36 (31 males, 5 females), of these 2 died, 2 were declared by the official visitors as
capable of making their defence, 1 was made over to the custody of his relatives, and 1,
a female, esca ped from the asylum three days after her admission. The number remaining at
the end of the year was 30, the average for the last ten years being 28.9.
STATEMENT No. III.
Of the 35 admissions 19 were sent by the Magistrate of Jubbulpore, 5 from Saugor,
4 from Nimar, 2 from Mandla, and 1 each from Narsinghpur, Rewah, Neemuch, Nowgong
and Chhindwara. The latter district should send its lunatics to the Nagpur Asylum,
vide Book Circular No. XXXI of 1892, but the case admitted was that of a criminal
lunatic, and in the Chief Commissioner's orders the Jubbulpore Asylum was the place he was
directed to be confined in.
The great majority of the admissions, 26 were Hindus, 7 were Mahomedans with 1 Chris-
tian and 1 other caste.
STATEMENTS NOS. IV and V.
These do not call for any remark.