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GENERAL REPORT.
5
STATEMENT No. VI.
Records of past years.
ASYLUMS.
Dullundah
12 years
Dacca ...
13 years
Patna
...
13 years
Cuttack ...
10 years
Moydapore
13 years
Benares ...
13 years
Bareilly ...
13 years
Agra ...
2 years
Nagpore...
9 years
Jubbulpore
7 years
Lucknow...
8 years
Delhi
...
7 years
Lahore ...
11 years
Rangoon...
3 years
TOTAL...
ADMITTED.
Males.
1,463
1,040
894
200
260
666
1,424
153
279
262
559
183
1,224
186
8,793
Females.
501
247
191
38
51
163
420
44
66
57
208
54
273
26
2,339
Total.
1,964
1,287
1,085
238
311
829
1,844
197
345
319
767
237
1,497
212
11,132
DISCHARGED
CURED.
Males.
696
461
496
91
138
294
684
57
94
87
218
102
511
25
3,954
Females.
230
108
91
18
25
68
160
15
19
15
72
24
106
5
956
Total.
926
569
587
109
163
362
844
72
113
102
290
126
617
30
4,910
DISCHARGED
OTHERWISE.
Males.
249
214
83
35
53
122
55
13
59
17
80
30
95
29
1,134
Females.
48
54
14
1
4
19
6
3
4
4
31
8
23
3
222
Total.
297
268
97
36
57
141
61
16
63
21
111
38
118
32
1,356
DIED.
Males.
385
350
184
30
46
229
559
6
69
77
242
26
600
16
2,819
Females.
175
73
48
10
15
64
221
8
21
15
95
12
131
2
890
Total.
560
423
232
40
61
293
780
14
90
92
337
38
731
18
3,709
RECOVERIES PER
CENT. OF
ADMISSIONS.
Males.
47.5
44.32
55.18
45.5
53.07
44.14
48.03
37.25
33.69
33.2
38.99
55.73
41.74
13.44
44.96
Females.
45.9
43.72
47.64
47.36
49.02
41.71
38.09
34.09
28.78
26.31
34.61
44.44
38.82
19.23
40.87
Total.
47.15
67.04
44.21
36.22
54.1
51.58
45.8
68.75
52.41
43.9
43.66
47.27
45.77
41.51
30.54
36.93
32.75
37.14
31.97
52.16
37.81
43.95
53.16
30.77
41.21
47.11
14.1
28.81
44.1
47.08
DEATHS PER CENT.
OF ADMISSIONS.
Males.
26.31
33.05
20.58
15.
17.69
34.38
39.25
3.92
24.73
29.38
43.29
14.2
49.01
8.6
32.05
Females.
34.93
29.55
25.13
26.31
29.41
39.26
52.61
18.18
31.81
26.31
45.67
22.22
47.98
7.69
38.05
Total.
28.51
19.6
32.86
37.
21.38
21.42
16.8
6.25
19.61
9.75
35.34
29.09
42.29
28.3
71
8.1
26.08
25.71
28.84
27.87
43.93
24.17
16.03
20.51
48.83
50.96
8.48
21.15
33.31
25.17
PERCENTAGE
OF DAILY
AVERAGE
STRENGTH
PER ANNUM.
Recoveries.
30.02
37.37
19.73
18.81
29.41
2.41
30.38
22.33
37.75
30.02
25.21
21.10
27.99
14.91
60.98
50.2
14.31
11.87
18.53
26.33
25.77
29.35
50.78
26.31
23.34
20.59
9.17
11.62
25.83
24.19
Deaths.
18.15
10.8
14.67
19.2
11.62
10.05
11.15
2.03
14.12
6.7
20.41
12.98
25.87
10.16
11.85
11.03
11.4
8.22
16.71
13.83
29.95
16.14
15.31
17.54
27.65
22.27
5.5
8.5
19.51
12.93
Recovery rate.
We thus see that the average recovery rate of all the asylums for the
whole series of years has been 44.1 per cent. of admissions, the rate for the
present year being 47.08. These figures represent very favourable results
indeed. The numbers for the various asylums vary a good deal: thus we have
54.1 per cent. of recoveries at Patna, 31.97 at Jubbulpore, and 14.15 at Ran-
goon. The proportion of males who recovered exceeded that of females
(44.96 to 40.87.)
According to causes
of insanity.
Regarding the question of the recovery-rate again as affected by the
different causes of insanity, a reference to table No. II will furnish full and
detailed information. The proportion of recoveries from insanity which was due
to physical causes was 19.3 per cent. of treated, and that due to moral causes
was only 14.6 per cent. of treated.
According to types.
Acute mania gave the largest proportion of recoveries (25.6 per cent, of
treated); next in order comes melancholia (20.7 per cent.); then acute demen-
tia (19.1) and chronic mania (14.5); whilst chronic dementia, idiotcy, and
imbecility gave very low rates (about 6 per cent. of treated.)
According to dura-
tion of residence.
The question of recoveries according to the duration of residence is an
important one, and is considered in the following statement. It is to be regret-
ted that some of the returns from which this statement has been compiled
are imperfect, and in other instances the information has not been furnished.
On the whole, it must be admitted that it would not, perhaps, be safe to base
inferences upon these figures. The statement, however, upholds the well-estab-
lished fact, that the greatest number of recoveries take place during the earlier
periods of residence.