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STATEMENT NO. VII.
Alleged cases of insanity. Of the total of 33 admissions, 9 are attributed to ganja-
smoking; of those but 2 have been registered under the heading of Toxic insanity. Ganja
may have played its part in contributing to the insanity, but in the absence of reliable evidence
7 were otherwise classified ; 2 cases were classified as due to epilepsy and 1 to heredity ;
total due to physical causes—13. Two are shown as due to moral causes, both females and
both almost alike—grief owing to the death of the husband; one was discharged cured after
14 weeks in the asylum; the other still remains, only slightly improved.
STATEMENT NO. VIII.
This statement shows the sickness and mortality for the whole asylum and not for
those admitted during the year, who were principally dealt with in previous returns.
There were 94 admissions to hospital during the year—88 males and 6 females and 11
deaths, against 86 admissions and 8 deaths in the preceding year.
The diseases that showed the highest admission were: ague 14, simple continued fever 9
bronchitis 6, diarrhœa 5, and epilepsy 5. Dysentery gave only 2 cases. All the other cases
were of a trifling nature. The mortality is higher than last year—11 against 8 last year. The
causes were such diseases as are not preventible in an asylum. With the exception of one
death from pneumonia, all partook of the nature of diseases incidental to an asylum old
age 2, general debility 1, anæmia 1, epilepsy 3, general paralysis 1, disease of the heart 1, and
softening of the brain 1. The average length of residence of these 11 fatal cases was 7 years
and 3 months.
STATEMENT NO. IX.
Is the cash account. The headings in this statement have been changed from that of
last year, and it merely deals with the receipts and disbursements from the Treasury. In
column 4 of the statement the value of stores received from the manufacturing department
of the asylum has been shown, which gives a total receipt of Rs. 925-10-9 against
Rs. 978-14-4 in the year preceding; the decrease is due to the economy maintained in the
asylum during the year. The total receipts from the Treasury was Rs. 8,168-7-11 against
Rs. 9,193-1-1 for the year preceding, showing a decrease of Rs. 1,025, which was due to
a saving of Rs. 883 less drawn by the Superintendent from the 6th April to the end of the year,
and Rs. 142 in the diets of patients and miscellaneous expenditure on account of cheapness
of food grains during the year 1893. The expenditure in the contingencies was Rs. 158
against Rs. 103 in the preceding year, being an increase of Rs. 55, which is due to the
purchase of 10 Hobbs' padlocks for Rs. 40, and Rs. 15 paid for brass whistles, and railway
freight paid on Europe medicines from the Medical Depôt, Bombay.
STATEMENT NO. X.
Needs no explanation. It shows the sanctioned establishment of the institution as it
stood on the 31st December 1893.
STATEMENT NO. XI.
Deals with manufactures. Some of the columns of this statement have also been
modified. The net profits to the asylum amounted to Rs. 852-10-10 against Rs. 1,100-10-1
for the preceding year, being a decrease of Rs. 248. This apparent decrease was due to
there being no demand for the manufactures of the asylum, but it ought to be taken into
account that the works mentioned in paragraph 3 of the report represent a profit of Rs. 1,700
for work done by lunatics ; this would show a profit higher than during any year of the decade.
The 300 lime trees sent to the Lunatic Asylum, Nagpur, at the request of the Adminis-
trative Medical Officer are not shown in the profits. In the preceding year we sold Rs. 250
worth of newar to the Reformatory School, and as there was no sale for this article during
1893, there was a falling off of Rs. 248 in the cash paid into the Treasury.
The daily average number of lunatics employed during the year has been shown in
column 18 of this statement (60.00). The remaining 90 individuals were not idle ; some
11 were employed in cooking, as many more in cleaning, sifting and grinding wheat; about 16
were employed in collecting, sifting and storing dry earth for the latrines and wards, of
which a great deal is used daily; 6 were employed in cleaning and sweeping the premises,