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8. The following table shows the receipts and expenditure in each
asylum during 1883 :—
1
Dullunda
...
...
Dacca
...
...
Patna
...
...
Cuttack ... ...
Berhampore
...
...
Total ...
2
Daily average strength.
199.98
221.85
223.51
53.49
179.84
878.67
3
Total expenditure.
Rs.
24,240
19,713
19,475
4,776
14,628
82,835
A.
15
4
13
13
11
9
P.
10
4
3
2
0
7
4
Realized from friends
of
patients.
Rs.
740
26
172
20
A.
14
0
0
8
P.
9
0
0
0
......
969 6 9
5
Actual profit
from
manufacture depart-
ment.
Rs.
1,881
2,367
544
259
495
5,547
A.
5
3
0
5
11
10
P.
2
5
3
6
11
3
6
Average cost of each
patient
as
per
column 3.
Rs.
121
88
87
89
81
94
A.
3
13
2
4
5
4
P.
5
7
1
10
5
4
7
Average cost of each
patient,
deducting
columns 4 and 5.
Rs.
108
78
83
84
78
86
A.
1
1
14
1
9
13
P.
8
1
0
1
4
8
8
9
10
11
12
13
Average cost of each patient in relation to
Establishment.
Rs.
52
32
37
60
43
42
A.
9
13
14
15
14
9
P.
2
1
4
8
10
6
Diet.
Rs.
42
38
27
19
33
34
A.
14
4
15
11
2
8
P.
11
2
8
11
10
8
Bazar medicines.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
A.
0
0
0
0
3
1
P.
10
5
3
10
1
1
Clothing.
Rs.
3
4
3
2
1
3
A.
5
11
5
1
7
3
P.
3
9
8
4
1
8
Contingencies.
Rs.
8
4
3
2
2
4
A.
7
4
15
2
1
9
P.
8
6
11
9
9
5
Other charges.
Rs.
13
8
13
4
0
9
A.
13
11
14
4
7
4
P.
7
8
3
4
10
0
The total expenditure on the asylums during the year was Rs. 82,835-9-7,
with a daily average of 878.67 inmates. There was an increase of
Rs. 1,202 over the expenditure of the previous year, which is attributed
to the increase in the number of persons treated during the year under review.
The total cost per patient was Rs. 94-4-4 against Rs. 94-2-3 in 1882, and the net
cost of each inmate, after deducting the amount realized from friends of patients
and the net profits from manufactures, was Rs. 86-13-8, against Rs. 82-7-2.
The total cost on account of establishment was Rs. 37,427 against Rs. 39,702
in the previous year. This reduction was partly due to the fact that the arrange-
ment by which the charge of the Dullunda Asylum was entrusted to the First
Resident Surgeon, General Hospital, was in force throughout the year, and not
for a portion only, as in 1882. Part, however, of the reduction was apparent
only, and due to the circumstance that the salary of the officiating Overseer,
an Assistant Surgeon, was paid from the budget of the Medical Department. The
reduction was partly neutralized by a slight increase in expenditure caused by
the filling up of some offices at Dullunda which had been vacant in 1882, and
by annual increments of salary at Berhampore.
9. The money outlay on account of diet was Rs. 20,294 against
Rs. 19,260 in 1882. This is due to the comparative dearness of food, and not to
any material change in the dietaries. The average cost of diet per head was
highest at Dullunda, where it amounted to Rs. 42-14-11, and lowest at Cuttack,
where it was Rs. 19-11-11. The charge for clothing was Rs. 2,836. Of this sum
Rs. 1,418 represents the cost price of articles manufactured in the asylums.
The corresponding figures in 1882 were Rs. 2,467 and Rs. 1,806. The amount
expended on raw materials for manufacture was Rs. 27,376 against Rs. 27,038.
The estimated value of raw materials, manufactured goods, and plant and
machinery on 1st January 1883 was Rs. 61,404. The total debit was therefore
Rs. 88,780. The amount paid into the treasury was Rs. 19,984; the cost of
manufactured goods consumed in the asylums was Rs. 12,701, and the estimated
value of the stores in stock at the close of the year was Rs. 61,524. This makes
a total of Rs. 94,209. The excess of credits over debits was Rs. 5,429, but
after adjusting certain items shown in Statement XI appended to the Report,
the net profit on manufactures amounted to Rs. 5,547. This profit is, however,
as explained last year, no proper measure of success, the articles consumed in
the asylums being charged at cost price, profit being allowed on outside sales
only.
10. In the foregoing paragraphs, only the native asylums of the Province
have been considered. Regarding the European Asylum at Bhowanipore, it is
observed that on the 1st January 1883, there were 27 patients remaining over
from the preceding year. Twenty-four were admitted in 1883 against 20 in 1882,
of whom three were from the Army. Of the 51 patients under treatment, 3 were
discharged cured, 10 were despatched to Europe under the Merchant Shipping
Act or otherwise, 8 were transferred to the care of friends, and one died. This
death was of a man who had been admitted in a very emaciated condition, the
consequence of chronic diarrhoea. Twenty-nine persons remained in the
Asylum at the close of the year. The female ward was, as in former years,