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LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
20. Finance.—The following table exhibits money receipt and expenditure
in asylums in 1882, with the annual cost of a patient under specified heads: —
TABLE No. 14.
Showing the Receipts and Expenditure of each Asylum for the year 1882.
1
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda ... ...
Dacca
...
...
Patna
...
...
Cuttack
...
...
Berhampore
...
...
Total ...
2
Daily average strength.
187.75
219.98
222.57
50.8
186.02
867.12
3
Total expenditure.
Rs.
27,190
19,984
15,572
4,582
14,301
81,632
A.
13
13
13
6
14
14
P.
7
9
11
8
10
9
4
Realized from friends
of patients.
Rs.
1,021
80
140
16
A.
0
8
8
1
P.
4
9
6
9
......
1,258 3 4
5
Actual profit from
manufacture depart-
ment.
Rs.
1,751
1,535
3,561
608
1,421
8,878
A.
14
9
2
6
14
15
P.
0
9
7
7
1
0
6
Average cost of each
patient
as
per
column 3.
Rs.
144
90
69
90
76
94
A.
13
13
15
3
14
2
P.
2
6
5
3
1
3
7
Average cost of each
patient, deducting
columns 4 and 5.
Rs.
130
83
53
77
69
82
A.
0
8
5
14
3
7
P.
10
0
4
7
10
2
8
9
10
11
12
13
Average cost op each patient in relation to—
Establishment.
Rs.
62
39
37
64
41
45
A.
2
8
15
2
0
12
P.
7
6
1
9
3
7
Diet.
Rs.
37
36
25
19
30
31
A.
12
0
4
12
15
9
P.
11
1
3
6
0
8
Bazar
medi-
cines.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
A.
1
0
0
1
1
0
P.
2
6
3
6
6
10
Clothing.
Rs.
6
1
2
2
1
2
A.
0
3
11
1
14
13
P.
7
10
1
0
9
6
Contingencies.
Rs.
18
4
3
1
2
6
A.
1
4
7
9
12
9
P.
0
0
3
11
4
1
Other charges.
Rs.
20
9
0
2
0
7
A.
10
12
9
7
2
4
P.
11
7
6
7
3
7
21. The total sum expended in the asylums was Rs. 81,633, against
Rs. 93,783 in 1881. Ordinary and extraordinary expenditure in the two years
were as follows:—
Ordinary expenditure ...
Cash expended (inclusive of money
expended for paying-patients) ...
Value of articles made over for
asylum use ... ...
Extraordinary expenditure ... ... ...
Total ...
1882.
Rs.
64,794
10,777
6,062
81,633
1881.
Rs.
66,398
11,257
16,128
93,783
This reduction of gross expenditure, amounting to Rs. 12,150, fell mainly
on extraordinary charges. There was a difference of Rs. 2,084 in ordinary
charges. Building charges had been heavy in 1881, amounting to no less than
Rs. 15,328, whereas in 1882 only Rs. 5,565 was debited under this head.
The cost of imported medicines fell from Rs. 570 to Rs. 256, some special
outlay having been incurred at Dullunda in the former year. The average
total cost per patient was Rs. 94 in 1882, against Rs. 107 in the previous year.
Ordinary charges per patient amounted to Rs 87, against Rs. 88, and the net
cost of each person, reckoned by deducting receipts from paying patients and
net profits from manufactures, was Rs. 82, against Rs. 96. Details of expendi-
ture follow.
22. Establishment.—The total cost of establishment was Rs. 39,702, against
Rs. 41,725, and the average cost per patient, Rs. 45 against Rs. 47 in 1881.
The following table shows the outlay on superintendence and establishment
proper in the several asylums:—
Dullunda
...
...
...
...
Dacca
...
...
...
...
Patna
...
...
...
...
Cuttack
...
...
...
...
Berhampore
...
...
...
...
ANNUAL COST PER HEAD.
1882.
Superinten-
dence.
Rs.
26
19
20
41
21
A.
11
1
3
5
13
P.
9
6
6
5
7
Establishment
proper.
Rs.
35
20
17
22
19
A.
6
7
11
13
2
P.
10
0
7
4
8
Total.
Rs.
62
39
37
64
41
A.
2
8
15
2
0
P.
7
6
1
9
3
1881.
Superinten-
dence.
Rs.
33
18
20
40
22
A.
4
2
7
12
0
P.
1
0
4
5
8
Establishment
proper.
Rs.
34
22
18
22
18
A.
9
15
2
9
2
P.
2
6
5
4
6
Total.
Rs.
67
41
38
63
40
A.
13
1
9
5
3
P.
3
6
9
9
2
At Dullunda the cost of superintendence fell from Rs. 33 per man to Rs. 26.
Under orders from the Government of India, Home Department, No. 623, dated