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APPENDIX.
TABLE NO. XI.
Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in each Asylum during the year 1878.
1
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda ... ...
Dacca ... ...
Patna ... ...
Cuttack ... ...
Berhampore ... ...
Hazaribagh ... ...
Total ...
2
Daily average number.
204.31
196.58
202.26
47.86
193.19
207.10
1051.30
3
Daily average number employ-
ed.
184.61
172.47
177.63
38.84
143.77
172.2
889.52
4
5
6
7
8
9
CREDIT.
Cash received during the
year for articles sold.
Rs.
18,926
6,315
2,630
1,805
5,063
219
34,961
A.
5
14
13
3
10
10
9
P.
6
6
11
2
1
5
7
Value of manufactured
goods made over to
asylum for asylum
purposes.
Rs.
6,882
36
3,808
A.
14
1
15
P.
10
0
3
......
......
2,452
13,180
5
4
1
2
Value of raw materials
in store.
Rs.
3,110
669
*1,501
456
33
319
6,089
A.
4
5
3
2
0
7
6
P.
1
0
3
7
0
3
2
Value of manufactured
goods in store.
Rs.
2,533
A.
6
P.
8
......
......
......
75 0 0
......
2,608 6 8
Value of plant and ma-
chinery in store.
Rs.
40,902
345
3,376
554
200
200
45,579
A.
10
3
0
10
0
13
6
P.
6
7
0
3
0
11
3
Total.
Rs.
72,355
7,366
11,317
2,816
5,371
3,192
1,02,419
A.
9
8
0
0
10
4
0
P.
7
1
5
0
1
8
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
DEBIT.
Raw materials purchased
and all other charges.
Rs.
29,040
2,087
3,004
1,051
3,510
2,178
40,874
A.
1
14
12
15
14
9
3
P.
2
0
9
8
0
6
1
Value of raw materials
in store on 1st January.
Rs.
2,492
696
411
514
49
41
4,206
A.
2
8
5
6
13
13
1
P.
2
7
0
11
5
2
3
Val ue of manufactured
g
oods in s t or e on 1st
J anuar y.
Rs.
1,844
295
1,410
327
222
†63
4,164
A.
8
7
13
2
14
14
12
P.
9
6
0
2
4
3
0
Value of plant and ma-
chinery in store on 1st
January.
Rs.
37,465
363
3,271
550
130
135
41,915
A.
2
7
9
0
0
0
3
P.
6
1
0
0
0
9
4
Total.
Rs.
70,841
3,443
8,098
2,443
3,913
2,419
91,160
A.
14
5
7
8
9
5
3
P.
7
2
9
9
9
8
8
Profits.
Rs.
1,513
3,923
3,218
372
1,458
772
11,258
A.
11
2
8
7
0
15
13
P.
0
11
8
3
4
0
2
Outstanding.
Rs. A. P.
......
73
57
22
2
0
4
3
0
2
......
23
175
4
10
1
6
* Including manufactured goods in store,
† Not shown in last year's return.
C. D. & F. E. M.-Regr. No. 14267-400-19-4-79.
( 5 )
of the asylums, the profits were Rs. 10-11-4 per head, against Rs. 10-15-3 in
1877. Both Dr. Crombie and Dr. Bird appear to have devoted much attention
to the profitable employment of the lunatics in the Dacca and Patna asylums,
and their efforts were eminently successful. The Committee on Medical
Expenditure have recently recommended that the system noticed in last year's
resolution, of giving lunatics a direct interest in the out-turn of their labour,
should be tried, and the Lieutenant-Governor has accordingly authorized the
adoption of the system experimentally, the details being left to the discretion of
the Superintendents of the different asylums.
10. There were only 23 new admissions to the Bhowanipore asylum,
against 34 in 1877. Of the 50 inmates treated during the year five died, six were
discharged as cured, two were transferred to the military authorities as partially
cured, five were despatched to Europe under the Merchant Shipping Act, and
twelve were made over to the care of their friends. In 26 out of the 50 cases
treated insanity was hereditary, and five of the remaining cases were attri-
buted to intemperance. The number of paying patients treated during the
year was 29, the same number as treated in 1877, and from these the asylum
recovered Rs. 15,475. In addition to this amount a sum of Rs. 791 was charged
to the Port Dues Fund on account of the maintenance of sailors treated in the
asylum.
11. The Lieutenant-Governor gladly acknowledges the success with which
all the Superintendents have administered the institutions in their charge.
The subordinate establishments of all the asylums are favourably noticed by
the Superintendents, and cases of ill-treatment of patients by keepers were
extremely rare.
ORDER.—Ordered, that a copy of this Resolution, together with a copy
of the Report, be submitted to the Government of India, in the Home
Department, for information.
Ordered, also, that a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to the Surgeon-
General, Bengal.
By order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,
HORACE A. COCKERELL,
Secretary to the Government of Bengal.
No. 2206.
COPY forwarded to the Surgeon-General, Bengal, for information and
guidance.
By order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,
H. M. KISCH,
Offg. Under-Secretary to the Govt. of Bengal.
CALCUTTA,
The 23rd May 1879.
T. Y.—Reg. No. 1857-26-5-79.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON
THE
INSANE ASYLUMS IN BENGAL
FOR THE YEAR
1879.
BY
A. J. PAYNE, M.D.,
Surgeon-General for Bengal.
Calcutta :
PRINTED AT THE BENGAL SECRETARIAT PRESS.
1880.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
INSANE ASYLUMS IN BENGAL
FOR THE YEAR
1879.
BY
A. J. PAYNE, M.D.,
Surgeon-General for Bengal.
Calcutta:
PRINTED AT THE BENGAL SECRETARIAT PRESS.
1880.
No. 1274.
FROM THE SURGEON-GENERAL, BENGAL.
To THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL,
JUDICIAL, POLITICAL, AND APPOINTMENT DEPARTMENT.
Dated Fort William, the 30th March 1880.
SIR,
I HAVE the honor of reporting as follows on the condition and
working of Lunatic Asylums in Bengal during the year 1879, and of forwarding
the usual figured statements.
2. The Asylum at Hazaribagh was closed in the month of March, its
inmates being transferred to other Institutions. No returns were received
from this place at the end of the year.
3. Lunatics in confinement.—In statement No. 1 the following facts
appear. There were confined in asylums on 1st January 1879, 991 persons—
782 males and 209 females, the total being less by 86 than the corresponding
number of the previous year. Diminution of numbers continued through the
year in review, and there remained at its close 888 persons in confinement—viz.
696 males and 192 females, a total less by 103 than the opening figure, the
decrease being chiefly in the male wards.
4. Admissions and transfers.—During the year 173 persons—147 males and
26 females—were admitted, less in total by 23 than the admissions of 1878.
Here the difference with two exceptions fell on the males, the females being prac-
tically the same in number as before. It is observable that no female was
admitted into the Dacca Asylum. In 1879 there were 17 males and 6 females
re-admitted, against 19 males and 12 females in 1878. The transfers were due
to the closure of the Hazaribagh Asylum. The proportion in which the several
asylums received those lunatics is shown in the table.
5. Daily asylum population.—The average daily number in confinement fell
considerably. For ten years ending with 1876 this number had been 1,281—
males 1,008, females 273; in 1877 it was 1,416—males 1,134, females 284; in
1878 the total was 1,304—males 1,037, females 267; in 1879, total 889—
males 697, females 192.
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LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
STATEMENT No. 1.
1
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda ... ...
Dacca
...
...
Patna
... ...
Cuttack ... ...
Berhampore ...
Hazaribagh ...
Total
...
2
Remaining on 1st
January 1879.
Males.
161
155
146
43
126
151
782
Females.
40
33
53
5
54
24
209
Total.
201
188
199
48
180
175
991
3
Admitted.
Males.
54
35
30
16
12
...
147
Females.
10
...
10
3
3
...
26
Total.
64
35
40
19
15
...
173
4
Re-admitted.
Males.
8
6
2
...
1
...
17
Females.
2
1
1
1
1
...
6
Total.
10
7
3
1
2
...
23
5
Received by
transfer.
Males.
60
10
44
...
32
...
146
Females.
...
7
10
...
...
...
17
Total.
60
17
54
...
32
...
163
6
Total population.
Males.
223
196
178
59
139
151
946
Females.
52
34
64
9
58
24
241
Total.
275
230
242
68
197
175
1,187
7
DISCHARGED.
A
Cured.
Males.
46
10
14
10
6
...
86
Females.
7
...
5
...
3
...
15
Total.
53
10
19
10
9
...
101
B
Transferred
to friends.
Improved.
Males.
18
12
13
4
2
...
49
Females.
3
3
1
1
...
...
8
Total.
21
15
14
5
2
...
57
Not im-
proved.
Males.
...
3
...
...
1
...
4
Females.
...
1
...
...
...
1
2
Total.
...
4
...
...
1
1
6
C
Transferred
to
other asylums.
Males.
...
...
...
...
...
146
146
Females.
...
...
...
...
...
17
17
Total.
...
...
...
...
...
163
163
D
Otherwise.
Males.
2
...
...
...
...
...
2
Females.
...
...
...
...
...
2
2
Total.
2
...
...
...
...
2
4
E
Total.
Males.
66
25
27
14
9
146
141
Females.
10
4
6
1
3
20
27
Total.
76
29
33
15
12
166
168
8
Died.
Males.
37
19
29
1
18
5
109
Females.
5
1
6
2
4
4
22
Total.
42
20
35
3
22
9
131
9
Remaining on
31st December
1879.
Males.
180
162
166
44
144
...
696
Females.
37
36
62
6
51
...
192
Total.
217
198
228
50
195
...
888
10
Daily average strength.
Males.
179.03
160.18
169.53
46.50
142.13
......
697.37
Females.
38.13
35.92
58.79
4.80
54.95
......
192.59
Total.
217.16
196.10
228.32
51.30
197.08
......
889.96
11
Daily average
sick.
Males.
5.66
6.55
10.77
1.16
5.93
...
30.07
Females.
.97
2.15
3.98
.04
1.45
...
8.59
Total.
6.63
8.70
14.75
1.20
7.38
...
38.66
Hazaribagh Asylum being closed no returns were received.
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LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
Establishment, has continued to accumulate. A suit has been instituted for the
recovery of it. The orders of Government are solicited for the writing off as
irrecoverable of a sum of Rs. 12-6-2. In the report on 1878 this debt was
mentioned with little hope of recovering it. All efforts to trace the debtor have
now failed.
55. It will be observed that notwithstanding reduction of expenditure
under every head but that of clothing, reduced numbers have raised the average
under every head but that of diet.
56. The services of Mr. and Mrs. Devere, the Deputy Superintendent and
Matron, have been as valuable to the asylum in this as in former years. They
receive expressions of gratitude from every patient who leaves the asylum
in health.
I have the honor to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient servant,
A. J. PAYNE, M.D.,
Surgeon-General, Bengal.
APPENDIX.
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TABLE No. II.
Return of Criminal Lunatics in the Asylums in Bengal during 1879 and ten previous years.
1
YEARS.
1869
...
...
...
...
1870
...
...
...
...
1871
...
...
...
...
1872
...
...
...
...
1873
...
...
...
...
1874
...
...
...
...
1875
...
...
...
...
1876
...... ... ...
1877
...
...
...
...
1878
...
...
...
...
1879
...
...
...
...
2
Remaining on 1st
January.
Males.
125
145
145
145
184
189
188
207
245
255
265
Females.
8
11
15
21
25
27
25
25
24
23
23
Total.
133
156
160
166
209
216
213
232
269
278
288
3
Admitted.
Males.
53
59
45
72
59
65
62
78
62
62
69
Females.
7
6
8
4
10
9
5
7
6
8
3
Total.
60
65
53
76
69
74
67
85
68
70
72
4
Re-admitted.
Males.
5
8
4
5
2
3
4
6
6
8
12
Females.
......
4
1
......
1
2
......
......
1
......
1
Total.
5
12
5
5
3
5
4
6
7
8
13
5
Total.
Males.
183
212
194
222
245
257
254
291
313
325
346
Females.
15
21
21
25
36
38
30
32
31
31
27
Total.
198
233
218
247
281
295
284
323
344
356
373
6
Discharged,
transferred, &c.
Males.
29
53
32
27
41
47
29
26
45
50
67
Females.
4
6
3
2
6
13
1
5
6
7
2
Total.
33
59
35
29
47
60
30
31
51
57
69
7
Died.
Males.
9
14
17
26
15
22
18
20
13
10
27
Females.
......
......
......
......
3
......
4
3
2
1
1
Total.
9
14
17
26
18
22
22
23
15
11
28
8
Remaining on 31st
December.
Males.
145
145
145
169
189
188
207
245
255
265
252
Females.
11
15
21
23
27
25
25
24
23
23
24
Total.
156
160
166
192
216
213
232
269
278
288
276
9
Daily average strength.
Males.
......
......
150.64
157.07
187.90
198.60
198.77
222.31
246.55
256.75
248.20
Females.
......
......
17.48
22.67
24.39
26.90
25.47
25.30
2.66
21.35
22.56
Total.
154.54
155.61
168.12
179.74
212.29
225.50
224.24
247.61
268.21
278.10
270.76
APPENDIX.
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TABLE No. V.
Showing the Sex and Ages of Patients admitted during 1879.
1
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda
...
...
Dacca ... ...
Patna ... ...
Cuttack ... ...
Berhnmpore ...
Total ...
2
Under 20.
Males.
3
2
4
2
...
11
Females.
...
...
1
...
...
1
Total.
3
2
5
2
...
12
3
20 to 40.
Males.
45
37
25
13
9
129
Females.
9
1
8
3
3
24
Total.
54
38
33
16
12
153
4
40 to 60.
Males.
10
2
1
1
4
18
Females.
3
...
2
1
...
6
Total.
13
2
3
2
4
24
5
Upwards of 60.
Males.
4
...
2
...
...
6
Females.
...
...
...
...
1
1
Total.
4
...
2
...
1
7
6
Total.
Males.
62
41
32
16
13
164
Females.
12
1
11
4
4
32
Total.
74
42
43
20
17
196
TABLE No. VI.
Types of Insanity.—The number remained, admitted, &c., under each type during the year 1879.
1
Remained ...
Admitted.
Dullunda ...
Dacca ...
Patna ...
Cuttack ...
Berhampore
Total admitted...
Total treated ...
Recovered ...
Improved
...
Died ...
2
Mania
acute.
Males.
131
24
10
9
15
11
69
200
38
12
25
Females.
24
6
...
5
3
1
15
39
7
2
3
Total.
155
30
10
14
18
12
84
239
45
14
28
3
Mania
chronic.
Males.
294
13
22
7
...
1
43
337
19
19
33
Females.
112
4
...
3
...
3
10
122
5
2
13
Total.
406
17
22
10
...
4
53
459
24
21
46
4
Melan-
cholia.
Males.
68
3
6
5
...
...
14
82
4
4
8
Females.
18
...
1
...
...
...
1
19
...
2
1
Total.
86
3
7
5
...
...
15
101
4
6
9
5
Dementia
acute.
Males.
38
5
...
3
...
...
8
46
1
2
10
Females.
10
...
...
1
...
...
1
11
...
1
2
Total.
48
5
...
4
...
...
9
57
1
3
12
6
Dementia
chronic.
Males.
213
7
3
7
1
...
18
231
2
11
31
Females.
43
1
...
2
1
...
4
47
2
1
2
Total.
256
8
3
9
2
...
22
278
4
12
33
7
Idiocy.
Males.
8
...
...
...
...
...
...
8
...
...
2
Females.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Total.
8
...
...
...
...
...
...
8
...
...
2
8
Imbe-
cility.
Males.
5
...
...
...
...
...
...
5
...
...
...
Females.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Total.
5
...
...
...
...
...
...
5
...
...
...
9
Amentia.
Males.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Females.
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
Total.
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
10
Not in-
sane.
Males.
25
10
...
1
...
1
12
37
22
1
...
Females.
1
1
...
..
...
...
1
2
1
...
...
Total.
26
11
...
1
...
1
13
39
23
1
...
11
Total.
Males.
782
62
41
32
16
13
164
946
86
49
109
Females.
209
12
1
11
4
4
32
241
15
8
22
Total.
991
74
42
43
20
17
196
1,187
101
57
131
APPENDIX.
25
TABLE No. IX.
Showing the Cash Account of the Asylums for the year 1879.
Dullunda
...
...
...
Dacca
...
...
...
...
Patna
...
...
...
...
Cuttack
...
...
...
Berhampore
...
...
Total ...
RECEIPTS.
Received from
treasury.
Rs.
22,082
22,559
17,648
4,929
17,053
84,273
A.
2
2
11
14
10
8
P.
4
1
5
6
3
7
Received from
paying patients.
Rs.
994
83
190
241
141
1,650
A.
6
2
3
4
6
6
P.
4
11
0
0
6
9
Value of arti-
cles received
from manufac-
ture depart-
ment.
Rs.
8,818
33
3,522
A.
4
15
13
P.
4
0
3
......
......
12,375 0 7
Total.
Rs.
31,894
22,676
21,361
5,171
17,195
98,298
A.
13
4
11
2
0
15
P.
0
0
8
6
9
11
EXPENDITURE.
Received from treasury on account of
Establishment.
Rs.
16,783
9,144
8,491
3,273
7,707
45,400
A.
8
5
12
11
6
11
P.
0
10
8
0
4
10
Diet.
Rs.
2,628
11,929
7,870
1,380
8,648
32,457
A.
5
4
6
11
11
7
P.
8
6
0
7
7
4
Clothing.
Rs. A. P.
......
708
626
108
405
1,849
0
14
15
12
9
0
0
0
0
0
Bazar medi-
cines.
Rs.
11
4
3
4
8
33
A.
15
8
7
9
12
5
P.
8
6
9
6
6
11
Dullunda
...
...
Dacca
...
...
...
Patna
...
...
...
Cuttack
...
...
Berhampore ... ...
Total ...
EXPENDITURE.
Received from treasury on
account of—
Contingencies.
Rs.
*2,658
772
656
161
282
4,532
A.
5
15
3
15
15
6
P.
0
3
0
5
10
6
Total.
Rs.
22,082
22,559
17,648
4,929
17,053
84,273
A.
2
2
11
14
10
8
P.
4
1
5
6
3
7
Received from manufacture department on account of
Diet.
Rs.
7,652
A.
4
P.
4
......
2,456 12 0
......
......
10,109 0 4
Clothing.
Rs.
1,117
A.
3
P.
0
......
786 8 0
......
......
1,903 11 0
Bazar
medicines.
Rs. A. P.
......
......
12 8 0
......
......
12 8 0
Contingen-
cies.
Rs.
48
33
267
A.
13
15
1
P.
0
0
3
......
......
349 13 3
Total.
Rs.
8,818
33
3,522
A.
4
15
13
P.
4
0
3
......
......
12,375 0 7
Remitted to
treasury on
account of
paying
patients.
Rs.
994
83
190
241
141
1,650
A.
6
2
3
4
6
6
P.
4
11
0
0
6
9
Total.
Rs.
31,894
22,676
21,361
5,171
17,195
98,298
A.
13
4
11
2
0
15
P.
0
0
8
6
9
11
* Including Rs. 557-9-6 cost to Government for compensation for huts on land recently annexed to that asylum, and Rs. 249-13-9 spent on paying
patients.
APPENDIX.
27
TABLE No. XI.
Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in each Asylum during the year 1879.
1
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda ... ...
Dacca ... ...
Patna ... ...
Cuttack
...
...
Berhampore
...
...
Total ...
2
Daily average number.
217.16
196.10
228.32
51.30
197.08
889.96
3
Daily average number em-
ployed.
191.55
167.51
198.3
39.27
166.6
763.23
4
5
6
7
8
9
CREDIT.
Cash received during: the
year for articles sold.
Rs.
9,387
6,329
2,023
1,052
7,482
26,275
A.
6
5
2
13
11
7
P.
0
9
7
7
2
1
Value of manufactured
goods made over to
poses.
Rs.
8,818
33
3,522
A.
4
15
13
P.
4
0
3
......
......
12,375 0 7
Value of raw materials
in store.
Rs.
857
464
1,318
489
162
3,291
A.
10
15
0
0
0
10
P.
0
3
9
1
0
1
Value of manufactured
goods in store.
Rs.
2,288
A.
5
P.
6
......
......
200 1 7
......
2,488 7 1
Value of plant and
machinery in store.
Rs.
43,201
346
3,095
540
200
47,384
A.
12
13
7
0
0
0
P.
9
0
0
0
0
9
Total.
Rs.
64,553
7,175
9,959
2,281
7,844
91,814
A.
6
1
7
15
11
9
P.
7
0
7
3
2
7
10
11
12
13
14
Debit.
Raw materials purchased
and all other charges.
Rs.
16,293
2,939
2,410
1,061
5,774
28,479
A.
7
0
6
13
6
0
P.
2
1
5
2
0
10
Value of raw materials
in store on 1st January.
Rs.
3,110
524
58
288
33
4,015
A.
4
9
10
14
0
5
P.
1
3
0
3
0
7
Value of manufactured
goods in store on 1st
January.
Rs.
2,533
144
1,442
167
75
4,363
A.
6
11
9
4
0
0
P.
8
9
3
4
0
0
Value of plant and
machinery in store on
1st January.
Rs.
40,902
345
3,376
554
200
45,373
A.
10
3
0
10
0
8
P.
6
7
0
3
0
4
Total.
Rs.
62,839
3,953
7,287
2,072
6,082
82,235
A.
12
8
9
10
6
14
P.
5
8
8
0
0
9
15
Profits.
Rs.
1,713
3,221
2,671
209
1,762
9,578
A.
10
8
13
5
5
10
P.
2
4
11
3
2
10
16
Outstanding.
Rs A. P.
......
172
24
21
5
1
6
3
4
4
......
217 12 11
J. A. R. & C. F. D—Reg. No. 15713J.—400—15- 4-80.
No. 2040.
FROM A. J. PAYNE, ESQ., M.D.,
Surgeon-General for Bengal,
To THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL,
MEDICAL AND MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT.
Dated Calcutta, the 20th May 1880.
SIR,
IN conforming to the Lieutenant-Governor's wish for a more
complete report on the mortality in the Lunatic Asylums of Bengal in 1879,
I beg to say that, when my original report was submitted, I was conscious that
I was offering the Government little more than a summary of events. I knew
that much time would be needed for preparation of the reports on the Calcutta
medical institutions and the dispensaries of the province, and had no hope of
producing these within the prescribed period ; unless the asylum report, the least
important, were speedily finished. It was thus impossible for me to make the
references and obtain the other information required for the fuller discussion
of matters which have very naturally appeared to the Lieutenant-Governor
to have been inadequately treated.
2. Haste in preparation led also, I regret to say, to some inaccuracies in
my report which I may now indicate.
Paragraph5.—The average numbers of inmates were copied from para-
graph 6 of the report for 1878, which was so headed as to lead to the
supposition that the figures represented average populations, whereas they were
really total numbers treated for the two years particularised, and an average
of total numbers treated for the preceding ten years. I propose to substitute the
following paragraphs for paragraph 5 of my report:
Total numbers treated.—The average of the total treated for ten years ending
with 1876 was 1,281, males 1,008, females 273. In 1877 the number was
1,416, males 1,132, females 284. In 1878 the total was 1,304, males 1,037,
females 267. In 1879 total 1,187, males 946, females 241.
Daily asylum-population.—For ten years ending with 1876 this was 888; in
1877 it was 1,117, males 889 females 228; in 1878 it was 1,051, males 831,
females 220 ; in 1879 it was 889, males 697 females 192.
Paragraph 17.—The death-numbers, viz. 122,100 and 73, are mentioned as
though they included the deaths at Hazareebagh in the beginning of the year.
They include really only the deaths of Hazareebagh lunatics after transfer in
1879. The figure 122 should be 131. It is also said that the increase in fatal
pulmonary disease was confined to the Dullunda Asylum. It would have
been right to say that the total increase of 32 over 20 deaths from such disease
was covered numerically by the Dullunda figures alone; but the truth is that
the increase at Dacca from one to seven deaths was proportionally, though not
absolutely, larger than the other, as shown in my 19th paragraph. Again, in
paragraph 17, there is an error quoted from the report on the Dullunda
Asylum. It is said that the death-rate of the people from Hazareebagh
was less than that of the general population at Dullunda. It was over-
looked that the eight deaths among the former occurred in nine months, and
they were treated as though they had occupied a year. The true annual
death-rates calculated on total numbers were 17 per cent. among the people
from Hazareebagh and 12.3 per cent. among the others.
Dated Darjeeling, the 17th May 1880.
RESOLUTION—By the Govt, of Bengal, Medical and Municipal (Medical) Dept.
READ—
The Report on the Lunatic Asylums in Bengal for the year 1879.
Read again—
The reports for previous years, with the orders of Government passed upon them.
The Report on Asylum Expenditure, by the Committee appointed to enquire into Medi-
cal Expenditure in Bengal.
THE report is punctually submitted, and exhibits the facts of the year in
a clear and concise form. Its bulk has, the Lieutenant-Governor is glad to
notice, been considerably reduced.
2. Since the year 1876 there has been a continuous decrease in the
number of lunatics in confinement in Bengal. This decrease is the result of
the orders of the Government of India issued in that year, pointing out that
persons suffering from the temporary results of sickness, intemperance, or
debauchery, and those whom their friends ought to support, are not proper
objects of public charity; and that besides criminal lunatics, only those patients
should be received in State asylums who are absolutely dangerous, or who,
having no friends or resources, are in the acute stage of mental disease in which
there is most hope of recovery under medical treatment. The strict application
of this very reasonable rule has not only reduced the permanent asylum popula-
tion, but has served to lower the number of new admissions. Thus, the number
of lunatics in confinement on the 1st January of each of the last five years,
and the admissions of those years, stood thus—
1880 .. .. .. ..
1879 .. .. .. ..
1878 .. .. .. ..
1877 .. .. .. ..
1876 .. .. .. ..
1875 .. .. .. ..
Remained on 1st
January.
888
991
1,077
1,131
1,147
...
Admitted during
year.
...
173
196
247
329
384
3. The existing asylums have accommodation for 1,015 patients. There
is no reason therefore why in Cuttack the average population should be in
excess of the accommodation, as is shown in paragraph 9 to have been the
case. The numbers in that asylum, and also in Berhampore, should be reduced
by transfer, so as to leave a reasonable margin for the reception of temporary
cases without encroaching on the normal allotment of space.
4. During the year the asylum at Hazaribagh was finally closed in
accordance with the intention intimated in the resolution on last year's report.
Of the 163 lunatics confined there, 60 were sent to Dullunda, 17 to Dacca, 54
to Patna, and 32 to Berhampore. This asylum, when opened in May 1876,
received 95 insanes from Berhampore, 60 from Patna, and 95 from Dullunda.
The chief facts in its history during the time it was opened are shown in the
following table:—
Admitted .. ..
Re-admitted
.. ..
Received by transfer ..
Total population .. ..
Cured .. ..
Transferred to friends ..
Transferred to other asylums
Otherwise discharged ..
Died .. .. ..
Remaining at end of year ..
Daily average strength ..
Daily average sick ..
1876.
9
11
250
270
4
1
11
13
18
223
204
22.1
1877.
10
12
25
245
17
9
....
13
11
220
222.06
21.77
1878.
9
....
....
229
7
3
....
1
43
175
207.1
21.39
1879.
....
....
....
175
....
1
163
2
9
....
....
....
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
INSANE ASYLUMS IN BENGAL
FOR THE
YEAR
1880.
BY
A. J. PAYNE, M.D.,
Surgeon-General for Bengal.
Calcutta:
PRINTED AT THE BENGAL SECRETARIAT PRESS.
1881.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
INSANE ASYLUMS IN BENGAL
FOR THE YEAR
1880.
BY
A. J. PAYNE, M.D.,
Surgeon-Geneal for Bengal.
Calcutta:
PRINTED AT THE BENGAL SECRETARIAT PRESS.
1881.