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LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
Principal diseases
which caused the
asylum mortality.
STATEMENT No. 6.
1. Dysentery
...
...
...
2. Diarrhœa
...
...
...
3. Cachectic conditions (debi-
lity, anæmia, &c.)
4. Brain diseases ... ... ...
5. Cholera ... ... ...
6. Phthisis and scrofula ...
7. Lung diseases (pneumonia,
&c.)
8. Fevers
...
...
...
9. Injuries
...
...
...
Total ...
1876.
21
15.12
13.44
8.4
336
19.3
5.9
4.2
.83
91.55
1875.
19.7
11
7.8
3.2
10.2
18.9
4.7
3.9
3.2
82.6
1874.
25
10
7.1
9.2
7.8
9.2
10.7
8.5
87.5
41. Statement No. 6 shows the rate per
cent. of the total asylum mortality from some
of the more frequently observed diseases. It
will be observed that bowel-complaints in 1876
and the two preceding years caused 36.12, 30.7,
and 35 per cent. respectively of the total morta-
lity. The proportion contributed by cachectic
and brain diseases had increased considerably
as compared with the figures of 1875. The
decrease in the mortality from cholera has been
most marked. Phthisis and scrofula have con-
tributed nearly one-fifth of the total mortality.
There has been a considerable decrease in
the mortality from lung diseases, fevers, and
injuries.
Death-rate in the
asylums in other
Provinces.
42. The death-rates of the lunatic asylums in other Provinces for 1876 are shown in
Statement No. 7; and it will be seen that the mortality in the Bengal Asylums was 7.5 and
7.1 per cent. less than what it was in those of the North-Western Provinces and Punjab
respectively, but was higher than in the similar institutions in the Central Provinces, Oudh,
or British Burmah.
STATEMENT No. 7.
Asylums.
North-Western Provinces
Central Provinces ...
Oudh ... ...
Punjab ... ...
British Burmah ...
Agra ... ...
Benares
... ...
Barielly ... ...
Nagpore ... ...
Jubbulpore ... ...
Lucknow
...
...
Delhi ... ...
Lahore ... ...
Rangoon ... ...
Total ...
Daily average
strength.
153.88
152.89
300.35
117.50
133.37
150.06
72
260.73
163
1503.78
Death.
18
11
76
12
2
13
10
46
10
198
Percentage of
deaths to strength.
11.69
7.18
25.27
10.21
1.49
8.66
13.88
17.64
6.13
13.16
Mortality after
admission.
43. Statement No. 8 shows that no death occurred immediately after the admission of
an insane patient, and, taking the first six months of confinement as the period of the calcula-
tion, it is found that of 13 deaths two were of patients who were under two months’ confine-
ment, three were of patients under three months, three of those under four months, and five of
those who were less than five months in the asylum. Taken according to the duration of the
disease, the majority of deaths took place under one month.
STATEMENT No. 8.
DISEASES CAUSING DEATHS.
Dysentery
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...
...
...
Diarrhœa
...
...
...
...
Phthisis
...
...
...
...
Fevers ... ... ... ...
Entiritis
...
...
...
...
Epilepsy
...
...
...
...
Gangrene of lung ... ... ...
Ventricular effusion ... ... ...
Hypertrophy of spleen ... ...
Exhaustion from mania ... ...
Ascaris lumbricoides ... ...
Anæmia
...
...
...
...
Inflammation of lung ... ...
Cirrhosis of liver ... ... ...
Paralysis
...
...
...
...
Dropsy
...
...
...
...
Gastritis
...
...
...
...
Apoplexy
...
...
...
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
Debility
...
...
...
...
Ophthalmia
...
...
...
...
Orchitis
...
...
...
...
Rupture of spleen ... ... ... ...
Pneumonia
...
...
...
...
Total ...
Number of cases.
2
...
4
...
...
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...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
2
1
1
...
...
...
...
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DURATION OF CONFINEMENT.
Under one month.
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...
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...
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...
Under two months.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
Under three months.
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
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...
...
1
...
...
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...
3
Under four months.
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...
...
1
...
1
1
...
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...
3
Under five months.
1
...
3
...
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...
...
1
...
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5
Under six months.
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..
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DURATION OF DISEASE.
Under one month.
9
10
5
4
...
2
...
1
1
...
2
1
2
1
...
1
1
2
3
...
...
...
1
...
46
Under two months.
3
1
8
...
1
1
...
...
...
1
1
1
...
...
...
2
...
...
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4
...
...
...
1
24
Under three months.
5
2
4
...
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...
1
...
2
...
...
1
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
2
...
1
...
...
19
Under four months.
3
2
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
...
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...
11
Under five months.
2
1
...
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1
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4
Under six months.
1
...
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1
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2