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LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
patients was small, 47 against 61 in the previous year, notwithstanding the
mixed composition of the class, and the fact that some of its members are not
sick men.
TABLE NO. 10.
Showing the prevalence of principal diseases in 1881 and 1882.
Anæmia and debility
...
...
Diarrhœa
...
...
...
...
Dropsy ... ... ... ... ...
Dysentery
...
...
...
...
Fevers ... ... ... ... ...
Pneumonia
...
...
...
...
Phthisis
...
...
...
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
Dullunda.
1981.
7
1
...
11
3
2
7
...
1882.
6
1
...
7
3
1
3
2
Dacca.
1881.
4
10
1
10
49
6
5
...
1882.
4
19
...
21
22
4
6
8
Patna.
1881.
9
13
...
31
66
1
21
...
1882.
14
16
1
36
47
...
10
5
Cuttack.
1881. 1882.
1
...
...
4
3
...
3
...
2
...
...
2
4
...
3
...
Berhampore.
1881.
4
5
3
26
15
...
1
...
1882.
14
9
4
16
32
2
1
...
Total.
1881.
25
29
4
82
136
9
37
...
1882.
40
45
5
82
108
7
23
15
16. Anæmia and debility increased from 25 cases to 40 the difference
occurring in the Patna and Berhampore asylums. Diarrhœa also increased, but
was not remarkably prevalent. Dacca, Patna, and Berhampore shared the in-
crease. Dysentery did not vary in total. Increase at Dacca was the only
noticeable point of detail. Fever was not very prevalent, but cases were most
numerous at Patna and Berhampore. There was a considerable reduction of
phthisis, especially at Patna, where the effect of transfer from Hazaribagh had
been felt heavily. It is unnecessary to repeat the account of this disease given in
1880 and 1881, and the causes which have led to some real increase of it, and
to a great deal of apparent increase. Cholera was unusually prevalent in
asylums in 1882. In 1880 it had been confined to the asylums of Patna and
Berhampore. In 1881, there was no cholera. In 1882 Dullunda, Patna, and
Dacca were affected. At Dullunda there had been no previous case for many
years. The patients were supplied with municipal filtered water for drinking,
but the supply of water to the shower-baths failed utterly, and tank-bathing
was the only resource. The disease was very prevalent in the neighbourhood, and
showed some increase in the Alipore Jail, but these influences have not for many
years affected the asylums. At Dacca there were two outbreaks in jail. The
first was confined to the jail. In the second the town and asylum were both
involved. Neither asylum nor jail had suffered materially in the two preceding
years. At the close of the year, municipal filtered water was introduced for
drinking. Before this year, asylum sickness had not pointed in this direction
for its source. In the district of Patna it is said that cholera in 1882 was worse
than it had been in any year since 1874, but the jail escaped altogether. Water
was brought for drinking from a well of good repute, and passed through the
filter. The Superintendent considers it to be good wholesome water, but says
nothing of that which is used for bathing. At Cuttack there was no cholera
either in asylum or jail. At Berhampore neither jail nor asylum was visited.
The filter ordered in 1881, was completed during the year under review.
TABLE No. 11.
DISEASES.
Anæmia and debility ...
Cholera
...
...
...
Diarrhœa and dysentery ...
Fevers
...
...
...
Pneumonia ... ... ...
Phthisis
...
...
...
Other diseases
... ...
Total ...
Daily average strength ...
Daily average sick ...
RESIDENCY JAIL.
1881.
Total treated.
33
1
307
907
8
4
810
2,070
Died.
1
1
7
2
2
2
11
26
1146.99
51.19
1882.
Total treated.
33
1
370
618
7
19
842
1,890
Died.
2
...
7
4
1
8
6
28
1128.78
45.12
ALIPORE JAIL.
1881.
Total treated.
99
8
1,176
1,300
40
23
1,290
3,936
Died.
8
4
53
8
15
14
15
117
1999.14
110.63
1882.
Total treated.
93
13
1,508
1,392
29
33
2,191
5,259
Died.
1
11
54
6
10
16
16
114
2003.10
146.79
DACCA JAIL.
1881.
Total treated.
17
...
391
374
9
1
281
1,073
Died.
...
...
5
4
4
...
3
16
723.55
30.44
1882.
Total treated.
19
48
494
323
8
3
228
1,123
Died.
...
30
9
5
1
...
4
49
676.19
36.12
PATNA JAIL.
1881.
Total treated.
1
...
125
109
...
1
34
270
Died.
...
...
3
2
...
1
3
9
221.97
6.34
1882.
Total treated.
5
...
59
75
1
1
30
171
Died.
1
...
3
...
...
...
4
8
234.69
3.65
CUTTACK JAIL.
1881.
Total treated.
5
...
64
70
5
1
23
168
Died.
1
...
3
...
1
1
...
6
241.73
4.97
1882.
Total treated.
1
...
54
212
2
...
28
297
Died.
...
...
2
1
...
...
1
4
291.77
7.82
BERHAMPORE
JAIL.
1881.
Total treated.
11
14
72
166
...
3
39
305
Died.
1
6
6
2
...
...
2
17
213.24
14.39
1882.
Total treated.
4
...
187
258
6
1
67
253
Died.
...
...
11 1
1
1
3
17
166.14
18.89