LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
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Expenditure.
44. Table No. IX of the Appendix shows the cash account of the asylums taken
collectively, and Statement No. 9 supplies information regarding the details of expenditure
in each institution under its several headings. Table No. X of the Appendix exhibits the
cost and the details of each asylum establishment.
STATEMENT No. 9.
Showing the Receipt and Expenditure of each Asylum for the year 1876.
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda ...
Dacca ...
Patna ...
Cuttack ...
Moydapore...
Berhampore
Hazareebagh
Total ...
1
Daily average strength.
290.62
206.87
226.63
60.73
53.58
182
204
1224.43
2
Total expenditure.
Rs.
41,319
22,827
19,795
5,830
4,200
14,720
10,099
1,18,792
A.
8
2
5
10
3
3
13
15
P.
3
9
8
11
3
0
8
6
3
Realized from
the
friends of patients.
Rs.
1,997
329
238
22
A.
3
5
9
8
P.
9
6
0
0
......
12 0 0
... ...
2,599 10 3
4
Actual profit from
manufacture depart-
ment.
Rs.
9,708
408
2,577
A.
3
11
9
P.
6
0
4
......
......
......
15
12,710
14
6
6
4
6
Average cost of each
patient as per column
2.
Rs.
142
110
87
96
78
80
49
97
A.
2
5
5
0
6
14
8
0
P.
10
6
6
1
3
1
1
3
6
Average cost of each
patient, deducting
columns 3 and 4.
Rs.
101
106
74
95
78
80
49
84
A.
14
12
14
10
6
13
6
8
P.
4
5
8
2
3
0
10
2
7
8
9
10
11
AVERAGE COST OF EACH PATIENT IN
RELATION TO
Establishment.
Rs.
70
44
38
58
40
39
22
45
A.
3
4
5
13
2
4
13
8
P.
0
2
7
5
7
5
10
11
Diet.
Rs.
55
54
37
31
33
32
16
39
A.
3
3
1
10
8
7
4
11
P.
10
7
9
4
2
1
9
5
Bazar medi-
cines.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
A
2
4
1
2
0
1
4
2
P.
7
5
9
3
8
9
9
10
Contingencies.
Rs.
12
5
4
2
0
4
6
6
A.
8
7
15
4
14
8
12
12
P.
9
3
4
7
5
8
0
4
Clothing.
Rs.
4
6
6
3
3
4
3
4
A.
0
2
13
1
12
8
4
12
P.
8
1
1
6
5
2
9
9
Cost per patient.
45. The average cost of each patient for the year was Rs. 97-0-3, against Rs. 102-15-9
in 1875; and varied from Rs. 49-8-1 in the Hazareebagh Asylum to Rs. 110-5-6 and
Rs. 142-2-10 in the Dacca and Dullunda Asylums respectively.
Cost of
establishment.
46. In regard to establishment, the expenditure varied from Rs. 22-13-10 at Hazaree-
bagh to Rs. 70-3-0 at Dullunda. The Superintendent of the Berhampore Asylum offers an
explanation regarding his increased expenditure under this heading, which will be found
in paragraph 16 of the report on that institution.
Cost of diet.
47. The cost of diet per patient varied from Rs. 16-4-9 at Hazareebagh to Rs. 54-3-7
at Dacca and Rs. 55-3-10 at Dullunda. The increase in the diet charge at Dullunda is
reported to have been caused by strengthening extras having been given freely to those
employed on heavy labour.
Cost of bazar
medicines.
48. The expenditure per patient on account of bazar medicines varied from 8 pie at
Moydapore to Re 0-4-5 at Dacca and Re. 0-4-9 at Hazareebagh.
Contingencies.
49. Under the head of contingencies, the cost per patient varied from Re. 0-14-5 at
Moydapore to Rs. 12-8-9 at Dullunda. In the Hazareebagh Asylum the sum shown under
the head of contingencies is reported to have been on account of purchases which will not
recur, and which were necessitated by the opening of a new asylum.
Clothing.
50. The expenditure on account of each patient for clothing varied from Rs. 3-1-6 at
Cuttack to Rs. 6-3-1 at Patna. As each lunatic in the Patna Asylum was provided with
a warm blanket jacket for winter use (vide paragraph 17 of the report of that asylum),
perhaps the increased outlay under this heading may be thus accounted for.
Establishment.
51. Table No. X of the Appendix shows the establishment of each asylum in detail,
and calls for no special remark from me. The conduct and attention to their duties of the
subordinate asylum officers (with the exception of some of those of the Dacca institution)
have been generally reported on favourably. I refrain from making special allusion here
to the system of peculation that was detected as having been systematically carried on in one
of the asylums, and that, too, by subordinates whose names, I regret to say (accepting the
correctness of the laudatory reports made of them), were brought favourably to notice by me last
year. But I am sanguine that the disclosure of the iniquitous system will put medical officers
henceforth on their mettle, and secure such an amount of close and intelligent supervision as
will render repetition of such practices impossible.
Manufactures.
52. Table No. XI in the Appendix shows the receipts and expenditure on account of
manufactures in each ayslum during the past year. Out of a daily average population of
1,224.43, 886.81 were employed on work of some kind or other. A sum of Rs. 24,729-13-4
was received during the year for articles sold, and manufactured goods to the amount of
Rs. 12,713-14-4 were made over for asylum purposes. The total profits from the Manufacture
Department were Rs. 8,177-5-6, but were less than those returned in 1875 by Rs. 3,345-9-2.
The profits in the Dullunda, Dacca, Patna, and Moydapore Asylums have decreased by
Rs. 2,614, Rs 1,076, Rs. 280, and Rs. 29 respectively ; while there has been an increase