LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
11
TABLE NO. 11.
Anæmia and debility
Cholera ...
..
...
Diarrhœa and dysentery
Fevers
...
...
...
Pneumonia
...
...
Phthisis
...
...
Other diseases ... ...
Total ...
Daily average strength
Daily average sick ...
PRESIDENCY JAIL.
1885.
Total treated.
54
283
621
6
21
483
1,469
Died.
3
1
6
10
1
8
9
38
1131.27
49.57
1886.
Total treated.
101
5
201
585
4
27
482
1,405
Died.
2
1
4
8
...
1
5
21
1220.53
55.28
ALIPORE JAIL.
1885.
Total treated.
102
90
1,011
1,070
34
12
1,202
3,521
Died.
3
39
30
18
6
5
12
113
1788.37
106.90
1886.
Total treated.
64
1
715
890
22
18
1,413
3,123
Died.
...
...
10
14
4
8
8
44
1838.86
97.04
DACCA JAIL.
1885.
Total treated.
41
12
994
450
26
5
350
1,878
Died.
1
8
23
7
9
1
7
50
952.58
72.60
1886.
Total treated.
17
3
736
295
17
4
371
1,443
Died.
1
2
13
4
7
4
6
37
893.71
40.97
PATNA JAIL.
1885.
Total treated.
7
3
33
42
1
2
36
124
Died.
1
2
3
...
1
1
6
14
261.95
3.32
1886.
Total treated.
9
1
36
48
...
...
44
138
Died.
4
...
1
...
...
...
2
7
229.38
3.22
CUTTACK JAIL.
1885.
Total treated.
1
...
106
93
3
...
26
229
Died.
...
...
3
...
...
...
1
4
232.35
5.57
1886.
Total treated.
7
...
64
170
3
...
42
286
Died.
1
...
...
1
1
...
1
4
220.27
6.52
BERHAMPORE
JAIL.
1885.
Total treated.
11
7
91
124
...
...
74
307
Died.
2
5
6
...
...
...
1
13
230.60
10.82
1886.
Total treated.
12
1
85
142
2
2
105
349
Died.
...
1
4
1
...
...
1
7
188.0
10.60
23. Injuries.—In Patna one case of injury was caused by a lunatic striking
another on the hand, thereby breaking two of his fingers. In Dacca two slight
injuries resulted from an accident in the oil-mill shed. In this asylum also
one female lunatic fractured by a blow the fore-arm of another female
lunatic. There was no case of injury at Berhampore or Cuttack. At Dullunda
a lunatic was admitted with a compound fracture of his left leg, the injury, the
Superintendent reports, was received from a fall from a tree, while the lunatic
was on his way to the asylum from Buxa-Bhootan.
TABLE No. 12.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Abscess
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Anæmia
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Apoplexy
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Ascarislumbricordes
...
...
...
...
...
...
Ague cake
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Cancrum oria
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Cholera, malignant
...
...
...
...
...
...
Cirrhosis of the liver
...
...
...
...
...
...
Diarrhœa
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Dysentery
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Enlarged spleen
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Exhaustion from mania
...
...
...
...
...
Epilepsy
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Erysepelas
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Fever, remittent
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Do., intermittent
...
...
...
...
...
Fatty degeneration of the heart
...
...
...
...
General dropsy
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
General debility
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
General paralysis
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Hydrothrax
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Hemeplegia
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Meningitis
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Old age
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Phthisis pulmonalis
...
...
...
...
...
...
Phthisis chronic pneumonic
...
...
...
...
...
Pleurisy chronic
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Pneumonia
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Peritonitis ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Pyœmia
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Old age and general debility
...
...
...
...
...
Total ...
Dullunda.
......
......
2
......
1
......
......
3
1
4
......
3
......
......
1
......
1
......
2
1
......
1
......
......
......
6
1
......
1
......
2
30
Dacca.
1
1
2
......
......
2
......
......
1 2
1
2
......
1
......
......
......
......
......
......
1
......
......
......
1
......
......
......
......
1
......
16
Patna.
......
1
......
1
......
......
......
......
2
5
......
......
......
......
......
1
......
2
1
......
......
......
......
......
4
......
......
1
......
......
......
18
Cuttack.
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
1
4
......
......
1
......
1
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
1
1
1
......
......
......
......
......
......
10
Berhampore.
......
2
1
......
......
......
2
......
......
1
......
3
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
1
......
......
1
......
......
......
11
Total.
1
4
5
1
1
2
2
3
5
16
1
8
1
1
2
1
1
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
7
6
1
2
1
1
2
85
24. Mortality.—The total number of deaths rose from 73 in 1885 to 85 in
1886, or one more than what it stood at in 1881, and the ratio per cent. on
daily population from 7.76 to 8.81, the proportionate rise among females being
greater than among males. The increase took place in all the asylums. Such
particulars as are necessary to the elucidation of this increase will be found in
paragraphs 16, 17, 18 and 19 of the report which treat of sickness.
The deaths in the Patna and Berhampore Asylums varied but little in the
two years, being 18 and 11 in 1886, and 17 and 10 in 1885. Dr. Clarke, who
was in charge of the Dullunda Asylum, writes that the principal causes of