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Sickness and mortality.
5. There were 200 admissions into hospital at Nagpur against 163 in the
preceding three years: mostly for fevers, bronchitis,
abscess, contused wound, epilepsy, anæmia, and old age
with debility. There were 75 deaths, against 50 in the preceding period, 20 died
of age and debility, ranging from 94 years of age down to 66, and after a residence
in the asylum varying from 13 to 39 years. 20 died of epilepsy, 8 from anæmia
and exhaustion. 4 from pneumonia, 3 from phthisis, 2 each from dysentery,
dropsy and heart disease, and 1 each from tuberculosis, pulmonary gangrene,
pericarditis, pleurisy, ague, arthritis, chronic Bright's disease, enlarged liver and
spleen, sarcoma of breast, paralysis, asthma and intestinal parasites. There were
two deaths from injury : in one case a female was stung by a swarm of bees that
had been disturbed, in the other a criminal confined in a cell passed his arms
through the bars and seizing a passing dement gouged out his eyes, fatal men-
ingitis following. At Jubbulpore, there were 121 admissions into hospital against
196, and 22 deaths against 29. The deaths were due to old age (5), epilepsy (4),
anæmia and debility (4), malarial cachexia (2), and heart disease, pneumonia,
cerebral hæmorrhage, erysipelas, chronic Bright's disease, meningitis, and
abscess of the abdominal wall. Of the deaths from old age one was 83 years of
age and had been 29 years in the asylum, the other four were 70 years of age
and had been inmates for 42, 37, 26 and 19 years, respectively. The two who
died of anæmia and debility were habitual mud-eaters and difficultly fed. On the
whole the health of the lunatics at Jubbulpore was good, at Nagpur not so good.
The daily average of sick in Nagpur was in the three years of the triennium 6.66,
5.41, and 6.41, the rates per cent of population were 4025, 3.07, and 3.07.
At Jubbulpore the daily sick averaged 2.66, 2.78, and 2.06, and the percentages
on daily average strength were 1.87, 1.97, and 2.00.
STATEMENT
II.
Criminal lunatics.
6. At Nagpur on 1st January 1906 there were 38 criminal lunatics
under detention : 26 were admitted and re-admitted in the
course of the triennium : 10 died, 7 were discharged (2
escapes, 1 transfer to non-criminal list, 1 transfer to jail and 3 sent to stand their
trial): and 47 remained on the rolls at the close of 1908. At Jubbulpore, 36 re-
mained : 15 were admitted : 5 died: 18 were discharged (5 to the non-criminal list,
5 sent up for trial, 2 transferred to jail, 1 cured and made over to his friends,
1 escaped, 4 transferred to Nagpur): and 28 remained on 31st December 1908.
STATEMENT
III.
7. Hindus formed 81.63 per cent of the admissions at Nagpur during the
triennium, and 85.29 per cent at Jubbulpore: Muham-
madans gave 12.93 per cent at the former and 8.82 at
the latter asylum: 'other castes gave 3.40 and 4.41, and native christians 2.04
and 1.47, respectively. Males were 84.19 and females 15.81 of the admissions
against 81.33 and 18.67 in the preceding triennium.
STATEMENT IV.
Religion and sex of those
admitted.
Occupation.
8. Beggars, labourers, cultivators and servants furnished the largest number
of admissions. Those whose occupation could not be
traced fell to 1, 1 and 2 in the three years. Great care is
evidently being taken to ascertain complete particulars in the case of those sent
to asylums.
STATEMENT
V.
Age on admission.
9. As in the previous triennium, so in this, the majority of the admissions
were in age between 20 and 40 years. This is the period
of greatest activity of both body and mind, and the temp-
tation to vicious excess of every sort is at its greatest, and the anxiety of family
cares at its highest. Next comes the period between 40 and 60 years of age.