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28. The chief causes of death in the Asylums in these Provinces are com-
pared with those in the Asylums of other Provinces in the following table:—
TABLE V.
Provinces.
Bengal ... ... ... ...
Punjab ... ... ... ...
Rangoon ... ... ... ...
Tezpur ... ... ... ...
Bombny ... ... ... ...
Central Provinces ... ... ...
Ditto ... ... ...
Years.
1897
1897
1897
1897
1897
1897
1898
Percentage of sick to
strength.
13.86
11.39
4.19
5.61
6.41
3.83
3.87
Percentage of deaths to
strength.
9.70
8.30
10.80
8.16
10.6
8.50
7.93
PERCENTAGE TO DEATHS FROM
Fevers.
11.24
...
...
11.11
...
3.70
...
Dysentery.
19.10
9.37
11.11
22.22
27.16
7.41
20.83
Diarrhœa.
3.37
...
16.67
11.11
7.41
3.70
...
Phthisis.
28.84
12.50
11.11
33.33
14.81
7.41
8.33
Chest affections.
10.11
28.12
...
...
1.23
11.11
...
Anæmia.
5.62
25.00
13.89
...
17.28
7.41
33.33
Other causes.
24.72
25.00
47.22
22.22
32.10
59.24
37.50
29. The statistics show that the health of the inmates of the Asylums
in the Central Provinces compares favourably with that of the inmates of the
Asylums in other Provinces. The percentage of deaths to average population
in the Asylums of these Provinces during the year under report was lower than
elsewhere in 1897. It was also lower than the percentage in the local Asylums
for the previous year, notwithstanding the fact that the percentage of sick to total
population was higher in 1898 than in 1897.
30. Statements IX to XI are financial statements and contain details of the
receipts and expenditure of the two Asylums. At Nagpur, Rs.12,124-1-5 were
drawn from the Treasury, against Rs. 13,411-11-7 or Rs.1,287-10-2 less than in
1897. The difference is due, in a great measure, to the high prices of food-grains
which ruled in the previous year, and also to compensation for dearness of grain
which had to be paid to the establishments in that year. At Jubbulpore,
Rs.8,356-9-6 were drawn in 1898, as compared with Rs.9,907-15-3 in the previous
year, a decrease of Rs.1,551-5-9, the reason for the difference being the same as
that assigned for the decrease in the drawings at the Nagpur Asylum.
31. The amounts received from paying patients were as follows :—
Nagpur ... ... ... ...
Jubbulpore ... ... ...
Total ...
Rs.
3.071
2,694
5,766
a.
9
11
4
p.
1
8
9
The total amount received on the same account in the previous year was
Rs.4,792-10-6 (Rs.2,995-3-3 at Nagpur and Rs.1,797-7-3 at Jubbulpore). The
amount shown against Nagpur for the year 1898, includes a sum of Rs.2,520 ad-
justed inter-departmentally by the Comptroller, on account of the maintenance of
28 lunatics from Berar, at Rs 90 per head The sum of Rs.878-9-5, which remain-
ed unadjusted at the close of 1897, from the sum due on account of paying patients
in the Jubbulpore Asylum, was recovered and brought to credit during the year
under report. At the close of last year, a balance of Rs.272-6-8 on the same
account was outstanding at Jubbulpore. With the exception of a sum of Rs.84,
the whole of this balance has since been recovered.
32. Under the head " miscellaneous receipts," the sums of Rs 4,684-2-6 and
Rs.441-2-1 are shown against the Nagpur and Jubbulpore Asylums, respectively,
as compared with Rs.4,275-10-4 and Rs.457-1-3, respectively, in the previous year.
The details of the Nagpur figure for last year are as follows :—
Sale of linseed, juari, &c, grown on the farm ...
Sale of dairy produce ... ... ... ...
Miscellaneous ... ... ... ...
Total ...
Rs.
280
4,095
308
4,684
a.
5
12
0
2
p.
7
0
11
6