BRIEF NOTES TO ACCOMPANY THE ANNUAL STATEMENTS
ON THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES
FOR THE YEAR 1906.
The statements appended have been prepared in accordance with the instruc-
tions contained in Government of India, Home Department (Medical), Resolution
No. 21—31, dated the 11th January 1904.
2. The scheme for establishing a Central Asylum at Chhindwara having
been abandoned during the year, the proposals to remove all female lunatics from
Jubbulpore to Nagpur are being given effect to. Additional wards are under
construction at the Nagpur Asylum, and a sum of Rs. 1,329 was spent on the
work during the year 1906. The transfer will, it is anticipated, be carried out
before next rains.
Statement No. I.
3. As compared with 1905 the daily average strength was greater in Nag-
pur by 7.50 lunatics and less in Jubbulpore by 2.30.
The increase in the former asylum was in male lunatics
and the decrease in the latter in males also.
The total admissions and re-admissions were fewer by 10 in Nagpur and in
excess by 3 in Jubbulpore, as compared with the previous year. The slight
increase in Jubbulpore was due to the admission of lunatics from the Central
India Native Stales. No lunatics were received from these States during the
year 1905. There was again a slight overcrowding in this asylum in the course
of the year, the largest number locked up on any one night being 108 males and
39 females against a capacity of 143 inmates.
The number of lunatics discharged was 8 in Nagpur and 13 in Jubbulpore
Asylum, against 22 and 21 respectively in the previous year.
The deaths numbered 25 (13 males and 12 females) in Nagpur, and 6
(2 males and 4 females) in Jubbulpore, against 17 and 12 respectively in 1905,
the chief causes of mortality being " Old Age " and " Epilepsy ". According to
sex there was a considerable increase in the female mortality. The year was
comparatively unhealthy for the Nagpur Asylum, where, out of 25 deaths, 8 occur-
red amongst lunatics over 50 years of age, 10 between 30 to 50, and 7 between
14 to 30 years of age. The health of the inmates of the Jubbulpore Asylum was
generally good throughout the year. Out of six patients who died in this asylum,
one aged 83 years had been confined for 29 years, another, of 70 years old and
fed by the attendants, was 19 years in the asylum, and two others were inmates
for 10 and 22 years respectively ; and one died a fortnight after admission.
Statements II to V, and Statement IX call for no special remarks.
Statement No. VI.
4. As in 1900, so in 1906 it was found necessary at Nagpur to re-classify
the lunatics according to their mental condition, which in
several cases had changed subsequent to admission.
This has been shown in the statement in italics in a line introduced immediately
after the line " Remained on 31st December 1905".
Statement No. VII.
5. More attention appears to have been paid in tracing the cause of in-
sanity in Jubbulpore, where one-eighth of the new admis-
sions were returned as from " Unknown " causes, while in
Nagpur the proportion of " Unknown " causes was one-fifth of the total ad-
missions.
Statement No. VIII.
6. The expenditure of the Nagpur and Jubbulpore Asylums was Rs. 24,705
and Rs. 13,792 respectively, and was met partly from (1)
sale-proceeds of the manufactured articles (Rs. 2,161),
(2)sales of Dairy Farm products (Rs. 5,170), (3) receipts realized from paying
patients (Rs. 4,397), and partly from Government, either in cash or by book