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Raipur, and at the end of 10 months' service he was sent to escort a prisoner to
Saugor on his return. He thought he would like to pay his respects to the
Deputy Superintendent of the Asylum, and on doing so he was apprehended.
The Chief Commissioner was communicated with, and he was ordered to be
discharged. The man admits having smoked ganja, and I do not see any reason
for disbelieving him.
The man is now perfectly sane, but I have no doubt that the slightest
exciting cause will reproduce it, be it drink, love or anger.
STATEMENT VII.
Alleged causes of insanity.
Of the 25 admissions, 4 (2 criminals and 2 non-criminals) are entered as
ganja smokers, but 1 hesitate to place three of them
under the head of toxic insanity as their insanity has
lasted too long, my idea being that the effects of ganja produce only a tem-
porary mania (toxic insanity) 1 puerperal, 1 fever, 2 epilepsy, 6 for hereditary
and congenital, 1 religious mania, 5 from grief, 6 unknown. Of these unknown,
some cause may in future be discovered.
STATEMENT VIII.
This shows the sickness and mortality for the whole Asylum and not for
the admissions only.
The admissions into hospital were 82 males and 21 females, total 103, against
111 males and 11 females, total 122, in 1894. There were 55 admissions from
fever, bowel complaints 7 and respiratory affections 10, debility 3, and 2 for small-
pox. Of the two cases of small-pox, the first case was that of a girl deaf, dumb
and blind; she had not, as far as we could discover, moved from the corner of a
barrack. She had had confluent small-pox before and was deeply pitted.
She was attacked with confluent small-pox on the 23rd March. She had
been also vaccinated. She was removed to a room outside the female asylum
enclosures into one of the female warders' quarters. She recovered. How
she could have received the contagion I could not find out. It was utterly
impossible for her to have come into contact with any individual except the
female keepers and sweepers; the children of these people were examined and
found clean. All precautions were taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
The other was a very mild attack, and occurred on the 29th March 1895,
He had been working in the garden, and as there was a good deal of small-pox in
the city, it is quite possible that he could have contracted the disease from the
rubbish used as manure. He is not likely to have contracted it by associating
with outsiders. He had been successfully vaccinated.
Local Injuries.—The wound was caused by one female lunatic fighting with
another. The compound comminuted fracture of left index finger was a self-
inflicted wound; the man was working in the garden with a kurpi, and in
some way inflicted this injury.
Contusion.—The man accidentally fell and had a slight contusion over the
ankle.
The deaths were due to—dysentery 1, remittent fever 1, old age 3 (85, 85
81), apoplexy 1 (51), epilepsy 1, pneumonia 1, chronic albuminaria 2,
perforation of bowels due to ascarislumbricoides 1, total 11.
(1) Mustt. Piari.—Admitted into the Asylum on the 15th March 1865,
and died on the 12th January 1895. She had been in the Asylum for 30
years. Her age on admission was 55 years.
(2) Mustt. Beria.—Admitted into the Asylum on the 9th June 1870
and died on the 23rd April 1895 ; she had been a resident 25 years, her age
on admission was 60 years.
(3) Mustt. Subuk Bibi.—Admitted into the Asylum on the 17th October
1894, aged 80, in a very anæmic state, and died on the 14th October 1895.
1. Epileptic coma.—On the 29th September he was admitted into hospital
with severe and frequent attacks of epilepsy. Under treatment he improved,