LUNATIC ASYLUMS OF BENGAL.
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TABLE IX.
Statement showing Sickness and Mortality in the Jails near which the Asylums are situated.
1
Anæmia and debility ..
Cholera
...
...
Diarrhoea and dysentery
Fevers
...
...
Pneumonia
...
...
Phthisis
...
...
Other diseases ... ...
Total ...
Daily average strength
Daily average sick ...
PRESIDENCY
JAIL.
1897.
Total treated.
2
4
...
243
194
11
19
162
633
Died.
3
...
...
9
2
3
3
6
23
1,192.67
24.16
1898.
Total treated.
4
2
...
191
137
3
14
231
578
Died.
5
...
...
8
5
2
1
8
24
1,234.84
26.02
ALIPORE JAIL.
1897.
Total treated.
6
19
4
672
474
42
19
934
2,164
Died.
7
...
1
3
1
10
7
12
34
1,780.36
67.11
1898.
Total treated.
8
51
...
346
525
71
24
1,376
2,393
Died.
9
2
...
3
7
7
10
7
36
1,910.28
66.74
DACCA JAIL.
1897.
Total treated.
10
36
1
257
386
15
4
207
906
Died.
11
...
1
2
...
1
2
4
10
1,094.29
41.35
1898.
Total treated.
12
14
...
398
413
21
12
454
1,312
Died.
13
2
...
2
...
5
4
1
14
1,081.56
7.88
PATNA JAIL.
1897.
Total treated.
14
...
129
128
2
1
179
439
Died.
15
...
...
1
1
2
1
2
7
333.10
10.48
1898.
Total treated.
16
4
...
55
73
...
2
95
229
Died.
17
1
...
1
1
...
...
...
3
282.14
9.42
CUTTACK
JAIL.
1897.
Total treated.
18
1
6
80
111
8
4
38
218
Died.
19
...
4
5
1
...
3
1
14
284.46
8.63
1898.
Total treated.
20
3
...
60
66
6
4
55
194
Died.
21
...
...
1
...
1
2
1
5
232.52
6.17
BERHAMPORE
JAIL.
1897.
Total treated.
22
...
...
66
90
2
...
88
246
Died.
23
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
2
226.82
6.54
1898.
Total treated.
24
...
...
74
63
5
...
93
235
Died.
25
...
...
2
...
1
...
1
4
228.85
10.50
Cholera was less prevalent and fatal in Calcutta, Patna, Cuttack and
Berhampore than in 1897. In Dacca, the mortality was greater than in
the previous year. No case occurred during the year under report in the
jails and asylums situated in these towns.
17. Total mortality.—The total number of deaths was 73, or 7.91 per cent.
of average strength, which is the lowest rate during the last 13 years
excepting 1890. There was 1 death from suicide and 1 sudden death from
rupture of the heart at Patna. If these two cases be excluded the rate stands
at 7.70 per cent. The figures for each asylum are shown in the following
table:—
TABLE X.
Dullunda ... ...
Dacca
...
...
...
Patna
...
...
...
Cuttack ...
... ...
Berhampore ... ...
Total ...
1897.
Deaths.
30
18
23
1
18
90
Percentage
on daily
average
strength.
12.15
8.08
10.18
3.69
8.77
9.70
1898.
Deaths.
24
23
11
1
14
73
Percentage
on daily
average
strength.
10.99
10.15
4.67
2.57
6.9
7.91
At Dullunda there were 24 deaths, or 6 fewer than in 1897, the decrease
being due to the better health of the lunatics during 1898. Of the 24 deaths,
7 resulted from tubercular phthisis, 6 from fevers, 2 from old age, 2 from
cerebral hæmorrhage, 2 from dysentery, 2 from pneumonia and 1 each from
general hyperæmia of the brain, congested lung, and cirrhosis of liver.
At Dacca there were 5 more deaths than in 1897, the death-rate being 10.15
per cent., against 8.08 in 1897. The Superintendent says that a large number
of these cases had been for years in the asylum; 10 were over 40 years of age.
There were 2 deaths from apoplexy, one of them had been an inmate in the
asylum for over 24 years. Two died from exhaustion of mania, and had for a
long time refused food and medicine, and had to be fed artificially. Two deaths
occurred, each from cirrhosis of liver, phthisis and pneumonia. Of the two deaths
from phthisis, one occurred in a patient who was admitted during 1898 in a
moribund condition and died after five days, and the other case was also admitted
with her lungs affected. There were also four deaths from anæmia, 4 from dysen-
tery, 3 from diarrhœa, 1 from chronic nephritis, and 1 from hydropericardium.
Patna had 11 deaths, against 23 in 1897, the rate of mortality having been
4.67 and 10.18, respectively. The death-rate in the year under report is the
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